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Aimee Nezhukumatathil
@nezhukumatathil.bsky.social
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🇵🇭🇮🇳 roller-skater since I was ten • school supplies • gardens • bioluminescence • axolotls • Buckeye • NYT bestselling author • NIGHT OWL (Ecco, Spring 26) [please note: Bluesky is banned in Mississippi(!) where I live so I'm only on when traveling]
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social · Apr 9
NIGHT OWL, Ecco 2026.

Nature poems like you’ve never seen before 🦉

So excited for you to see what kinds of poems I’ve been cooking up the past seven years. Coming from the incredible team led by the incomparable Sarah Murphy at @eccobooks.bsky.social Spring 2026.
lavender post-it that says “new poems coming…ecco 2026) in think gold ink with a gold heart
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chanda.blacksky.app
Double supernova 🤩

🔭

www.eso.org/public/image...
Lots of stars and at center a roughly circular form that is orange (hydrogen)on the outside and blue (calcium) on the inside, the blue looking like paint was splashed
November 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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carolynhaines.bsky.social
I can't wait to feast on them.. World of Wonders was fantastic. As was Bite by Bite. And Lucky Fish! 🥰
October 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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wildroofjournal.bsky.social
Haibun anyone? This new piece investigates the popular poetic form:
"In her Feb. 2014 essay, 'More than the Birds, Bees, and Trees,' poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil explains that a haibun juxtaposes a poetic prose journey or landscape description..."
wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/to-liberat...
October 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
nezhukumatathil.bsky.social
And be sure to check out the painter of my cover image—Mississippi artist Charlie Buckley. No one else paints the stars better. www.buckleystudio.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:59 AM
nezhukumatathil.bsky.social
Cover reveal: NIGHT OWL (Ecco) March 31, 2026. 5th book of poems, 4th book in eight years. Nature poems like you’ve never seen. Pre-order in link below! 🦉
October 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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atomicvegan.bsky.social
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, "Baked Goods" from Lucky Fish
September 9, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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tinhouse.bsky.social
Thrilled that @debutiful.bsky.social has the cover reveal for Maybe the Body: Poems by @asaldrake.bsky.social!🐇🐍💖

“A radiant collection.” —Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Cover design by Beth Steidle.

Read more about Maybe the Body and the cover design at the link below!🐇🐍💖

debutiful.net/2025/09/09/s...
September 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
nezhukumatathil.bsky.social
Their little brown "belts" kill me every time
photosteve.bsky.social Steve McKerrall @photosteve.bsky.social · Oct 11
A belted kingfisher staking its claim to the lake
#birds #kingfisher
A female belted kingfisher sitting on the end of a lichen covered branch, with her tail raised and bill wide open in a call.
October 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Monday Gray-headed swamphen #PhotoHour #BlueSkyMonday #Birds #EastCoastKin #photography #Florida #PhotographersofBlueSky #PhotographersUnited #Nature
October 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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usngo.bsky.social
This stunning cloud of gas and dust forms part of the Carina Nebula. noirlab.edu/public/image... #astronomy

📷: Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Hartigan (Rice University). Proc: Patrick Hartigan (Rice University), Travis Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), Mahdi Zamani & Davide de Martin
October 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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wandererbyname.bsky.social
Strawberry corn and anasazi beans! 🫛🌱
A few strawberry corn dried with the husks peeled back A handful of Anasazi beans picked from the pods in front of our crazy cosmos
October 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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msatris.bsky.social
Also, the examples shared by Palette introduced me to a poetry collaboration by Ross Gay & @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social published in @orionmagazine.bsky.social that I hadn't read before. Collaborative seasonal garden epistolary poems! What a dream to weave together: orionmagazine.org/article/lett...
October 1, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Terrific episode!

