Daniel Nester
@danielnestermfa.bsky.social
Poet, nonfiction writer, editor, Queen fan, Shader. Order my new book, HARSH REALM: MY 1990s. danielnester.substack.com
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Joe Biden wrote the Violence Against Women Act. Donald Trump says domestic violence should not be considered a crime. Can the two parties find common ground?
September 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Joe Biden wrote the Violence Against Women Act. Donald Trump says domestic violence should not be considered a crime. Can the two parties find common ground?
Just up on Substack, after a months' long writer's block: "Process Notes: I Know How You Plagiarized That Semester," which draws from more prompts in my old notebooks.
Come for self-doubt. Stay for the zany flashes of absurdity!
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Come for self-doubt. Stay for the zany flashes of absurdity!
danielnester.substack.com/p/process-no...
September 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Just up on Substack, after a months' long writer's block: "Process Notes: I Know How You Plagiarized That Semester," which draws from more prompts in my old notebooks.
Come for self-doubt. Stay for the zany flashes of absurdity!
danielnester.substack.com/p/process-no...
Come for self-doubt. Stay for the zany flashes of absurdity!
danielnester.substack.com/p/process-no...
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Fun to be included in @pinehillsreview.bsky.social special issue on (what else?) The Mall pinehillsreview.com/2025/09/01/a...
September 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Fun to be included in @pinehillsreview.bsky.social special issue on (what else?) The Mall pinehillsreview.com/2025/09/01/a...
Make sure you subscribe (it's free!) to Here's Where the Story Ends, the Substack where ex-professor Daniel Nester (that's me!) writes about starting over. danielnester.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Make sure you subscribe (it's free!) to Here's Where the Story Ends, the Substack where ex-professor Daniel Nester (that's me!) writes about starting over. danielnester.substack.com
Just up on Substack: "Process Notes: Moments of Being (Sort Of)."
Read it here: danielnester.substack.com/p/process-no...
Dispatches from the desk, the notebook, and post-academic life in progress.
Read it here: danielnester.substack.com/p/process-no...
Dispatches from the desk, the notebook, and post-academic life in progress.
May 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Just up on Substack: "Process Notes: Moments of Being (Sort Of)."
Read it here: danielnester.substack.com/p/process-no...
Dispatches from the desk, the notebook, and post-academic life in progress.
Read it here: danielnester.substack.com/p/process-no...
Dispatches from the desk, the notebook, and post-academic life in progress.
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let me give you this background story, because I love it and people usually only know this screenshot
August 12, 2024 at 7:13 PM
let me give you this background story, because I love it and people usually only know this screenshot
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Not certain if this has already been cited, but I found a citation while reading into this for a book called How to be Inappropriate by Daniel Nester. I bought the book (thank you for the weekend reading!). Here is what he says:
March 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Not certain if this has already been cited, but I found a citation while reading into this for a book called How to be Inappropriate by Daniel Nester. I bought the book (thank you for the weekend reading!). Here is what he says:
Just up on Substack: "Once More to the Campus Center."
Read it here: danielnester.substack.com/p/once-more-...
Read it here: danielnester.substack.com/p/once-more-...
May 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Just up on Substack: "Once More to the Campus Center."
Read it here: danielnester.substack.com/p/once-more-...
Read it here: danielnester.substack.com/p/once-more-...
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what a gorgeous incorporation of natural science terminology into poetry 🙉🪱
April 3, 2025 at 2:41 AM
what a gorgeous incorporation of natural science terminology into poetry 🙉🪱
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Special Feature Submissions Call: THE MALL
This summer Pine Hills Review wants to make like Robin Sparkles and go to the mall!
This summer Pine Hills Review wants to make like Robin Sparkles and go to the mall!
Special Feature Submissions Call: THE MALL
This summer Pine Hills Review wants to make like Robin Sparkles and go to the mall!
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April 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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I have at long last shown up on bluesky, for poetry reasons (among others), so here is a poem I wrote (among others).
January 31, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I have at long last shown up on bluesky, for poetry reasons (among others), so here is a poem I wrote (among others).
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The fine people at @pinehillsreview.bsky.social published my poem, "Blue Linoleum." Thanks to Dan Nester and his crew for everything they do. ♡
“Blue Linoleum” by Bonnie Jill Emanuel
“Blue Linoleum” by Bonnie Jill Emanuel
To say I remember it // exactly would be untrue. / Sweet, hard, scuffed blue.
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February 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The fine people at @pinehillsreview.bsky.social published my poem, "Blue Linoleum." Thanks to Dan Nester and his crew for everything they do. ♡
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New poem up today with @pinehillsreview.bsky.social!
February 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
New poem up today with @pinehillsreview.bsky.social!
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"The Priest Comes Over for Pasta" by Lexi Pelle
“The Priest Comes Over for Pasta” by Lexi Pelle
I’ve always had a thing // for pulling from the base, / collapsing into the next // wrong thing.
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March 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
"The Priest Comes Over for Pasta" by Lexi Pelle
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In this Ohio diner, it was a tradition: steak with ketchup, a can of diet coke, then go on camera to scream at an ally for being "disrespectful" on tv. But now the woke mob is taking all of that away.
February 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
In this Ohio diner, it was a tradition: steak with ketchup, a can of diet coke, then go on camera to scream at an ally for being "disrespectful" on tv. But now the woke mob is taking all of that away.
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“Cinnamon” by Conor Gearin
“Cinnamon” by Conor Gearin
Incapable of physics, / I’m a naturalist of our love, describing the shape, / but wanting to tell you how it was made.
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February 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
“Cinnamon” by Conor Gearin
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“Viva Zapata” by Camila Valle
“Viva Zapata” by Camila Valle
you could have sang anywhere put the soul back into anything all eyes on you a rewinding tape
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February 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“Viva Zapata” by Camila Valle
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Kanye West is selling T-shirts with Swastikas on them. But what is he really trying to say?
February 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Kanye West is selling T-shirts with Swastikas on them. But what is he really trying to say?
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The Chiefs can still be named Super Bowl champions if Mike Pence has the courage.
February 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
The Chiefs can still be named Super Bowl champions if Mike Pence has the courage.
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Today's horrific Elise Jordan opinion: Musk's destruction of federal institutions "reminds me a lot of the Biden Administration's Afghanistan withdrawal. It needed to be done; it was done terribly... What we're seeing here, though, is a long-overdue correction."
February 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Today's horrific Elise Jordan opinion: Musk's destruction of federal institutions "reminds me a lot of the Biden Administration's Afghanistan withdrawal. It needed to be done; it was done terribly... What we're seeing here, though, is a long-overdue correction."
Just up on Substack: “Fuck it, I’m leaving early.”
"I don’t have to be the one talking. I don’t have to have anything to add. I can just be here, figuring it out."
More at danielnester.substack.com
"I don’t have to be the one talking. I don’t have to have anything to add. I can just be here, figuring it out."
More at danielnester.substack.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Just up on Substack: “Fuck it, I’m leaving early.”
"I don’t have to be the one talking. I don’t have to have anything to add. I can just be here, figuring it out."
More at danielnester.substack.com
"I don’t have to be the one talking. I don’t have to have anything to add. I can just be here, figuring it out."
More at danielnester.substack.com
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“The Winter Drive” by Kelly Gray
“The Winter Drive” by Kelly Gray
The spiders come, hanging spectacular banners. Imagine all the words / they could spell out, // if only snatched from our mouths as we hurt on by.
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January 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
“The Winter Drive” by Kelly Gray
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“Retracing Our Steps” by Michael Robins
“Retracing Our Steps” by Michael Robins
There are / mirrors of long silences, months without a single visitor.
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February 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
“Retracing Our Steps” by Michael Robins
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“Chickens in 1998” by Ren Wilding
I couldn’t stop / thinking about the sun / expanding / into a red giant. / I saw myself consumed / by a star.
I couldn’t stop / thinking about the sun / expanding / into a red giant. / I saw myself consumed / by a star.
“Chickens in 1998” by Ren Wilding
I couldn’t stop / thinking about the sun / expanding / into a red giant. / I saw myself consumed / by a star.
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January 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
“Chickens in 1998” by Ren Wilding
I couldn’t stop / thinking about the sun / expanding / into a red giant. / I saw myself consumed / by a star.
I couldn’t stop / thinking about the sun / expanding / into a red giant. / I saw myself consumed / by a star.
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"Omen" by Sara Iacovelli
“Omen” by Sara Iacovelli
I lock the door and cover the window / and huddle twenty-three kindergartners
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January 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
"Omen" by Sara Iacovelli