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Natalie Solmer

@nataliesolmer.bsky.social

Poet, former Florist & landscaper/horticulturist, Associate Professor of English at a CC in Indy, Founder & EIC of The Indianapolis Review. Author of Water Castle https://nataliesolmer.com/

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Loved this reading at Proof Midwest Lit festival with Rosalie Moffett Kristine Esser Slentz and Teresa Dzieglewicz ! Mitchell L.H. Douglas and Chantel Massey have done an amazing job once again, along with everyone at Indiana Humanities ! @indianahumanities.bsky.social

12.10.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Had a wonderful experience on the panel about the responsibility of editors regarding censorship at Proof Midwest lit fest with Rosalie Moffett and Mark Neeley!

12.10.2025 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Excited for Indiana Humanities Proof literary festival! So many things I want to check out & and tomorrow I will be on a panel about censorship and editing with Rosalie Moffett, Mark Neeley, and Santiago Valencia! @indianahumanities.bsky.social

10.10.2025 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Everyone is welcome at this free pierogi and poetry party Pierogi Tour, happening Oct. 19, celebrates Polish and Ukrainian culture.

Today is National Pierogi Day! Thanks to @mirrorindy for boosting our upcoming Pieorgi and Poetry event! I was shocked when I was contacted for an interview! Time to make more pierogi..! πŸ˜ƒ@rockwellsays @ania_spyra @karen__kovacik mirrorindy.org/pierogi-tour...

09.10.2025 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A surprise waterlily in October πŸπŸ‚

08.10.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Honored to have my work in this one.

07.10.2025 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's all the emails...we're all way too overwhelmed. I have unsubscribed from most poem a day things also, except SWIMM

07.10.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Really proud of this issue! Check it out--
theindianapolisreview.com

07.10.2025 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Many thanks to @nataliesolmer.bsky.social and Indianapolis Review for nominating one of my chronic pain poems for Best of the Net!

06.10.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nazifa Islam @nafoopal in The Indianapolis Review Summer Issue theindianapolisreview.com/featured-art...

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"I Have a Vision for My Poems" by Nazifa Islam,
a found poem: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
https://poems.com/poem/i-have-a-vision-for-my-poems
@nafoopal via @Poetry_Daily and @IndianapolisRev

10.11.2023 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Trump Administration Live Updates: Oregon Officials Vent Fury as California National Guard Head to Portland

You can add my fury, and my phone calls to my elected representatives, to theirs. Using American cities a military "training grounds"? Including the one where I was born and where my heart remains? This is authoritarianism, pure and simple. History is watching.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

05.10.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Maya Williams @emmdubb16 in The Indianapolis Review Summer Issue theindianapolisreview.com/three-times-...

06.10.2025 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kevin A. Risner in The Indianapolis Review Summer Issue theindianapolisreview.com/a-new-year-g...

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Lee Johnson in The Indianapolis Review Summer Issue theindianapolisreview.com/featured-art...

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Matthew Zhao in The Indianapolis Review Summer Issue theindianapolisreview.com/mother-carri...

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Bill Wolak in The Indianapolis Review Summer Issue theindianapolisreview.com/featured-art...

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These visual poems in The Indianapolis Review Summer Issue by Novella Wu are amazing. Inspired by @newyorktimesgames check out the video here- theindianapolisreview.com/sounds-of-th...

05.10.2025 02:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This series of visual poems by Novella Wu inspired by @newyorktimesgames you MUST check out! Watch the video here theindianapolisreview.com/dad

05.10.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jasper Glen @jasperglenart in The Indianapolis Review Summer Issue theindianapolisreview.com/featured-art...

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I spent yesterday in the company of Mosses & Liverworts on a Dorset Flora Group Bryophyte workshop.

04.10.2025 09:29 β€” πŸ‘ 158    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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@bethanyjarmul.bsky.social Bethany Jarmul @bethanyjarmul in The Indianapolis Review Summer Issue theindianapolisreview.com/i-take-my-hu...

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The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

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Erica Goss in The Indianapolis Review Summer Issue theindianapolisreview.com/earthquake-w...

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Jennifer Bastian @jenniebeee in The Indianapolis Review Summer Issue theindianapolisreview.com/featured-art...

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Something to be Proudly Worn Into Heaven β€œThe true experimenters, it seems to me, are the bugs that fail, that die 6 times a summer, 450 times in a normal human life, that are mutant and nondurable, that are the repositories of anthropoge…

@p-cunning.bsky.social Paul Cunningham @pcunning1 in The Indianapolis Review Summer 2025 Issue theindianapolisreview.com/something-to...
#poetry #poem #fashion #schiaparelli

01.10.2025 06:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lauren Camp @laurencamp in The Indianapolis Review Summer 2025 Issue
theindianapolisreview.com/to-sea/

01.10.2025 05:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Indianapolis Review 2025 Best of the Net Nominations!! @sundresspub.bsky.social
Cal Freeman, Matthew Johnson, Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Smitha Sehgal, Marian Urquilla, and Laura Grace Weldon

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I loved this piece! So much to unpack here.

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