The Poetry of Minneapolis Nonfiction by Chelsea B. DesAutels. "... the question I want to answer isn’t 'What is the role of political poetry?' but 'Are the ways poetry changes us relevant to political resistance?'"

I was so pleased to write for Consequence Forum about Minneapolis & resistance. Thank you to the editors & to the wonderful poets of Houston, whose questions got this piece off the ground. ❄️❤️

Thank you so much for this, Gail! It means a lot to me--thank you for reading. ❤️

Miss the deadline for our annual prizes? We’ve got you. 🫶

#Essayists! Would love to see more cnf in the @westbranchmagazine.bsky.social submissions database! Flash and work under 3500 words most welcome. No fee submissions. We pay contributors. Additional details: westbranchsubmissions.bucknell.edu

Please behold this magnificent octopus I saw on a shore dive last week. 😍 (Photo credit Lukas Arias)

Frost flowers on the creek yesterday. These only form when it is very cold, and very still, and it has been both. It feels like magic. ❄️

Some Half-World | Narrative Magazine Some Half-World by Chelsea B. DesAutels — What can I say

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Many, many thanks to @narrativemag.bsky.social for making a home for "Some Half-World." This poem means a lot to me. ❤️ (Link in comments.)

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Let's endure winter together, by making our own little web of work. ❄️ Check out The Winter Writer: Six Weeks of Writing in Community. ✨ Tuesday evenings, online, starting February 11. ✨

We marked the new year with a small offering. May you get what you need this year. ✨

The ether is in the ice again. 💙

All bundled up. Time to test the lake ice. ❄️

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Have you made the NYT sticky cranberry gingerbread? Life changing. Freezes well.

The 10yo & I made peppermint marshmallows!

Reposting b/c AWP has a legit means of transferring registrations. You should go to LA! Let's talk!

Thank you! 💚

Many thanks to @cincinnatireview.bsky.social & @lisaampleman.bsky.social for giving a home to two new poems, including the first in a short series of prose poems considering shame & girlhood.

Yes! Great one.

Anyone need a discounted AWP registration? Hit me up. It looks like I'll be flying in the opposite direction instead. 🍀

What are your favorite winter poems? ❄️

Here's one of mine.

Are you a poet 40 and over who has published no more than one full-length collection of poetry?? Send ten pages of poems for me to read for this year's @poetrysociety.org Robert Winner Memorial Award!

Two sides of the same lake. ☀️❄️

Here's my new favorite joke:
knock knock
who's there?
hike
hike who?

Unsuspecting friend.
I await with bated breath.
Sets the perfect trap.

Thank you—that means a lot to me!

Thanks for reading, Elizabeth. 💚💚

Really happy to have a recent poem in the fall issue of Pleiades, which is packed with great work. Many thanks to @jennymolberg.bsky.social & @caitlincowan.bsky.social.

Back on it.

Booked AWP! Who else is going to be there? 🌴