Erika Meitner

@rika99.bsky.social

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poet • professor • parent • perambulator • erikameitner.com | also keeper of https://post-mfa.tumblr.com

me & my oldest kid (tall white guy in blue duffel coat with brown hair and short white woman with yellow knit cap, sunglasses, and grey and black puffer) in a crowd of protestors. I’m holding a cardboard box top with the word NOPE on it but the E is a sideways crown.👑
List of events I’m doing at AWP which can all be found in accessible version at erikameitner.com/events
White lady with yellow hat and gray down coat at a protest holding a “Child of Refugees (Abolish Ice) sign on cardboard above her head with people around her
From Darkness to Light: Poetry in Celebration of Hanukkah, Tues 12/16 8-9pm EST on a blue background with menorah and dreidels
Chocolate cake that looks like an actual log with rosemary and cranberry and mushroom garnishes
Maroon UW Madison MFA Program Ad with photos of six faculty: Beth Nguyen, Dantiel W. Moniz, Porter Shreve, Amy Quan Barry, Ron Kuka, and Rickey Fayne. Deadline: Dec 15. 33k/year stipend and summer funding, 1-1 teaching load, and cross-genre work supported. More info at creativewriting.wisc.edu/gradapply
Application call for NY artists for Saltonstall: Saltonstall.org (Jan 4 deadline)
Cross country parallel ski tracks across a snowy expanse with a few trees and an open gray sky
Photo of Dead animal smell eliminator pouch on Amazon
Lit up rainbow carnival fun slide with neon letters that say fun slide
Lit up red sign at a Madison Mallards baseball game that says “Brat Toss” on it with people in front of it holding up their arms to catch brats
Sunset over a pond with wildflowers
Photo of the inside of a metal door that says: you are not locked in - escape device - 1) press the button 2) turn the handle 3) push the door open
Hand markered lawn sign: slow down! Turtle crossing!
Tuba section of a high school marching band in a Memorial Day parade carrying shiny contras on their shoulders in black shirts on a sunny day.
Clear plastic shoebox filled with binder clips next to a white ceramic flowerpot filled with binder clips
Poem called “Radio Silence” from the new APR
Carvel birthday cake with two gold candles in it: 5 and 0
Artist in residence open call for Graves Mill Farm in VA May 31-June 7, 2025 + photo of blue ridge mountains
Blue flyer for Poetry in the reading Room at The New York Historical with photos of Erika Meitner and Shane McCrae and Jason Schneiderman and the same info as the post in graphic form
NBC news headline about Susan Crawford winning the WI Supreme Court election and a photo of Crawford with her opponent
pic of a 4 year old boy with light brown hair and blue eyes in a red T-shirt with a black bull on it wearing headphones and looking at the camera
List of words banned from federal agencies
the hallway outside my office: yellow-taped plastic sheeting around doorways, with DANGER ASBESTOS signs on them, machinery in hallway, clear plastic tubing running through hallway
Melting pond ice with a dock and brown marsh grass in the foreground,
Sunset over a snow-covered pond with a bench and a sign in the snow-covered foreground and footprints in the snow
giant box of orange kishu mandarins
Photo of Pain Face Scale with drawings of faces and a dinosaur sticker on it at a children’s hospital.
Dock jutting out into a frozen pond, and both are covered with snow. Sky is blue and sun is shining. There is brown grass in the foreground.
Paper square with a color drawing of white men in togas clustered around one holding a staff, with “oligarchy” written beneath it in pencil
Photo of a white board with black writing on it detailing reading practices
Pic of poet Traci Brimhall in a grey and cream and brown plaid shirt smiling, and poet Erika Meitner in a yellow hat and black puffer and blue glasses also smiling. We are on the street in Madison.
Poem by me from Oxford American called “What I’m saying is the planet is on fucking fire” - full link to non-image text here: https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-118-fall-2022/two-poems?
NYT spelling bee with YINZ highlighted and a box that says “not a word”
A white board list of my students’ favorite words written in black marker: beguile, copacetic, mid, crumble, time, etc.
Silhouettes of two people on cross-country skis at night in snow wearing lit headlamps with a lit cabin and ski mountain in the distance. One of the people on skis is me.
Me ice skating slightly awkwardly on a frozen pond on a sunny day
Photoautomat strip of black and white photos of me on top of a pamphlet from a Nan Goldin exhibit in Berlin
Photoautomat in Berlin at night covered in stickers and graffiti
Snow person made from dirty snow with stick arms, melting
The poem “For Saundra” by Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Giovanni and Tim Seibles in the hallway of Shanks Hall at Virginia Tech
me standing in front of the bathroom mirror in Helen C. White Hall in all black with white shoes and dark brown curly hair with gray streaks
End of a dock looking out onto a half melted pond
Smirnoff ice screwdriver six-pack
Yellow box with white writing: Wacky Waving Inflatable Tube Guy with pic of red tube guy
The Onion headline “TA Spotted at Bar”
Me in a yellow knit hat, neck gaiter pulled over my face, and a black parka in front of an icy pond being buffeted by the wind.
Poets House Showcase grid of four author photos: from top left, clockwise - Wo Chan, Erika Meitner, Fred Moten, Charif Shanahan
Sunset over a pond, with an icy cast to it and ice pieces floating in it