Nate
@nfako.bsky.social
he/they // mfa student // loser // poems findable
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I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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Very grateful to have this poem land in the new issue of POETRY! It's a marvelous issue... 💜 Big thanks to editor Adrain Matejka, and the whole crew! 🙏
November 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Very grateful to have this poem land in the new issue of POETRY! It's a marvelous issue... 💜 Big thanks to editor Adrain Matejka, and the whole crew! 🙏
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reading a very good poem leaves me feeling like there is an empty space at the back of my throat that can't be filled, that some worldly wind has chosen that poem, that moment, to pass through me. poet shit but the coolest feeling. must figure out how to create this at the close of my own poems.
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
reading a very good poem leaves me feeling like there is an empty space at the back of my throat that can't be filled, that some worldly wind has chosen that poem, that moment, to pass through me. poet shit but the coolest feeling. must figure out how to create this at the close of my own poems.
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Thanks to @aliciawright.bsky.social for all her hard work in getting this cluster together! What a joy to get to work with you!
And thanks @franciscondine.bsky.social for all your editorial & technical work! The cluster looks beautiful!
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post45.org/2025/11/c-d-...
And thanks @franciscondine.bsky.social for all your editorial & technical work! The cluster looks beautiful!
@atpost45.bsky.social
post45.org/2025/11/c-d-...
C.D. Wright: University Poet – Post45
Thinking on the work and career of the poet C.D. Wright, I return, in my own elliptical fashion, to two quotes (and one idea) from two writers who write about the nature of literary production at the ...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Thanks to @aliciawright.bsky.social for all her hard work in getting this cluster together! What a joy to get to work with you!
And thanks @franciscondine.bsky.social for all your editorial & technical work! The cluster looks beautiful!
@atpost45.bsky.social
post45.org/2025/11/c-d-...
And thanks @franciscondine.bsky.social for all your editorial & technical work! The cluster looks beautiful!
@atpost45.bsky.social
post45.org/2025/11/c-d-...
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Strange men who write bad poems
Tell me I disrupt their wives
Dorothea Lasky
Tell me I disrupt their wives
Dorothea Lasky
November 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Strange men who write bad poems
Tell me I disrupt their wives
Dorothea Lasky
Tell me I disrupt their wives
Dorothea Lasky
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you never responded
please advise
please advise
November 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
you never responded
please advise
please advise
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Here's one of them...
November 21, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Here's one of them...
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you can almost hear the bugs crawling about the husk of her soul
Reporter: What did the president mean when he called the reporter piggy?
Leavitt: I think the president being frank and open and honest to your faces rather than hiding behind your backs is a lot more respectful than what you saw in the last administration
Leavitt: I think the president being frank and open and honest to your faces rather than hiding behind your backs is a lot more respectful than what you saw in the last administration
November 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
you can almost hear the bugs crawling about the husk of her soul
slowly working my way through Larry Levis' The Afterlife
November 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
slowly working my way through Larry Levis' The Afterlife
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I do want this night to end.
Bill Knott
Bill Knott
November 19, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I do want this night to end.
Bill Knott
Bill Knott
when he goes down, and he will, there will be music in American streets. in so many languages. and we will disempower his enablers and his shadows, too
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 AM
when he goes down, and he will, there will be music in American streets. in so many languages. and we will disempower his enablers and his shadows, too
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so if anyone wants to read about my time as a TFA corps member in the Delta, I have a CNF piece in the Rumpus about... everything, kind of
“I realize no matter how many times she returns to the field and looks at me, I probably won’t feed her. I have nothing to offer.”
From "Mississippi Dog," a new original essay by Nathan Fako.
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From "Mississippi Dog," a new original essay by Nathan Fako.
➡️ buff.ly/42ICoNU
November 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
so if anyone wants to read about my time as a TFA corps member in the Delta, I have a CNF piece in the Rumpus about... everything, kind of
"the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation" -cd wright
November 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
"the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation" -cd wright
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Pour one out for all the guys who can't talk to their girlfriends because ChatGPT is down
November 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Pour one out for all the guys who can't talk to their girlfriends because ChatGPT is down
so if anyone wants to read about my time as a TFA corps member in the Delta, I have a CNF piece in the Rumpus about... everything, kind of
“I realize no matter how many times she returns to the field and looks at me, I probably won’t feed her. I have nothing to offer.”
From "Mississippi Dog," a new original essay by Nathan Fako.
➡️ buff.ly/42ICoNU
From "Mississippi Dog," a new original essay by Nathan Fako.
➡️ buff.ly/42ICoNU
November 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
so if anyone wants to read about my time as a TFA corps member in the Delta, I have a CNF piece in the Rumpus about... everything, kind of
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hello the first poem I took to my first workshop has been accepted into the afterlife. you can read it here
www.thefourthriver.com/o16-poetry/2...
www.thefourthriver.com/o16-poetry/2...
No Other Order in Ottawa Park — The Fourth River
by Nathan Fako
www.thefourthriver.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
hello the first poem I took to my first workshop has been accepted into the afterlife. you can read it here
www.thefourthriver.com/o16-poetry/2...
www.thefourthriver.com/o16-poetry/2...
hello the first poem I took to my first workshop has been accepted into the afterlife. you can read it here
www.thefourthriver.com/o16-poetry/2...
www.thefourthriver.com/o16-poetry/2...
No Other Order in Ottawa Park — The Fourth River
by Nathan Fako
www.thefourthriver.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
hello the first poem I took to my first workshop has been accepted into the afterlife. you can read it here
www.thefourthriver.com/o16-poetry/2...
www.thefourthriver.com/o16-poetry/2...
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“Why be ashamed of reusing your own phrases? Monet didn’t paint only one haystack.”
-- Monica Youn
-- Monica Youn
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“Why be ashamed of reusing your own phrases? Monet didn’t paint only one haystack.”
-- Monica Youn
-- Monica Youn
I'm in a climate literature and film class where we've discussed at length the LITERAL POISON that AI usage is responsible for.
And the professor's assignment prompts are written by AI.
What the fuck are we doing?
And the professor's assignment prompts are written by AI.
What the fuck are we doing?
November 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I'm in a climate literature and film class where we've discussed at length the LITERAL POISON that AI usage is responsible for.
And the professor's assignment prompts are written by AI.
What the fuck are we doing?
And the professor's assignment prompts are written by AI.
What the fuck are we doing?
it's my birthday so all journals have to publish me that's the rule
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
it's my birthday so all journals have to publish me that's the rule
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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This is what oligarchy looks like:
If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break.
If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry.
Obscene.
If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break.
If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry.
Obscene.
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is what oligarchy looks like:
If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break.
If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry.
Obscene.
If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break.
If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry.
Obscene.