Claire Wahmanholm
@cwahmanholm.bsky.social
Author of Meltwater (Milkweed 2023), Redmouth (Tinderbox 2019), Wilder (Milkweed 2018), and Night Vision (DIAGRAM/NMP 2017). McKnight writing fellow. Winner of the 2022 Montreal International Poetry Prize. She/her. Twin Cities. Linktr.ee/wahmanholm
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October 31, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Two more sonnets of my drought crown have appeared! This time in 32 Poems, a very favorite. The whole issue hits, as usual, and you should absolutely subscribe if you don't already, but they've got a couple picks of the latest issue online too, plz go read ❤️
October 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Two more sonnets of my drought crown have appeared! This time in 32 Poems, a very favorite. The whole issue hits, as usual, and you should absolutely subscribe if you don't already, but they've got a couple picks of the latest issue online too, plz go read ❤️
I wrote a sonnet sequence during the MN drought of 2021, and three of the poems are in the latest issue of Like a Field 🌱🌿🪲💚 You can read the entire issue online here: www.likeafield.com/2025/summer
August 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I wrote a sonnet sequence during the MN drought of 2021, and three of the poems are in the latest issue of Like a Field 🌱🌿🪲💚 You can read the entire issue online here: www.likeafield.com/2025/summer
THIS THURSDAY, online, I'll be talking to my amazing friend @mollyolguin.bsky.social about her EXTREMELY GOOD debut story collection, The Sea Gives Up the Dead, out now with @redhenpress.bsky.social. We'll talk about horror, fairy tales, grim days, maybe even hope??
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May 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
THIS THURSDAY, online, I'll be talking to my amazing friend @mollyolguin.bsky.social about her EXTREMELY GOOD debut story collection, The Sea Gives Up the Dead, out now with @redhenpress.bsky.social. We'll talk about horror, fairy tales, grim days, maybe even hope??
Zoom link on graphic!
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SUNDAY, 5/18, 6PM CST: come help me celebrate the virtual launch of @farahghafoor.bsky.social's collection Shadow Price (@houseofanansi.bsky.social)! @sarahali.bsky.social and I will be reading a couple poems to kick things off 💛
Register here: tinyurl.com/ywx5dn6p
Register here: tinyurl.com/ywx5dn6p
May 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
SUNDAY, 5/18, 6PM CST: come help me celebrate the virtual launch of @farahghafoor.bsky.social's collection Shadow Price (@houseofanansi.bsky.social)! @sarahali.bsky.social and I will be reading a couple poems to kick things off 💛
Register here: tinyurl.com/ywx5dn6p
Register here: tinyurl.com/ywx5dn6p
I've got two alphabet poems in the Arsenic and Old Lace DOUBLE ISSUE of Fairy Tale Review ❤️ Major gratitude to Asiya Wadud, whose poem "L" my "L" is directly responding to. I'm very into the idea of poems being letters/postcards that poets can send back and forth to each other! Why not?
May 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I've got two alphabet poems in the Arsenic and Old Lace DOUBLE ISSUE of Fairy Tale Review ❤️ Major gratitude to Asiya Wadud, whose poem "L" my "L" is directly responding to. I'm very into the idea of poems being letters/postcards that poets can send back and forth to each other! Why not?
Hey gang, if you want a vibe, @misternagel.bsky.social has got your ideal surreal-dirtbag-sad-hilarious-grim pandemic-era-but-really-all-era essay collection right here! Out from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social! please get a copy and read it immediately!
April 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hey gang, if you want a vibe, @misternagel.bsky.social has got your ideal surreal-dirtbag-sad-hilarious-grim pandemic-era-but-really-all-era essay collection right here! Out from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social! please get a copy and read it immediately!
If you're UC-Riverside adjacent, come on out this coming Monday to hear me and Donika Kelly talk about ecopoetics and the apocalypse; they're also giving away copies of Meltwater to the first folks in the door! Come get yours!
March 30, 2025 at 1:47 AM
If you're UC-Riverside adjacent, come on out this coming Monday to hear me and Donika Kelly talk about ecopoetics and the apocalypse; they're also giving away copies of Meltwater to the first folks in the door! Come get yours!
If you're heading to AWP, come check out this reading on Friday evening at Night Gallery! We're going in alphabetical order so be ready to stick around lol
March 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
If you're heading to AWP, come check out this reading on Friday evening at Night Gallery! We're going in alphabetical order so be ready to stick around lol
My contributor copies of @epochliterary.com have found me! Here's my poem, "Diorama" 🐊🐊
March 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
My contributor copies of @epochliterary.com have found me! Here's my poem, "Diorama" 🐊🐊
If you'll be at AWP-LA, this reading promises to be really good, and you should pop it in your Friday night dance card!
March 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
If you'll be at AWP-LA, this reading promises to be really good, and you should pop it in your Friday night dance card!
Virtual reading alert! 32 Poems and Lisa Fay Coutley (who edited this beautiful anthology last year) are hosting a grief reading tomorrow night ❤️ Sign up and tune in via the QR code, and if you want to buy a copy of the anthology, you can do it right here: blacklawrencepress.com/books/temper...
March 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Virtual reading alert! 32 Poems and Lisa Fay Coutley (who edited this beautiful anthology last year) are hosting a grief reading tomorrow night ❤️ Sign up and tune in via the QR code, and if you want to buy a copy of the anthology, you can do it right here: blacklawrencepress.com/books/temper...
