Sign in

Tami Haaland

@tamihaaland.bsky.social
324 followers 421 following 37 posts

Poet. If I Had Said Beauty in spring 2025. Three earlier collections with Story Line/ Red Hen Press, Word Tech Editions, and Lost Horse Press.

PostsRepliesMedia
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
There's my book, second row, second from the right, with other Bennington Alum books. So happy to be there.
010
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
www.newpages.com/blog/books/b...
newpages.com
Book Review :: If I Had Said Beauty by Tami Haaland
Tami Haaland’s 'If I Had Said Beauty' explores ancestry, identity, spirituality, and self-discovery through diverse poetic form.
030
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Check out The Slowdown today on American Public Media! www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...
slowdownshow.org
[encore] 264: Sleeping with the Chihuahua by Tami Haaland
Today’s poem is Sleeping with the Chihuahua by Tami Haaland.
040
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Happy to be reading with Charles Finn in Bozeman, July 31. If you're in Bozeman, I hope you can join us!
Poets Charles Finn and Tami Haaland will read at Isle of Books, Bozeman Montana, Thursday, July 31, 6:30 PM.
030
Reposted by Tami Haaland
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom, but also a reminder: freedom delayed is freedom denied. #Juneteenth #BlackHistory #FreedomDay #NeverForget
64110842246
Reposted by Tami Haaland
Nicole Caruso Garcia @nicolecarusogarcia.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"What is Juneteenth and Why Does it Matter: A Short History | Journey to American Democracy" a video by Heather Cox Richardson www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7Ua...
media.tenor.com
a poster for juneteenth freedom day with a black red yellow and green background
ALT: a poster for juneteenth freedom day with a black red yellow and green background
011
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Yellowstone Public Radio's Resounds: Arts and Culture in the High Plains has posted Corby Skinner's interview with me. Have a listen if you would like. It runs about 25 minutes. www.ypradio.org/show/resound...
ypradio.org
Resounds: Arts And Culture On The High Plains
Resounds: Arts and Culture on the High Plains features interviews with individuals and organizations creating art in its myriad forms throughout our listening area. Hosts Jennifer Corning and Corby Sk...
011
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
My thanks to New Pages and Lost Horse Press. Hope you'll consider reading this collection.
010
Reposted by Tami Haaland
NewPages @newpages.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
The poetry in Tami Haaland's 'If I Had Said Beauty' is dedicated to known & unknown ancestors, narratives and distant origins of what lies behind a sense of self. www.newpages.com/blog/books/n... #booknews #newreleases #poetry #sponsored ‪@tamihaaland.bsky.social
newpages.com
Sponsored :: New Book :: If I Had Said Beauty
Tami Haaland's "If I Had Said Beauty" reveals deep narratives of ancestry and self in a luminous collection of thought-provoking poetry.
021
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Thank you, J. P. Dancing Bear, for featuring "The Edge of Things," on Verse Daily today! www.versedaily.org
versedaily.org
Welcome to Verse Daily!
Verse Daily, a quality web anthology of poetry. A poem a day, along with our complete archives, and poem selections from the web.
030
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Lost Horse Press spring books.
010
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
000
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Congratulations Corrie!
000
Reposted by Tami Haaland
Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Booksellers have faced censorship and harassment defending the freedom to read. Celebrate your local bookstore and support their ongoing role in safeguarding intellectual freedom. press.princeton.edu/ideas/bookst... #BookstoreDay
This essay traces the long and turbulent history of American booksellers who have faced censorship, harassment, and even violence for defending the freedom to read. Through vivid anecdotes and historical cases-from undercover stings in the early 1900s and legal battles over “obscene” literature, to FBI surveillance of Black bookstores and bomb threats against feminist and LGBTQ+ shops-the author illustrates how bookstores have repeatedly become battlegrounds in the fight for civil liberties and free expression. Despite intimidation from both government and private groups, booksellers have pushed back, shaping legal precedents and rallying communities to defend First Amendment rights. The essay ultimately calls on readers to recognize bookstores as “arsenals of democracy” and to support their ongoing role in safeguarding intellectual freedom.
10678592002
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Thanks for posting this, @benningtonwriting.bsky.social! Upcoming readings and signings: April 26 at Elk River Books in Livingston, MT, April 30 at Billings Library (MT), May 15 Missoula Art Museum. More to come!
051
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
First review of If I Had Said Beauty in Montana Arts Council Newspaper State of the Arts. "Tami Haaland’s new collection of poems functions as a sort of atlas for the human form." Thank you Eric Heidle! art.mt.gov/PDFs/SOA-Spr...
020
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
My new book is in the world! I'll be in Los Angeles this week at the AWP Conference. More to come about readings and signings this spring and summer.
030
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
If I Had Said Beauty is in the world!
000
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
A few years ago I met Sarah Salcedo @tallfirsproductions.com, who designed my website. Sarah continues to work with me whenever it's time for updates. Here's the most recent, updated version. www.tamihaaland.com
tamihaaland.com
Tami Haaland
Tami Haaland is the author of four poetry collections, If I Had Said Beauty, What Does Not Return, When We Wake in the Night, and Breath in Every Room, winner of the Nicholas Roerich First Book Award.
031
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Love this.
010
Reposted by Tami Haaland
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
DOGE’s expenses have risen above 40 million, with weekly costs now exceeding 10 million. We will release an updated DOGE staff list soon.
390170624051
Reposted by Tami Haaland
Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
(1/4) Recent layoffs of federal workers has a disproportionate impact on Native Americans, but is receiving almost no media attention. In Indian Health Services, which provides healthcare to 2.8 mil NAs, 2,200 people were laid off, including 1,400 who provide direct patient care.
ictnews.org
‘Life or Death Consequences’: Layoffs throw Indian Country into turmoil
Thousands of workers are losing their jobs in health, education and other key tribal programs and agencies
7953710
Reposted by Tami Haaland
Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
From Henry Ford to the esteemed, path-blazing New York Times foreign correspondent Anne O’Hare McCormick, expressions of fascist sympathy had reached the center of mainstream discourse and American political thought by the late 1930s.
bostonreview.net
The Americans Who Embraced Mussolini - Boston Review
As we confront rightwing extremism in our own time, the history of American fascist sympathy reveals a legacy worth reckoning with.
56435
Reposted by Tami Haaland
Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 17/02/2025
🌍💨 Is carbon capture worth it? A new study finds that switching to 100% wind, water, & solar could slash energy, health, & climate costs by 91.8% - while many carbon capture policies increase costs & emissions. 🔗 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #Climate #Renewables #CarbonCapture #SciComm 🧪
pubs.acs.org
Energy, Health, and Climate Costs of Carbon-Capture and Direct-Air-Capture versus 100%-Wind-Water-Solar Climate Policies in 149 Countries
Air pollution, global warming, and energy insecurity are three major problems facing the world. This study first examines whether 149 countries can transition 100% of their business-as-usual (BAU) all...
03816
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Thank you!
011
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Coming in March, with gratitude to Lost Horse Press and all who helped this along the way.
010
Reposted by Tami Haaland
AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 11/02/2025
Musk's censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by about 95% since he bought it. So we moved over to blue sky. Help us build another great following right here where the skies are clear and the water is fine ;-) Please do Follow Retweet & repeat
Mama bear wrestling with her cub. She's got him by the rear paw, nibbling on his toes I guess. They're in spring grass with a tree on the left.
143105713383
Reposted by Tami Haaland
Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Yes, this.
W.S. MERWIN

