Abbie Kiefer
@abbiekiefer.bsky.social
Poet. New Englander. A little bit cranky.
Author of CERTAIN SHELTER (June Road Press, 2024)
Poetry editor for The Adroit Journal
www.abbiekieferpoet.com
Author of CERTAIN SHELTER (June Road Press, 2024)
Poetry editor for The Adroit Journal
www.abbiekieferpoet.com
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Abbie Kiefer
@abbiekiefer.bsky.social
· Sep 29
Book unboxing time! If you preorder, Baby carries it right to your door! www.juneroadpress.com/certain-shel...
So appreciative of readers like @megmcdermott92.bsky.social. I love seeing these kinds of connections and being part of a conversation.
Read this @abbiekiefer.bsky.social poem last night & it felt very relevant to today's Gospel texts (for churches that follow the lectionary - it was Luke 21:5-19)
November 17, 2025 at 1:26 AM
So appreciative of readers like @megmcdermott92.bsky.social. I love seeing these kinds of connections and being part of a conversation.
Grateful to @theatlantic.com and the editorial team of Kat Hu and Walt Hunter for publishing this abecedarian about my night guard, among other things. I feel like my dentist would be proud.
Abecedarian With Sensodyne
A poem
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November 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Grateful to @theatlantic.com and the editorial team of Kat Hu and Walt Hunter for publishing this abecedarian about my night guard, among other things. I feel like my dentist would be proud.
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Correction to a previous post! @abbiekiefer.bsky.social was published in @baltimorereview.bsky.social. ✨ Which means you have another chance to check out her piece. 😉 buff.ly/a3Vx7jw
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Correction to a previous post! @abbiekiefer.bsky.social was published in @baltimorereview.bsky.social. ✨ Which means you have another chance to check out her piece. 😉 buff.ly/a3Vx7jw
Glad to have a chance to review THE LOST NOSTALGIAS by Esteban Rodríguez for @coloradoreview.bsky.social
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The Lost Nostalgias - Center for Literary Publishing
$18.00 Buy Book About the Book Author: Esteban RodríguezReviewed By: Abbie KieferGenre: PoetryPublisher: CavanKerry PressPublished: 2025Pages: 96 Book ReviewWith just a few exceptions, Esteban Rodrígu...
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October 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Glad to have a chance to review THE LOST NOSTALGIAS by Esteban Rodríguez for @coloradoreview.bsky.social
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I have a tiny Norm Abrams tribute in the new issue of the Baltimore Review. You can read it and go watch some New Yankee Workshop reruns. baltimorereview.org/fall_2025/co...
Abbie Kiefer: On The New Yankee Workshop, Norm Abrams Builds a Garden Swing on Which to While Away an Evening
Abbie Kiefer is the author of Certain Shelter (June Road Press, 2024). Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in The Atlantic, Copper Nickel, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Southern…
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October 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I have a tiny Norm Abrams tribute in the new issue of the Baltimore Review. You can read it and go watch some New Yankee Workshop reruns. baltimorereview.org/fall_2025/co...
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#sealeychallenge Day 22
Abbie Kiefer, Certain Shelter
This book evokes memories of a vanished Maine, a lost mother, and the way the past still lives in us as we revitalize our homes and ourselves.
Abbie Kiefer, Certain Shelter
This book evokes memories of a vanished Maine, a lost mother, and the way the past still lives in us as we revitalize our homes and ourselves.
August 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
#sealeychallenge Day 22
Abbie Kiefer, Certain Shelter
This book evokes memories of a vanished Maine, a lost mother, and the way the past still lives in us as we revitalize our homes and ourselves.
Abbie Kiefer, Certain Shelter
This book evokes memories of a vanished Maine, a lost mother, and the way the past still lives in us as we revitalize our homes and ourselves.
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Abbie Kiefer’s CERTAIN SHELTER is one of three New Hampshire Literary Award finalists in poetry! 🤩 Winners will be announced at a ceremony on October 18. Check out the full list here: nhwritersproject.org/finalists-an...
Finalists Announced for the 2025 New Hampshire Literary Awards - New Hampshire Writers’ Project
The New Hampshire Writers’ Project (NHWP) is proud to announce the finalists for the 16th Biennial New Hampshire Literary Awards, recognizing outstanding works written by or about New Hampshire. These...
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October 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Abbie Kiefer’s CERTAIN SHELTER is one of three New Hampshire Literary Award finalists in poetry! 🤩 Winners will be announced at a ceremony on October 18. Check out the full list here: nhwritersproject.org/finalists-an...
Really grateful to the team at @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social
Congratulations to our Book Award finalists!!
