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Natalie Eilbert

1 year

Introducing the cover to OVERLAND, my third book of poems and my first to be published from @CopperCanyonPrs . I will have more to say about this soon, but for now, here's a link to the preorder page (support local bookstores!):

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2 years

@michaelscat2 very normal!

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2 years

Lol I just got a poem accepted by The Paris Review

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2 years

Why did nobody just stop me from submitting to The Paris Review

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I am extremely excited, and I mean, extremely excited, to announce that my third collection, Overland, is forthcoming in 2023 from @CopperCanyonPrs .

Copper Canyon Press

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2 years

A warm Copper Canyon Press welcome to poet NATALIE EILBERT! ( @natalie_eilbert ): We look forward to publishing Eilbert's new poetry collection in Fall 2023!

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2 years

The craft in @BambrickTaneum ’s new book is superb. I’m stunned. This one I can’t stop thinking about.

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1 year

This is…the best facial sunscreen I’ve ever used.

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3 years

Ruth Stone.

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2 years

Listen, we all need something heartwarming right now. Here's a little story. In the fall, I reported on city planners wanting to rebrand, a rebranding that included the city's flag. In talking to the planning department, I learned about the predecessor to the current flag. A 🧵:

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1 year

Today is the day! My third poetry collection, Overland, is out with @CopperCanyonPrs . I’ve been working on this book since 2015 and there are so many people and landscapes to thank for it.

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1 year

This is the Louise Glück poem that changed my life.

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3 years

There’s so much to worry about but both my cats slept on their backs for like 10 hours in my car like this

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2 years

If you went to AWP, please do right by your community by being extra vigilant about masking and quarantining. In 5-7 days, take a PCR test. Do it again a week later. Please stay safe. ❤️

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7 years

I have to say, people who make fun of folks getting their Pushcart nominations are bitter jerks. Stay in your cool kids club and leave people the hell alone who want to celebrate these small victories while the world explodes.

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1 year

If your ex is contacting you out of blue and is acting extra sentimental, it’s 1000&% a result of The National’s new album, which heavily features Phoebe Bridgers along with Sufjan Stevens and Taylor Swift. Hope this helps.

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7 years

Internal monologue as professor: oh god I hope my students take me seriously I am only 30 My students: holy shit she's 30 she's almost dead

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3 years

Thanks @sm_kaylor for reminding me of the perfect response to an interview question

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7 years

Your book list roundup is trash if you include no poetry collections. Stop treating poets like they don't deserve the same accolades when they don't fit into capitalist marketing categories. Stop throwing pennies at us to dance for you.

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2 years

Because I was someone who did share Ilya’s important poem, I’ll say one major reason why. It moves people who live outside poetry bubbles. The title alone, “We Lived Happily During the War” is enough to cause someone intimidated by poetry to tremble.

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7 years

MY BOOK IS OUT

Noemi Press

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7 years

Happy publication day to @natalie_eilbert , author of INDICTUS! We are thrilled to finally present this stunning collection to the world!

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7 years

Thanks to @iSmashFizzle 's tweet about Carmen Sandiego, I took my friends down a Wikipedia hole because I believe CS is a rebel queen and no more a bad guy than the rest of us, and we discovered that Gina Rodriguez will be playing CS in 2019 so god is real.

Netflix Reboots ‘Carmen Sandiego’ With Gina Rodriguez

The animated series is coming in 2019.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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3 years

Mewcie of my whole heart. 07/30/20-09/23/21

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2 years

In reading about the green comet visible this weekend for the first time since the Stone Age, I learned that the core of a comet is called a coma and I have a duty to tell my fellow poets.

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3 years

First day back at the office is going well

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3 years

Maybe it isn't cool to get excited about these initial acceptances anymore, but I got a poetry acceptance from The Nation and I'm very excited and not being cool about that.

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3 years

I wrote my first poem since July and it feels like I finally breathed for the first time since summer

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3 months

Aria Aber and Natalie Diaz write some of the most complex, lyrically astounding poems of our time. They look history in the mouth and pull. They show up in community, change minds, ask people to look up and outward. And yes, they also write love poems.

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7 years

You're only as good a writer as you are a reader of poetry. Support poets: Read them: Read them over and over and over: Support poets.

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7 years

I was 16 when I read this Sharon Olds poem in a Wendy's. This was the poem that woke me. I've never stopped thinking of that final couplet.