Did the poems do any good? We'll never know.
We certainly wrote, all of us, some very bad poems, and we knew it. But the alternative was not to do it at all, and that seemed unthinkable, and it still does.

102
PROSE
INTERVIEWS
POETRY
ART

The Paris Review
517552
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
One of 50 from the University of Montana's Bear Scratch Press. They arrived for signatures this week and I shipped 35 back to the press. Feeling pretty lucky about this little quire of poems.
100
Reposted by Tami Haaland
River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Happy Pub Day to Joe Wilkins and Corrie Williamson! Find your copies here: riverriverbooks.org/store/
YOUR MOTHER'S BEAR GUN
JOE WILKINS Pastoral, 1994
POEMS CORRIE WILLIAMSON
HAPPY PUB DAY TO CORRIE AND JOE!
1206
Reposted by Tami Haaland
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” -Angela Davis Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis. "If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory." --Angela Davis
7683001683
Reposted by Tami Haaland
Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Here’s to the detours—the sudden dips, the sharp turns, the plot twists, the side quests, the odd collisions, the frantic curls, the useful digressions, the curious whirls—the delightful surprises and cosmic improbabilities that make you who you are.
320722
Reposted by Tami Haaland
Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Such a beautiful mouthful is this small lyric by my friend Richard Foerster, from the Bennington Review.
Plein-Air Sketch. A charcoal smudge lifts from a willow on the creek's far bank. It trails a scrap of awe from my throat. I have no other voice but that dark sheen's raw calling.
5338
Reposted by Tami Haaland
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I fear there is deep truth here.
14255503713598
Reposted by Tami Haaland
AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 04/01/2025
The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ? So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky If you could, please help us regain our following Follow Retweet and Repeat ;-) Together we can change the world.
579227639404
Reposted by Tami Haaland
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Still the best two sentences on climate action.
5075381553
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Looking forward to Corrie Williamson's new book. She and Joe Wilkins will be reading at Montana State Univ. Billings in April.
071
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
A nice thought for the day.
050
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
From my book, What Does Not Return. Happy Solstice Season!
030
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Tonight!
010
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
In Livingston, Montana, next week, poet Melissa Kwasny, filmmaker Jenna Ciralli and I will be at Elk River Books on Solstice Eve. If you're nearby, please join us! elkriverbooks.com/event/film_p...
elkriverbooks.com
Film and Poetry on Solstice Eve | Elk River Books
Join poets Melissa Kwasny, author of The Cloud Path, and Tami Haaland, author of Breath in Every Room, as well as actor and filmmaker Jenna Ciralli and guest host Yetta Stein for a special evening of ...
092
Reposted by Tami Haaland
Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
“Buy books of poetry and give them to people.” (Words intoned by Jericho Brown at an event on Friday, running in my head since then. So now I’m putting them in your head too.) They don’t even have to like poems, because then you are also giving them “having poetry in your life” which is HUGE.
716519
Reposted by Tami Haaland
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Hey authors, don’t forget that if you use bookshop.org instead of that great big place, you will be helping out indie bookshops - very few of who make so much they are dabbling with building rockets - you can even choose which bookshop uk.bookshop.org/shop/booksho...
6282122
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
lithub.com/some-of-our-...
lithub.com
Some of Our Favorite Poetry Collections of the Year
If a moral catastrophe and a sense of impending disorder have befallen our country, this moment differs from the modernist era, when some important writers found common ground with the fascism of t…
020
Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Seems very bluesky and a good start.
010