Natalie Solmer-Writing +Art

My manuscript was one of 15 finalists (out of over 430 manuscripts)for the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award, out of Indiana University South Bend ❤️ I’m getting closer to publishing my first book…finally. And I was thrilled to see that I am in the company of some incredible poets!

It was a great honor to have these two poems accepted and published by Notre Dame Review. Both poems are deeply personal and important to me, and I have worked on each of them for years.

I wrote this Monument Circle inspired poem about how I ended up in Indy, a first love, and the first time I ever got drunk! This was for the SPARK Circle Anthology. Many thanks to Big Car & @sparkplaces for including me in the project. If you didn’t get the chance to read and listen…

I was honored to be included in a faculty art exhibit where I teach at Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis. In a generous act of inclusivity, the exhibit included any faculty that create art, not just art professors and professional artists. My suite of paintings/collage/visual poems are all related to my current poetry manuscript,…

Many thanks to Twyckenham Notes, who published this last section of my long poem, “A City on The Edge of Your Border.” You can listen to me read the poem here.

Many thanks to Mom Egg Review for publishing this poem that had been rejected many times and I had kind of given up on. However, I felt it matched their submissions call, so I sent it out on a whim! This poem really did start from a dream while I was reading Alice Notley. The…

I was lucky enough to have a visual poem / visual art piece accepted to the amazing Ethel, which is a completely hand made, fascinating publication. You can order here. I was published in Issue 9.

Last year, I was accepted into Indiana University/ Purdue University Indianapolis’s Religion, Spirituality and the Arts program. During that time, we studied texts and works of art in hopes of producing our own work. I am especially proud of a five part poem that I produced, and which is featured in IUPUI’s online exhibit. Along…

I wrote a poem for Brick Street Press’s Anthology, Reflections on Little Eagle Creek, and thankfully, they accepted and included it! The anthology featured poetry about Eagle Creek, which runs through Indianapolis. Among other things, my poem is about the fact that I didn’t even realize Eagle Creek literally ran through my backyard (back when…

Earlier in the year, I was honored to be a guest, along with Twila Newey, on Han Vanderhart’s delightful Of Poetry Podcast. To be featured on a Podcast that I regularly listen to while out on my walks was pretty surreal. Many thanks to Han and Twila for a heartening and fascinating conversation about writing,…

I’ll admit I was surprised and incredibly pleased when Sarah Ann Winn from Tinderbox Poetry Journal contacted me to do a catch up interview about what I’ve been writing and reading! Tinderbox was one of the very first places to ever publish me, and I am eternally grateful! Click on the link to read my…

I sent my friend Naoko Fujimoto prints of a few of my visual poems which she admired, and she was inspired to make her own found visual poetry from them! I love when a collaboration happens like this–just to know that my art has ignited a creation in an incredible artist and writer is a…