Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein
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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)

https://linktr.ee/francesklein
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You know what everyone loves for holiday gifts? Books of poetry!

Your options are:

1. Chapbook about the Angel Gabriel hanging out on earth

2. Multi-award nominated collection about parenting, pregnancy loss, and the internet

Ordering links: www.frances-klein.com/books
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
February 1, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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
January 31, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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And read the pieces themselves here!

flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-3/
Flight 3
flight-literary.ghost.io
January 31, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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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
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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
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
January 30, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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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
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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
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
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…not with a bang, but a podcast.
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
January 29, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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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
Just saw a book award with a ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN dollar entry fee 🤯
January 29, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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
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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
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January 28, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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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...
somewords.boards.net
January 27, 2026 at 2:54 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
January 27, 2026 at 11:50 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...
somewords.boards.net
January 27, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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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!

duotrope.com/magazine/fli...
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...
duotrope.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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
Humans must be evolving faster than I thought because I’ve been to several clothing stores today and every pair of pants is for people with massive legs
January 24, 2026 at 9:21 PM