I’m so looking forward to reading at the wonderful Word Barn w/Abbie Kiefer & Diana Whitney on Sunday, April 26 at 4pm! Thanks to Sarah & Ben for hosting us. Free, but registration requested - link in bio. 🎉📚🎤 @abbiekiefer.bsky.social @juneroadpress.bsky.social @cavankerrypress.bsky.social
"...my mother’s
mother’s china cups exactingly formed
from clay
and bone dust—"
Check out @abbiekiefer.bsky.social's poem "Prayer with Dust" in the current issue of Bracken: www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiv/pr...
Love that cover!
Becky! Thanks for sharing! ❤️
“Even amidst death, these poems find joy...”
The Inheritance of Grief and Work: @medenkuyatt.bsky.social reviews @abbiekiefer.bsky.social’s Certain Shelter (@juneroadpress.bsky.social).
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The book cover of Certain Shelter by Abbie Kiefer. 1950 style cars and building are painted with a cloth woven texture.
ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY is for poetry talk 💕 Contributor @abbiekiefer.bsky.social was interviewed in the Gulf Coast Literary Journal about her poetry collection CERTAIN SHELTER. We know you'll love it: buff.ly/tQw9Ygq
The surge of ICE activity across Maine over the last few weeks is deeply alarming. We know many of you are feeling the same mix of anxiety and anger that we are, while our staff is doing their parts as individuals, we also wanted to take a stand as a business.
So appreciative of readers like @megmcdermott92.bsky.social. I love seeing these kinds of connections and being part of a conversation.
I love this connection. Thank you for making it!
Grateful to @theatlantic.com and the editorial team of Kat Hu and Walt Hunter for publishing this abecedarian about my night guard, among other things. I feel like my dentist would be proud.
Correction to a previous post! @abbiekiefer.bsky.social was published in @baltimorereview.bsky.social. ✨ Which means you have another chance to check out her piece. 😉 buff.ly/a3Vx7jw
Glad to have a chance to review THE LOST NOSTALGIAS by Esteban Rodríguez for @coloradoreview.bsky.social
coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/the-...
I have a tiny Norm Abrams tribute in the new issue of the Baltimore Review. You can read it and go watch some New Yankee Workshop reruns. baltimorereview.org/fall_2025/co...
#sealeychallenge Day 22
Abbie Kiefer, Certain Shelter
This book evokes memories of a vanished Maine, a lost mother, and the way the past still lives in us as we revitalize our homes and ourselves.
Abbie Kiefer’s CERTAIN SHELTER is one of three New Hampshire Literary Award finalists in poetry! 🤩 Winners will be announced at a ceremony on October 18. Check out the full list here: nhwritersproject.org/finalists-an...
Really grateful to the team at @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social
Join us for a cozy Sunday-night virtual craft chat on 9/28 to celebrate the launch of Level Watch in two weeks, featuring Abbie Kiefer! Register at bit.ly/level-watch-launch ✨
New Issue: the Schooner, Winter 2024
Volume 98 Number 4 Contributors Marilyn Hacker Catherine DeNardo Deema K. Shehabi Emily Black Chase Twichell Danielle Weeks Orlando Ricardo Menes Tom Laichas Felicia Zamora Alonso Llerena Cyril Dabydeen Matthew Lippman Nadeem Zaman Christine Marshall Mary Morris Wes Matthews Marcia Lynx Qualey Genevieve Payne Sabina Urraca Rachel Ephraim J.P. White Esi W. Nkeyekyer Matthew Gellman Abbie Kiefer Karan Kapoor Joanne Clarkson Keisha-Gaye Anderson Avia Tadmor Brian Francis Chris Watkins Andrea L. Hackbarth Adam J. Gellings Jay Kophy Mariah Rigg Nicholas Samaras Brittany Perham Enzo Silon Surin Gracie Newman Robert Thomas
Our newest issue is now available for purchase! Featuring work by @feliciazamorapoet.bsky.social, @nadeemzaman.bsky.social, @mlynxqualey.bsky.social, @kgapoetwriter.bsky.social, @abbiekiefer.bsky.social, @riggstah.bsky.social, and more.
Order the issue here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/winter...
Civil Twilight, poems by Cynthia Huntington.
"There is a measure of comfort in the nearness of others and there are ways in which a person can never be near enough."
Contributor @abbiekiefer.bsky.social reviewed CIVIL TWILIGHT by Cynthia Huntington for @themassreview.bsky.social! Give it read right here: buff.ly/6Go8W1a
I loved this challenging, layered book. You might too. Thanks to @themassreview.bsky.social for publishing my review of CIVIL TWILIGHT by Cynthia Huntington from Southern Illinois University Press. massreview.org/2025/08/26/a...
Our catalog features titles by Kelly R. Samuels, Cyril Wong, Abbie Kiefer, Lauren Davis, Miranda Dennis, Katherine Fallon, & Roseanna Alice Boswell.
All proceeds go to authors!
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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. ♥️
This poem I love, "What Did You Do Last Week," first appeared in Second Coming, a project from @beachcombermike.bsky.social and Indolent Books: michaelbroder.substack.com/p/second-com...
What Did You Do Last Week? 1. I lay in bed and thought of the AA mantra one day at a time and the Dolly Parton lyric I’ve had to think up a way to survive and the Becket line I can’t go on. I’ll go on. 2. I scattered a few bucks like birdseed to causes I care about. 3. I sat in meetings where there were calls to order and motions on motions, oceans of motions. Someone in the shadows was always taking minutes. Taking minutes. 4. I went for a walk in a wetland preserve nestled between an asphalt company and the county courthouse. A northern flicker pecked for ground beetles. On its head: a red brushstroke like an artist’s afterthought. Or a warning. I wondered if birds have blood. I wondered if the people in power have feelings. I wondered if we’ll go on. I told myself we can’t not go on. 5. I wrote this poem.
Cover of HUMAN RESOURCES by Erin Murphy. A black background with a doll in a yellow dress that appears to be falling. Small doll hands reach from the top of the image toward the falling doll.
Brian Turner calls HUMAN RESOURCES by @erinmurphy.bsky.social a "love song to the profound work of survival." It's a fantastic description of this incisive, clever collection that made me pay real attention to the ways we value labor and the humans who provide it. graysonbooks.com/products/hum...
Thanks to @sundresspub.bsky.social and guest editor Alexis Ivy for featuring poems from CERTAIN SHELTER as part of The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed this week. @juneroadpress.bsky.social sundressblog.com/2025/07/28/t...
Making your list for the Sealey Challenge? Order CERTAIN SHELTER for 15% off with the promo code AUGUST: www.abbiekieferpoet.com/books
Love this set of tender, true poems by @janezwart.bsky.social in the new issue of Bracken. www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiii/t...
Grateful to @eadwinedwards.bsky.social for this insightful, generous review of CERTAIN SHELTER in the latest issue of Pedestal. thepedestalmagazine.com/abbie-kiefer...
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social: "I don't want to take anything away from the size of the bummer that this is all temporary. But also the fact that it's temporary means that it really matters. We really have an obligation to each other, and that obligation isn't forever." www.npr.org/2025/03/27/1...
Trying to be chill about this but the audiobook narrator of a novel set in Maine keeps calling Bangor "Banger."