Rebecca Hart Olander
@rholanderpoet.bsky.social
Poet: Singing from the Deep End (2026) & Uncertain Acrobats (2021) @cavankerrypress.bsky.social * Editor/Director: @perugiapress.bsky.social * writing teacher * mother * adorer of the Atlantic 🌊 * she/her
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Gratitude to MER Literary & Melissa Joplin Higley for selecting SINGING FROM THE DEEP END for MER Bookshelf, which introduces readers to recent & new book releases of note. Check out the November showcase: merliterary.com/2025/11/13/m.... 📚🙏 @merliterary.bsky.social @cavankerrypress.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Gratitude to MER Literary & Melissa Joplin Higley for selecting SINGING FROM THE DEEP END for MER Bookshelf, which introduces readers to recent & new book releases of note. Check out the November showcase: merliterary.com/2025/11/13/m.... 📚🙏 @merliterary.bsky.social @cavankerrypress.bsky.social
Singing from the Deep End is surfacing SOON! This beauty is a proof that arrived in my mailbox to my astonishment & gratitude & this is a reminder that it’s on its best sale in preorder in the CKP bookshop through 11/2 (link in bio). Thanks for supporting this book! ♥️📖🪸 @cavankerrypress.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Singing from the Deep End is surfacing SOON! This beauty is a proof that arrived in my mailbox to my astonishment & gratitude & this is a reminder that it’s on its best sale in preorder in the CKP bookshop through 11/2 (link in bio). Thanks for supporting this book! ♥️📖🪸 @cavankerrypress.bsky.social
SINGING FROM THE DEEP END is coming from @cavankerrypress.bsky.social on 2/3/26 & it’s available NOW for preorder. This book tries its best to sing with love & through grief & I share this in honor of Baron Wormser & Jenn Martelli, with gratitude for their presence in these pages & in my life. 💔🌊❤️
October 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
SINGING FROM THE DEEP END is coming from @cavankerrypress.bsky.social on 2/3/26 & it’s available NOW for preorder. This book tries its best to sing with love & through grief & I share this in honor of Baron Wormser & Jenn Martelli, with gratitude for their presence in these pages & in my life. 💔🌊❤️
October beach reading: Abby E. Murray’s RECOVERY COMMANDS (Ex Ophidia Press, 2025). Here are two poems and an excerpt. And Abby writes in their final poem “If Humans Are Hopeless”: “How do we explain music? Or muppets? / And what about ofrendas in October…” 🎶🧡🌊 www.exophidiapress.org/books/recove...
October 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
October beach reading: Abby E. Murray’s RECOVERY COMMANDS (Ex Ophidia Press, 2025). Here are two poems and an excerpt. And Abby writes in their final poem “If Humans Are Hopeless”: “How do we explain music? Or muppets? / And what about ofrendas in October…” 🎶🧡🌊 www.exophidiapress.org/books/recove...
So happy to share the cover of SINGING FROM THE DEEP END, coming from CavanKerry Press 2/3/26! Singing praises & gratitude to the @cavankerrypress.bsky.social team for making this book with me in such a beautiful way. 20% off till 11/2 (link in bio). Deep ♥️ & thanks to all who support/ed this book.
October 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
So happy to share the cover of SINGING FROM THE DEEP END, coming from CavanKerry Press 2/3/26! Singing praises & gratitude to the @cavankerrypress.bsky.social team for making this book with me in such a beautiful way. 20% off till 11/2 (link in bio). Deep ♥️ & thanks to all who support/ed this book.
