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
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...
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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
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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”
Reposted by Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein
Reposted by Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein
I love the early internet look and feel of @somewordslit.bsky.social
You can read my poem, “Ode to the Lilac Bush” today!
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You can read my poem, “Ode to the Lilac Bush” today!
somewords.boards.net/thread/56/fr...
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January 27, 2026 at 2:54 PM
I love the early internet look and feel of @somewordslit.bsky.social
You can read my poem, “Ode to the Lilac Bush” today!
somewords.boards.net/thread/56/fr...
You can read my poem, “Ode to the Lilac Bush” today!
somewords.boards.net/thread/56/fr...
I’m not saying DON’T take your kid on a month long vacation in the middle of the quarter, I’m just saying don’t be surprised when that is detrimental to their grades
January 27, 2026 at 11:50 PM
I’m not saying DON’T take your kid on a month long vacation in the middle of the quarter, I’m just saying don’t be surprised when that is detrimental to their grades
I love the early internet look and feel of @somewordslit.bsky.social
You can read my poem, “Ode to the Lilac Bush” today!
somewords.boards.net/thread/56/fr...
You can read my poem, “Ode to the Lilac Bush” today!
somewords.boards.net/thread/56/fr...
somewords.boards.net
January 27, 2026 at 2:54 PM
I love the early internet look and feel of @somewordslit.bsky.social
You can read my poem, “Ode to the Lilac Bush” today!
somewords.boards.net/thread/56/fr...
You can read my poem, “Ode to the Lilac Bush” today!
somewords.boards.net/thread/56/fr...
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Hey! We're the featured listing of the day on @duotrope.com
Check us out, and thank you to everyone who has been reporting their submissions!
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Check us out, and thank you to everyone who has been reporting their submissions!
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Flight
The idea for Flight: A Literary Sampler, was born 30,000 feet above Los Angeles. One of the editors was hungover, flying back from AWP, still dreaming about the flight of beers they had at a sketchy b...
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January 26, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Hey! We're the featured listing of the day on @duotrope.com
Check us out, and thank you to everyone who has been reporting their submissions!
duotrope.com/magazine/fli...
Check us out, and thank you to everyone who has been reporting their submissions!
duotrope.com/magazine/fli...
I just accidentally tore the page of a library book and the INSTANT rush of shame and guilt I felt—
January 26, 2026 at 5:05 AM
I just accidentally tore the page of a library book and the INSTANT rush of shame and guilt I felt—