Nate
@nfako.bsky.social
he/they // mfa student // loser // poems findable
"So a poet, no matter what [their] subject may be, and no mater what the landscape, goes "beyond society." And so this is what happens at the moment of writing: the wave takes the shape of the fire. What is "out there" moves inside. The poet becomes threshold." -Larry Levis
December 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"So a poet, no matter what [their] subject may be, and no mater what the landscape, goes "beyond society." And so this is what happens at the moment of writing: the wave takes the shape of the fire. What is "out there" moves inside. The poet becomes threshold." -Larry Levis
merry christmas to me... almost two hundred dollars spent on only two phd apps :)))
December 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
merry christmas to me... almost two hundred dollars spent on only two phd apps :)))
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it's a mistake to compare the cost of your newsletter or podcast to a cup of coffee. that cup of coffee is the best treat i'm allowed to have every single day. no podcast is comparable to the beverage that justifies staying alive. instead market your newsletter as two thirds of a sweetgreen salad
December 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
it's a mistake to compare the cost of your newsletter or podcast to a cup of coffee. that cup of coffee is the best treat i'm allowed to have every single day. no podcast is comparable to the beverage that justifies staying alive. instead market your newsletter as two thirds of a sweetgreen salad
a crumb of energy to finish these finals, please
December 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
a crumb of energy to finish these finals, please
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This is the hour of lead
Remembered - if outlived -
As freezing persons recollect the snow
First chill - then stupor - then the letting go
Remembered - if outlived -
As freezing persons recollect the snow
First chill - then stupor - then the letting go
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This is the hour of lead
Remembered - if outlived -
As freezing persons recollect the snow
First chill - then stupor - then the letting go
Remembered - if outlived -
As freezing persons recollect the snow
First chill - then stupor - then the letting go
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This is the force of faith. Nobody gets /
what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing / is to be pure. What you get is to be changed.
—@joriegraham.bsky.social
poets.org/poem/prayer
what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing / is to be pure. What you get is to be changed.
—@joriegraham.bsky.social
poets.org/poem/prayer
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 10:42 PM
This is the force of faith. Nobody gets /
what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing / is to be pure. What you get is to be changed.
—@joriegraham.bsky.social
poets.org/poem/prayer
what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing / is to be pure. What you get is to be changed.
—@joriegraham.bsky.social
poets.org/poem/prayer
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Happy 10-year anniversary of Whale Road Review! Thank you to all who have contributed and to the peer reviewers who have spent countless hours reading and shaping this journal with me. Here’s another fantastic winter issue that we’re excited to share!
www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-41
www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-41
December 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Happy 10-year anniversary of Whale Road Review! Thank you to all who have contributed and to the peer reviewers who have spent countless hours reading and shaping this journal with me. Here’s another fantastic winter issue that we’re excited to share!
www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-41
www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-41
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This is my Christmas story. As long as the journal keeps it online, I'll post a link to it every December. It's short. It's political. It might break your heart. Enjoy! #writingcommunity #booksky 📚💙📚🖋️📚🖋️💙🖋️
The Trombone in the Shopping Cart ~ Lawrence Coates
I’m forty-seven and a bagger at Kroger, Bowling Green, Ohio, and a stranger in my own life. I was an accountant, graduated from the university in town, and had a good life until my company,…
readthebestwriting.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This is my Christmas story. As long as the journal keeps it online, I'll post a link to it every December. It's short. It's political. It might break your heart. Enjoy! #writingcommunity #booksky 📚💙📚🖋️📚🖋️💙🖋️
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Good morning to our newest cover:
The Visible Field by Zoë Ryder White, design by Alban Fischer! 📚🎉 ✨
Preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
@zoeryderwhite.bsky.social @alban-fischer.bsky.social
The Visible Field by Zoë Ryder White, design by Alban Fischer! 📚🎉 ✨
Preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
@zoeryderwhite.bsky.social @alban-fischer.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Good morning to our newest cover:
The Visible Field by Zoë Ryder White, design by Alban Fischer! 📚🎉 ✨
Preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
@zoeryderwhite.bsky.social @alban-fischer.bsky.social
The Visible Field by Zoë Ryder White, design by Alban Fischer! 📚🎉 ✨
Preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
@zoeryderwhite.bsky.social @alban-fischer.bsky.social
writing essays is weird because it is almost like an exercise in further convincing yourself that you are right about something... or surprisingly, horrifyingly wrong
December 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
writing essays is weird because it is almost like an exercise in further convincing yourself that you are right about something... or surprisingly, horrifyingly wrong
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I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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Very grateful to have this poem land in the new issue of POETRY! It's a marvelous issue... 💜 Big thanks to editor Adrain Matejka, and the whole crew! 🙏
November 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Very grateful to have this poem land in the new issue of POETRY! It's a marvelous issue... 💜 Big thanks to editor Adrain Matejka, and the whole crew! 🙏
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reading a very good poem leaves me feeling like there is an empty space at the back of my throat that can't be filled, that some worldly wind has chosen that poem, that moment, to pass through me. poet shit but the coolest feeling. must figure out how to create this at the close of my own poems.
