Nikki Wallschlaeger
@nikkimwalls
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poet ♍♍♋ Waterbaby (2021) Hold Your Own (2024) @CopperCanyonPress bookings @shipman_agency 🍉
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Here she is 💜💜💜
Forthcoming MAY 2024: HOLD YOUR OWN by NIKKI WALLSCHLAEGER (
@nikkimwalls
)
#coverreveal
Pre-order here:
Cover Design: Becca Fox Design
Cover Art: Courtesy of Nikki Wallschlaeger
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Getting help for mental health is not enough. We live in a world where people don't want to live in it anymore. We need to change the world.
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yes!!!!! It's happening!!!!
Univ of Rochester announces it will cut academic ties with Israel, a demand advanced by and won by the students
#FreePalestine
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we live in a world where little creatures evolve to look like flowers so they can survive
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@KejeraL
currently processing the knowledge that Israel built its military bases inside residential neighborhoods
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@RaxKingIsDead
I saw nothing wrong with this pic until I read the comments and remembered the other world these ppl live in that I don't
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close reading is more than a literary skill- it is a political skill
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Holy shit
I bought an old copy of The Poems of Laura Riding and there was a letter inside it in an envelope written by her.
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poetry is literally everywhere. If you see it in everything you're a poet
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girl fuck you
You must go back in time: would you prefer to live the life of a slave owner, or the life of a slave?
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get in, losers
Can boomers make a single anti Bernie meme that doesn't make him look cool as shit?
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It's official💫
My third collection, Waterbaby, will be published by
@CopperCanyonPrs
in 2021!
thank u for welcoming me to the Copper Canyon crew 🔥
Welcome to Copper Canyon,
@nikkimwalls
! Wallschlaeger is the author of Houses (Horseless Press) and Crawlspace (
@bloofbooks
), as well as the graphic book I Hate Telling You How I Really Feel (
@bloofbooks
). We look forward to publishing her next collection!
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If you want to be a poet, be a poet. Write the poems. Read the poetry. Read widely. Be your own poet.
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there are poets who see poetry as a career. But then there are poets who understand that it's a way of life, a way of living.
A way to make our lives art. Which reminds us that we are alive. And in turn, we keep each other alive.
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@ztsamudzi
I HATE that video. The parts where he shoots Black ppl was so unnecessary. It really bothers me that he did that.
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some good news💜
I just signed a contract for my 4th book of poems! HOLD YOUR OWN will be published by
@CopperCanyonPrs
More details to come 🎉
grateful and excited to be working again with one of the best poetry presses in the US ✨
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Society is so afraid of desire that it was transformed into consumption
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How I read this situation is this:
POC overwhelmingly responded to Danielle's tweet with global POC traditions of poetry and Black traditions of poetry.
We get called "mean" and are accused of piling on when speaking up, educating, and defending (1)
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“Folks, I'm telling you,
birthing is hard
and dying is mean-
so get yourself
a little loving
in between.”
― Langston Hughes
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Poets be like "I know a place" and encrypt their feelings in three layers of metaphor, lock it with a simile, and build an electric fence around it with juxtaposition just to make sure
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"Jennifer says she has no doubt Richard would be cracking up if he heard Quincy spilling the tea."
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I'm going to the hospital for a few days. My anxiety and depression is at dangerous levels. Thank u everyone for the love. I'll be thinking of you ❤️
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I love how these covid ads place responsibility solely on regular ass people instead of the failures of the government to contain the virus.
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the only difference between a small press and a big press is money. Not the quality of the poetry.
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It's my birthday today. I'm 39 years old and I'm still here 💜
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I can't look at a robin hopping along on the grass without thinking of this poem
RIP 💜💐🌹🌺🌷🪷🌸💮🏵️🌻🌼
Bernadette Mayer (1945-2022)
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Today is the official release date for my third book, Waterbaby
@CopperCanyonPrs
I'm grateful to everyone in my life who made this book possible. Get it here 💜
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there are more Black anarchists than your history has allowed
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we should rent billboards and put our poetry on it
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having a rough day. could really use some prayers.
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some of yall took your MFA program too seriously and it shows.
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One thing I'm going to stress in my teaching is that you don't need to move away to an expensive city in order to be a poet
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writing poetry is so weird especially when your own poems help you understand something that's going on inside yourself
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why does the rest of the world need to accept poets and poetry? It's a vocation for freaks & outsiders. At least that's how I revel in it. Make Poetry Countercultural Again LMAO. But I get it. The instinct these days is to professionalize every last breath.
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this is absurd. Trans people don't ask to be murdered for some higher cause.
We won because Black and Brown trans people fought and died for us to live and fight.
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(5) the moral of the story is:
POC are feared, misinterpreted, and regarded as fools who are incapable of being discerning, critical, compassionate, and generous when speaking up. We are a celebration of angry voices.
