Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein
@fklein907.bsky.social
Alaskan poet, teacher, parent. Books: Text Messages from The Angel Gabriel (Gnashing Teeth 2024), Another Life (Riot in Your Throat 2025)
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Happy book birthday to my first child! In one year, this book has...
-been all around the world
-made the finalist list for the Last Syllable Book Award
-helped men and women see their complex grief around infertility and pregnancy loss put into words
-been all around the world
-made the finalist list for the Last Syllable Book Award
-helped men and women see their complex grief around infertility and pregnancy loss put into words
The Russian dude in heated rivalry being portrayed as super desirable and also having as many moles as he does is low key healing something in me?
February 3, 2026 at 6:34 AM
The Russian dude in heated rivalry being portrayed as super desirable and also having as many moles as he does is low key healing something in me?
I can tell the heated rivalry folks really know the age of their audience because a t.a.t.u song is featured in one episode
February 3, 2026 at 6:10 AM
I can tell the heated rivalry folks really know the age of their audience because a t.a.t.u song is featured in one episode
JAKE is and has been what is best about independent lit: weird, excellent, electric.
Hey all, @beansbaker5.bsky.social here. After much deliberation, and many missed deadlines, we've decided to end submissions to JAKE indefinitely on Feb. 15th (two weeks from today). All open submissions will receive a response, and all announced/scheduled work will release, but we're winding down.
February 3, 2026 at 2:49 AM
JAKE is and has been what is best about independent lit: weird, excellent, electric.
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It’s sad that we already have Alaska teachers worried about their jobs next year.
Found out right before first period started that, due to seniority, I am first on the chopping block for this layoff cycle, and then a few hours later I was like “why am I so cranky today? Must be the moon” 🙃🙃🙃
February 3, 2026 at 1:53 AM
It’s sad that we already have Alaska teachers worried about their jobs next year.
Found out right before first period started that, due to seniority, I am first on the chopping block for this layoff cycle, and then a few hours later I was like “why am I so cranky today? Must be the moon” 🙃🙃🙃
February 2, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Found out right before first period started that, due to seniority, I am first on the chopping block for this layoff cycle, and then a few hours later I was like “why am I so cranky today? Must be the moon” 🙃🙃🙃
Happy book birthday to my first child! In one year, this book has...
-been all around the world
-made the finalist list for the Last Syllable Book Award
-helped men and women see their complex grief around infertility and pregnancy loss put into words
-been all around the world
-made the finalist list for the Last Syllable Book Award
-helped men and women see their complex grief around infertility and pregnancy loss put into words
February 1, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Happy book birthday to my first child! In one year, this book has...
-been all around the world
-made the finalist list for the Last Syllable Book Award
-helped men and women see their complex grief around infertility and pregnancy loss put into words
-been all around the world
-made the finalist list for the Last Syllable Book Award
-helped men and women see their complex grief around infertility and pregnancy loss put into words
February 1, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Update: the player’s name is also not even Pete Olsen
6, sorting baseball cards: no way!
Me: what?
6: I just got Pete Olsen, and he looks LEGIT
Me: who is Pete Olsen?
6: …I don’t know
Me: what?
6: I just got Pete Olsen, and he looks LEGIT
Me: who is Pete Olsen?
6: …I don’t know
February 1, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Update: the player’s name is also not even Pete Olsen
6, sorting baseball cards: no way!
Me: what?
6: I just got Pete Olsen, and he looks LEGIT
Me: who is Pete Olsen?
6: …I don’t know
Me: what?
6: I just got Pete Olsen, and he looks LEGIT
Me: who is Pete Olsen?
6: …I don’t know
January 31, 2026 at 11:58 PM
6, sorting baseball cards: no way!
Me: what?
6: I just got Pete Olsen, and he looks LEGIT
Me: who is Pete Olsen?
6: …I don’t know
Me: what?
6: I just got Pete Olsen, and he looks LEGIT
Me: who is Pete Olsen?
6: …I don’t know
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Flight 3 is out today! This issue is all about...art!
We have pieces by @carriganak.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @paulluikart.bsky.social and Dominik Slusarczyk
Read our editor's note here: flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-3-now...
We have pieces by @carriganak.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @paulluikart.bsky.social and Dominik Slusarczyk
Read our editor's note here: flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-3-now...
Flight 3 Now Live!
Editor's Intro
Where Flight 2 reflected the anxieties of the ongoing horrors, Flight 3 turns inward with pieces that focus on art and artistic processes. In Flight 2, we looked at all the submitted w...
flight-literary.ghost.io
January 31, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Flight 3 is out today! This issue is all about...art!