October 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Really grateful to the team at @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social
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Join us for a cozy Sunday-night virtual craft chat on 9/28 to celebrate the launch of Level Watch in two weeks, featuring Abbie Kiefer! Register at bit.ly/level-watch-launch ✨
September 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Join us for a cozy Sunday-night virtual craft chat on 9/28 to celebrate the launch of Level Watch in two weeks, featuring Abbie Kiefer! Register at bit.ly/level-watch-launch ✨
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Our newest issue is now available for purchase! Featuring work by @feliciazamorapoet.bsky.social, @nadeemzaman.bsky.social, @mlynxqualey.bsky.social, @kgapoetwriter.bsky.social, @abbiekiefer.bsky.social, @riggstah.bsky.social, and more.
Order the issue here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/winter...
Order the issue here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/winter...
September 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Our newest issue is now available for purchase! Featuring work by @feliciazamorapoet.bsky.social, @nadeemzaman.bsky.social, @mlynxqualey.bsky.social, @kgapoetwriter.bsky.social, @abbiekiefer.bsky.social, @riggstah.bsky.social, and more.
Order the issue here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/winter...
Order the issue here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/winter...
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"There is a measure of comfort in the nearness of others and there are ways in which a person can never be near enough."
Contributor @abbiekiefer.bsky.social reviewed CIVIL TWILIGHT by Cynthia Huntington for @themassreview.bsky.social! Give it read right here: buff.ly/6Go8W1a
Contributor @abbiekiefer.bsky.social reviewed CIVIL TWILIGHT by Cynthia Huntington for @themassreview.bsky.social! Give it read right here: buff.ly/6Go8W1a
September 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
"There is a measure of comfort in the nearness of others and there are ways in which a person can never be near enough."
Contributor @abbiekiefer.bsky.social reviewed CIVIL TWILIGHT by Cynthia Huntington for @themassreview.bsky.social! Give it read right here: buff.ly/6Go8W1a
Contributor @abbiekiefer.bsky.social reviewed CIVIL TWILIGHT by Cynthia Huntington for @themassreview.bsky.social! Give it read right here: buff.ly/6Go8W1a
I loved this challenging, layered book. You might too. Thanks to @themassreview.bsky.social for publishing my review of CIVIL TWILIGHT by Cynthia Huntington from Southern Illinois University Press. massreview.org/2025/08/26/a...
Among the Pressing Wild: Cynthia Huntington’s Civil Twilight - The Massachusetts Review
By naming her collection Civil Twilight, Cynthia Huntington situates us in a narrow interval—the few minutes when the sun hovers zero to six degrees below the horizon. Any higher and it’s daytime. One...
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August 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I loved this challenging, layered book. You might too. Thanks to @themassreview.bsky.social for publishing my review of CIVIL TWILIGHT by Cynthia Huntington from Southern Illinois University Press. massreview.org/2025/08/26/a...
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Our catalog features titles by Kelly R. Samuels, Cyril Wong, Abbie Kiefer, Lauren Davis, Miranda Dennis, Katherine Fallon, & Roseanna Alice Boswell.
All proceeds go to authors!
#chapbooks #indiepoets #indiepoetry #indieauthors #indiepub #indiebooks #smallpress #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
All proceeds go to authors!
#chapbooks #indiepoets #indiepoetry #indieauthors #indiepub #indiebooks #smallpress #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
July 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Our catalog features titles by Kelly R. Samuels, Cyril Wong, Abbie Kiefer, Lauren Davis, Miranda Dennis, Katherine Fallon, & Roseanna Alice Boswell.
All proceeds go to authors!
#chapbooks #indiepoets #indiepoetry #indieauthors #indiepub #indiebooks #smallpress #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
All proceeds go to authors!
#chapbooks #indiepoets #indiepoetry #indieauthors #indiepub #indiebooks #smallpress #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
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Summer reading: CERTAIN SHELTER by @abbiekiefer.bsky.social (@juneroadpress.bsky.social, 2024). Here are poems for a mother, “All These Things I Can’t Remember” & a father, “I Don’t Like Baseball, Just the Red Sox.” I recommend the @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social about this incredible debut. ♥️
August 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Summer reading: CERTAIN SHELTER by @abbiekiefer.bsky.social (@juneroadpress.bsky.social, 2024). Here are poems for a mother, “All These Things I Can’t Remember” & a father, “I Don’t Like Baseball, Just the Red Sox.” I recommend the @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social about this incredible debut. ♥️
Brian Turner calls HUMAN RESOURCES by @erinmurphy.bsky.social a "love song to the profound work of survival." It's a fantastic description of this incisive, clever collection that made me pay real attention to the ways we value labor and the humans who provide it. graysonbooks.com/products/hum...
August 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Brian Turner calls HUMAN RESOURCES by @erinmurphy.bsky.social a "love song to the profound work of survival." It's a fantastic description of this incisive, clever collection that made me pay real attention to the ways we value labor and the humans who provide it. graysonbooks.com/products/hum...
Thanks to @sundresspub.bsky.social and guest editor Alexis Ivy for featuring poems from CERTAIN SHELTER as part of The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed this week. @juneroadpress.bsky.social sundressblog.com/2025/07/28/t...
