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olga mikolaivna
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poet situation / post-soviet / cities as fathers
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Just released: WPR 12! This issue features poetry translated from Chinese, Greek, Faroese, Persian, Spanish, French, Russian, and Italian!

Check it out!
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@olgamikolaivna.bsky.social @vpenelopepelizzon.bsky.social
@rossbelot.bsky.social
@georginamegan.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
olgamikolaivna.bsky.social
Looking for teaching work in New York next semester : creative writing, first year writing, lit, translation. Hit my line !
October 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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niina.bsky.social
The reading in Philly last night was so so fun. This city has unparalleled vibes. Thanks @alinapleskova.bsky.social and @olgamikolaivna.bsky.social !!!!
October 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
olgamikolaivna.bsky.social
Ohhh this is in two weeks 💛💛
September 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
olgamikolaivna.bsky.social
Exciting news !!!
alinapleskova.bsky.social alina pleskova @alinapleskova.bsky.social · Aug 27
philly is the center of the known universe & i missed hosting a reading series, so here we are 🥁

very excited to share the first event for the TRACK CHANGES series ft. special visitor @niina.bsky.social + local fave @olgamikolaivna.bsky.social on Oct. 7!

🎟️ tickets & info: bit.ly/45RFbxM
Flyer for Track Changes reading, listening, and conversation series on Oct 7 ft. Niina Pollari and Olga Mikolaivna at the Pen & Pencil Club in Philly
August 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
olgamikolaivna.bsky.social
going through my annual: I should start smoking again
July 31, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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blacksunlit.bsky.social
VESTIGES_07: CATACHRESIS. Featuring Will Alexander, Kimberly Alidio, Anselm Berrigan, Garrett Caples, E. Tracy Grinnell, Andrew Joron, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Christophe Tarkos (trans. Jonathan Larson & Wendy Xu), Edwin Torres, Christina Vega-Westhoff, John Yau, and more. Purchase here: bit.ly/44Ocfr5
July 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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samthielman.com
The problem is fundamentally that the boards of universities are composed of people who have no interest in anything but money
annakornbluh.bsky.social Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Jul 17
“It’s not that traditional liberal arts is out of step with student demand. Instead, it’s out of step with the priorities values desires of a powerful board of trustees with no apparent commitment to liberal education, an administrative class.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
Opinion | Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much.
www.nytimes.com
July 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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poetrydaily.bsky.social
Today's Feature:

In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: The sun is a disembodied thought: An Interview with
@mattbroaddus.bsky.social

Read here:
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The sun is a disembodied thought: An Interview with Matt Broaddus
For me, the role of the poet is being bound to the particular. It involves an intake of sadder details and emotional states, histories, what I’m reading at the moment, what I’m listening to, what I’m ...
poems.com
July 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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eldiagram.bsky.social
DIAGRAM 25.2
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July 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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poetrydaily.bsky.social
Today’s Featured Poem:

“[do not compose a poem]” by Stanislav Belsky, translated from the Russian by olga mikolaivna. From Vestiges_07: Catachresis.

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[do not compose a poem]
but this isn't all: a music-murderer daybreaks in Christ's pocket
poems.com
June 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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poetrydaily.bsky.social
Today's Featured Poem:

An excerpt from A Seam of Electricity by Ian U Lockaby (@ursalockaby.bsky.social), published by Ghost Proposal (@ghostproposal.bsky.social).

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A Seam of Electricity (excerpt)
Language is breaking apart in our hands.
poems.com
April 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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ghostproposal.bsky.social
We’re excited to return to the New Orleans Poetry Fest in a week! We’re hosting a reading to celebrate @ursalockaby.bsky.social ‘s luminous chapbook A Seam of Electricity with an equally glowing line up ⚡️🔋🔌🪡🧵
April 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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alinapleskova.bsky.social
i wrote an essay about Jim Cory, much-beloved & deeply missed, for the Poetry Foundation’s Remembrances series: www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/165...
To Delight and Surprise: Remembering Jim Cory
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
www.poetryfoundation.org
February 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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stutz-writes.bsky.social
I’m honored to open for @kylerseibel.bsky.social, Shelby hinte, @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social, and @adamvoith.bsky.social at Small Press Nite at Book Catapult in San Diego. Thank you to @kevinmkearney.bsky.social for organizing the event!
February 12, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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henkaipantomime.bsky.social
poetry alert! I'm finally doing a book event for OtWttPoFR here in Philadelphia on March 8. please come thru! event info on poster and its alt text.

so grateful to Jason Mitchell for including me at Frank O'Hara's Last Lover with this amazing lineup while I've been coping with medical issues
poster with dim monotone bluish background pic of Frank O'Hara. text in bright orange outlined with green reads: FOHLL JOSEF KAPLAN JENNIFER NELSON RON SILLIMAN Saturday March 8th Sam's Morning Glory 7:30p doors 8p reading 10th & Fitzwater Phila pic of the cornflower blue cover of On the Way to the Paintings of Forest Robberies held in front of my half-Asian face with choppy bangs Sonnet I will walk again in the primordial forest: on repeat, to keep it primordial, because in the beginning forest is chorus. How much more singing till I meet my good spouse Death? When, when I say Death, will I finally speak of my full self, a unison of bots? This is the rule of ghosts. They endure as much as they're remembered and carry loss like a song. This is the loam on the forest floor, the ongoing of the unremembered and those remembered wrong.
February 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
olgamikolaivna.bsky.social
some little pieces from some little pieces 💜💜
thetinymag.bsky.social the tiny @thetinymag.bsky.social · Jan 25
gleaning multiple lifetimes in ardent pleasantries; one exists due to the other, there is no return. only a circling over. a cycling.

start with an opening.

▾ @olgamikolaivna.bsky.social from consider if a poem existed (issue 12)

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olga mikolaivna — the tiny
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January 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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robbiemaakestad.bsky.social
This weekend I attended Small Press Nite at Book Catapult, organized by Kevin Kearney. Amazing readings by @olgamikolaivna.bsky.social, @lexikentmonning.bsky.social,
Tex Gresham, Jon Lindsey, and Allie Rowbottom.
November 7, 2023 at 7:10 PM