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NAWP is for writers who, for whatever reason, can't go to AWP. AWP attendees are welcome too, of course. NAWP is for everyone. NAWP loves you. Co-founded by @readinstead.bsky.social & @mitchnobis.bsky.social.
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Join us next week for NAWP's incredible November reading with @victoriawrites.bsky.social, @taylorbyas.bsky.social, and
@toosiewatson.bsky.social!

Hit the RSVP link!
www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...
Promotional graphic with author photos that says: A NAWP Reading Victoria Buitron Taylor Byas Daniella Toosie-Watson Hosted by Jared Beloff November 17, 2025 7:00pm - 8:00pm EST
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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HEY! NAWPsters! You! Yeah, YOU! Whatcha doing November 17th? Oh yeah, well you have NEW PLANS—you have NAWP PLANS.

Check out this lineup: @victoriawrites.bsky.social, @taylorbyas.bsky.social, and @toosiewatson.bsky.social!

RSVP link in the post below.
Promo graphic with author photos. A NAWP Reading Victoria Buitron Taylor Byas Daniella Toosie-Watson Hosted by Jared Beloff November 17, 2025 7:00pm - 8:00pm EST
October 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Announcement time! October 14th, 7:00 Eastern: Hear poems from @clbpoetry.bsky.social, @mitchnobis.bsky.social, and @djvorreyer.bsky.social! Hosted by the amazing @readinstead.bsky.social!

Hit the eventbrite link to register. NAWP!

www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...
Promo graphic with author photos of Donna Vorreyer, Chris Butler, and Mitchell Nobis. And the NAWP ostrich, of course. The text says: A NAWP Reading Chris L. Butler Mitch Nobis Donna Vorreyer Hosted by Jared Beloff October 14, 2025 7:00-8:00PM EST
September 19, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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October @ NAWP!
@clbpoetry.bsky.social!
@mitchnobis.bsky.social!
@djvorreyer.bsky.social!
September 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Sorry, just got very lost in thought imagining Brett Goldstein saying "NAWP" in-character as Roy Kent.
The character Roy Kent from Ted Lasso. He is notable for being very gruff and saying fuck a lot.
September 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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POW! It's NAWP time!
A promo graphic with author photos, and it says: A NAWP Reading Majda Gama Julia Kolchinsky Alina Stefanescu Hosted by Jared Beloff September 9, 2025 7:00-8:00 PM EST
September 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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NAWP's co-founders are both K-12 teachers. What are your favorite poems about teaching and learning?
Ms. Krabappel from the Simpsons
August 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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NAWP 2026 plans are firming up, which is to say NAWP is currently staring at a maple tree.
August 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Girl, same.
A skeleton popping out of a white pumpkin, and the skeleton has its head in its hand, looking impatient and unhappy. At TJ Maxx, of course.
August 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Saw someone mention leaving for a two-week residency and had to do advanced theoretical math to try and figure out what "leave for two weeks" means.
Scene from Good Will Hunting where Matt Damon's janitor character does that crazy high-level math on the professor's chalkboard.
July 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Ostrich
June 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Good news/bad news: We tried rescheduling the event with @alinaetc.bsky.social, @majda.bsky.social, and Julia Kolchinsky for June. That proved impossible, which is of course The NAWP Way. So, we'll be back with this event in SEPTEMBER, after we're all summer-rested and 2025-tested. See you then!
I found some good pinteresty looking clipart that says SEPTEMBER and cropped it to look like the NAWP ostrich is saying SEPTEMBER! instead of its usual NAWP!
May 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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I took the Jesus crossing over Satan and breaking his ankles painting that Barlow posted and added ostriches because they're the NAWP mascot. One is saying "NAWP him up, dawg!" and another says "Oh snap, got his ass." Man, I have work to do, what am I doing here.
May 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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YES! And this Naomi Shihab Nye that feels hand in hand (no pun intended but hey it's NAWP so maybe?) with Limón's to me.
Making a Fist By Naomi Shihab Nye We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men. —Jorge Luis Borges For the first time, on the road north of Tampico, I felt the life sliding out of me, a drum in the desert, harder and harder to hear. I was seven, I lay in the car watching palm trees swirl a sickening pattern past the glass. My stomach was a melon split wide inside my skin. “How do you know if you are going to die?” I begged my mother. We had been traveling for days. With strange confidence she answered, “When you can no longer make a fist.” Years later I smile to think of that journey, the borders we must cross separately, stamped with our unanswerable woes. I who did not die, who am still living, still lying in the backseat behind all my questions, clenching and opening one small hand. Copyright Credit: Naomi Shihab Nye, “Making a Fist” from Grape Leaves: A Century of Arab American Poetry. Copyright © 1988 by University of Utah Press. Reprinted by permission of Naomi Shihab Nye.
May 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Life is weird—share good art.

What's a favorite recent publication or yours or someone else's?
Some old photo I found on an internet search of an ostrich reading the newspaper over a man's shoulder.
April 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Both NAWP co-founders got slush formed. Or form slushed. Whatever, they were form-rejected from the open reading slush pile
Screenshot showing posts from both Mitch and Jared saying they got the form rejection from Copper Canyon Press.
April 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Unc...Uncle Earl? Is—oh god—is that you?
A screenshot from Rebecca Makkai's Zillow horror show substack post with a photo and the caption says "This is actually a lovely room! Airy, bookish, and right by the window is a great place to put your—oh holy shit yes that is a taxidermied ostrich"
April 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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I hear April is poetry month, so register to hear two of the best read their poems!

@janezwart.bsky.social! @laurencraw.bsky.social! April 22nd! NAWP!

www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...
Promotional graphic for a NAWP reading on Tuesday, April 22, at 7:30 PM, featuring Jane Zwart and Lauren Crawford.
April 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Welp, we fixed that nonsense with a quickness.
Screenshot showing we deactivated the Twitter account. Nazis aren't welcome in NAWP.
March 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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A picture of a meadow full of yellow flowers. Off to the side, our dumb mascot the NAWP ostrich is shouting NAWP! A text box is overlayed in front of the meadow, and it says, "NAWP 2025: NOWHERE AND EVERYWHERE AT ONCE. But, like, really? We're online."
March 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Save the Dates!!!
NAWPstritch giving his whereabouts during NAWP 2025. A panel on March 26th TBD, an open mic on March 27th at 7:30 EST and an ongoing event: parenting as a poet: how to write through a shitstorm.
February 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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We here at NAWP HQ sure hate Nazis but love everyone who's trying hard to be a good & decent person. So, let's spread some love.

Who are your favorite writers that everyone should be reading? If you have a linkable piece handy, include it!

Shout 'em out & let 'em know!

NAWP!
A print called "Ostrich in Love" that you can get at https://morgandoyles.com/product/ostrich-in-love/.
January 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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NAWP! We have a full schedule for the winter and spring this year. We hope you will join us. There are some amazing readings...
Schedule of events for the Winter and Spring: Jan. 21 Reading, Feb 10 Reading, March 27 Open Mic and TBD readings for April and May.
January 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Happy NAWP year, everyone! We, uh, we gotta work on optimizing our online search results for "NAWP," folks.
Screenshot of me googling "nawp" and the results are National Association of Wedding Professionals, National Association of Workplace Programs, and Nebraska Women Police.
January 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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A very Merry Rejection to all who have celebrated with us this year. Our final rejection is by @willmusgrove.bsky.social who came up with the idea for a rejection advent calendar. Happy Holidays everyone.
A xmas pun filled rejection.
December 25, 2024 at 2:26 PM