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June Road Press @juneroadpress.bsky.social · 20h

Abbie Kiefer’s CERTAIN SHELTER is one of three New Hampshire Literary Award finalists in poetry! 🤩 Winners will be announced at a ceremony on October 18. Check out the full list here: nhwritersproject.org/finalists-an...

Finalists Announced for the 2025 New Hampshire Literary Awards - New Hampshire Writers’ Project

The New Hampshire Writers’ Project (NHWP) is proud to announce the finalists for the 16th Biennial New Hampshire Literary Awards, recognizing outstanding works written by or about New Hampshire. These...

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · 1d

Really grateful to the team at @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social

Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to our Book Award finalists!!

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June Road Press @juneroadpress.bsky.social · Sep 9

Join us for a cozy Sunday-night virtual craft chat on 9/28 to celebrate the launch of Level Watch in two weeks, featuring Abbie Kiefer! Register at bit.ly/level-watch-launch ✨

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Prairie Schooner @prairie-schooner.bsky.social · Sep 9

Our newest issue is now available for purchase! Featuring work by @feliciazamorapoet.bsky.social, @nadeemzaman.bsky.social, @mlynxqualey.bsky.social, @kgapoetwriter.bsky.social, @abbiekiefer.bsky.social, @riggstah.bsky.social, and more.

Order the issue here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/winter...

Volume 98
Number 4
Contributors

Marilyn Hacker
Catherine DeNardo
Deema K. Shehabi
Emily Black
Chase Twichell
Danielle Weeks
Orlando Ricardo Menes
Tom Laichas
Felicia Zamora
Alonso Llerena
Cyril Dabydeen
Matthew Lippman
Nadeem Zaman
Christine Marshall
Mary Morris
Wes Matthews
Marcia Lynx Qualey
Genevieve Payne
Sabina Urraca
Rachel Ephraim
J.P. White
Esi W. Nkeyekyer
Matthew Gellman
Abbie Kiefer
Karan Kapoor
Joanne Clarkson
Keisha-Gaye Anderson
Avia Tadmor
Brian Francis
Chris Watkins
Andrea L. Hackbarth
Adam J. Gellings
Jay Kophy
Mariah Rigg
Nicholas Samaras
Brittany Perham
Enzo Silon Surin
Gracie Newman
Robert Thomas

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Sep 5

"There is a measure of comfort in the nearness of others and there are ways in which a person can never be near enough."

Contributor @abbiekiefer.bsky.social reviewed CIVIL TWILIGHT by Cynthia Huntington for @themassreview.bsky.social! Give it read right here: buff.ly/6Go8W1a

Civil Twilight, poems by Cynthia Huntington.

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · Aug 26

I loved this challenging, layered book. You might too. Thanks to @themassreview.bsky.social for publishing my review of CIVIL TWILIGHT by Cynthia Huntington from Southern Illinois University Press. massreview.org/2025/08/26/a...

Among the Pressing Wild: Cynthia Huntington’s Civil Twilight - The Massachusetts Review

By naming her collection Civil Twilight, Cynthia Huntington situates us in a narrow interval—the few minutes when the sun hovers zero to six degrees below the horizon. Any higher and it’s daytime. One...

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Whittle Micro-Press @whittlemicropress.bsky.social · Jul 21

Our catalog features titles by Kelly R. Samuels, Cyril Wong, Abbie Kiefer, Lauren Davis, Miranda Dennis, Katherine Fallon, & Roseanna Alice Boswell.

All proceeds go to authors!

#chapbooks #indiepoets #indiepoetry #indieauthors #indiepub #indiebooks #smallpress #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

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Rebecca Hart Olander @rholanderpoet.bsky.social · Aug 15

Summer reading: CERTAIN SHELTER by @abbiekiefer.bsky.social (@juneroadpress.bsky.social, 2024). Here are poems for a mother, “All These Things I Can’t Remember” & a father, “I Don’t Like Baseball, Just the Red Sox.” I recommend the @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social about this incredible debut. ♥️

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · Aug 5

This poem I love, "What Did You Do Last Week," first appeared in Second Coming, a project from @beachcombermike.bsky.social and Indolent Books: michaelbroder.substack.com/p/second-com...

Second Coming No. 62 — March 22, 2025

A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · Aug 5

Brian Turner calls HUMAN RESOURCES by @erinmurphy.bsky.social a "love song to the profound work of survival." It's a fantastic description of this incisive, clever collection that made me pay real attention to the ways we value labor and the humans who provide it. graysonbooks.com/products/hum...

What Did You Do Last Week?
1. I lay in bed and thought of the AA mantra
one day at a time and the Dolly Parton lyric
I’ve had to think up a way to survive
and the Becket line I can’t go on. I’ll go on.
2. I scattered a few bucks like birdseed
to causes I care about.
3. I sat in meetings where there were calls
to order and motions on motions,
oceans of motions. Someone in the shadows
was always taking minutes. Taking minutes.
4. I went for a walk in a wetland preserve
nestled between an asphalt company
and the county courthouse. A northern flicker
pecked for ground beetles. On its head:
a red brushstroke like an artist’s
afterthought. Or a warning. I wondered
if birds have blood. I wondered if the people
in power have feelings. I wondered
if we’ll go on. I told myself we can’t
not go on.
5. I wrote this poem.

