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Erika Meitner

@rika99.bsky.social

poet • professor • parent • perambulator • erikameitner.com

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EMrika99.bsky.socialSep 26, 2024 12:42pm

My poem in last week’s New Yorker—a meditation on mortality + time, with cameos from Halloween City 🎃, Mircea Eliade, + my sister! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“I refuse to be intimidated by time”

“I’m not sure what qualifies as sacred // when I am profane, or, rather, historical.”

EMrika99.bsky.socialSep 7, 2024 8:23pm

Book news: I’m thrilled to be joining the Milkweed Editions family + I’m super-excited to work with editor Bailey Hutchinson + I can’t wait to share ASSEMBLED AUDIENCE with y’all in 2026! (+ big thanks to Nat Jacks at Inkwell Management!) 🎉

EMrika99.bsky.socialAug 30, 2024 5:36pm

If you wanna read a poem about erosion at Dania Beach, A1A, cocaine, jai alai, + other stuff, I’ve got you covered over at Sierra Magazine! www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2024-...

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SBsimeonberry.bsky.socialAug 16, 2024 9:15pm

“I got carded last night at the bar with the darts and my license had // VOID stamped on it since I just renewed it at the DMV which smelled / like stale smoke and camouflage and asbestos remediation” — @rika99.bsky.social www.ilanotreview.com/parents-poet...

Liquid Nitrogen - Ilanot Review

Erika Meitner I dropped my son at a Saturday science enrichment program on campus then went to Starbucks to work except I didn’t get much done because last night I drank too much at the bowling alle...

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SBsimeonberry.bsky.socialMay 25, 2024 1:52pm

“our 20s / in the city were PowerPoint temp jobs were / stealing rolls of toilet paper from restaurant / bathrooms were pagers & flip phones” — @rika99.bsky.social, “we used to go to the Bulgarian Bar but not together”

WE USED TO GO TO THE BULGARIAN BAR BUT NOT TOGETHER

for D.

the place on Broadway & Canal whose motto
was helping ugly people have sex since 416 BC and
it probably had another name but everyone
only knew it as the Bulgarian Bar where
Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hutz
who was sexy in that sweaty limber way like
Mick Jagger but much skeezier & with a thick
Ukrainian accent DJ’ed Gypsy music & we
figured this out somehow while reminiscing
about our 20s in NYC via text & our 20s
in the city were PowerPoint temp jobs were

stealing rolls of toilet paper from restaurant
bathrooms were pagers & flip phones & pay
phones were July subway platform infernos
were whiffs of hot copper & pee & trash
were walkup cockroaches were dive bar,
makeout sessions were chain-smoking on
fire escapes & unspecified parades rolling
past tall office windows were brick façade
or window easements falling to the sidewalk
& shattering at our feet were illegal sublets
& late rent checks & spit-shined heartbreak
when nothing & nobody depended on us &
she said, Did I tell you I head-butted a girl
in the face there one night dancing?
Not on purpose but still...

—Erika Meitner

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JWjohannawinant.bsky.socialFeb 27, 2024 2:56pm

the lovely folks at Amherst College Press made a flyer for the book series I'm co-editing with @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social @glavey.bsky.social we shifted the title of the series to the virguled "Re/Verse"-- our email subject lines kept getting messed up email me for more info on how to pitch!