Nathan Xavier Osorio
@nxo.bsky.social
I’m a poet and a scholar.
Books: Querida (upittpress), The Last Town Before the Mojave (PSA).
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Books: Querida (upittpress), The Last Town Before the Mojave (PSA).
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Nathan Xavier Osorio
@nxo.bsky.social
· Jul 5
In celebration of Robert Frost and the Dartmouth-Poet-in-Residency, I’ll be reading alongside incredible poets and writers at the @thefrostplace.bsky.social, @dartmouthcollege.bsky.social, and the Meetinghouse this coming week. I’m excited to share Querida and new work (!) with New Hampshire!
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First official #HispanicHeritageMonth #FollowFriday, here are some of our favorite Hispanic poets!
🎉 Nathaly Camilla Genao (@natcgwrites.bsky.social)
🎉 S. Salazar (@writessalazar.bsky.social)
🎉 Nathan Xavier Osorio (@nxo.bsky.social)
🎉 Daniel Ruiz (instagram.com/danielruizpoet)
🎉 Nathaly Camilla Genao (@natcgwrites.bsky.social)
🎉 S. Salazar (@writessalazar.bsky.social)
🎉 Nathan Xavier Osorio (@nxo.bsky.social)
🎉 Daniel Ruiz (instagram.com/danielruizpoet)
September 20, 2025 at 1:50 AM
First official #HispanicHeritageMonth #FollowFriday, here are some of our favorite Hispanic poets!
🎉 Nathaly Camilla Genao (@natcgwrites.bsky.social)
🎉 S. Salazar (@writessalazar.bsky.social)
🎉 Nathan Xavier Osorio (@nxo.bsky.social)
🎉 Daniel Ruiz (instagram.com/danielruizpoet)
🎉 Nathaly Camilla Genao (@natcgwrites.bsky.social)
🎉 S. Salazar (@writessalazar.bsky.social)
🎉 Nathan Xavier Osorio (@nxo.bsky.social)
🎉 Daniel Ruiz (instagram.com/danielruizpoet)
In celebration of Robert Frost and the Dartmouth-Poet-in-Residency, I’ll be reading alongside incredible poets and writers at the @thefrostplace.bsky.social, @dartmouthcollege.bsky.social, and the Meetinghouse this coming week. I’m excited to share Querida and new work (!) with New Hampshire!
July 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
In celebration of Robert Frost and the Dartmouth-Poet-in-Residency, I’ll be reading alongside incredible poets and writers at the @thefrostplace.bsky.social, @dartmouthcollege.bsky.social, and the Meetinghouse this coming week. I’m excited to share Querida and new work (!) with New Hampshire!
We're so lucky to have this interview! Check out @kristiosorio.bsky.social and Sarah Perry discuss the cliché of memory, vulnerability, and "the sweetness of survival" @adroitjournal.bsky.social !
It was an honor and a joy to talk with Sarah Perry about her new book, moving on from the Murder Memoir, and so much more! Check out our conversation over at @adroitjournal.bsky.social. theadroitjournal.org/2025/04/09/a...
A Conversation with Sarah Perry - The Adroit Journal
Sarah Perry is the author of the memoir After the Eclipse, which was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a Poets & Writers Notable Nonfiction Debut, and a Barnes & Noble Discover pick....
theadroitjournal.org
April 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
We're so lucky to have this interview! Check out @kristiosorio.bsky.social and Sarah Perry discuss the cliché of memory, vulnerability, and "the sweetness of survival" @adroitjournal.bsky.social !
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POETRY 2/2
Phosphene by Brandon Logans @blacklawrence.bsky.social
Ward Toward by Cindy Juyoung Ok @yalepress.bsky.social
Querida by @nxo.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social
Phosphene by Brandon Logans @blacklawrence.bsky.social
Ward Toward by Cindy Juyoung Ok @yalepress.bsky.social
Querida by @nxo.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 11:09 PM
POETRY 2/2
Phosphene by Brandon Logans @blacklawrence.bsky.social
Ward Toward by Cindy Juyoung Ok @yalepress.bsky.social
Querida by @nxo.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social
Phosphene by Brandon Logans @blacklawrence.bsky.social
Ward Toward by Cindy Juyoung Ok @yalepress.bsky.social
Querida by @nxo.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social
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Congrats, @nxo.bsky.social !
POETRY 2/2
Phosphene by Brandon Logans @blacklawrence.bsky.social
Ward Toward by Cindy Juyoung Ok @yalepress.bsky.social
Querida by @nxo.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social
Phosphene by Brandon Logans @blacklawrence.bsky.social
Ward Toward by Cindy Juyoung Ok @yalepress.bsky.social
Querida by @nxo.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Congrats, @nxo.bsky.social !
Check @kristiosorio.bsky.social's moving, intimate review of @nglipson.bsky.social beautiful memoir in essays on the @therumpus.net!
It was a joy reading and writing about @nglipson.bsky.social’s stunning new memoir-in-essays for @therumpus.net! therumpus.net/2025/03/25/g...
