Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein

@fklein907

Alaskan poet, teacher, parent. Books: Text Messages from The Angel Gabriel (Gnashing Teeth 2024), Another Life (Riot in Your Throat 2025)

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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· Jul 5

Unfortunately for my niece it is so over. Grink level mistake.

A text that says “let me know when you guys want to go to the vintage place! I think I’ll be bringing brisket” and then the follow up text says “Bridget”

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· Jul 3

Google’s trending searches are really telling a story today

parasite outbreak explosive diarrhea

~ july 4th bank holiday

~ nyt connections hints

N extreme heat wave

~ sony playstation physical games

N aurora borealis forecast

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· Jun 27

By way of revenge I will eat its family

A boat hold full of thirteen Dungeness crabs

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· Jun 26

mom does not pull punches

A note with cooking instructions for pasta and the added note LACTAID NEEEDED

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· Jun 21

Regret to inform you that this BLT pasta salad recipe from the Minecraft Kids Kookbook slaps

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· Jun 20

My dream is to publish a 33 1/3 esque series where it’s just writers writing about the book they obsess over

A picture of the 33 1/3 series book on Kid A by Marvin Lim

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· Jun 13

Celebrating our Spinal Tap anniversary today!

A picture of two white people, a man and woman, smiling

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· Jun 13

wow they spelled “wash me” really wrong

A dirty car window with the entirety of John 3:16 written on it

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· Jun 11

Everyone is jealous of my overalls

A picture of Frances, a white person wearing a green shirt and black overalls and smiling

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· Jun 11

Oof I did my boy George Washington wrong in this little mini painting

A small painting of a fern leaf with a yellow paper clip on top of some of the fern fronds. To the top right of the fern are the corners of two letters. Above the fern to the left is a quarter with a jacked up George Washington head on it.

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· Jun 8

Every weekend afternoon at 4, it’s Drop Everything and Read

A picture of Frances, a white person with short dark hair. She is sitting on a couch reading a book. Laying on her is a small boy with his face away from the camera, reading a captain underpants book

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· Jun 2

I knew I was saving this popcorn bag in my purse for a reason

A picture of an outdoor bar table with a mostly drunk beer, a pen, a brown popcorn bag on which is written a bad, self pitying poem, and a raised flower bed with lupine and other plants I can’t identify in the background

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· Jun 1

At our house, Drop Everything and Read is mandatory, no exceptions

A picture of a black cat with his paw on an open book

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· May 24

The distracted boyfriend meme

The hot girl says discussion posts
The boyfriend says grad school professors
The girlfriend says literally any other type of assignment

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· May 20

I commissioned two of my 9th graders to draw a Smash Bros banner for my son’s birthday and boy did they deliver

A banner that says happy birthday and shows video game characters Kirby, link, pikachu, king dedede, yoshi, bulbasaur and Mario

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· May 18

My micro “Good Samaritan” is up at Milk Candy Review milkcandyreview.home.blog

A picture of train tracks with the text Good Samaritan ~ by Frances
Klein
told a story at a dinner party. The
story went like this: I was in college and I was walking by the light rail line. A man in a wheelchair was on the track. The train was coming. I walked quickly, grasped the handles of the wheelchair, which were worn and had rubber bands wrapped around

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· May 18

“Missed the Ark”

A picture of a collage showing a small unicorn holding an umbrella made out of an upside down teacup. The unicorn is standing on a hill with water rising around it. The rain falling is blue letters

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· May 18

Walking through our family room post-party like it’s that one scene in The Birds

A pile of pink and yellow balloons. The pink balloons have faces of Kirby from video games drawn on them

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· May 13

Played hooky today and went on a hike to see my favorite plant, which makes an appearance in this poem originally published by @rogueagent.bsky.social

Frances Klein
EN ROUTE TO THE FOLLOW-UP MAMMOGRAM
There's a whole spring day hidden in the vocal run Whitney Houston does
as she's leaning into the chorus of "How Will I Know."
The car window is down on the first truly warm day of the season. Whitney's plaintive O's spilling over each other to fly toward that no-cloud blue that arcs above the ocean. behind the mountains.
There's warmth and movement in that voice, sweeter than the iced coffee that is weeping sugary drops on the test results. The puddle it melts in the cupholder leaves a sticky remnant I'll remember the day by when winter shivers back into prominence all too soon.
But forget about that, I won't think about endings yet. not when the yellow flags of skunk cabbage are waving from the roadside, and fingers of air streaming over the car tease at my hair, and Ms. Houston is saying her prayers.

A picture of yellow skunk cabbage on a roadside

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· May 13

Pencil update: it is still there, and every time I walk by it the temptation is harder to resist

A picture of a full sized pencil in a literal gutter with a full eraser. The pencil looks more battered than it did in the first picture

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· May 10

Every year my husband takes my son to the thrift store and lets him pick whatever he thinks I need for Mother’s Day, which this year is a straw hat and book of sea shanties

A picture of Frances, a white person wearing a straw hat and holding a book of sea shanties

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· May 10

Just a few banger lines from the incredible @esylviapoet.bsky.social book “Scythe” about Marie Antoinette and climate change and gardens

A list of quotes that say:

-green is every living thing’s color of refuge
-whatever I now call my own took root upon those violences
-history fell on her like a boot
-she’s sympathetic to a basic bitch

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· May 9

At the point in the school year where supplies are so low that I just saw this pencil in a literal gutter and for one second was like 👀

A picture of a normal sized pencil in a gutter

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· May 4

Kids have been handing out these little slips to teachers today and it’s so much more meaningful than a candy bar that says “you’re the brightest star in the ‘milky way’ 😉”

Neon slips of paper that say

Give this to a staff member who gives the most helpful feedback

Give this to a staff member who keeps everything running smoothly behind the scenes

…who explains things so clearly that the confusing stuff finally clicks

…who never gives up on anyone

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· May 4

Photo taken approx 2 minutes before my husband forgot he’s over 40, tried to jump, and ate shit on the rocks

A picture of a beach on Alaska’s southern panhandle, with water on the left, beach on the right, and a wall of rocks in the mid ground, with a man standing on rocks behind the man is the channel, and behind the channel mountains

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· May 2

I feel like my “the source of now is here” sign is raising a lot of questions answered by the sign

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· May 2

The Vince McMahon meme
1- you find a pair of jeans
2- they fit
3- the pocket isn’t fake
4- it’s a normal sized pocket

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· May 1

No texts from my husband all day and then

You go to a water park and at the very start a guy comes out and sprays you with a hose, stops, and waits for you to go “mmm” and nod your head before they then show you to the big twisty slide.

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· Apr 27

Views from the trail

A landscape showing shale rock in the foreground, with mountain ridges of the Tongass National forest in the background

A selfie style picture of Frances, a white person with dark hair in front of a moss covered tree

A picture of fallen logs covered in moss

A close up of blueberry flowers on a branch—the flowers are delicate pink cups pointed downward

Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907· Apr 26

Here’s a game: look at this picture and guess how many makeup products I’m wearing