AND FURTHERMORE, if you're in the Cities and into the intersections of art and science, come out to Milkweed Books tomorrow, 2/27, and hear me talk with Creature Needs contributors Kim Blaeser, Sean Hill, and Charles Baxter! (Excerpts below) 🐢🌵❤️
February 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
AND FURTHERMORE, if you're in the Cities and into the intersections of art and science, come out to Milkweed Books tomorrow, 2/27, and hear me talk with Creature Needs contributors Kim Blaeser, Sean Hill, and Charles Baxter! (Excerpts below) 🐢🌵❤️
If you want to get a lead on EVEN MORE events that I've got coming up in the next several months, why not sign up for my very convenient, very chill newsletter? It comes out every two months and it will not clutter up your life! Sign up at clairewahmanholm.com/contact/
February 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
If you want to get a lead on EVEN MORE events that I've got coming up in the next several months, why not sign up for my very convenient, very chill newsletter? It comes out every two months and it will not clutter up your life! Sign up at clairewahmanholm.com/contact/
2. On 2/27 I'll be hosting the MN launch of Creature Needs (@uminnpress.bsky.social) with Sean Hill, Kim Blaeser, and Charles Baxter. We'll be chatting at Open Book in MPLS, courtesy of @milkweededitions.bsky.social ❤️
February 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
2. On 2/27 I'll be hosting the MN launch of Creature Needs (@uminnpress.bsky.social) with Sean Hill, Kim Blaeser, and Charles Baxter. We'll be chatting at Open Book in MPLS, courtesy of @milkweededitions.bsky.social ❤️
Upcoming events!
1. @letterspace.org will be launching his collection Vessels (@unsolicitedpress.bsky.social) at @nextchapterbooksmn.bsky.social on 2/25 and I'll be throwing him all kinds of fun questions! There will be party favors! A scavenger hunt?? Come see!
1. @letterspace.org will be launching his collection Vessels (@unsolicitedpress.bsky.social) at @nextchapterbooksmn.bsky.social on 2/25 and I'll be throwing him all kinds of fun questions! There will be party favors! A scavenger hunt?? Come see!
February 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Upcoming events!
1. @letterspace.org will be launching his collection Vessels (@unsolicitedpress.bsky.social) at @nextchapterbooksmn.bsky.social on 2/25 and I'll be throwing him all kinds of fun questions! There will be party favors! A scavenger hunt?? Come see!
1. @letterspace.org will be launching his collection Vessels (@unsolicitedpress.bsky.social) at @nextchapterbooksmn.bsky.social on 2/25 and I'll be throwing him all kinds of fun questions! There will be party favors! A scavenger hunt?? Come see!
Northfield/Carleton-adjacent folks, I'll be on campus this Thursday reading from Meltwater and also maybe some new stuff! Come on by if you're in the neighborhood ❤️
February 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Northfield/Carleton-adjacent folks, I'll be on campus this Thursday reading from Meltwater and also maybe some new stuff! Come on by if you're in the neighborhood ❤️
It is a gift to be able to make art right now, to spend time with other artists, and to talk to them about their art. I've got several such events coming up in February, the first of which is THIS WEEK, with @eirencaffall at Milkweed Books, talking about All the Water in the World. Join us!
February 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It is a gift to be able to make art right now, to spend time with other artists, and to talk to them about their art. I've got several such events coming up in February, the first of which is THIS WEEK, with @eirencaffall at Milkweed Books, talking about All the Water in the World. Join us!
Hey Twin Cities, wanna get in a sauna and listen to some poetry? HELL YEAH YOU DO! Come to the Great Northern's sauna village this Saturday and hear me and @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social read some climate-inflected poems. Maybe we'll pass out! Maybe we'll change your life! (Maybe both?) Come find out!
January 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Hey Twin Cities, wanna get in a sauna and listen to some poetry? HELL YEAH YOU DO! Come to the Great Northern's sauna village this Saturday and hear me and @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social read some climate-inflected poems. Maybe we'll pass out! Maybe we'll change your life! (Maybe both?) Come find out!
Hey Twin Cities, the weather's going to be a-okay next Wednesday, and January will be almost over thank god, so come on out to the White Squirrel on 1/29 and hear me, LM Brimmer, and Haley Lasche read a poem or two ❤️ We'll have books to sell and good company for free!
January 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Hey Twin Cities, the weather's going to be a-okay next Wednesday, and January will be almost over thank god, so come on out to the White Squirrel on 1/29 and hear me, LM Brimmer, and Haley Lasche read a poem or two ❤️ We'll have books to sell and good company for free!
Here's what the committee said about Meltwater! So nice!
January 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Here's what the committee said about Meltwater! So nice!
Really excited to chat with @eirencaffall.bsky.social next month about these two beautiful, difficult, breathless books, which were the first things I read in 2025.
Join us Thursday, 2/6, at Milkweed Books in MPLS. We'll talk about hypercanes, oceans, families, salvation, the future ❤️🐋
Join us Thursday, 2/6, at Milkweed Books in MPLS. We'll talk about hypercanes, oceans, families, salvation, the future ❤️🐋
January 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Really excited to chat with @eirencaffall.bsky.social next month about these two beautiful, difficult, breathless books, which were the first things I read in 2025.
Join us Thursday, 2/6, at Milkweed Books in MPLS. We'll talk about hypercanes, oceans, families, salvation, the future ❤️🐋
Join us Thursday, 2/6, at Milkweed Books in MPLS. We'll talk about hypercanes, oceans, families, salvation, the future ❤️🐋