Christopher Nelson
@christophernelson.bsky.social
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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Now that’s a statement
Yesterday, we joined tens of thousands to march.
This am, ICE responded with violence.
Alex was an ICU nurse, a union sibling, & an observer who stepped in to help.
This is a union state. We will continue to show up, to watch, to document, and fight
ICE is not welcome here.
This am, ICE responded with violence.
Alex was an ICU nurse, a union sibling, & an observer who stepped in to help.
This is a union state. We will continue to show up, to watch, to document, and fight
ICE is not welcome here.
January 25, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Now that’s a statement
"Skyfall"—new audio poem up at Booth. Feels timely.
booth.butler.edu/2026/01/01/s...
booth.butler.edu/2026/01/01/s...
January 8, 2026 at 9:01 PM
"Skyfall"—new audio poem up at Booth. Feels timely.
booth.butler.edu/2026/01/01/s...
booth.butler.edu/2026/01/01/s...
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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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#SmartishPace #pushcart #poetry #creativewriting #poet #poetrycommunity #poets #SmartishPacePoets #poetrylovers
December 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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!
#SmartishPace #pushcart #poetry #creativewriting #poet #poetrycommunity #poets #SmartishPacePoets #poetrylovers
#SmartishPace #pushcart #poetry #creativewriting #poet #poetrycommunity #poets #SmartishPacePoets #poetrylovers
November 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Join us tonight, 8:00 p.m. (Central)!
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November 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Join us tonight, 8:00 p.m. (Central)!
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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Amazon 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.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon 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.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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.
www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/no-on...
www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/no-on...
from No One’s Woman - Asymptote
TISSUE SAMPLE : PENELOPEpenelope waits waits for whatwaits penelope? does calypso wait circe wait scylla charybdis sirens wait all all for one only: the one the other—different fr...
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October 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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.
www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/no-on...
www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/no-on...
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
And get your book here: www.greenlindenpress.com/books/spilt
September 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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
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.
www.greenlindenpress.com/interviews-a...
@richard-siken.bsky.social @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
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@richard-siken.bsky.social @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
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August 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I reviewed Richard Siken's brilliant third book, which comes out this month from Copper Canyon Press. Not to be missed.
www.greenlindenpress.com/interviews-a...
@richard-siken.bsky.social @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
www.greenlindenpress.com/interviews-a...
@richard-siken.bsky.social @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
Poets, Green Linden Press is reading manuscripts!
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August 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Poets, Green Linden Press is reading manuscripts!
greenlindenpress.submittable.com/submit
greenlindenpress.submittable.com/submit
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The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too
July 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too
New poem at Pedestal.
Pedestal Magazine » Christopher Nelson – Consequence
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June 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
New poem at Pedestal.
Less than one week remains to submit proposals for the $2500 Essential Voices Editorial Fellowship: greenlindenpress.com/submit
June 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Less than one week remains to submit proposals for the $2500 Essential Voices Editorial Fellowship: greenlindenpress.com/submit
NO WAR. "Good Faith" by Hasan Alizadeh (translated by Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould). www.greenlindenpress.com/books/poetry... #iran
June 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
NO WAR. "Good Faith" by Hasan Alizadeh (translated by Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould). www.greenlindenpress.com/books/poetry... #iran
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Donald 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.
June 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Donald 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.
End the war. "Pattern" by Garous Abdolmalekian (translated by Ahmad Nadalizadeh & Idra Novey)
www.greenlindenpress.com/books/poetry...
www.greenlindenpress.com/books/poetry...
June 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
End the war. "Pattern" by Garous Abdolmalekian (translated by Ahmad Nadalizadeh & Idra Novey)
www.greenlindenpress.com/books/poetry...
www.greenlindenpress.com/books/poetry...
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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.
June 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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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Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts
At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.
www.mesoscalenews.com
May 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.
www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...
www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...
Happy to share my interview with the inimitable Monica Ong on her new book Planetaria.
www.greenlindenpress.com/interviews-a...
www.greenlindenpress.com/interviews-a...
April 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Happy to share my interview with the inimitable Monica Ong on her new book Planetaria.
www.greenlindenpress.com/interviews-a...
www.greenlindenpress.com/interviews-a...
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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
April 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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