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
reading a very good poem leaves me feeling like there is an empty space at the back of my throat that can't be filled, that some worldly wind has chosen that poem, that moment, to pass through me. poet shit but the coolest feeling. must figure out how to create this at the close of my own poems.
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Thanks to @aliciawright.bsky.social for all her hard work in getting this cluster together! What a joy to get to work with you!
And thanks @franciscondine.bsky.social for all your editorial & technical work! The cluster looks beautiful!
@atpost45.bsky.social
post45.org/2025/11/c-d-...
And thanks @franciscondine.bsky.social for all your editorial & technical work! The cluster looks beautiful!
@atpost45.bsky.social
post45.org/2025/11/c-d-...
C.D. Wright: University Poet – Post45
Thinking on the work and career of the poet C.D. Wright, I return, in my own elliptical fashion, to two quotes (and one idea) from two writers who write about the nature of literary production at the ...
post45.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Thanks to @aliciawright.bsky.social for all her hard work in getting this cluster together! What a joy to get to work with you!
And thanks @franciscondine.bsky.social for all your editorial & technical work! The cluster looks beautiful!
@atpost45.bsky.social
post45.org/2025/11/c-d-...
And thanks @franciscondine.bsky.social for all your editorial & technical work! The cluster looks beautiful!
@atpost45.bsky.social
post45.org/2025/11/c-d-...
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Strange men who write bad poems
Tell me I disrupt their wives
Dorothea Lasky
Tell me I disrupt their wives
Dorothea Lasky
November 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Strange men who write bad poems
Tell me I disrupt their wives
Dorothea Lasky
Tell me I disrupt their wives
Dorothea Lasky
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you never responded
please advise
please advise
November 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
you never responded
please advise
please advise
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Here's one of them...
November 21, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Here's one of them...
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you can almost hear the bugs crawling about the husk of her soul
Reporter: What did the president mean when he called the reporter piggy?
Leavitt: I think the president being frank and open and honest to your faces rather than hiding behind your backs is a lot more respectful than what you saw in the last administration
Leavitt: I think the president being frank and open and honest to your faces rather than hiding behind your backs is a lot more respectful than what you saw in the last administration
November 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
you can almost hear the bugs crawling about the husk of her soul
slowly working my way through Larry Levis' The Afterlife
November 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
slowly working my way through Larry Levis' The Afterlife
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I do want this night to end.
Bill Knott
Bill Knott
November 19, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I do want this night to end.
Bill Knott
Bill Knott
when he goes down, and he will, there will be music in American streets. in so many languages. and we will disempower his enablers and his shadows, too
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 AM
when he goes down, and he will, there will be music in American streets. in so many languages. and we will disempower his enablers and his shadows, too
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so if anyone wants to read about my time as a TFA corps member in the Delta, I have a CNF piece in the Rumpus about... everything, kind of
“I realize no matter how many times she returns to the field and looks at me, I probably won’t feed her. I have nothing to offer.”
From "Mississippi Dog," a new original essay by Nathan Fako.
➡️ buff.ly/42ICoNU
From "Mississippi Dog," a new original essay by Nathan Fako.
➡️ buff.ly/42ICoNU
November 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
so if anyone wants to read about my time as a TFA corps member in the Delta, I have a CNF piece in the Rumpus about... everything, kind of