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1 month

I need to find another book like "A Heart so White" by Javier Marías, a book with ontological wandering embedded in the storytelling. Beautiful, unpredictably devastating prose. What comes to mind?

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1 year

Happy “I’m Tired of Being Brave” to all who celebrate

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7 years

Ahem, a thread: When I was in grad school, I was a bitter and sick 22-year-old. I interned at a lit mag that boasted conservative literary values and a staunch fidelity to the canon. I didn't know squat about the journal but I thought it would give me experience! and connections!

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2 years

When I was a wee 22 year old archivist intern at The New Yorker, @erinoverbey was a thoughtful and extremely intelligent co-supervisor. This is frustrating to see happen.

Erin Overbey

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2 years

So the @New Yorker has fired me, effective immediately. I’m speaking with the union about potentially filing a grievance on the termination. But here are some things that I will say….

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3 years

Grief is interesting because it makes you want to claw through time to keep the dead alive

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3 years

Leaving academia was the best thing I ever did for my little poems

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8 months

I have so little interest in my own poems. I read recently and felt nothing of the ecstatic, no sense of truth-telling or awe. I'm grieving something deeply in myself, my faith in poetry. How do I get it back?

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10 months

How is anybody capable of doing anything right now?

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3 years

Proud that my name is on the Gableman byline. The Eilberts were one of millions of Jewish families that, almost a century ago, were systematically removed from existence. It's the tragic reason my last name is so unique. And why I'm proud to hold government accountable today.

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7 years

Oh for fucks sake, let Rupi Kaur do her thing.

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6 months

Since I deleted Instagram, I've stopped taking selfies. I've stopped thinking about myself as a capital firm on which I should add and remove features. It's been very useful. I'm beginning to unlearn hating myself.

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3 months

💫✨Some news: I'm happy to announce I'll be joining the @journalsentinel to continue my statewide mental health coverage. I've loved my time with the @gbpressgazette and the city of Green Bay, and am so grateful for this stellar team.

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2 months

A little personal news I've been keeping in my back pocket: I accepted a national fellowship from USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism last month that will fund an investigative mental health project this year. It also means I get to hang in LA next week!

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7 years

Rejections are my least favorite part about being an editor. I love you I love your effort keep going.

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3 years

Fellow environmental poets! Who are you? What are you writing about?

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10 months

I don't have the bandwidth to process Louise Glück's death, but I spent the afternoon meditating on all the ways she has radically altered contemporary poetic consciousness. I wrote my first poems about sexual assault my sophomore year after reading The House on Marshland.

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2 years

I can’t stop thinking about this first poem in the brilliant @ParadiseLAust ’s book Tenderness.

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2 years

I think often about this poem, from Matthew Henriksen’s The Absence of Knowing

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4 months

My poem, "The Robbery" is now out from @believermag . Thank you so much to @sallywenmao for selecting it for publication.

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2 years

When I first learned about the restrictions Wisconsin's unaccompanied, homeless youth face in getting the care they need back in May, I couldn't believe it. Since June, I've been working on this story. This is what I learned.

Minors in Wisconsin need approval for physical, mental care. What if their parents refuse?

Wisconsin is one of only 15 states that currently has no laws about giving health care access to unaccompanied minors.

www.greenbaypressgazette.com

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2 years

Strolled into my favorite Chicago bookstore and omg!?

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2 years

The plural of mimosa is mimesis

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2 years

Why did nobody just stop me from submitting to The Paris Review

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There is a time and a place to be angry at the popularity of a Ukrainian poet’s poem. Today, I promise you, is not that day.

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3 years

Somehow I received the best poetry news of my life today while knee-deep in reporting

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3 years

Please understand how perfect animals are with grief

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3 years

Here’s my fat cat to cleanse the tl

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3 years

My sad little kitten needs surgery and needs it now. ☹️ Send her all the good tortie vibes.

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7 months

My poem "Plough" is Poem of the Week at @poetrynw . That and another poem are forthcoming in its print issue. It's a, surprise, sad one.

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2 years

In which I open a box of my books surrounded by my society of a man and two cats. I'm so, so excited to share this book with you all so soon! Watch this space for a formal cover real and preorder page!

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7 years

I am crying a lot right now. Fifty copies of my book are now with me in my home. They are beautiful. I love @Noemi_Press . I love everyone who preordered my book. I love every person who sits in front of their art petrified and in pain. I love this book that is all my pain.

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2 years

Become ungovernable

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1 year

Very excited to announce that I drove four hours into a severe tornado warning. Taking shelter at the bookstore, where I’m told there’s wine. 🫠

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3 years

I’ve lost some of the most important people in the last five years and I don’t know, this grief is so different and acute. I don’t think we talk enough about how losing a pet is one of the keenest pains in the world. But it is. Her 3.8 pounds made my universe joyful and good.

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2 years

@Vanessid @kazumiochin It’s amazing that when these extremely important and critical points are made, people freak out and say “BUT I LIKE IT LEAVE ME ALONE!” These are the consequences. Ugh thank you for saying all this.

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3 years

Lol meet my new kitten Beavis

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3 years

You guys

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3 years

I am here to tell you there is peace in not caring about Taylor Swift

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2 years

Hey. It’s my birthday.

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3 years

Does opening my laptop only to immediately close it and sigh count as writing

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3 years

Captain’s log

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7 years

YOUR 2018 BOOK LIST LOOKS DUMB WITHOUT POETRY COLLECTIONS INCLUDED.

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2 years

I love seeing friends I never see at AWP. As I sit here contemplating that risk, so many disabled writers are once again being left out of spaces. With all we still don’t know about COVID, and the extremely high risks involved in attending, I won’t be going this year.

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2 years

Roll call: If you are a poet and journalist, respond below. I may be cooking up something for AWP Seattle.

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3 years

I'm happy to say that my poem, "Intercourse," was chosen as one of the top five poems from @NarrativeMag 's 2020-21. It's a huge, huge honor.

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7 years

Here's my stupid face holding an ARC of the book that literally almost killed me to experience and write. Very grateful to @Noemi_Press fam.

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3 years

I think I will celebrate my very happy poetry news (that I can't announce yet) by getting a new kitten for me and Piggie.

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7 years

When you're experiencing writer's block, lift up other writers

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3 months

So proud to say I won an Iris Award for media coverage from @NAMIWisconsin . The award ceremony offered, like everything NAMI does, a testament to the power of storytelling. I met some incredible folks here, all with the same mission: People with mental illness deserve better.

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2 years

A few years ago, when Ilya judged a contest, for no other reason other than being generous and extremely thoughtful, he wrote like 25 blurbs of praise for all the finalists and semifinalists. His work, his love for uplifting people new and old to poetry, gives.

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2 years

My centerpiece is complete

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2 years

@blktinabelcher I love my 30s way more than my 20s. My skin glows, I know how to take care of and prioritize my needs, and suffer no fools. It’s so much better.

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2 years

I just learned that Overland, a book about the climate crisis, eco-anxiety, and consumption, has a pub date! May 16, 2023. 🥳

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7 years

Without further adieu, here is the new cover of Indictus. I am floored by its agonizing beauty.

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2 years

Working a quote in, buried in cats

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8 years

Because I'm leaving, this poem has me hysterical. I keep reading it and finding myself in different heaps of myself

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5 months

so pure, so full of rage for the birbs

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3 years

I've read some good tips and essays on pet grief, but if you have any essays, poems, articles, songs, videos, or anything at all, I could use them. This is the worst grief I've ever felt. I'd love to read how others cope.

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3 years

Ahem.

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3 years

Separating my oranges is but one of many steps to supreme laundry Sundays

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1 year

My NEA grant put the biggest dent in paying off student loans, assisted in my basic needs for nearly two years and gave me the luxury of not needing to work multiple jobs to make ends meet. Prizes like these are life-changing.

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really cannot take an op-ed where someone is saying winning a guggenheim didn't change their lives as i log on to my seven hours of zooms per day for my full-time job

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3 years

The world is awful but—

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10 months

the poet / the poem

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7 months

A selfie for the algorithm to say: I am available for readings, lectures, workshops and shenanigans this winter/spring and fall. Overland has only been out six months, and I am still eager to read from it and pages from my new manuscript.

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8 years

When the hero in action movies steals someone's car to catch the bad guy, I want to watch the film where that person's day is in shambles

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3 years

My cat climbed up to the highest mountain and can’t figure out how to get down

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7 years

PSA: If you work every moment and ignore your bodily needs, your body will make you remember you are nothing but bodily needs.

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I love that poets are too smart to fall for flat, pleadingly elitist criticism. The power of poetry is in its bewilderment and awe, and a critic bent on the foreclosure of its imagination is worthless to poetry. I love this poem by @KavehAkbar .