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and here she is! the cover of my third book: Waterbaby, forthcoming from
@CopperCanyonPrs
(cover picture: yours truly, in my easter finery,1986)
Forthcoming April 2021: WATERBABY by
@nikkimwalls
.
#coverreveal
Pre-order here:
Cover art: Courtesy of Nikki Wallschlaeger
Cover design: Phil Kovacevich
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holy shit you guys.
one of the chickens caught a garter snake and ate it!!!
it was about a foot long and 1.5 inches wide, and she ate it HEAD FIRST
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what does pleasure mean in the 21st century when pleasure's relationship to consumption is destroying the planet
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@shaTIRED
never in my Black American life have I even ENTERTAINED the idea that I was entitled to land in Africa because of what happened to my ancestors.
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(2) Barren fires editor because they are fearful of the consequences of POC speaking up to correct.
(3) No POC, or anyone for that matter asked for her removal;
(4) POC speaking up has consequences they didn't ask for.
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If writing poetry doesn't give you pleasure, perhaps consider your relationship to language.
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I have a covid story.
One of my relatives tried to go to rehab to get treated for alcoholism and was turned away because of covid restrictions.
She was found dead at home two days later.
The death toll is higher than you think.
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There should be an app called Birdsong where you can take an audio recording of birds singing and it will identify the various birds for you.
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"the blast is wrong"
The blast killing hundreds at a hospital in Gaza is deeply wrong. I grieve for each person lost. There’s no excuse for the deaths of people seeking care and those who treated them. International law is clear: Innocent civilians must be protected & have access to humanitarian aid.
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a gentle reminder that small, independent, & non-profit presses still exist.
you could even start one of your own, if you want
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Gentle reminder that Kenneth Goldmsith thought anything could be a poem and he read The Autopsy of Michael Brown at Brown University as a performance (ending with a description of MB's genitalia) and tried to pass it off as conceptual poetry.
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a summer thunderstorm is one of the great joys of life
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poets, look at this
Saw William Carlos Williams on the highway today.
Yes, I know this is a niche literary tweet….
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IT FINALLY HAPPENED.
I PASSED MY DRIVERS TEST TODAY!!!
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after years of searching, I finally found an affordable copy. A thread of poetry from Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry by Essex Hemphill (Plume, 1992).
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a new to me blues singer I can listen to
Blues singer Anita “Lady A” White has issued a new statement: “I will not allow Lady Antebellum to obliterate me and my career so they can look ‘woke’ to their fans”
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feel free to critique pofo now without the risk of getting called out as jealous, corny or bitter- the Ruth Lilly fellows have spoken
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I keep making the mistake of forgetting that healing isn't linear
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everyone wants the revolution until it comes to housework
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my next book, my fourth book of poetry, has a publication date
Hold Your Own
@CopperCanyonPrs
is scheduled to for release on April 30th, 2024 🎉
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the thing about Bukowski that people need to understand--- is he gives a voice to those who feel forsaken. That's why he's so beloved. His suffering is common.
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Even as I read the poetry of white men I enjoy, a lingering feeling of suffocation dampens the experience. I am doing the work of understanding them. They are not doing the work of understanding me.
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a feminist bibliography of women poets published before 1806 by Shameless Hussy Press in 1969.
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I have never IN MY LIFE entertained the idea that I, as a Black American woman born and raised in WISCONSIN USA was entitled to any land I wanted in Africa at any cost because of what happened to my ancestors.
just to be absolutely fucking clear about how I feel about Zionism
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You mean there's more to feminism than a cishet woman singing about if a man really loves you he should marry you? Shocked
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news flash: Earth is actually the Eden you don't have to kill or die to get to
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my book's official release date is next Tuesday, April 6th
😳🥳😊🥰
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Great news poets ✨
Anne Boyer is the 2023 poetry editor for the New York Times Magazine! She begins her term with a poem written by
@poemostar
called "Birthday"
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who the fuck would want to die for this country.
couldn't be me.
shouldn't be anyone.
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I would rather encourage survival than prepare for extinction
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My final stance on MFA's.
You don't need one to be a writer.
If you get into a program that's funding you, yes!!!! Do it.
Otherwise, shush. This is the most tired ass discourse--go write something lol
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Mary Magdalene, a powerful witch the angels could trust
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Frankly and respectfully--i'm not at all comfortable with an older male poet who has wrote 10 books and has been the recipient of mainstream poetry accolades coming up with a term "Memoir in Versified Prose" for lyrical, confessional, and narrative poetry (1)
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to be perfectly honest, I don't think this question is ethical.
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"From the sublime to the ridiculous, there is but one step." ---Napoleon Bonaparte
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#DanyeJones
a Ferguson activist, was found dead hanging from a tree in his own backyard when his mother found him in St. Louis. The media has not been reporting on it. Will you cover this story?
@nytimes
@CNN
@washingtonpost
@democracynow
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