Michael Kleber-Diggs
@mkdordiggsy.bsky.social
Another dude with fancy notions.
Poet, essayist, lit critic, arts educator.
📚: WORLDLY THINGS (Milkweed Ed., 2021).
Lit agent: Nordlyset; booking agent: Blue Flower Arts.
Saint Paul MN
Poet, essayist, lit critic, arts educator.
📚: WORLDLY THINGS (Milkweed Ed., 2021).
Lit agent: Nordlyset; booking agent: Blue Flower Arts.
Saint Paul MN
That parenthetical is giving real “once and future” energy. Fool so foolish he thought he could change it forever. They’re placating you, fool. You’re a clown, fool.
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
That parenthetical is giving real “once and future” energy. Fool so foolish he thought he could change it forever. They’re placating you, fool. You’re a clown, fool.
We hope to see you there!
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
We hope to see you there!
Tiny-ass Donald Trump cereal boxes! We got much bigger cereal boxes (way more cereal) under Joe Biden!
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Tiny-ass Donald Trump cereal boxes! We got much bigger cereal boxes (way more cereal) under Joe Biden!
My most recent review for the Minnesota Star Tribune finds much to admire in MINOR BLACK FIGURES, a worthy addition to Brandon Taylor's exceptional bibliography. If you like it half as much as I did, you'll love it.
www.startribune.com/minor-black-...
www.startribune.com/minor-black-...
Review: An artist and his would-be boyfriend are ‘Minor Black Figures’
Fiction: Booker finalist Brandon Taylor returns with a sensational novel about art, God and modern love.
www.startribune.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
My most recent review for the Minnesota Star Tribune finds much to admire in MINOR BLACK FIGURES, a worthy addition to Brandon Taylor's exceptional bibliography. If you like it half as much as I did, you'll love it.
www.startribune.com/minor-black-...
www.startribune.com/minor-black-...
Shohei Ohtani isn’t real.
October 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Shohei Ohtani isn’t real.
We really do.
October 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
We really do.
Sorry, Seattle. You had a great season.
October 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Sorry, Seattle. You had a great season.
Our daughter, Elinor, is raising money for an artist’s residency. Money raised will cover: pay for two dancers, travel expenses, and meals and miscellaneous expenses. Please support with a gift or a share if you are so inclined. TY
www.gofundme.com/f/support-el...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-el...
Donate to Support Elinor's Residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, organized by Elinor Kleber Diggs
Hello friends, family, and friends of friends!
My name is… Elinor Kleber Diggs needs your support for Support Elinor's Residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park
www.gofundme.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Our daughter, Elinor, is raising money for an artist’s residency. Money raised will cover: pay for two dancers, travel expenses, and meals and miscellaneous expenses. Please support with a gift or a share if you are so inclined. TY
www.gofundme.com/f/support-el...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-el...
So wait, I can’t be in the military now because I have a beard!?! 😭😭😭😩😩😩
(I’m also a pleasantly portly gentleman with a interest in things like peace and the Posse Comitatus Act and like not obeying illegal orders, so yeah, it probably wasn’t going to work out anyway)
(I’m also a pleasantly portly gentleman with a interest in things like peace and the Posse Comitatus Act and like not obeying illegal orders, so yeah, it probably wasn’t going to work out anyway)
October 2, 2025 at 11:52 PM
So wait, I can’t be in the military now because I have a beard!?! 😭😭😭😩😩😩
(I’m also a pleasantly portly gentleman with a interest in things like peace and the Posse Comitatus Act and like not obeying illegal orders, so yeah, it probably wasn’t going to work out anyway)
(I’m also a pleasantly portly gentleman with a interest in things like peace and the Posse Comitatus Act and like not obeying illegal orders, so yeah, it probably wasn’t going to work out anyway)
In my socialist utopia, there are no toll roads, and all the highways stay silky smooth because most of the travelers are on the world’s fastest and swankiest bullet trains.
Also: healthcare for all.
Also: healthcare for all.
October 1, 2025 at 3:33 AM
In my socialist utopia, there are no toll roads, and all the highways stay silky smooth because most of the travelers are on the world’s fastest and swankiest bullet trains.
Also: healthcare for all.
Also: healthcare for all.
When I look at certain strains of white evangelical Christianity, I think “I bet those people think everyone in heaven is white.”
I mean, what you hate on earth could not exist in the heaven of your imagination…
I mean, what you hate on earth could not exist in the heaven of your imagination…
September 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
When I look at certain strains of white evangelical Christianity, I think “I bet those people think everyone in heaven is white.”
I mean, what you hate on earth could not exist in the heaven of your imagination…
I mean, what you hate on earth could not exist in the heaven of your imagination…
Okay, if the rapture didn’t happen, doesn’t that also mean the seven years of trials and tribulations in the wake of the rapture ain’t happening?
Like, can we dial down the trials and tribulations?
Like, can we dial down the trials and tribulations?
September 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Okay, if the rapture didn’t happen, doesn’t that also mean the seven years of trials and tribulations in the wake of the rapture ain’t happening?
Like, can we dial down the trials and tribulations?
Like, can we dial down the trials and tribulations?
Rare sports weekend:
Jayhawks won
Vikings won
Chiefs won
Packers lost
and, most importantly,
Lynx won!
Jayhawks won
Vikings won
Chiefs won
Packers lost
and, most importantly,
Lynx won!
September 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Rare sports weekend:
Jayhawks won
Vikings won
Chiefs won
Packers lost
and, most importantly,
Lynx won!
Jayhawks won
Vikings won
Chiefs won
Packers lost
and, most importantly,
Lynx won!
Yes to Farm Aid. AND (2 questions, please): (1) are we talking clearly about why farmers need aid in this moment? And (2) what, if anything is or can be done to get farmers to see this as a sea change moment, to get them to vote with us (instead of against us)?
www.startribune.com/what-does-fa...
www.startribune.com/what-does-fa...
How Farm Aid actually helps Minnesota farms
The 40-year-old organization’s fundraising concert is Saturday at Huntington Bank Stadium, but the group also provides a crucial hotline and grants that are needed as much as ever by farmers in crisis...
www.startribune.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Yes to Farm Aid. AND (2 questions, please): (1) are we talking clearly about why farmers need aid in this moment? And (2) what, if anything is or can be done to get farmers to see this as a sea change moment, to get them to vote with us (instead of against us)?
www.startribune.com/what-does-fa...
www.startribune.com/what-does-fa...
I enjoyed my visit with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and Christie Friesen Aschwanden on their cool and smart Emerging Form podcast. Check out the episode here.
emergingform.substack.com/p/episode-14...
emergingform.substack.com/p/episode-14...
Episode 147: Michael Kleber-Diggs on the Role of the Artist in “dark times”
In this episode, we talk with Michael about the importance of mentors and how sometimes they transition to colleagues as we find our own footing in our creative work, stepping into our own creative id...
emergingform.substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I enjoyed my visit with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and Christie Friesen Aschwanden on their cool and smart Emerging Form podcast. Check out the episode here.
emergingform.substack.com/p/episode-14...
emergingform.substack.com/p/episode-14...
I feel like this is a safe space where I can be myself, love what I love unreservedly, and pursue my passions!
September 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I feel like this is a safe space where I can be myself, love what I love unreservedly, and pursue my passions!
Very sad to hear about the shooting at Evergreen High School in Denver today. There are three young people in critical condition whose lives (if they survive) will never be the same. Sensible gun laws now!
September 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Very sad to hear about the shooting at Evergreen High School in Denver today. There are three young people in critical condition whose lives (if they survive) will never be the same. Sensible gun laws now!
Reposted by Michael Kleber-Diggs
Canine Superpowers, a poem to guide walkies: "We stroll the grounds and stop at every tree./Their noses lead to every thing I see." — Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social in @orionmagazine.bsky.social orionmagazine.org/article/you-... #dogs #poetry #poems #sniffari #sniffwalks #villanelle
Pick Your Poem: 6 Poems to Transport You into the Natural World - Orion Magazine
Six poems from and for the natural world
orionmagazine.org
September 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Canine Superpowers, a poem to guide walkies: "We stroll the grounds and stop at every tree./Their noses lead to every thing I see." — Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social in @orionmagazine.bsky.social orionmagazine.org/article/you-... #dogs #poetry #poems #sniffari #sniffwalks #villanelle
Rode my bike to work! Yaaay Michael! Yaaay!
Forgot my fitness tracker. Booooo!
Forgot my fitness tracker. Booooo!
September 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Rode my bike to work! Yaaay Michael! Yaaay!
Forgot my fitness tracker. Booooo!
Forgot my fitness tracker. Booooo!
Forgot to get a Powerball ticket. 🤷🏿♂️
September 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Forgot to get a Powerball ticket. 🤷🏿♂️
For all the parents surviving all those college drop-offs - you are not alone. ♥️
"Contextualize your suffering by imagining all the families bringing their kids to a school with a lower ranking."
A Parents’ Guide to Surviving the College Drop-Off
It’s been a long, stressful, idle-hands summer full of sloth, poor choices, nervousness, petty arguments, and tearful goodbyes. Now it’s time to dr...
buff.ly
September 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
For all the parents surviving all those college drop-offs - you are not alone. ♥️
Among the many sad things about the horrific shootings in Minneapolis today is they may become a pretext for sending (again) the National Guard here.
But only that, a pretext, not an actual or valid reason. To be clear, there’s nothing the National Guard could have done to stop these shootings.
But only that, a pretext, not an actual or valid reason. To be clear, there’s nothing the National Guard could have done to stop these shootings.
August 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Among the many sad things about the horrific shootings in Minneapolis today is they may become a pretext for sending (again) the National Guard here.
But only that, a pretext, not an actual or valid reason. To be clear, there’s nothing the National Guard could have done to stop these shootings.
But only that, a pretext, not an actual or valid reason. To be clear, there’s nothing the National Guard could have done to stop these shootings.
Poets and poetry loving friends, when you think of “voice” which poets and books come to mind?
Thank you. ♥️
Thank you. ♥️
August 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Poets and poetry loving friends, when you think of “voice” which poets and books come to mind?
Thank you. ♥️
Thank you. ♥️
I am probably noticing your hands. I’m probably looking at them. Not in a fetishistic way - please don’t. I don’t mean anything by it. I’m drawn to people’s hands in a narrative way; they’re full of stories.
August 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I am probably noticing your hands. I’m probably looking at them. Not in a fetishistic way - please don’t. I don’t mean anything by it. I’m drawn to people’s hands in a narrative way; they’re full of stories.