Shape Shifting: Nicole Graev Lipson’s Mothers and Other Fictional Characters - The Rumpus
Lipson’s ability to do both with precision and compassion, often within the span of a single essay, will touch readers who are mothers, but also readers like me—and like all of us—who know what it is ...
therumpus.net
March 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Check @kristiosorio.bsky.social's moving, intimate review of @nglipson.bsky.social beautiful memoir in essays on the @therumpus.net!
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“...an absorbing memoir of a life permanently altered by the burden and beauty of motherhood.”
@kristiosorio.bsky.social interviews @nglipson.bsky.social about Mothers and Other Fictional Characters (Chronicle Prism).
➡️ buff.ly/Tn7Wwiu
@kristiosorio.bsky.social interviews @nglipson.bsky.social about Mothers and Other Fictional Characters (Chronicle Prism).
➡️ buff.ly/Tn7Wwiu
March 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“...an absorbing memoir of a life permanently altered by the burden and beauty of motherhood.”
@kristiosorio.bsky.social interviews @nglipson.bsky.social about Mothers and Other Fictional Characters (Chronicle Prism).
➡️ buff.ly/Tn7Wwiu
@kristiosorio.bsky.social interviews @nglipson.bsky.social about Mothers and Other Fictional Characters (Chronicle Prism).
➡️ buff.ly/Tn7Wwiu
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It was a joy reading and writing about @nglipson.bsky.social’s stunning new memoir-in-essays for @therumpus.net! therumpus.net/2025/03/25/g...
Shape Shifting: Nicole Graev Lipson’s Mothers and Other Fictional Characters - The Rumpus
Lipson’s ability to do both with precision and compassion, often within the span of a single essay, will touch readers who are mothers, but also readers like me—and like all of us—who know what it is ...
therumpus.net
March 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
It was a joy reading and writing about @nglipson.bsky.social’s stunning new memoir-in-essays for @therumpus.net! therumpus.net/2025/03/25/g...
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Today's Featured Poet:
Nathan Xavier Osorio’s debut collection of poetry, Querida, was selected by Shara McCallum as the winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
Nathan Xavier Osorio’s debut collection of poetry, Querida, was selected by Shara McCallum as the winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
March 13, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Today's Featured Poet:
Nathan Xavier Osorio’s debut collection of poetry, Querida, was selected by Shara McCallum as the winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
Nathan Xavier Osorio’s debut collection of poetry, Querida, was selected by Shara McCallum as the winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
It's always been a dream of mine to have a poem in @poetrydaily.bsky.social! Thank you to the editors and to M. F. K. Fisher for the inspiration!
Today's Featured Poem:
"How to Cook a Wolf" by Nathan Xavier Osorio (@nxo.bsky.social), from Querida, published by University of Pittsburgh Press (@upittpress.bsky.social).
Read here:
poems.com/poem/how-to-...
"How to Cook a Wolf" by Nathan Xavier Osorio (@nxo.bsky.social), from Querida, published by University of Pittsburgh Press (@upittpress.bsky.social).
Read here:
poems.com/poem/how-to-...
How to Cook a Wolf
My mother fell in love with the way you cracked
into an urchin. How you kept the blade
along its purple skull
poems.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
It's always been a dream of mine to have a poem in @poetrydaily.bsky.social! Thank you to the editors and to M. F. K. Fisher for the inspiration!
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The Sweating Sickness got a mention in last weekend’s @nytbooks.bsky.social !!! @upittpress.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The Sweating Sickness got a mention in last weekend’s @nytbooks.bsky.social !!! @upittpress.bsky.social
An incredible flash nonfiction piece by @kristiosorio.bsky.social on The Palisades Review. Don't miss this one!
Here's a cathartic little micro nonfiction piece I wrote about the ways we flatten and stereotype families who have been harmed by violence. How we reduce them to headlines, take away their identities, constantly ask for more more more. (trigger warning) www.thepalisadesreview.com/new-stories/...
Matricide Makes People Say — By Kristi D. Osorio — The Palisades Review
Oh my God. That’s so tragic. I’m so sorry for your loss. Is it even enough to call it a loss? But your mother was always a little different. There’s this one Law & Order episode like that. My un...
www.thepalisadesreview.com
February 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
An incredible flash nonfiction piece by @kristiosorio.bsky.social on The Palisades Review. Don't miss this one!
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Get 75 games for $10 to support the Trans Empowerment Project
This deal is as good as it will make you feel
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January 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This $10 game bundle is a great deal to support the trans community
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"These are things you can’t see. They’re only measured by visceral reactions: by sweat, touch, some sort of illness even."
@nxo.bsky.social interviews Oluwaseun Olayiwola about Strange Beach (@catapultbooks.bsky.social).
➡️ https://buff.ly/42akIUL
@nxo.bsky.social interviews Oluwaseun Olayiwola about Strange Beach (@catapultbooks.bsky.social).
➡️ https://buff.ly/42akIUL
January 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"These are things you can’t see. They’re only measured by visceral reactions: by sweat, touch, some sort of illness even."