I’m so honored to have a poem in the necessary pages of The Nature of Our Times, amidst so many poets I love and admire, at such a crucial time. Gratitude to editors Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto & David Hassler for including my “Telling the Bees.” (see Linktree to support anthology). 🌳📗🌍🐝 💚
September 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I’m so honored to have a poem in the necessary pages of The Nature of Our Times, amidst so many poets I love and admire, at such a crucial time. Gratitude to editors Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto & David Hassler for including my “Telling the Bees.” (see Linktree to support anthology). 🌳📗🌍🐝 💚
Summer reading: CERTAIN SHELTER by @abbiekiefer.bsky.social (@juneroadpress.bsky.social, 2024). Here are poems for a mother, “All These Things I Can’t Remember” & a father, “I Don’t Like Baseball, Just the Red Sox.” I recommend the @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social about this incredible debut. ♥️
August 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Summer reading: CERTAIN SHELTER by @abbiekiefer.bsky.social (@juneroadpress.bsky.social, 2024). Here are poems for a mother, “All These Things I Can’t Remember” & a father, “I Don’t Like Baseball, Just the Red Sox.” I recommend the @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social about this incredible debut. ♥️
From the Poetry Porch in Shelburne Falls! Thanks to the hosts, to the readers & to all who came to listen. Back: Hosts Martín Espada & Lauren Marie Schmidt, Doug Anderson, me & Candace Curran. Front: Adrie Rose & Liz Falco. 🌞🎤🌳 @myownwilderness.bsky.social @martinespadapoet.bsky.social
July 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
From the Poetry Porch in Shelburne Falls! Thanks to the hosts, to the readers & to all who came to listen. Back: Hosts Martín Espada & Lauren Marie Schmidt, Doug Anderson, me & Candace Curran. Front: Adrie Rose & Liz Falco. 🌞🎤🌳 @myownwilderness.bsky.social @martinespadapoet.bsky.social
Sun. July 13, I’ll be part of Shelburne Falls Porch Fest @ the “Poetry Porch,” @ 105 Main St., feat. Martín Espada & Lauren Marie Schmidt @ 1, Doug Anderson, Abbot Cutler, & Candace Curran @ 2 & yours truly w/Adrie Rose & Liz Falco @ 3. 💚🌞🌿 @myownwilderness.bsky.social @martinespadapoet.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Sun. July 13, I’ll be part of Shelburne Falls Porch Fest @ the “Poetry Porch,” @ 105 Main St., feat. Martín Espada & Lauren Marie Schmidt @ 1, Doug Anderson, Abbot Cutler, & Candace Curran @ 2 & yours truly w/Adrie Rose & Liz Falco @ 3. 💚🌞🌿 @myownwilderness.bsky.social @martinespadapoet.bsky.social
So dreamy to read with friends last night in the opening event for “Writers Reading.” Thanks to featured reader Nathan McClain & to Matt Donovan & Jen Jabaily-Blackburn for your brilliant poems & to the organizers & audience at UMass Downtown. @nathanhmcclain.bsky.social @jenjblackburn.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
So dreamy to read with friends last night in the opening event for “Writers Reading.” Thanks to featured reader Nathan McClain & to Matt Donovan & Jen Jabaily-Blackburn for your brilliant poems & to the organizers & audience at UMass Downtown. @nathanhmcclain.bsky.social @jenjblackburn.bsky.social
Summer reading: FILTHY LABORS by Lauren Marie Schmidt (Curbstone Books, 2017). Here are “The Truth about Dionne” & “Memorial Park.” Looking forward to participating in Porch Fest on July 13 w/Lauren & other poets on the poetry porch Lauren is hosting, 1:00-4:00. ♥️ www.shelburnefallsporchfestival.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Summer reading: FILTHY LABORS by Lauren Marie Schmidt (Curbstone Books, 2017). Here are “The Truth about Dionne” & “Memorial Park.” Looking forward to participating in Porch Fest on July 13 w/Lauren & other poets on the poetry porch Lauren is hosting, 1:00-4:00. ♥️ www.shelburnefallsporchfestival.com
She’s here, and she is stunning! Congratulations, Cindy Veach, on the arrival of MONSTER GALAXY. So happy that a third book of yours is in the world. This is a beautiful collection, folks. Check it out at moonpathpress.com. 🌟🎉✨
May 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
She’s here, and she is stunning! Congratulations, Cindy Veach, on the arrival of MONSTER GALAXY. So happy that a third book of yours is in the world. This is a beautiful collection, folks. Check it out at moonpathpress.com. 🌟🎉✨
I’m so happy to be able to share that my second full-length poetry collection, Singing from the Deep End, has been accepted by CavanKerry Press & will be released in February, 2026! Thanks to all who helped to bring this book to this stage & abundant gratitude to @cavankerrypress.bsky.social ♥️📚🎉
April 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I’m so happy to be able to share that my second full-length poetry collection, Singing from the Deep End, has been accepted by CavanKerry Press & will be released in February, 2026! Thanks to all who helped to bring this book to this stage & abundant gratitude to @cavankerrypress.bsky.social ♥️📚🎉
So excited about these newly released books I’ve gotten in the mail this week - Nicole Callihan’s griefbeing (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2025) & Courtney LeBlanc’s Her Dark Everything (Riot in Your Throat, 2025). 🌱📚🌿 @nicolecallihan.bsky.social @wordperv.bsky.social @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social
April 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
So excited about these newly released books I’ve gotten in the mail this week - Nicole Callihan’s griefbeing (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2025) & Courtney LeBlanc’s Her Dark Everything (Riot in Your Throat, 2025). 🌱📚🌿 @nicolecallihan.bsky.social @wordperv.bsky.social @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social
Gratitude to Nicholas Yingling for this gift of reading, seeing & sharing Uncertain Acrobats (CavanKerry Press, 2021). Appreciate this so much! 🌹📖💞 @nyingling.bsky.social @cavankerrypress.bsky.social
April 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Gratitude to Nicholas Yingling for this gift of reading, seeing & sharing Uncertain Acrobats (CavanKerry Press, 2021). Appreciate this so much! 🌹📖💞 @nyingling.bsky.social @cavankerrypress.bsky.social
I was honored to welcome Lena Khalaf Tuffaha to join my poetry workshop at Amherst College for a reading & convo about her brilliant book Something about Living. Thank you, Lena! ♥️ @lenakt.bsky.social @blueflowerarts.bsky.social
(get yours
@uakronpress.bsky.social or @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social)
(get yours
@uakronpress.bsky.social or @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social)
April 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I was honored to welcome Lena Khalaf Tuffaha to join my poetry workshop at Amherst College for a reading & convo about her brilliant book Something about Living. Thank you, Lena! ♥️ @lenakt.bsky.social @blueflowerarts.bsky.social
(get yours
@uakronpress.bsky.social or @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social)
(get yours
@uakronpress.bsky.social or @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social)
Thank you, Jill, for supporting my book Uncertain Acrobats and Megan Peak’s Perugia book Girldom in such good company! ♥️📚💞 @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social @cavankerrypress.bsky.social @jillpoppyflower.bsky.social @meganpeak.bsky.social @perugiapress.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Thank you, Jill, for supporting my book Uncertain Acrobats and Megan Peak’s Perugia book Girldom in such good company! ♥️📚💞 @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social @cavankerrypress.bsky.social @jillpoppyflower.bsky.social @meganpeak.bsky.social @perugiapress.bsky.social
Thank you, January - so happy to be press sisters with you & celebrate GLITTER ROAD and all your books! Cheers on winning the Poetry by the Sea Prize!!! 🌟📖🎉 @catiporter.bsky.social @cavankerrypress.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Thank you, January - so happy to be press sisters with you & celebrate GLITTER ROAD and all your books! Cheers on winning the Poetry by the Sea Prize!!! 🌟📖🎉 @catiporter.bsky.social @cavankerrypress.bsky.social
Thank you, Courtney, & happy birthday to HER DARK EVERYTHING! 🌟📖🎉 @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social @wordperv.bsky.social @cavankerrypress.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Thank you, Courtney, & happy birthday to HER DARK EVERYTHING! 🌟📖🎉 @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social @wordperv.bsky.social @cavankerrypress.bsky.social
Thank you, Cynthia, & brava on EXPLODING HEAD! 🌟📖♥️ @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social @cavankerrypress.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Thank you, Cynthia, & brava on EXPLODING HEAD! 🌟📖♥️ @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social @cavankerrypress.bsky.social
Last night! ♥️♥️♥️♥️ @chotchandani.bsky.social @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social @perugiapress.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Last night! ♥️♥️♥️♥️ @chotchandani.bsky.social @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social @perugiapress.bsky.social
Thank you, @cavankerrypress.bsky.social! #uncertainacrobats
March 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Thank you, @cavankerrypress.bsky.social! #uncertainacrobats
Happy to share that I’ll be at the CavanKerry Press table at AWP, T#300, on Thursday, 3/27 from 2:00-3:00 signing copies of Uncertain Acrobats. Would love to see you there! Thanks for continuing to celebrate my debut, @cavankerrypress.bsky.social! ♥️📖🖊️
March 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Happy to share that I’ll be at the CavanKerry Press table at AWP, T#300, on Thursday, 3/27 from 2:00-3:00 signing copies of Uncertain Acrobats. Would love to see you there! Thanks for continuing to celebrate my debut, @cavankerrypress.bsky.social! ♥️📖🖊️
Celebrating rainbows at the Smith College Botanic Garden Bulb Show. 🌷🌈🪻
March 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Celebrating rainbows at the Smith College Botanic Garden Bulb Show. 🌷🌈🪻