@outsideinradio.bsky.social @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social

www.nhpr.org/environment/...
Outside/In: Every bite is a story
Poet and author Aimee Nezhukumatathil dishes up three flavors that have connected her to others: one familiar, one sweet, and one strange.
www.nhpr.org
September 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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kendraserra.bsky.social
This crab is going to organize its community against digital surveillance and I am here for it.
sarahmackattack.bsky.social Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Sep 19
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
September 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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dapowell.bsky.social
As it should be. Freedom of expression is foundational to all our other rights.
aclu.org ACLU @aclu.org · Sep 19
BREAKING: A court ruled that the federal government can't pick and choose among viewpoints when deciding who gets a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

We took the Trump administration to court to fight artistic censorship — and won.
September 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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elleisanisland.bsky.social
All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes
Photo of a missing slice of cheesecake that looks like a cheesecake hull floating in a deep blue ocean. The "ocean" is actually the blueberry topping on the large cheesecake that we don't see completely.
September 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Grateful to @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social for her kind words about Unrivered. Pre-orders help both author and press, and I appreciate your support.

(You can pre-order at B&N or Amazon, but full price.The link below is to @sundresspub.bsky.social for the sale price!)

tinyurl.com/4pj96v59
"Unrivered begins with a green field, and guides us through a remarkable journey of expressive power and vulnerability. I'm so grateful for this balm–this impassioned reckoning of the body and the outdoors."
September 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
nezhukumatathil.bsky.social
Say. it. louder. for. the. people. in. the. back! 👏🏽
theferocity.bsky.social Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Sep 6
When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.
September 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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theferocity.bsky.social
I’m already seeing people who position themselves as progressive or liberal “joking” that Trump should occupy these cities instead. Y’all are so disappointing.
theferocity.bsky.social Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Sep 6
The thing is, I’m pretty sure these all majority black cities and I’m worried that Trump will eventually try to occupy them too at some point. The fact that they are in Republican-controlled states isn’t a gotcha so much as evidence of how they’ve been maligned by their state governments.
theferocity.bsky.social Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Sep 6
“The four cities of populations larger than 100,000 with the highest murder rates in 2024 are in Republican states: Jackson, Mississippi (78.7 per 100,000 residents), Birmingham, Alabama (58.8), St Louis, Missouri (54.1) and Memphis, Tennessee (40.6).”
September 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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thesewingsongbird.bsky.social
Well here it is at long last, my latest embroidery is finally finished. Sorry to keep you all waiting, I’ll leave you to dream and explore…😊🪡🌿🌺
*Completely freehand stitched without patterns or paint, just lots of threads & plenty of patience. #stitchedart #thesewingsongbird
September 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
nezhukumatathil.bsky.social
crawl today, fly tomorrow (or in a few weeks) 🐛
September 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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toddedillard.bsky.social
my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read!

“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”
Present Tense by Todd Dillard My father’s telling me about his dog, how it fell into a well when they were walking down a wooded path. His dog ran across some rotted planks, the planks splintered, “And whoosh!” my father says. “No more dog.” I look at the clock and remind my father it’s three A.M. “I’m not finished,” he says. He tells me about the rope he bought, the bucket, how he knotted the rope to the bucket, lowered it down, and yelled for the dog to get in. “But all I pulled up was more barking.” “Dad,” I say. “This never happened.” He says he can’t remember how long he tried to get the dog to shimmy into the bucket. Just that at some point when the sky turned tawny—“Dad—“ as a pitcher of sweet tea—“Dad—“ he decided to give up. “Dad,” I say. “It’s late. I’m tired. And you’re dead.” “Dammit, son,” my father says. “Let me finish!” My father tells me about filling the bucket with dirt and pouring the dirt into the well. And I know what he’s getting at, I know he’s going to tell me bucket by bucket he filled the well and the dog jumped out. He’s going to say something about how the dog led him home through the dark. I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence. “Dad?” I say. “Dad, are you there?” I keep lowering the bucket but all I ever pull up are leaves. Red leaves. Lately, some gold.
September 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
I refuse to give em dashes to the AI
September 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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toddedillard.bsky.social
nature poets thanking the source of their inspiration
Tiger Woods shaking hands with a man who is almost entirely behind a tree such that the man’s extended arm (the only part of him visible) looks like the tree’s hand extending from the trunk
September 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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norock.bsky.social
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival
August 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM