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Christen Noel Kauffman
@christenkauffman.bsky.social
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Poetry, Prose, and Visual Art.
THE SCIENCE OF THINGS WE CAN BELIEVE (Ghost Peach Press, 2024)
Poetry Editor at Driftwood Press
www.christennoelkauffman.com
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The brilliant @esylviapoet.bsky.social wrote the most generous review of my debut collection and I’m so so grateful to have my work seen by such a beautiful writer. Thank you! ❤️

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Review of The Science of Things We Can Believe by Christen Noel Kauffman | Tinderbox Poetry Journal
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November 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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New Widely Read available for your Saturday reading pleasure.

This essay talks about my struggles with writing/publishing poetry and @christenkauffman.bsky.social 's book which helped pull me (at least for now) out of my dread.

Thanks for reading!

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Myself, My Poet Self, and Struggling with Poetry
I’ve been trying to write about how I’ve been struggling with poetry lately. Specifically struggling with the poetry publishing world. Truthfully, if I asked myself the series of questions my therapis...
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September 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Read full poem and listen to Episode 75 here: ofpoetrypodcast.com/2025/07/17/e...

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from "Faith Test" this was our church, our induction into something greater than youth group on Wednesday nights where a teen with a bible taught us to renounce sex, rated R movies, the devil in a hot pink romper. CHRISTEN NOEL KAUFFMAN
July 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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This has been a joy to listen to today. Do yourself a favor and spend some time with this episode.
July 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Hope you join us for this ebullient episode! 💙✨ What a joy to talk with @christenkauffman.bsky.social, our third Appalachian guest in the past few months.
July 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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I loved The Science of Things We Can Believe. Growing up in the northern end of Appalachia, there’s so much I can relate to here. If you’ve ever felt alone as a survivor, these poems by @christenkauffman.bsky.social are for you.
Thank you, @hanvanderhart.bsky.social
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Episode 75: Christen Noel Kauffman (Of Appalachian Poetics, American Evangelicalism, and Writing About Subjects We're Not Supposed to Speak Of) | Of Poetry Podcast | Episode 75
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Faith Test" at The Florida Review OnlinePurchase: The Science of Things We Can Believe (Ghost Peach Press, 2024)Christen...
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July 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Of faith traditions, of gendered burdens, of the body and taste in imagery, of tv evangelicalism, of Appalachia, of want and hunger, of thirst and God—Episode 75 with @christenkauffman.bsky.social is now available! 🎙️📚💙

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Episode 75: Christen Noel Kauffman (Of Appalachian Poetics, American Evangelicalism, and Writing About Subjects We’re Not Supposed to Speak Of)
Christen Noel Kauffman, author of The Science of Things We Can Believe (Ghost Peach Press, 2024) Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere Read: “Faith Test” at The Florida Revie…
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July 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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@hanvanderhart.bsky.social is all kindness and brilliance and getting to talk with them about poems and Appalachia and faith was such a gift.
hanvanderhart.bsky.social Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · Jul 17
Hope you join us for this ebullient episode! 💙✨ What a joy to talk with @christenkauffman.bsky.social, our third Appalachian guest in the past few months.
ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · Jul 17
Of faith traditions, of gendered burdens, of the body and taste in imagery, of tv evangelicalism, of Appalachia, of want and hunger, of thirst and God—Episode 75 with @christenkauffman.bsky.social is now available! 🎙️📚💙

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July 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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New episode dropping tomorrow with @christenkauffman.bsky.social! 📚💙🎙️ #poetry #podcast

Follow today on Apple, Spotify, Google, or elsewhere to have the episode in your queue tomorrow morning ☀️☕️
OF HER WRITING RELATIONSHIP WITH SARA MOORE WAGNER: "We attack images the same way ...both of us write heavily with moving through multiple images, and we both talk about food and taste in our poems... and for this book, that was important, because The Science of Things We Can Believe is a very hungry book." CHRISTEN NOEL KAUFFMAN, EP 75
July 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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I need poets to write and essay and podcast their hearts out

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June 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Hey guys! I am in People Magazine! Rambling like a weirdo! And you can see my book cover! I’ve never had an exclusive before! This is so weird and cool tbh people.com/see-the-cove...
Secrets, Buried Trauma and 'Weird Goth Children' — Meet Amber Sparks' Happy People Don't Live Here (Exclusive)
Amber Sparks is releasing her debut novel, 'Happy People Don’t Live Here,' and PEOPLE can exclusively reveal its cover. Out Oct. 12, the novel is a 'gothic mystery' that at it's heart, is 'about mothe...
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April 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Christen Noel Kauffman 💙

from THE SCIENCE OF THINGS WE CAN BELIEVE, winner of the 2023 Ghost Peach Press Prize in Poetry

Day 10 - National Poetry Month

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April 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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We are thrilled to have these incredible Judges! @kellylink.bsky.social and Matthew Olzmann!
driftwoodpress.bsky.social Driftwood Press @driftwoodpress.bsky.social · Mar 6
Our guest judges for this year's Adrift Writing Contests! Matthew Olzmann will be judging for our poetry chapbook contest and Kelly Link will be judging for our short story contest. Use the link in our bio to submit! #writingcontest
March 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Get ready for our poetry month celebration reading on April 17 with six fantastic readers: @toddedillard.bsky.social, @benkline.bsky.social, @brandelfrance.bsky.social, @stevieedwardspoet.bsky.social, @cdeskilson.bsky.social & @rubenq.bsky.social!

