Erika Meitner

Assembled Audience | Milkweed Editions

Y’all, I have a book cover + a pre-order page for my 7th book of poems, Assembled Audience, due out from @milkweededitions.bsky.social on Sept 29th! milkweed.org/book/assembl... #poetry #poetrycommunity

White lady with yellow hat and gray down coat at a protest holding a “Child of Refugees (Abolish Ice) sign on cardboard above her head with people around her

Yesterday - Madison, WI

Madison Wisconsin State Capitol where a huge crowd of people came to make their voices heard! Abolish ICE!

Thanks for the shout out, Mark!

How to Film ICE Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.

granular, practical, well organized info here:

www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Stumbled across this podcast episode today. I love Levine and this poem. Meitner’s close reading really adds to my appreciation of it. Also, shout out to the power of a great poetry anthology. The Poulin anthology she mentions, I found at a used bookstore in my hometown, struggling, post undergrad.

Crackdown Writing through history and heartbreak.

"This isn’t the time to say nothing."
Indie journalist @marisakabas.bsky.social beautifully and heart-breakingly reminds us how important it is right now to find solidarity in our neighbors, wherever they're from, and fight the power being rained down upon us.
www.thehandbasket.co/p/crackdown-...

Normal thing for a major urban American newspaper to have to post.

challah. so much challah.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Superb reportage on Minneapolis from one of the all time greats.

Not now exploding trees, we’re busy

i was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS.

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

On the ground here in Minnesota, it’s hard to reconcile the immense bonds of community that have been built in a week with the fact that we live in a country whose government appropriated billions of dollars to an unaccountable paramilitary force whose sole purpose is ethnic cleansing.

Sadiq by Brian Turner It should make you shake and sweat, nightmare you, strand you in a desert of irrevocable desolation, the consequences seared into the vein, no matter what adrenaline feeds the muscle its courage, no matter what god shines down on you, no matter what crackling pain and anger you carry in your fists, my friend, it should break your heart to kill.

…it should break your heart to kill.

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

From Darkness to Light: Poetry in Celebration of Hanukkah, Tues 12/16 8-9pm EST on a blue background with menorah and dreidels

List of many names of readers (Jewish Poets)

It is possible that this Hanukkah, especially, you might need a little poetry to bring some light through the darkness. If so, we’ve got you covered. #hanukkah #poetry

Register (for free) here and join us on Zoom: www.eventbrite.com/e/from-darkn...

Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University.

We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish

It’s Best-of Season on The Lit Hub Podcast A weekly behind-the-scenes dive into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful happening in literary culture—featuring Lit Hub staff, columnists, and special guests! Hosted by Drew Br…

I got to talk 100 Notable Small Press Books on the Lit Hub podcast this week!

We're trying hard to make 2026 happen, but we need a handful more reviewers. If you want to celebrate small presses & their authors, sign up here: tinyurl.com/100smallpress

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Chocolate cake that looks like an actual log with rosemary and cranberry and mushroom garnishes

You guys: this is an actual Buche De Noel complete with fondant mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 that my amazing colleague @bethnguyen.bsky.social made for our Secret Wisconsin Interdenominational Solstice (gift) Swap (SWISS) + party!

Hanukkah is just a week and a few days away. Sign up for @notatawp.bsky.social's third annual Hanukkah reading!

www.eventbrite.com/e/1976404024...

Maroon UW Madison MFA Program Ad with photos of six faculty: Beth Nguyen, Dantiel W. Moniz, Porter Shreve, Amy Quan Barry, Ron Kuka, and Rickey Fayne. Deadline: Dec 15. 33k/year stipend and summer funding, 1-1 teaching load, and cross-genre work supported. More info at creativewriting.wisc.edu/gradapply

Calling all fiction writers: our MFA application deadline here at UW-Madison is fast approaching! Apply! We fully fund everyone we admit! We’ve got everything: lakes, stellar faculty, snow, cheese, and summer funding!

I wish I still lived in NY!

Application call for NY artists for Saltonstall: Saltonstall.org (Jan 4 deadline)

I love a residency that offers shorter options especially for parents & caregivers alongside standard residencies! Go Saltonstall! Calling all New York artists! #artist #ny #poetrycommunity #artistresidency

than gin-&-limes you are cooler, darling, o come back to me (john berryman)

“….We go
as fire, as flesh, as marble.
Sometimes it is good and sometimes
it is dangerous like the ignorance
of particulars, but our words are clear
and our movements give off light.”

- Robert Hass, from “Like Three Fair Branches From One Root Deriv’d”

Cross country parallel ski tracks across a snowy expanse with a few trees and an open gray sky

today was over 20 so i went out skiing. i am trying to winter. this is a color photo. 🥶 #wisconsin

NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship - Nyfa NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship - Nyfa

Hey NY poet + CNF friends! $8k artist awards! Apply! www.nyfa.org/awards-grant...

This year:
Craft/Sculpture
Digital/Electronic Arts
Nonfiction Literature
Poetry
Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts