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Poet, nonfiction writer, editor, Queen fan, Shader. Order my new book, HARSH REALM: MY 1990s. danielnester.substack.com

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My Heart: A Forced Epiphany Why was the poem so shitty? And was mom teasing me about my shaved chest from the great beyond?

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22.02.2026 01:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Literally a bird feeder poem. I just can't anymore.

07.02.2026 19:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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DOE sees bigger role for climate contrarians, records show A small team of researchers who dispute mainstream climate science may play an outsize role in the next National Climate Assessment.

NEW: I obtained internal emails from the Department of Energy's climate working group. They show the group plotting to produce a second misleading climate report, DOE officials avoiding public disclosure laws, DOE peer reviewers stating they weren't qualified: www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

12.01.2026 15:44 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Joe Biden wrote the Violence Against Women Act. Donald Trump says domestic violence should not be considered a crime. Can the two parties find common ground?

09.09.2025 19:34 πŸ‘ 1125 πŸ” 197 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 9
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Just up on Substack, after a months' long writer's block: "Process Notes: I Know How You Plagiarized That Semester," which draws from more prompts in my old notebooks.

Come for self-doubt. Stay for the zany flashes of absurdity!

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08.09.2025 13:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fun to be included in @pinehillsreview.bsky.social special issue on (what else?) The Mall pinehillsreview.com/2025/09/01/a...

05.09.2025 15:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Make sure you subscribe (it's free!) to Here's Where the Story Ends, the Substack where ex-professor Daniel Nester (that's me!) writes about starting over. danielnester.substack.com

03.06.2025 01:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Just up on Substack: "Process Notes: Moments of Being (Sort Of)."

Read it here: danielnester.substack.com/p/process-no...

Dispatches from the desk, the notebook, and post-academic life in progress.

31.05.2025 17:46 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

let me give you this background story, because I love it and people usually only know this screenshot

12.08.2024 19:13 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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Not certain if this has already been cited, but I found a citation while reading into this for a book called How to be Inappropriate by Daniel Nester. I bought the book (thank you for the weekend reading!). Here is what he says:

13.03.2025 14:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Just up on Substack: "Once More to the Campus Center."

Read it here: danielnester.substack.com/p/once-more-...

01.05.2025 01:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

what a gorgeous incorporation of natural science terminology into poetry πŸ™‰πŸͺ±

03.04.2025 02:41 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Send work!

08.04.2025 00:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have at long last shown up on bluesky, for poetry reasons (among others), so here is a poem I wrote (among others).

31.01.2025 23:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The fine people at @pinehillsreview.bsky.social published my poem, "Blue Linoleum." Thanks to Dan Nester and his crew for everything they do. β™‘

20.02.2025 14:31 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

New poem up today with @pinehillsreview.bsky.social!

26.02.2025 22:06 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThe Priest Comes Over for Pasta” by LexiΒ Pelle I’ve always had a thing // for pulling from the base, / collapsing into the next // wrong thing.

"The Priest Comes Over for Pasta" by Lexi Pelle

05.03.2025 21:21 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

In this Ohio diner, it was a tradition: steak with ketchup, a can of diet coke, then go on camera to scream at an ally for being "disrespectful" on tv. But now the woke mob is taking all of that away.

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β€œCinnamon” by ConorΒ Gearin Incapable of physics, / I’m a naturalist of our love, describing the shape, / but wanting to tell you how it was made.

β€œCinnamon” by Conor Gearin

26.02.2025 21:47 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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β€œViva Zapata” by CamilaΒ Valle you could have sang anywhere put the soul back into anything all eyes on you a rewinding tape

β€œViva Zapata” by Camila Valle

12.02.2025 21:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Kanye West is selling T-shirts with Swastikas on them. But what is he really trying to say?

12.02.2025 00:49 πŸ‘ 1615 πŸ” 100 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 5

The Chiefs can still be named Super Bowl champions if Mike Pence has the courage.

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Today's horrific Elise Jordan opinion: Musk's destruction of federal institutions "reminds me a lot of the Biden Administration's Afghanistan withdrawal. It needed to be done; it was done terribly... What we're seeing here, though, is a long-overdue correction."

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Just up on Substack: β€œFuck it, I’m leaving early.”

"I don’t have to be the one talking. I don’t have to have anything to add. I can just be here, figuring it out."

More at danielnester.substack.com

07.02.2025 01:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThe Winter Drive” by KellyΒ Gray The spiders come, hanging spectacular banners. Imagine all the words / they could spell out, // if only snatched from our mouths as we hurt on by.

β€œThe Winter Drive” by Kelly Gray

22.01.2025 21:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œRetracing Our Steps” by MichaelΒ Robins There are / mirrors of long silences, months without a single visitor.

β€œRetracing Our Steps” by Michael Robins

05.02.2025 21:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œChickens in 1998” by RenΒ Wilding I couldn’t stop / thinking about the sun / expanding / into a red giant. / I saw myself consumed / by a star.

β€œChickens in 1998” by RenΒ Wilding

I couldn’t stop / thinking about the sun / expanding / into a red giant. / I saw myself consumed / by a star.

16.01.2025 01:25 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œOmen” by SaraΒ Iacovelli I lock the door and cover the window / and huddle twenty-three kindergartners

"Omen" by Sara Iacovelli

29.01.2025 21:30 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Welcome, sir. Longtime fan and admirer.

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Amazing video that Questlove and Maya Rudolph put together to showcase all of the music artists that have appeared on SNL. Here’s a clip of Duran Duran mixed with …

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