Register at link!
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March 7, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Listen to Episode 69: @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social (Of Fayre Gabbro, Myth and Romance, and the Role of Counterculture) here: share.transistor.fm/s/9cb1fec4
"There doesn't seem to be as much overlap within a counterculture as once existed. Everyone is very tribalistic in trying to protect who they are, their own identities. It's just hard to step out of that and form a community of different backgrounds, where everybody feels equally safe." UPFROMSUMDIRT, EPISODE 69
March 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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han doing what han exquisitely does 🙏🏿💐❤️...

thank you @hanvanderhart.bsky.social / @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social for this opportunity to run my mouth; i am so grateful!

please tune in yall & spread the word.
ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · Mar 4
Listen to Episode 69: @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social (Of Fayre Gabbro, Myth and Romance, and the Role of Counterculture) here: share.transistor.fm/s/9cb1fec4
"There doesn't seem to be as much overlap within a counterculture as once existed. Everyone is very tribalistic in trying to protect who they are, their own identities. It's just hard to step out of that and form a community of different backgrounds, where everybody feels equally safe." UPFROMSUMDIRT, EPISODE 69
March 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Just wow, this book of poems by @christenkauffman.bsky.social
A SUCCESSION OF CHURCH MOTHERS Golden Shovel of "Will the Circle be Unbroken?" in the mirror is a magpie, judicious beak that will pick at the loose skin, holler about a temple the lord made in a garden somewhere, lilies that circle a valley before it floods and look, anything can be whole again, rearranged and unbroken if we want it enough, measure our faith by accepting miracles. I could be a miracle and wouldn't that be worth it, return to the altar, and by this I mean river swollen to the levee's red mark. lord, it's been months since I felt myself, stood by an elevator to watch it carry someone up and disappear them above me, footsteps so close by but untouchable. in the morning there's a hollowness no Sunday could ever fill, but here is a woman who has my eyes, tells me it gets better once the rain ends. I've tried to find home in the center of a cut tree, pew after pew awaiting transformation but to confront the restlessness in me is to set loose the wild dog from its cage, forgive the tectonic shift when I should've seen only sky. my mother could be a god, could claim herself lord in an open field where we dissect the iris to see what's in-side. I want something to carry my dead weight, hold up the earth and plant me there. forget heaven. forget sky. Gorgeous colorful cover, young ladies in the grass. THE SCIENCE OF THINGS WECAN BELIEVE CHRISTEN NOEL KAUFFMAN
February 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Oh, this poem from @christenkauffman.bsky.social in THE SCIENCE OF THINGS WE CAN BELIEVE
ACTS OF PROTECTION carry the bat as though she's a newborn found clinging to the sheers. feed her the fried fish you offered to your husband but he refused-a belly full of rum. ask her to lie down on the bed under sheets you bought from the expensive boutique, Egyptian cotton, the color of good sunburn. praise her brushed fur, glass eyes you've seen in a taxidermist's shop, this enjambment of meat and tiny bone flexed, poised for flight. refuse to cover her ornament of teeth when she opens into half-smile your father would scoop her up with his bare hands but this is not a poem about patriarchy. here, you can offer her mint tea, build her a shrine and ignite it.
February 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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I was lucky to get to read with Milk and Cake Press hosted by Kim Jacobs Beck. It’s also always good to read with my poet wife @saramoorewagner.bsky.social
February 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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My debut collection is on the shelf at @powells.bsky.social which is a real dream. Do I know anyone who might be visiting there soon and would be willing to send me a photo?
January 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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A brief stab at alt text: A photo of Shaun Tan's wordless graphic novel The Arrival. On the cover, which resembles a 19th century photo album is an inset sepia illustration of a man in a hat & suit bent down to address a comical blobby white creature with an erect tail, stubby legs, & a wide mouth.
christenkauffman.bsky.social Christen Noel Kauffman @christenkauffman.bsky.social · Jan 29
If you haven’t bought/checked out/borrowed this book you should buy/check out/borrow this book.
January 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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If you haven’t bought/checked out/borrowed this book you should buy/check out/borrow this book.
January 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Research for things to come. I’m excited to learn a new genre!
January 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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New books❤️ from Carolyn Oliver and @christenkauffman.bsky.social
Three poetry books: The Alcestis Machine by Carolyn Oliver, Notes to a Mother God and The Science of Things We Can Believe by Christen Kauffman
January 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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@benkline.bsky.social @christenkauffman.bsky.social and I really want to read more poems for this!! Send!!
driftwoodpress.bsky.social Driftwood Press @driftwoodpress.bsky.social · Jan 14
LAST CHANCE TO SUBMIT: The deadline for our In-House Writing Contest is TOMORROW! Make sure to use the link in our bio for guidelines and to submit before January 15th. #writingcontest
January 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM