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Natalie Solmer
@nataliesolmer.bsky.social
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Poet, former Florist & landscaper/horticulturist, Associate Professor of English at a CC in Indy, Founder & EIC of The Indianapolis Review.

Author of Water Castle
https://nataliesolmer.com/
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Very excited to be reading poems at Wabash College on Wednesday at noon with Katy Didden and Donald Platt! Many thanks to Derek Mong @derekmong.bsky.social for organizing the Hoosier Poetry Reading Series!
November 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Saw everyone posting, and it's real!! This is my first time seeing the Northern Lights! And I live in Indy, surrounded by light pollution. Very cool! 💓 #nofilter #northernlights
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Aww...this warms my heart. The student i mentioned was so wonderful 😃
anmlymag.bsky.social ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 6d
"all through class, when she wore sunglasses
in the awful florescent light, when she brought me
a houseplant she propagated when we found
we shared a special interest"

—Natalie Solmer

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Natalie Solmer – ANMLY
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November 12, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Hope you give Episode 80 with Natalie Solmer a listen! From Diane Seuss and Great Lakes to South Bend and Gustav Klimt! @nataliesolmer.bsky.social

Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/bb99659d
Blue graphic with the text: OF POETRY PODCAST Natalie Galmer Water Castle poems Natalie Solmer (Of Genealogies of Water, the Great Lakes and Diane Seuss, and the Working Class, Rural Lyric) EPISODE 80
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Just wanted to say I've been loving serving as the poetry faculty member for the Religion, Spirituality, and the Arts program with Herron School of Art! We've been having our classes @newfieldstoday , and i took a pic of Kori Newkirk's "Black Dandelion" sculpture the other night 🖤🌕🌼
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Read Natalie Solmer’s poem “I Am a Great Lake” here: merliterary.com/2024/08/26/p...

And listen to Episode 80 with @nataliesolmer.bsky.social here: share.transistor.fm/s/bb99659d

#poetry #podcast #booksky 📚💙🎙️
I am a Great Lake, so old, girlfriends singing no one knowing our location as old as midnight as sneaking in my mother's door just in time old enough now to become my mother's door. Natalie Solmer
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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My native honeysuckle vine bloomed for the first time-in October! ❤️
October 31, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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"Likkle but Tallawah" that JA phrase has been in my head all week. 🇯🇲
October 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Of the color green, of Klimt and Kahlo, of water and horticulture, of Poland and Austria and Southbend, of Diane Seuss and the Great Lakes, of Jamaica and love poems and writing through precarious seasons.

New episode with @nataliesolmer.bsky.social! 📚💙🎙️ #poetry #podcast #booksky
Episode 80: Natalie Solmer (Of Genealogies of Water, the Great Lakes and Diane Seuss, and the Working Class, Rural Lyric)
Natalie Solmer, author of Water Castle (Kelsay Books, 2024) Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere Read: “I Am a Great Lake” (MER) Purchase: Water Castle (Kelsay Books, 2024) …
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October 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Listen to Episode 80 with @nataliesolmer.bsky.social (Of Genealogies of Water, the Great Lakes and Diane Seuss, and the Working Class, Rural Lyric) here: share.transistor.fm/s/bb99659d
"I edit a journal as well. And there's just so much great poetry out there...we have thousands of great poets, but what makes, the one-the five -stand out? Or the one poem that people really latch on to? I dont really know. You know, I don't know if I want to know? NATALIE SOLMER, EP 80
October 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Grateful to @clmporg.bsky.social for including ANMLY's latest issue on this list!
October 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Literally cannot sleep...just sitting up, praying for our 🇯🇲 family. Pics from our visit this summer.
October 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Pierogi Tour Poetry reading was a success! 😃🇵🇱❤️
October 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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I'll post more pics later, but our pierogi tour poetry reading was a resounding success!!! Thanks to Mindy Dunn, @butlermfa @ania_spyra @rockwellsays and Karen Kovacik! Not one pieorgi was left uneaten! 🤣❤️🇵🇱
October 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Thanks to @anomalouspress for publishing 4 new poems of mine, all "girl on the spectrum manifestos" i wrote in response to their special call for 'autistic protest poetry' after RFK's ridiculous comments re: autistic people. There is so much cool stuff in this issue! 💜
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Girl On the Spectrum Manifesto, no. 1 We hide in plain sight they say, as if something sinister à la RFK Jr. to Trump, Asperger to Hitler. So many girls & women unnamed. Boys & men four times more likely to get a diagnosis. But this is not a disease, not something only boys who love trains & walk on their toes can have, though I, a girl/woman, did walk on my toes. When I read of that symptom in a book, I gasped; I was just figuring it out & over the age of 40, remembering my parents took me to the doctor for toe-walking beyond when a toddler would stop & though none of my children toe-walked, each have their uniqueness & one of my sons as he struggled young, ADHD, I was questioning, reading like so many mothers, a light started to glow, go off in my brain & when one magnificent female student of mine, student who wore a lanyard brightly stating I am autistic & was her whole self in my classroom through class, when she wore sunglasses in the awful florescent light, when she brought me a houseplant she propagated when we found we shared a special interest, when she shared her other interest was keeping roly-polies as pets in a box in her window well, I was reminded of myself as a child & the toads in my window well I kept as pets & she wrote the best poems out of everyone in the class & when she sat underneath her desk during lecture without fanfare or apparent shame & which I didn’t think odd, instead, I felt . . . envy, seeing my secret behavior on display. Not only as a child, but as an adult, in my apartment I would sit underneath my desk after coming home would sit underneath my desk after coming home from some social thing, when feeling overwhelmed, I felt the little cave the desk made could hold the world, keep it from crushing me, the glass shell around me, & in that remembering, the message on her lanyard glowed bright & with sunflowers surrounding the words, I am autistic. That word autistic familiar, thrown around about my eccentric, engineer father throughout my childhood when my mother heard about Aspergers, but I thought because I didn’t like math, didn’t build computers, it couldn’t be me. Never mind how I didn’t, couldn’t talk in school until fourth grade, I was labeled gifted & shy. Never mind my anxiety & depression & obsessions, how even now, after I participate in some poetry event, I can’t sleep, dissect it all night friends say I’d never know. Here I am, writing poems. Eugenicists take note, my autistic student was the most talented student in the room & though the label is not magic, it’s a way of living in this brain, fuck a cure for who we are, after forty years of What Is Wrong With Me?, this was my answer, bright sunflower.
October 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Thanks to ANMLY for publishing 4 new poems of mine, all "girl on the spectrum manifestos" i wrote for their 'autistic protest poetry' call after RFK's comments. There is so much cool stuff in this issue! 💜
anmly.org/ap41/natalie... @anmlymag.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Loved this reading at Proof Midwest Lit festival with Rosalie Moffett Kristine Esser Slentz and Teresa Dzieglewicz ! Mitchell L.H. Douglas and Chantel Massey have done an amazing job once again, along with everyone at Indiana Humanities ! @indianahumanities.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Had a wonderful experience on the panel about the responsibility of editors regarding censorship at Proof Midwest lit fest with Rosalie Moffett and Mark Neeley!
October 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Excited for Indiana Humanities Proof literary festival! So many things I want to check out & and tomorrow I will be on a panel about censorship and editing with Rosalie Moffett, Mark Neeley, and Santiago Valencia! @indianahumanities.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Today is National Pierogi Day! Thanks to @mirrorindy for boosting our upcoming Pieorgi and Poetry event! I was shocked when I was contacted for an interview! Time to make more pierogi..! 😃@rockwellsays @ania_spyra @karen__kovacik mirrorindy.org/pierogi-tour...
Everyone is welcome at this free pierogi and poetry party
Pierogi Tour, happening Oct. 19, celebrates Polish and Ukrainian culture.
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October 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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A surprise waterlily in October 🍁🍂
October 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Honored to have my work in this one.
nataliesolmer.bsky.social Natalie Solmer @nataliesolmer.bsky.social · Oct 7
Really proud of this issue! Check it out--
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October 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Really proud of this issue! Check it out--
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October 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Many thanks to @nataliesolmer.bsky.social and Indianapolis Review for nominating one of my chronic pain poems for Best of the Net!
October 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Nazifa Islam @nafoopal in The Indianapolis Review Summer Issue theindianapolisreview.com/featured-art...
October 6, 2025 at 2:28 AM