Claire Wahmanholm
@cwahmanholm
Author of Meltwater (Milkweed 2023), Redmouth (Tinderbox 2019), and Wilder (Milkweed 2018). McKnight writing fellow. Winner of the 2022 Montreal International Poetry Prize and The Crystal Shrek. She/her. Twin Cities. Linktr.ee/wahmanholm
Mark your calendars, Twin Cities poetry appreciators! @lunareyhall.com and I will be reading and chatting at @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social in MPLS in a couple weeks! 8/5, 6pm!
If you ppl want to hear some GOOD POETRY, come out to this event at @milkweededitions.bsky.social in MPLS in a couple weeks! @jbaileyhutch.bsky.social and @ecotopian.bsky.social are VERY GOOD POETS and we will all read GOOD POEMS and everyone will have a GOOD TIME
In early February I wrote a dispatch from the Cities, and it's in the latest issue of The Anarchist Review of Books, an excellent publication we should all be reading!!
OH MY GOD imagine stepping onto your porch and breathlessly tearing open* a package and finding this lil' uggo (complimentary)! He's heavy! More than a pound! I found him a MN buddy to hang out with. @ziibiing.com he's perfect 😍 *Gingerly unpacking over the course of five minutes, I'm not an ANIMAL
NEXT THURSDAY! Join us at @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social as we metabolize the ongoing emergency. Your $25 ticket goes to the ILCMN!
Poetry fundraiser for rent assistance happening 2/15 at 4pm central! Featuring yrs truly, @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social, @sarahgreenpoet.bsky.social, @katnuernberger.bsky.social and more! Donate to receive the zoom link. Artwork ("The Gift") by Pete Railand of @justseeds.bsky.social
Update from rebel base: there are 14 ppl in my Loft class that starts next week, which translates into $784! I sent half to the Immigrant Law Center of MN (www.ilcm.org) and half to Immigrant Rapid Response Fund (wfmn.org). We love each other, we out-number them, we are stronger.
Guys I went five minutes after opening and it was PACKED, signs are flying off the shelves, they also have free small signs, it's beautiful
Two more sonnets of my drought crown have appeared! This time in 32 Poems, a very favorite. The whole issue hits, as usual, and you should absolutely subscribe if you don't already, but they've got a couple picks of the latest issue online too, plz go read ❤️
I wrote a sonnet sequence during the MN drought of 2021, and three of the poems are in the latest issue of Like a Field 🌱🌿🪲💚 You can read the entire issue online here: www.likeafield.com/2025/summer
THIS THURSDAY, online, I'll be talking to my amazing friend @mollyolguin.bsky.social about her EXTREMELY GOOD debut story collection, The Sea Gives Up the Dead, out now with @redhenpress.bsky.social. We'll talk about horror, fairy tales, grim days, maybe even hope?? Zoom link on graphic!
SUNDAY, 5/18, 6PM CST: come help me celebrate the virtual launch of @farahghafoor.bsky.social's collection Shadow Price (@houseofanansi.bsky.social)! @sarahali.bsky.social and I will be reading a couple poems to kick things off 💛 Register here: tinyurl.com/ywx5dn6p
I've got two alphabet poems in the Arsenic and Old Lace DOUBLE ISSUE of Fairy Tale Review ❤️ Major gratitude to Asiya Wadud, whose poem "L" my "L" is directly responding to. I'm very into the idea of poems being letters/postcards that poets can send back and forth to each other! Why not?
Hey gang, if you want a vibe, @misternagel.bsky.social has got your ideal surreal-dirtbag-sad-hilarious-grim pandemic-era-but-really-all-era essay collection right here! Out from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social! please get a copy and read it immediately!
If you're UC-Riverside adjacent, come on out this coming Monday to hear me and Donika Kelly talk about ecopoetics and the apocalypse; they're also giving away copies of Meltwater to the first folks in the door! Come get yours!
If you're heading to AWP, come check out this reading on Friday evening at Night Gallery! We're going in alphabetical order so be ready to stick around lol
My contributor copies of @epochliterary.com have found me! Here's my poem, "Diorama" 🐊🐊
Virtual reading alert! 32 Poems and Lisa Fay Coutley (who edited this beautiful anthology last year) are hosting a grief reading tomorrow night ❤️ Sign up and tune in via the QR code, and if you want to buy a copy of the anthology, you can do it right here: blacklawrencepress.com/books/temper...
AND FURTHERMORE, if you're in the Cities and into the intersections of art and science, come out to Milkweed Books tomorrow, 2/27, and hear me talk with Creature Needs contributors Kim Blaeser, Sean Hill, and Charles Baxter! (Excerpts below) 🐢🌵❤️
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2. On 2/27 I'll be hosting the MN launch of Creature Needs (@uminnpress.bsky.social) with Sean Hill, Kim Blaeser, and Charles Baxter. We'll be chatting at Open Book in MPLS, courtesy of @milkweededitions.bsky.social ❤️
Upcoming events! 1. @letterspace.org will be launching his collection Vessels (@unsolicitedpress.bsky.social) at @nextchapterbooksmn.bsky.social on 2/25 and I'll be throwing him all kinds of fun questions! There will be party favors! A scavenger hunt?? Come see!