Cover of HUMAN RESOURCES by Erin Murphy. A black background with a doll in a yellow dress that appears to be falling. Small doll hands reach from the top of the image toward the falling doll.

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thanks to @sundresspub.bsky.social and guest editor Alexis Ivy for featuring poems from CERTAIN SHELTER as part of The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed this week. @juneroadpress.bsky.social sundressblog.com/2025/07/28/t...

The Wardrobe's Best Dressed: Certain Shelter by Abbie Kiefer - The Sundress Blog

This selection, chosen by guest editor Alexis Ivy, is from Certain Shelter by Abbie Kiefer (June Road Press 2024). A Brief History of Yankee Thrift, Yankee Ingenuity, and Yankee Work Ethic To make. To...

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · Jul 25

Making your list for the Sealey Challenge? Order CERTAIN SHELTER for 15% off with the promo code AUGUST: www.abbiekieferpoet.com/books

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · Jul 1

Love this set of tender, true poems by @janezwart.bsky.social in the new issue of Bracken. www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiii/t...

Two Poems by Jane Zwart — Bracken

During the war, victory gardens. Also roses, also coffins that looked like window boxes

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · Jun 26

Grateful to @eadwinedwards.bsky.social for this insightful, generous review of CERTAIN SHELTER in the latest issue of Pedestal. thepedestalmagazine.com/abbie-kiefer...

Pedestal Magazine » Abbie Kiefer’s Certain Shelter, Reviewed by Elisabeth Adwin Edwards

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · Jun 24

@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social: "I don't want to take anything away from the size of the bummer that this is all temporary. But also the fact that it's temporary means that it really matters. We really have an obligation to each other, and that obligation isn't forever." www.npr.org/2025/03/27/1...

John Green still has hope : Wild Card with Rachel Martin

John Green keeps busy – from authoring blockbuster young adult novels like "The Fault in Our Stars," to running a YouTube empire with his brother Hank, to publishing his latest nonfiction book, "Ever...

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · Jun 21

Trying to be chill about this but the audiobook narrator of a novel set in Maine keeps calling Bangor "Banger."

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Shellie Kalinsky @sheshellwrites.bsky.social · May 22

“Like a quilt, in which scattered pieces of fabric are used to create a new whole, Kiefer stitches together scenes...” Read Lori Rottenberg’s review of Abbie Kiefer’s Certain Shelter here:
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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · Jun 15

So proud of my @juneroadpress.bsky.social pressmate @mardery.bsky.social. LEVEL WATCH is gorgeous. Do future-you a favor and pre-order! www.juneroadpress.com/level-watch

Level Watch — June Road Press

A poetry collection by Mary Ardery

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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · Jun 11

I have so many Matchbook Lit favorites! But I'm not in the running for a FREE notebook w. writing prompts! Matchbook is giving five copies away, so be sure to weigh in here! 📚📚📚

matchbook literary magazine @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social · Jun 11

**Announcement**

We've produced a blank notebook for writers! It contains flash prompts throughout from @kathyfish.bsky.social.

Just comment with a link to your favorite mb piece on any of our social accounts to be entered to win one of five free copies!

www.matchbooklitmag.com/blank-notebo...

matchbook | blank notebooks

A blank notebook with flash prompts throughout created by notable writer, Kathy Fish.

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · Jun 8

"When will we go back and brush the plants that know to fold against threat. Rebuild the bonobo, its empty bones so like ours"

Beautiful and devastating micro from @abbiekiefer.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social

www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/kiefer/wh...

When Can We Go Back | matchbook

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · Jun 8

Thanks so much for reading.

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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · Jun 8

Aw, @splitlipthemag.bsky.social, you're the best.

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Jun 8

Have a beautiful poem for ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY 💕 Contributor @abbiekiefer.bsky.social‬ published a poem in @theoffingmag.bsky.social about moving forward: buff.ly/pvVv92z

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The Offing @theoffingmag.bsky.social · Jun 5

"of equinoctial certainty — each in ascent, wings cutting like checkmarks"

From “Geese in Flight, Oil on Canvas, Restwell Motor Inn Room 12 with One-Way U-Haul Parked Outside” a Poem by Abbie Kiefer ( @abbiekiefer.bsky.social ).

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Geese in Flight, Oil on Canvas, Restwell Motor Inn Room 12 with One-Way U-Haul Parked Outside - The Offing

Poetry - The Offing Magazine

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Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · Jun 5

Lori Rottenberg reviews @abbiekiefer.bsky.social's poetry collection, Certain Shelter, in our May/June issue:

literarymama.com/articles/dep...

A Quilt of Loss and Mothering: A Review of Certain Shelter

Early in Abbie Kiefer’s first full-length poetry collection, Certain Shelter (June Road Press 2024), she writes about a quilt, a wonderful metaphor through which to understand this beautiful, accessib...

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