Claire Wahmanholm

Senator Omar Fateh Calls for Special Session on Gun Violence Prevention | Minnesota Senate DFL ST. PAUL, Minn. — Senator Omar Fateh (DFL-Minneapolis) releases the following statement: “I am horrified by the shooting at Annunciation Catholic School, an attack on innocent children in their place ...

Our children deserve to grow up. Fletcher Merkel and Harper Moyski should still be alive. As a father, I'm heartbroken for what these families are going through.

As a legislature, we need to take action. We need a special session. Let's move our feet. senatedfl.mn/senator-omar...

Ah no, I hadn't seen! So lovely!

Because Now There Is a Child: What Motherhood Can Teach Us About the Climate Crisis — Montreal International Poetry Prize Review of Meltwater by Claire Wahmanholm by Avryl Bender In her 2023 collection of poems, Meltwater, Claire Wahmanholm treats language with the care of a finite resource, demonstrating a conscientious respect for the organic materials of poetry. Throughout the work, Wahmanholm repurposes lines

Avryl Bender (@avrylbender.bsky.social) on Claire Wahmanholm's Meltwater!!! www.montrealpoetryprize.com/reviews/beca... <3

I wrote a sonnet sequence during the MN drought of 2021, and three of the poems are in the latest issue of Like a Field 🌱🌿🪲💚 You can read the entire issue online here: www.likeafield.com/2025/summer

Ah! Thank you so much for reading 😍

Day 4: Meltwater by @cwahmanholm.bsky.social

I read this whole book in one sitting, in the sneaky presence of a tiny snake, and am still dazed by its vivid grief.

No Brains, No Lightbulbs | Episode 2: It Was a Little Schvitzy Outside — Trivia Mafia Poet extraordinaire Claire Wahmanholm joins the No Brains, No Lightbulbs crew to discuss crabs, vegetable orchestras, cocaine, citrus fruits, berets... pretty much everything except poetry. Sean c...

hey folks, if you want to hear me run my mouth about stuff that ISN'T POETRY (cocaine, the Talking Heads, crabs, vegetable orchestras, Lays potato chips, obscure citrus fruits), have I got a deal for you, thanks to the good folks at @triviamafia.com!

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Ok that’s it this is a concerted group effort there is no denying it. The Dem establishment got together in a back room and said “how are we gonna stop this man from making change in the party he is too dangerously progressive and popular.”

And then they all agreed “use the Jews.”

TONIGHT!! 7pm Pacific/9pm central, @mollyolguin.bsky.social's short story collection is one you'll want to have on your radar, I'm serious 🌊🐙

THIS THURSDAY, online, I'll be talking to my amazing friend @mollyolguin.bsky.social about her EXTREMELY GOOD debut story collection, The Sea Gives Up the Dead, out now with @redhenpress.bsky.social. We'll talk about horror, fairy tales, grim days, maybe even hope??

Zoom link on graphic!

TONIGHT! let's gooo!

minneapolitans, you can find a free copy of #abundantnumber in the entryway at Bench Pressed if you're quick

Book Launch: The Deletions Your neighborhood independent bookstore located in south Minneapolis. Selling new and used books since 2012.

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Come on out to @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social tonight folks! The tornado warning is OVER, @sarahgreenpoet.bsky.social's book is EXTREMELY EXCELLENT and Angela Voras-Hills and @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social are both WELLS OF DELIGHT and there will be snacks and drinks!

SUNDAY, 5/18, 6PM CST: come help me celebrate the virtual launch of @farahghafoor.bsky.social's collection Shadow Price (@houseofanansi.bsky.social)! @sarahali.bsky.social and I will be reading a couple poems to kick things off 💛

Register here: tinyurl.com/ywx5dn6p

I've got two alphabet poems in the Arsenic and Old Lace DOUBLE ISSUE of Fairy Tale Review ❤️ Major gratitude to Asiya Wadud, whose poem "L" my "L" is directly responding to. I'm very into the idea of poems being letters/postcards that poets can send back and forth to each other! Why not?

Ahoy! What're you doing on Weds. 5/28 at 7pm UK time? (2pm US Eastern/1pm Central/12 MTN/11am Pacific.) You're invited to this first reading (of a summer of readings♪) to celebrate #patternbook, out 29/5 from @carcanet.bsky.social 👇👇👇
• admission £2
• event 1 hour long
• 10 poems+conversation, ∞ joy

do your fucking job you hack

From @cwahmanholm.bsky.social's book, Meltwater.

#poem #books #writing

Lydia Kiesling on Refusing to Speak at an Anti-Trans University Last April, I got an email from a faculty member at Sweet Briar College, a small women’s college in rural Virginia. The college was preparing to choose its Common Read for the following academic ye…

I wrote about the Sweet Briar College Vixens, and how they are better than the adults in charge lithub.com/lydia-kiesli...

Stop making those little AI image generator memes of yourself as a Barbie or a Ghibli character you are enriching evil companies and destroying the planet and this is like one of the easiest things you can just not do

"Hands Off USPS" Teach-In! A decentralized grassroots event that creates an opportunity to (1) build community and (2) provide participants with resources to take action on behalf of USPS.

#HandsOffUSPS teach-ins are happening in 20 states so far!

Shoutout AK, CA, CO, IA, IL, MA, MD, ME, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OR, PA, TX, VA, WA & WI

Would love signups in all 50 states by May 3rd and make it a truly National P.O. Soapbox Day 💌

#AskBelieveReceive lolol

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I don’t need to go into space, it’s none of my business. I’m a big Earth guy, I can’t get enough of her work. Daffodils! Are you kidding me? Bison! Miraculous. Sending a slinky down the stairs? Incredible. Mariachi music? Yes, please.

Truly! It was hard not to screenshot every damn page!

Hey gang, if you want a vibe, @misternagel.bsky.social has got your ideal surreal-dirtbag-sad-hilarious-grim pandemic-era-but-really-all-era essay collection right here! Out from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social! please get a copy and read it immediately!

Please, if you love anything about this life, stop using ChatGPT and other GenAI. Just stop. Don't use it to dunk on it, don't use it for a laugh, just stop and let that shit wither.

Day 2: #NationalPoetryMonth

@cwahmanholm.bsky.social's MELTWATER (@milkweededitions.bsky.social) demonstrates our precarious binding to all things temporal: ice, mineral, land, illness, loss, language. Poems exploring the fragility & rupture of self in a world of ecological collapse.

#poetry

If you're UC-Riverside adjacent, come on out this coming Monday to hear me and Donika Kelly talk about ecopoetics and the apocalypse; they're also giving away copies of Meltwater to the first folks in the door! Come get yours!

If you're heading to AWP, come check out this reading on Friday evening at Night Gallery! We're going in alphabetical order so be ready to stick around lol