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Author of, most recently, Windshear (Jacar 2024), Fugitive (Diagram 2024), and Blood Aria (Wisconsin 2021). PSA fellow and Amy Lowell Traveling Scholar. Editor and Publisher at Green Linden Press. www.christophernelson.info
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It's a pretty chart, but it doesn't hold water when you compare the statements; for instance, how does the Buttigieg message score -4 when it is an example of the kind of corruption talked about in the top four, which scored +22, +17, etc.?
06.02.2026 22:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Now that’s a statement
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"Skyfall"—new audio poem up at Booth. Feels timely.
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Thank you @mariannelchan.bsky.social, Leslie Harrison, @michaelmontlack.bsky.social, @christophernelson.bsky.social, Gregory Orr, and Amy Raasch for sending great poems to Smartish Pace!
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Poets, it's twilight time!
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Join us tonight, 8:00 p.m. (Central)!
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
31.10.2025 08:19 — 👍 17360 🔁 7010 💬 714 📌 1220Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Does the line of shameful acts "stretch out to th’ crack of doom?"
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Delighted to share translations from a project I'm working on with the amazing @monikacassel.bsky.social: four poems from Barbara Köhler's Niemands Frau, a brilliant, hallucinatory re-telling of the Odyssey. Thanks to Asymptote for believing in the work.
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Spilt by Jordan Stempleman is now available! Winner of the Wishing Jewel Prize for poetic innovation. Join Green Linden Press for a reading tonight (Sept. 18 at 8 p.m., Central). Register here: tinyurl.com/2h83ehfb
And get your book here: www.greenlindenpress.com/books/spilt
I reviewed Richard Siken's brilliant third book, which comes out this month from Copper Canyon Press. Not to be missed.
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Poets, Green Linden Press is reading manuscripts!
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The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too
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Chip in.
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Chip in if you're able.
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Less than one week remains to submit proposals for the $2500 Essential Voices Editorial Fellowship: greenlindenpress.com/submit
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NO WAR. "Good Faith" by Hasan Alizadeh (translated by Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould). www.greenlindenpress.com/books/poetry... #iran
22.06.2025 14:39 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Donald Trump’s fascism couldn’t exist today if we weren’t a country where George W. Bush could just disappear into cozy, pleasant retirement, make a few public appearances a year, & enjoy 52% approval, as if eight years of lies, crimes, constitutional violations, & policy negligence never happened.
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End the war. "Pattern" by Garous Abdolmalekian (translated by Ahmad Nadalizadeh & Idra Novey)
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The "I'll lower costs and get us out of endless wars" candidate is now presiding over surging costs and brand new wars.
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At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.
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Happy to share my interview with the inimitable Monica Ong on her new book Planetaria.
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An important listen.
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A screenshot of a tweet by the official White House account. Text: “Fixed it for you, @NYTimes. Oh, and by the way, @ChrisVanHollen - he's NOT coming back.” There is also a screenshot of the front page of the NyT with a large headline and photo about Van Hollen meeting with Abrego Garcia. They have edited the headline with red ink handwriting to say “ Senator meets with deported ms-13 illegal alien in El Salvador who’s never coming back.”
The only appropriate response to this is impeachment and removal from office. Every moment the political press spends spinning out theories about 2026 and immigration polling is a minute they are not spending asking Republicans in Congress about their plans to enforce the rule of law
18.04.2025 15:32 — 👍 10704 🔁 3373 💬 254 📌 314The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.
17.04.2025 18:21 — 👍 53614 🔁 13528 💬 1855 📌 793Tonight!
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I'm excited to be reading poems with the amazing Lise Goett! Join us on April 15 (8 central / 7 mountain) on Zoom as we celebrate our recent publications! Register here: tinyurl.com/mvw4vjff
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