We have pieces by @carriganak.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @paulluikart.bsky.social and Dominik Slusarczyk
Read our editor's note here: flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-3-now...
We have pieces by @carriganak.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @paulluikart.bsky.social and Dominik Slusarczyk
Read our editor's note here: flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-3-now...
Every day me and my poor eyesight play Russian roulette with very similar looking bottles of contac solution and micellar water
January 31, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Every day me and my poor eyesight play Russian roulette with very similar looking bottles of contac solution and micellar water
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www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/03...
Here it is for when you're ready to be wowed by Hayden yet again.
Here it is for when you're ready to be wowed by Hayden yet again.
Robert Hayden’s “Summertime and the Living...” by D. A. Powell
March 22, 2012 – One of the pleasures of reading a great poem over time is the way its meanings establish themselves (like the “trees of heaven” that reclaim the space of
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January 30, 2026 at 10:58 PM
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/03...
Here it is for when you're ready to be wowed by Hayden yet again.
Here it is for when you're ready to be wowed by Hayden yet again.
I know we should teach more Hayden poems than just “Those Winter Sundays,” but also…man, what a stone cold banger that poem is. 10/10
January 30, 2026 at 10:46 PM
I know we should teach more Hayden poems than just “Those Winter Sundays,” but also…man, what a stone cold banger that poem is. 10/10
sometimes when we were kids we would put two slugs in a jar and then check on them every so often to see which slug had eaten the other
anyway, this is the same energy I bring to checking on my "in progress" submissions from 2023 and 2024
anyway, this is the same energy I bring to checking on my "in progress" submissions from 2023 and 2024
January 30, 2026 at 3:39 PM
sometimes when we were kids we would put two slugs in a jar and then check on them every so often to see which slug had eaten the other
anyway, this is the same energy I bring to checking on my "in progress" submissions from 2023 and 2024
anyway, this is the same energy I bring to checking on my "in progress" submissions from 2023 and 2024
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and you may find yourself reading everything you wrote in your notes app at 4am and you may tell yourself this is not my beautiful story
January 30, 2026 at 4:48 AM
and you may find yourself reading everything you wrote in your notes app at 4am and you may tell yourself this is not my beautiful story
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I fucking love indie lit. I love what @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @thirtywestph.com @gameoverbooks.bsky.social @malarkeybooks.bsky.social @kithbooks.bsky.social @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social Autofucus and more are doing. And how they are doing it. A god damn inspiration, every single day.
January 30, 2026 at 1:46 AM
I fucking love indie lit. I love what @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @thirtywestph.com @gameoverbooks.bsky.social @malarkeybooks.bsky.social @kithbooks.bsky.social @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social Autofucus and more are doing. And how they are doing it. A god damn inspiration, every single day.
My husband watched the first half of episode 3 of heated rivalry (without seeing 1-2) and was like “a barista and a hockey player aren’t even in the same line of work, why are they rivals?”
January 29, 2026 at 11:02 PM
My husband watched the first half of episode 3 of heated rivalry (without seeing 1-2) and was like “a barista and a hockey player aren’t even in the same line of work, why are they rivals?”
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…not with a bang, but a podcast.
January 29, 2026 at 2:57 PM
…not with a bang, but a podcast.
I can’t relate to any of the “2016 makeup trend” posts because my only makeup routine in 2016 was putting eyeshadow and mascara on an otherwise uncooked face
January 29, 2026 at 2:57 PM
I can’t relate to any of the “2016 makeup trend” posts because my only makeup routine in 2016 was putting eyeshadow and mascara on an otherwise uncooked face
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ummmm you don't understand, MY family came here legally. They had to meet rigorous requirements like, "get on a boat", and "don't shit yourself to death on the boat before it gets there"
January 29, 2026 at 1:58 AM
ummmm you don't understand, MY family came here legally. They had to meet rigorous requirements like, "get on a boat", and "don't shit yourself to death on the boat before it gets there"
Just saw a book award with a ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN dollar entry fee 🤯
January 29, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Just saw a book award with a ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN dollar entry fee 🤯
The duality of childhood is that 6 can tell me that you need to test a theory “lots of times to make sure the first time’s not a fluke” but also his shirt and underwear are on backwards
January 28, 2026 at 3:54 PM
The duality of childhood is that 6 can tell me that you need to test a theory “lots of times to make sure the first time’s not a fluke” but also his shirt and underwear are on backwards
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some people like to describe their anxiety in folksy ways such as “i’m more nervous than a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs” but i like to be more eloquent and say “i have diarrhea again”
January 24, 2026 at 2:05 PM
some people like to describe their anxiety in folksy ways such as “i’m more nervous than a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs” but i like to be more eloquent and say “i have diarrhea again”
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