Nicholas Charles
@nc-exlibris.bsky.social
“Here, the sun came 93 million miles
to make these flowers that I killed for you”
Thank you, my friend!
to make these flowers that I killed for you”
Thank you, my friend!
January 6, 2026 at 3:53 AM
“Here, the sun came 93 million miles
to make these flowers that I killed for you”
Thank you, my friend!
to make these flowers that I killed for you”
Thank you, my friend!
Here’s to the muses! Wishing you all poetry in the new year.
December 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Here’s to the muses! Wishing you all poetry in the new year.
Observed someone with a copy of The Book of Alchemy open and the person writing in a composition notebook…as Rolf Jacobsen said, “keeping faith.”
December 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Observed someone with a copy of The Book of Alchemy open and the person writing in a composition notebook…as Rolf Jacobsen said, “keeping faith.”
December 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Merry merry 🎄🎄🤣🤣
December 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Merry merry 🎄🎄🤣🤣
December 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I explained to my child early Christianity’s co-opting of pagan practices such as Dies Natalis Solis Invicti and evergreen boughs which have given us Christmas. And their words, that makes sense.
December 17, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I explained to my child early Christianity’s co-opting of pagan practices such as Dies Natalis Solis Invicti and evergreen boughs which have given us Christmas. And their words, that makes sense.
I have faith, faith in some people, for they have failed my far less than God.
December 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I have faith, faith in some people, for they have failed my far less than God.
It’s not everyday that you are able to use the phrase “late-stage capitalism,” in a sentence. Yet, today was the day. Huzzah.
December 5, 2025 at 2:06 AM
It’s not everyday that you are able to use the phrase “late-stage capitalism,” in a sentence. Yet, today was the day. Huzzah.
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On December 21, from 2-4 PM EST, I’ll be teaching a 2‑hour generative craft class diving into the underrated, luminous work of poet Laura Gilpin. We will read well beyond “The Two-Headed Calf,” discussing the work of caregiving & poetry, approaching both with deep curiosity & attention to mystery.
Generative Craft Class with Maya C. Popa · Zoom · Luma
On December 21, from 2-4 PM EST, I’ll be teaching a 2‑hour generative craft class diving into the underrated, luminous work of poet Laura Gilpin. We will read…
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November 25, 2025 at 12:48 AM
On December 21, from 2-4 PM EST, I’ll be teaching a 2‑hour generative craft class diving into the underrated, luminous work of poet Laura Gilpin. We will read well beyond “The Two-Headed Calf,” discussing the work of caregiving & poetry, approaching both with deep curiosity & attention to mystery.
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On this national day of shopping (🙄) here are two craft classes I’m teaching in December:
🎯 ON DESIRE for @Five Things I've Learned: myfivethings.com/class/maya-c...
🎯 ON MORTALITY & POETRY luma.com/1kaxbfbg
🎯 ON DESIRE for @Five Things I've Learned: myfivethings.com/class/maya-c...
🎯 ON MORTALITY & POETRY luma.com/1kaxbfbg
Writing Desire - Five Things I've Learned
Join me in this live, two-hour class and discover the Five Things I’ve Learned about the ways that poets can bring desire to the page with heat, precision, mystery, and verve. Hi, everyone. I’m Maya ...
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November 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
On this national day of shopping (🙄) here are two craft classes I’m teaching in December:
🎯 ON DESIRE for @Five Things I've Learned: myfivethings.com/class/maya-c...
🎯 ON MORTALITY & POETRY luma.com/1kaxbfbg
🎯 ON DESIRE for @Five Things I've Learned: myfivethings.com/class/maya-c...
🎯 ON MORTALITY & POETRY luma.com/1kaxbfbg
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The Arabic numerals thing is getting a little old, but so is living in a country full of dunder-, chowder-, and fatheads.
November 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The Arabic numerals thing is getting a little old, but so is living in a country full of dunder-, chowder-, and fatheads.
HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY DEAR FRIEND AND MENTOR @gabriellebates.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY DEAR FRIEND AND MENTOR @gabriellebates.bsky.social
This is 43…
from “All’s Normal Here” - 1985
from “All’s Normal Here” - 1985
October 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This is 43…
from “All’s Normal Here” - 1985
from “All’s Normal Here” - 1985
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
My book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...
October 15, 2025 at 12:07 AM
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Oh, I am breaking. @poetryfoundation.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Oh, I am breaking. @poetryfoundation.bsky.social
In all the years I’d spent amassing my modest library, it had never occurred to me that I might one day have to weigh a book against a piece of bread for my children.”
“ ‘Let’s use one or two for now, and when the war’s over you can replace them,’ she said, as gently as she could. “ ‘The kids need food more than they need to be read to.’ ”
From Muhammad al-Zaqzouq’s forthcoming memoir, Palestine is everywhere. buff.ly/cIruWUw
From Muhammad al-Zaqzouq’s forthcoming memoir, Palestine is everywhere. buff.ly/cIruWUw
October 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
In all the years I’d spent amassing my modest library, it had never occurred to me that I might one day have to weigh a book against a piece of bread for my children.”
Currently reading A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews. It is one of the best works I have read this year, heck, make that a while. Thanks to @typebooks for bring it to my attention!
September 30, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Currently reading A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews. It is one of the best works I have read this year, heck, make that a while. Thanks to @typebooks for bring it to my attention!
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My way of coping with all of the madness is focusing on what I can do to make my community a little bit stronger. So excuse me for all of the earnestness, but I wrote about ways we can all pitch in to support a thriving literary culture. lithub.com/how-to-be-a-...
How to Be a Good Literary Citizen (in Seven Easy Steps)
Last Sunday I spent hours at the Brooklyn Book Festival, a too rare occasion for me to pull myself away from the internet for an entire afternoon. As I looked around at the crowd on their way to pa…
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September 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
My way of coping with all of the madness is focusing on what I can do to make my community a little bit stronger. So excuse me for all of the earnestness, but I wrote about ways we can all pitch in to support a thriving literary culture. lithub.com/how-to-be-a-...
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We liberals are America!
I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.
September 19, 2025 at 12:38 AM
We liberals are America!
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trying to force myself to share at least the occasional poem, now that I'm throwing new work against the walls. this one was published in Southern Indiana Review 🖤 I wrote it in a time when I had not really slept for many months and was going insane.
September 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
trying to force myself to share at least the occasional poem, now that I'm throwing new work against the walls. this one was published in Southern Indiana Review 🖤 I wrote it in a time when I had not really slept for many months and was going insane.