The Wardrobe's Best Dressed: Certain Shelter by Abbie Kiefer - The Sundress Blog
This selection, chosen by guest editor Alexis Ivy, is from Certain Shelter by Abbie Kiefer (June Road Press 2024). A Brief History of Yankee Thrift, Yankee Ingenuity, and Yankee Work Ethic To make. To...
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July 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Thanks to @sundresspub.bsky.social and guest editor Alexis Ivy for featuring poems from CERTAIN SHELTER as part of The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed this week. @juneroadpress.bsky.social sundressblog.com/2025/07/28/t...
Making your list for the Sealey Challenge? Order CERTAIN SHELTER for 15% off with the promo code AUGUST: www.abbiekieferpoet.com/books
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July 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Making your list for the Sealey Challenge? Order CERTAIN SHELTER for 15% off with the promo code AUGUST: www.abbiekieferpoet.com/books
Love this set of tender, true poems by @janezwart.bsky.social in the new issue of Bracken. www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiii/t...
Two Poems by Jane Zwart — Bracken
During the war, victory gardens.
Also roses, also coffins
that looked like window boxes
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July 1, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Love this set of tender, true poems by @janezwart.bsky.social in the new issue of Bracken. www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiii/t...
Grateful to @eadwinedwards.bsky.social for this insightful, generous review of CERTAIN SHELTER in the latest issue of Pedestal. thepedestalmagazine.com/abbie-kiefer...
Pedestal Magazine » Abbie Kiefer’s Certain Shelter, Reviewed by Elisabeth Adwin Edwards
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June 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Grateful to @eadwinedwards.bsky.social for this insightful, generous review of CERTAIN SHELTER in the latest issue of Pedestal. thepedestalmagazine.com/abbie-kiefer...
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social: "I don't want to take anything away from the size of the bummer that this is all temporary. But also the fact that it's temporary means that it really matters. We really have an obligation to each other, and that obligation isn't forever." www.npr.org/2025/03/27/1...
John Green still has hope : Wild Card with Rachel Martin
John Green keeps busy – from authoring blockbuster young adult novels like "The Fault in Our Stars," to running a YouTube empire with his brother Hank, to publishing his latest nonfiction book, "Ever...
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June 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social: "I don't want to take anything away from the size of the bummer that this is all temporary. But also the fact that it's temporary means that it really matters. We really have an obligation to each other, and that obligation isn't forever." www.npr.org/2025/03/27/1...
Trying to be chill about this but the audiobook narrator of a novel set in Maine keeps calling Bangor "Banger."
June 21, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Trying to be chill about this but the audiobook narrator of a novel set in Maine keeps calling Bangor "Banger."
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“Like a quilt, in which scattered pieces of fabric are used to create a new whole, Kiefer stitches together scenes...” Read Lori Rottenberg’s review of Abbie Kiefer’s Certain Shelter here:
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May 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
“Like a quilt, in which scattered pieces of fabric are used to create a new whole, Kiefer stitches together scenes...” Read Lori Rottenberg’s review of Abbie Kiefer’s Certain Shelter here:
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So proud of my @juneroadpress.bsky.social pressmate @mardery.bsky.social. LEVEL WATCH is gorgeous. Do future-you a favor and pre-order! www.juneroadpress.com/level-watch
Level Watch — June Road Press
A poetry collection by Mary Ardery
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June 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
So proud of my @juneroadpress.bsky.social pressmate @mardery.bsky.social. LEVEL WATCH is gorgeous. Do future-you a favor and pre-order! www.juneroadpress.com/level-watch
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I have so many Matchbook Lit favorites! But I'm not in the running for a FREE notebook w. writing prompts! Matchbook is giving five copies away, so be sure to weigh in here! 📚📚📚
**Announcement**
We've produced a blank notebook for writers! It contains flash prompts throughout from @kathyfish.bsky.social.
Just comment with a link to your favorite mb piece on any of our social accounts to be entered to win one of five free copies!
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We've produced a blank notebook for writers! It contains flash prompts throughout from @kathyfish.bsky.social.
Just comment with a link to your favorite mb piece on any of our social accounts to be entered to win one of five free copies!
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matchbook | blank notebooks
A blank notebook with flash prompts throughout created by notable writer, Kathy Fish.
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June 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I have so many Matchbook Lit favorites! But I'm not in the running for a FREE notebook w. writing prompts! Matchbook is giving five copies away, so be sure to weigh in here! 📚📚📚
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"When will we go back and brush the plants that know to fold against threat. Rebuild the bonobo, its empty bones so like ours"
Beautiful and devastating micro from @abbiekiefer.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social
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Beautiful and devastating micro from @abbiekiefer.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social
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When Can We Go Back | matchbook
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June 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"When will we go back and brush the plants that know to fold against threat. Rebuild the bonobo, its empty bones so like ours"
Beautiful and devastating micro from @abbiekiefer.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social
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Beautiful and devastating micro from @abbiekiefer.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social
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