Natalie Solmer-Writing +Art

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I won this award last summer and didn’t post it, but realized that I should because it is very important to me. I put A LOT of effort into teaching my courses at Ivy Tech, and I was extremely proud to win this award! NOTE-Not all the classes I teach are online, but I do…

Very happy to announce that my first book of poetry, which I have been working on for ten years, will be published in the fall with Kelsay Books. The book is named Water Castle, and here is a working cover. The artwork is my own, as is the photo of the St. Joseph River in…

I’m enjoying reading the latest Harbor Review, where I have a piece of my visual art published called, “City Garden.” This is a mixed media piece created with acrylics, markers, and hand cut collage. I first had the idea for this from a dream I had, and I made it on the back of an…

Many thinks to editor David Dodd Lee for believing in this poem of mine which deals with the aftermath of the sudden loss of my stepfather. I was very happy to be included in this beautiful issue of The Glacier.

I published a few of Katrina Roberts’ enigmatic, beautiful, imaginative visual poems in The Indianapolis Review, and I was honored to write a review of her book of visual poems, Likeness, for the magazine, RHINO.

So excited & grateful to be in this issue of Puerto del Sol, my poem opening a very cool folio on Touch. This poem is based on a real & intense visitation dream I had of my maternal grandma 3 years ago. I was pretty terrified, sick, & fighting off Covid (this is before the…

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.