Robbie Q. Telfer

it's that time of year again where i ask you to nominate me for Best Poet in the Chicago Reader, a task which is fun and easy to do! if you want suggestions for other categories, i will happily give you my biased opinions. cheerio!

Best of Chicago 2024 The ballot will be open for nominations October 14 through November 4.

You can listen to my whole voice here on this podcast!

Poetically Mine! Crawl into the mind of a cereal killer

Hey, you wanna come to a Zoom poetry workshop like it's 2020?

More of a Comment Than a Question - Registration Welcome to my internet! Poetry Writing Workshop Every other Thursday 8PM US CST Add this event to your Google Calendar This is a writing workshop for anyone who likes words and their powers. Since everyone is a poet, everyone is welcome. Every session we look at a published poem by someone else, dis...

just one subscriber shy of 500 on my poetry newsletter. voted "best" by someone, I hope.

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Chicago friends! This Friday (6/14 at 6:30 pm) I'm hosting the return of the beloved Adult Spelling Bee at The Book Cellar, to celebrate the bookstore's 20 year anniversary! Beer and wine will flow, and grown adults will demonstrate they can't spell words like "pneumonia," "acquiesce," or "nauseous." With co-hosts Robbie Q. Telfer and Kelsie Huff! It's so much fun, sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYsI12x8J3Fs2eVyWbZdn2imoFEWupyL1w3L3NXq_WlKYmOQ/viewform

Super grateful to have three new nature-y poems up in the new SEISMA Magazine. You can watch me read them in my beloved Beaubien Forest Preserve. CW: I mention how crabs invented the big dick olympics.

StudioLab Robbie Telfer — SEISMA Magazine Robbie Q Telfer has performed and taught in hundreds of places in nine different countries. His work appears in many publications, he's been anindividual finalist at the National Poetry Slam, and has a poetry collection from Write Bloody Publishing. He lives in Chicago where he’s theProgram Direct...

have you even met me?

Have you met Robb? Friends of Illinois Nature Preserves Program Director, Robb Telfer, has a background in poetry writing, performing, and teaching. In 2006 he received a Master's Degree from Illinois State in poetry and literature. He has read his work in many different cities and he still publishes his work in liter...

Here's the recording of the webinar I cohosted for Friends of Illinois Nature Preserves about plant-killing chemicals escaping their intended targets and drifting miles away, damaging ecosystems and people. Tell your people!

Herbicide Drift into Illinois Natural Areas Ecologist Kim Erndt-Pitcher presents the widespread issue of weed-killing chemicals leaving their intended targets, wafting into natural areas and communitie...

I still do poetry workshops every other Thursday on the Zooms and that means you can come to one tonight! Lucky you!