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Aimee Nezhukumatathil

@nezhukumatathil.bsky.social

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🇵🇭🇮🇳 roller-skater since I was ten • school supplies • gardens • bioluminescence • lumpia • axolotls • Buckeye • NYT bestselling author • BITE BY BITE (food essays) • WORLD OF WONDERS (nature essays) • four books of poems + NIGHT OWL (Ecco, Spring 26)

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Aimee Nezhukumatathil @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social · Apr 9

NIGHT OWL, Ecco 2026.

Nature poems like you’ve never seen before 🦉

So excited for you to see what kinds of poems I’ve been cooking up the past seven years. Coming from the incredible team led by the incomparable Sarah Murphy at @eccobooks.bsky.social Spring 2026.

lavender post-it that says “new poems coming…ecco 2026) in think gold ink with a gold heart

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🎃 ヽ༼ಠ_ಠ༽ﾉ @abobymous.bsky.social · 20d

Terrific episode!

@outsideinradio.bsky.social @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social

www.nhpr.org/environment/...

Outside/In: Every bite is a story

Poet and author Aimee Nezhukumatathil dishes up three flavors that have connected her to others: one familiar, one sweet, and one strange.

www.nhpr.org

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Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social · 22d

This crab is going to organize its community against digital surveillance and I am here for it.

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22d

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 21d

As it should be. Freedom of expression is foundational to all our other rights.

ACLU @aclu.org · 22d

BREAKING: A court ruled that the federal government can't pick and choose among viewpoints when deciding who gets a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

We took the Trump administration to court to fight artistic censorship — and won.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 29d

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

Photo of a missing slice of cheesecake that looks like a cheesecake hull floating in a deep blue ocean. The "ocean" is actually the blueberry topping on the large cheesecake that we don't see completely.

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · Sep 8

Grateful to @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social for her kind words about Unrivered. Pre-orders help both author and press, and I appreciate your support.

(You can pre-order at B&N or Amazon, but full price.The link below is to @sundresspub.bsky.social for the sale price!)

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"Unrivered begins with a green field, and guides us through a remarkable journey of expressive power and vulnerability. I'm so grateful for this balm–this impassioned reckoning of the body and the outdoors."

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Aimee Nezhukumatathil @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social · Sep 6

Say. it. louder. for. the. people. in. the. back! 👏🏽

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Sep 6

When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Sep 6

I’m already seeing people who position themselves as progressive or liberal “joking” that Trump should occupy these cities instead. Y’all are so disappointing.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Sep 6

The thing is, I’m pretty sure these all majority black cities and I’m worried that Trump will eventually try to occupy them too at some point. The fact that they are in Republican-controlled states isn’t a gotcha so much as evidence of how they’ve been maligned by their state governments.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Sep 6

“The four cities of populations larger than 100,000 with the highest murder rates in 2024 are in Republican states: Jackson, Mississippi (78.7 per 100,000 residents), Birmingham, Alabama (58.8), St Louis, Missouri (54.1) and Memphis, Tennessee (40.6).”

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Gemma Matthews - The Sewing Songbird @thesewingsongbird.bsky.social · Sep 4

Well here it is at long last, my latest embroidery is finally finished. Sorry to keep you all waiting, I’ll leave you to dream and explore…😊🪡🌿🌺
*Completely freehand stitched without patterns or paint, just lots of threads & plenty of patience. #stitchedart #thesewingsongbird

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Aimee Nezhukumatathil @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social · Sep 4

big congrats!!

Aimee Nezhukumatathil @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social · Sep 3

crawl today, fly tomorrow (or in a few weeks) 🐛

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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · Sep 2

my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read!

“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”

Present Tense
by Todd Dillard

My father’s telling me about his dog,
how it fell into a well
when they were walking down a wooded path.
His dog ran across some rotted planks,
the planks splintered, “And whoosh!”
my father says. “No more dog.”
I look at the clock and remind my father it’s three A.M.
“I’m not finished,” he says.
He tells me about the rope he bought, the bucket,
how he knotted the rope to the bucket, lowered it down,
and yelled for the dog to get in.
“But all I pulled up was more barking.”
“Dad,” I say. “This never happened.”
He says he can’t remember
how long he tried to get the dog
to shimmy into the bucket.
Just that at some point
when the sky turned tawny—“Dad—“
as a pitcher of sweet tea—“Dad—“
he decided to give up.
“Dad,” I say. “It’s late.
I’m tired. And you’re dead.”
“Dammit, son,” my father says. “Let me finish!”
My father tells me about filling the bucket with dirt
and pouring the dirt into the well.
And I know what he’s getting at, I know
he’s going to tell me bucket by bucket
he filled the well and
the dog jumped out. He’s going to say
something about how the dog
led him home through the dark.
I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.
“Dad?” I say. “Dad, are you there?”
I keep lowering the bucket
but all I ever pull up are leaves.
Red leaves. Lately, some gold.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Sep 3

I refuse to give em dashes to the AI

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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · Sep 2

nature poets thanking the source of their inspiration

Tiger Woods shaking hands with a man who is almost entirely behind a tree such that the man’s extended arm (the only part of him visible) looks like the tree’s hand extending from the trunk

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · Aug 31

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival

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Aimee Nezhukumatathil @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social · Aug 29

awww thank you!

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Aug 29

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The BachEELor!

Tap the screen to find your bacheelor

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Aug 29

Please everyone preorder please thank you lol www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Nina she/her @ninaturns60.bsky.social · Aug 29

I saw the photo before I saw who posted this, and I thought, that looks like a dog Aimee Nezhukumatathil might have!

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Aimee Nezhukumatathil @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social · Aug 29

ha ha you guessed it! 🌸🌸🌸

Aimee Nezhukumatathil @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social · Aug 29

Perhaps you might need to see a picture of my rescue dog, River Pearl, in my garden. 2 years ago she was found wandering the streets of Chattanooga and no one claimed her. Until I wrote a letter to her shelter to say why I’d give her the very best life. She’s named after the state gem of Tennessee.

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Aimee Nezhukumatathil @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social · Aug 28

Oh darn! Filed my claim this morning.

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

arstechnica.com

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Benjamin Percy @benjaminpercy.bsky.social · Aug 26

Please spread the word. The print run is expanding. Get on board with this collector’s item while you can.

Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · Aug 26

BREAKING NEWS: We've expanded our print run of THE END TIMES by @benjaminpercy.bsky.social with @stephenking.bsky.social. Our first batch of pre-orders sold out quickly. We suspect this one won't last long.

Reserve yours: badhandbooks.com/preorders/th...

The End Times by Benjamin Percy (Physical Subscription) — Bad Hand Books

THESE MAY BE SOLD OUT, BUT WE’RE STILL OFFERING DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTIONS HERE! Get ready for an immersive, serialized, post-apocalyptic storytelling experience like nothing you've ever seen. Start...

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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · Aug 22

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad

The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

www.theatlantic.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Aug 22

Big news out of Florida tonight! An environmental challenge has brought the use of the Everglades detention camp to a halt.

Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · Aug 22

BREAKING: Judge blocks transfer of new detainees to Alligator Alcatraz, sets in motion 60-day wind down of immigration prison at Everglades airport. via @leonardkl www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Judge bars Florida from bringing more detainees to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

The ruling would make it impossible to operate the immigration detention center in the Everglades west of Miami.

www.politico.com

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