@nxo.bsky.social interviews Oluwaseun Olayiwola about Strange Beach (@catapultbooks.bsky.social).
➡️ https://buff.ly/42akIUL
@nxo.bsky.social interviews Oluwaseun Olayiwola about Strange Beach (@catapultbooks.bsky.social).
➡️ https://buff.ly/42akIUL
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Have you read this week's poem from Glass, yet?
Trust me, you don't want to miss it.
Trust me, you don't want to miss it.
December 18, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Have you read this week's poem from Glass, yet?
Trust me, you don't want to miss it.
Trust me, you don't want to miss it.
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Congrats to @nxo.bsky.social and Ajibola Tolase, whose collections, QUERIDA and 2000 BLACKS, were included in the California Review of Books 31 Best Poetry Collections of 2024!
calirb.com/31-outstandi...
calirb.com/31-outstandi...
31 Outstanding Poetry Books from 2024 – Alcalá to Zarin
Reviews by David Starkey
Every year since 2014, I've set aside a couple of months to sit down with what amounts to a long shelf of of poetry published in the past twelve months. My goal is to revie...
calirb.com
December 5, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Congrats to @nxo.bsky.social and Ajibola Tolase, whose collections, QUERIDA and 2000 BLACKS, were included in the California Review of Books 31 Best Poetry Collections of 2024!
calirb.com/31-outstandi...
calirb.com/31-outstandi...
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“Sacredness can be so fraught! What happens if we peel away at the reverence or gold flake of the statue—what do we find underneath?” —Nathan Xavier Osorio
Poets Eduardo Martínez-Leyva and Nathan Xavier Osorio examine memory and machismo in their debut collections.
https://bombmagazine.org/articl…
Poets Eduardo Martínez-Leyva and Nathan Xavier Osorio examine memory and machismo in their debut collections.
https://bombmagazine.org/articl…
BOMB Magazine | Eduardo Martínez-Leyva and Nathan Xavier Osorio
Altars made of poems: on memory, machismo, and code-switching through crown sonnets.
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November 23, 2024 at 3:00 PM
“Sacredness can be so fraught! What happens if we peel away at the reverence or gold flake of the statue—what do we find underneath?” —Nathan Xavier Osorio
Poets Eduardo Martínez-Leyva and Nathan Xavier Osorio examine memory and machismo in their debut collections.
https://bombmagazine.org/articl…
Poets Eduardo Martínez-Leyva and Nathan Xavier Osorio examine memory and machismo in their debut collections.
https://bombmagazine.org/articl…
Honored to have been in conversation with Eduardo Martínez-Leyva about his stunning debut Cowboy Park (uwiscpress) and Querida (@upittpress.bsky.social). I'm inspired by the connections & humbled by the rich diversions. Gratitude to @bombmag.bsky.social for their generous editorial care!
BOMB Magazine | Eduardo Martínez-Leyva and Nathan Xavier Osorio
Altars made of poems: on memory, machismo, and code-switching through crown sonnets.
bombmagazine.org
November 21, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Honored to have been in conversation with Eduardo Martínez-Leyva about his stunning debut Cowboy Park (uwiscpress) and Querida (@upittpress.bsky.social). I'm inspired by the connections & humbled by the rich diversions. Gratitude to @bombmag.bsky.social for their generous editorial care!
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Hi old friends and new, BOMB Magazine is a nonprofit, independent publication. We have been spotlighting artists’ insightful and intimate conversations since 1981. Discover emerging talent, explore groundbreaking ideas, and engage in unique perspectives on the creative process bombmagazine.org
November 13, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Hi old friends and new, BOMB Magazine is a nonprofit, independent publication. We have been spotlighting artists’ insightful and intimate conversations since 1981. Discover emerging talent, explore groundbreaking ideas, and engage in unique perspectives on the creative process bombmagazine.org
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What if we get off everything and just start reading?
November 15, 2024 at 3:20 PM
What if we get off everything and just start reading?
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Two of the writer-friends I talk with and collaborate with the most are shyly getting their footing on BlueSky. Follow them or I will bully you!!!!
@isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social
@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social
DO IT OR DIE BY A THOUSAND INSULTS.
@isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social
@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social
DO IT OR DIE BY A THOUSAND INSULTS.
November 14, 2024 at 12:29 AM
Two of the writer-friends I talk with and collaborate with the most are shyly getting their footing on BlueSky. Follow them or I will bully you!!!!
@isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social
@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social
DO IT OR DIE BY A THOUSAND INSULTS.
@isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social
@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social
DO IT OR DIE BY A THOUSAND INSULTS.
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Can we do a POET Roll Call to see who's all here?
#poetrycommunity Drop a note, reshare, etc.--let's see who's here!
#poetrycommunity Drop a note, reshare, etc.--let's see who's here!
November 12, 2024 at 11:39 PM
Can we do a POET Roll Call to see who's all here?
#poetrycommunity Drop a note, reshare, etc.--let's see who's here!
#poetrycommunity Drop a note, reshare, etc.--let's see who's here!