Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein
@fklein907.bsky.social
Alaskan poet, teacher, parent. Books: Text Messages from The Angel Gabriel (Gnashing Teeth 2024), Another Life (Riot in Your Throat 2025)
https://linktr.ee/francesklein
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Happy book birthday to my first child! In one year, this book has...
-been all around the world
-made the finalist list for the Last Syllable Book Award
-helped men and women see their complex grief around infertility and pregnancy loss put into words
-been all around the world
-made the finalist list for the Last Syllable Book Award
-helped men and women see their complex grief around infertility and pregnancy loss put into words
Happy Valentine’s Day! In this house we love public schools (even on the weekend)
February 14, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Happy Valentine’s Day! In this house we love public schools (even on the weekend)
One of my favorite little love poems for the long married, published with miniskirt magazine:
miniskirtmagazine.com/issue-22-hap...
miniskirtmagazine.com/issue-22-hap...
Frances Klein | poetry | Better Half
“hand twice as tight on the railing”
miniskirtmagazine.com
February 14, 2026 at 6:13 PM
One of my favorite little love poems for the long married, published with miniskirt magazine:
miniskirtmagazine.com/issue-22-hap...
miniskirtmagazine.com/issue-22-hap...
Reposted by Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein
Can a LetterBoxd review win a Pulitzer?
February 14, 2026 at 4:41 AM
Can a LetterBoxd review win a Pulitzer?
If you need a Valentine’s Day movie, just a reminder that last year’s Love Hurts with Ke Huy Quan and Ariana Debose is fun as hell
February 14, 2026 at 6:38 AM
If you need a Valentine’s Day movie, just a reminder that last year’s Love Hurts with Ke Huy Quan and Ariana Debose is fun as hell
During our poetry unit, I asked my sophomores to pick and read a single author collection. Most of them have never read a full poetry collection in school.
February 14, 2026 at 2:01 AM
During our poetry unit, I asked my sophomores to pick and read a single author collection. Most of them have never read a full poetry collection in school.
Working on a poem about my campus library job in college, and randomly remembered the time my supervisor came up to me, pointed on the cameras to someone sobbing in the stacks, and said "go tell them they can't cry here"
February 13, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Working on a poem about my campus library job in college, and randomly remembered the time my supervisor came up to me, pointed on the cameras to someone sobbing in the stacks, and said "go tell them they can't cry here"
Reposted by Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein
Love to bully my writing group into agreeing that what my flash REALLY needs is a Melville-style, seven page digression about the life cycle of the salmon
February 13, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Love to bully my writing group into agreeing that what my flash REALLY needs is a Melville-style, seven page digression about the life cycle of the salmon
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Delighted to share that my poem “Toward a Cladistic Analysis of Hauntings,” from my collection TIME TRAVEL IS EASY, has been nominated for the Rhysling Award long list! This is my first ever Rhysling nom. Best of luck to all nominees!
February 12, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Delighted to share that my poem “Toward a Cladistic Analysis of Hauntings,” from my collection TIME TRAVEL IS EASY, has been nominated for the Rhysling Award long list! This is my first ever Rhysling nom. Best of luck to all nominees!
Love to bully my writing group into agreeing that what my flash REALLY needs is a Melville-style, seven page digression about the life cycle of the salmon
February 13, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Love to bully my writing group into agreeing that what my flash REALLY needs is a Melville-style, seven page digression about the life cycle of the salmon
Need people to understand how disoriented I was when I really for a moment thought my head was a wheel
just looked into a window that I thought was a mirror and had an existential crisis about whether my outfit made me look like a fixed gear bike
February 13, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Need people to understand how disoriented I was when I really for a moment thought my head was a wheel
just looked into a window that I thought was a mirror and had an existential crisis about whether my outfit made me look like a fixed gear bike
February 12, 2026 at 4:54 PM
just looked into a window that I thought was a mirror and had an existential crisis about whether my outfit made me look like a fixed gear bike
Went into my drive looking for something for today’s @havehashad.com call and instead found three drafts that need tinkering, which I think might be the true HAD spirit
February 12, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Went into my drive looking for something for today’s @havehashad.com call and instead found three drafts that need tinkering, which I think might be the true HAD spirit
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commandeered the site today to celebrate myself and my book publication day! 🧨 🎆
there's a couple excerpts from TACOMA & also an announcement for an accompanying submission call, coming on Thursday
"This is a story about magic and beauty and wonder."
https://www.havehashad.com/52kvm
there's a couple excerpts from TACOMA & also an announcement for an accompanying submission call, coming on Thursday
"This is a story about magic and beauty and wonder."
https://www.havehashad.com/52kvm
TACOMA by Aaron Burch
THE HOUSE The house was hard to believe. Bigger, nicer, everythinger than anywhere either of us had lived. Anywhere either of us had imagined we’d be able to live. Probably anywhere you’ve imagined…
www.havehashad.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:58 PM
commandeered the site today to celebrate myself and my book publication day! 🧨 🎆
there's a couple excerpts from TACOMA & also an announcement for an accompanying submission call, coming on Thursday
"This is a story about magic and beauty and wonder."
https://www.havehashad.com/52kvm
there's a couple excerpts from TACOMA & also an announcement for an accompanying submission call, coming on Thursday
"This is a story about magic and beauty and wonder."
https://www.havehashad.com/52kvm
bought a pair of chelsea boots and became instantly hotter and more annoying
February 10, 2026 at 3:14 PM
bought a pair of chelsea boots and became instantly hotter and more annoying
yOuRe NoT LiKe OtHeR gIrLs
I’m exactly like other girls, I’m crying over episode six of heated rivalry like the rest of us
I’m exactly like other girls, I’m crying over episode six of heated rivalry like the rest of us
February 10, 2026 at 6:05 AM
yOuRe NoT LiKe OtHeR gIrLs
I’m exactly like other girls, I’m crying over episode six of heated rivalry like the rest of us
I’m exactly like other girls, I’m crying over episode six of heated rivalry like the rest of us
Reposted by Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein
mt edgecumbe high school is still making front page news here in sitka
senator stedman is right! mehs is a training ground for native leaders—these students go on to shape their families, communities, tribes, corporations, the state—we cant afford to lose even a single one to a mental health crisis
senator stedman is right! mehs is a training ground for native leaders—these students go on to shape their families, communities, tribes, corporations, the state—we cant afford to lose even a single one to a mental health crisis
February 10, 2026 at 2:35 AM
mt edgecumbe high school is still making front page news here in sitka
senator stedman is right! mehs is a training ground for native leaders—these students go on to shape their families, communities, tribes, corporations, the state—we cant afford to lose even a single one to a mental health crisis
senator stedman is right! mehs is a training ground for native leaders—these students go on to shape their families, communities, tribes, corporations, the state—we cant afford to lose even a single one to a mental health crisis
Reposted by Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein
Okay, it’s been a hot minute since I did this. So: for every like this post gets before the end of today, I’ll post another made-up story (or poem) title you’re free to take as your own!
Once more into the title mines! For every like this post gets today, I’ll post another made-up story (or poem) title you’re free to take as your own!
Coming up with titles for your own stories is hard work. For every like this gets today, I’ll post a totally made-up story title you’re free to use if you’d like.
February 9, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Okay, it’s been a hot minute since I did this. So: for every like this post gets before the end of today, I’ll post another made-up story (or poem) title you’re free to take as your own!
Bout to have a real Grace Kelly moment
February 9, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Bout to have a real Grace Kelly moment
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Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
February 9, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
In yet another sign that irony is dead in America, the superbowl is currently bringing former winners out on the field while a string quartet plays Greenday’s “Good Riddance”
February 8, 2026 at 11:05 PM
In yet another sign that irony is dead in America, the superbowl is currently bringing former winners out on the field while a string quartet plays Greenday’s “Good Riddance”
His team may not have made the superbowl but he still throws a party
February 8, 2026 at 8:25 PM
His team may not have made the superbowl but he still throws a party
Getting booed at the Super Bowl party when I show up with my meats and ferments
February 8, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Getting booed at the Super Bowl party when I show up with my meats and ferments
Hell yeah Ketchikan on @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social
February 8, 2026 at 5:33 AM
Hell yeah Ketchikan on @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social
Please, Mrs Frances was my father
February 8, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Please, Mrs Frances was my father
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one must imagine sisyphus opting out of Gemini
January 28, 2026 at 5:20 PM
one must imagine sisyphus opting out of Gemini