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Natalie Solmer

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Poet, former Florist & landscaper/horticulturist, Associate Professor of English at a CC in Indy, Founder & EIC of The Indianapolis Review. Author of Water Castle https://nataliesolmer.com/

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Natalie Solmer @nataliesolmer.bsky.social · 7h

Today is National Pierogi Day! Thanks to @mirrorindy for boosting our upcoming Pieorgi and Poetry event! I was shocked when I was contacted for an interview! Time to make more pierogi..! 😃@rockwellsays @ania_spyra @karen__kovacik mirrorindy.org/pierogi-tour...

Everyone is welcome at this free pierogi and poetry party

Pierogi Tour, happening Oct. 19, celebrates Polish and Ukrainian culture.

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Natalie Solmer @nataliesolmer.bsky.social · 10h

A surprise waterlily in October 🍁🍂

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Hannah C. @hannahcomer4d.bsky.social · 1d

Honored to have my work in this one.

Natalie Solmer @nataliesolmer.bsky.social · 1d

Really proud of this issue! Check it out--
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Natalie Solmer @nataliesolmer.bsky.social · 1d

It's all the emails...we're all way too overwhelmed. I have unsubscribed from most poem a day things also, except SWIMM

Natalie Solmer @nataliesolmer.bsky.social · 1d

Really proud of this issue! Check it out--
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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · 2d

Many thanks to @nataliesolmer.bsky.social and Indianapolis Review for nominating one of my chronic pain poems for Best of the Net!

Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · May 9

I’ve got another poem from my aquatic chronic pain project in the latest issue of The Indianapolis Review. Many thanks to @nataliesolmer.bsky.social for giving this poem a home!

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Chronic Pain as Archipelago

I am missingmy selves sisterspread across seas like ancient constellationscalling sailors homecups and arrows swimming over skiesbut in risingtides I cannot find my ownbeginning or endwade through …

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Natalie Solmer @nataliesolmer.bsky.social · 3d

Nazifa Islam @nafoopal in The Indianapolis Review Summer Issue theindianapolisreview.com/featured-art...

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Winning Writers @winningwriters.com · Feb 2

"I Have a Vision for My Poems" by Nazifa Islam,
a found poem: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
https://poems.com/poem/i-have-a-vision-for-my-poems
@nafoopal via @Poetry_Daily and @IndianapolisRev

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Derek Mong @derekmong.bsky.social · 3d

You can add my fury, and my phone calls to my elected representatives, to theirs. Using American cities a military "training grounds"? Including the one where I was born and where my heart remains? This is authoritarianism, pure and simple. History is watching.

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Trump Administration Live Updates: Oregon Officials Vent Fury as California National Guard Head to Portland

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Natalie Solmer @nataliesolmer.bsky.social · 3d

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Maya Williams @emmdubb16 in The Indianapolis Review Summer Issue theindianapolisreview.com/three-times-...

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Natalie Solmer @nataliesolmer.bsky.social · 3d

Kevin A. Risner in The Indianapolis Review Summer Issue theindianapolisreview.com/a-new-year-g...

Natalie Solmer @nataliesolmer.bsky.social · 3d

Lee Johnson in The Indianapolis Review Summer Issue theindianapolisreview.com/featured-art...

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Matthew Zhao in The Indianapolis Review Summer Issue theindianapolisreview.com/mother-carri...

Natalie Solmer @nataliesolmer.bsky.social · 4d

Bill Wolak in The Indianapolis Review Summer Issue theindianapolisreview.com/featured-art...

Natalie Solmer @nataliesolmer.bsky.social · 4d

These visual poems in The Indianapolis Review Summer Issue by Novella Wu are amazing. Inspired by @newyorktimesgames check out the video here- theindianapolisreview.com/sounds-of-th...

Natalie Solmer @nataliesolmer.bsky.social · 4d

This series of visual poems by Novella Wu inspired by @newyorktimesgames you MUST check out! Watch the video here theindianapolisreview.com/dad

Natalie Solmer @nataliesolmer.bsky.social · 4d

Jasper Glen @jasperglenart in The Indianapolis Review Summer Issue theindianapolisreview.com/featured-art...

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Jo Stephen @jostephen.bsky.social · 4d

I spent yesterday in the company of Mosses & Liverworts on a Dorset Flora Group Bryophyte workshop.

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Natalie Solmer @nataliesolmer.bsky.social · 4d

@bethanyjarmul.bsky.social Bethany Jarmul @bethanyjarmul in The Indianapolis Review Summer Issue theindianapolisreview.com/i-take-my-hu...

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 4d

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

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Natalie Solmer @nataliesolmer.bsky.social · 4d

Erica Goss in The Indianapolis Review Summer Issue theindianapolisreview.com/earthquake-w...

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Jennifer Bastian @jenniebeee in The Indianapolis Review Summer Issue theindianapolisreview.com/featured-art...

Natalie Solmer @nataliesolmer.bsky.social · 8d

@p-cunning.bsky.social Paul Cunningham @pcunning1 in The Indianapolis Review Summer 2025 Issue theindianapolisreview.com/something-to...
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Something to be Proudly Worn Into Heaven

“The true experimenters, it seems to me, are the bugs that fail, that die 6 times a summer, 450 times in a normal human life, that are mutant and nondurable, that are the repositories of anthropoge…

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Natalie Solmer @nataliesolmer.bsky.social · 8d

Lauren Camp @laurencamp in The Indianapolis Review Summer 2025 Issue
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