Cari O.
@cariwriting.bsky.social
Writer. Wine taster. Restless nomad.
Words in Grub Street, Taos Journal of Poetry, Thimble Literary Mag, Mom Egg Review, Literary Orphans, Spire Light, The Fourth River, Blotterature, Marbled Sigh, Lime Hawk Review, Gainesville Sun, and more.
Words in Grub Street, Taos Journal of Poetry, Thimble Literary Mag, Mom Egg Review, Literary Orphans, Spire Light, The Fourth River, Blotterature, Marbled Sigh, Lime Hawk Review, Gainesville Sun, and more.
A poem of mine is included in The Fourth River’s winter edition, which is beautifully dedicated to our feathered bird friends. Enjoy Salt Marsh and all the other gorgeous work here. #poetry
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Salt Marsh — The Fourth River
by Cari Oleskewicz
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November 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
A poem of mine is included in The Fourth River’s winter edition, which is beautifully dedicated to our feathered bird friends. Enjoy Salt Marsh and all the other gorgeous work here. #poetry
www.thefourthriver.com/o16-poetry/2...
www.thefourthriver.com/o16-poetry/2...
Heading to 🌟 Paris 🌟 this morning to hang out with my favorite writing community ever… allons-y! @saloneurope.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Heading to 🌟 Paris 🌟 this morning to hang out with my favorite writing community ever… allons-y! @saloneurope.bsky.social
Listen, if you’re writing a memoir about horses, this is absolutely relevant information, thank you @merriam-webster.com 🐎 #amwriting
November 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Listen, if you’re writing a memoir about horses, this is absolutely relevant information, thank you @merriam-webster.com 🐎 #amwriting
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So much fun reading and listening tonight, and I love my @saloneurope.bsky.social fam.
Having a wonderful evening @desperatelit.bsky.social hearing from our fantastic readers
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October 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
So much fun reading and listening tonight, and I love my @saloneurope.bsky.social fam.
A double dose of #fridayreads today, and I’ll be adding some László Krasznahorkai before the weekend is over, too, because #Nobel
Happy reading, friends.
Happy reading, friends.
October 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
A double dose of #fridayreads today, and I’ll be adding some László Krasznahorkai before the weekend is over, too, because #Nobel
Happy reading, friends.
Happy reading, friends.
Meet us in Paris, writer friends!
Tickets for our intimate Paris salon are selling fast.
There will be:
🎤 Fantastic readings
🍷 Wine included
🥘 Friendly dinner after
🖼 Writing in a museum Friday morning
🤝 New friends and connections
All for a tiny price
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There will be:
🎤 Fantastic readings
🍷 Wine included
🥘 Friendly dinner after
🖼 Writing in a museum Friday morning
🤝 New friends and connections
All for a tiny price
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/paris-lite...
September 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Meet us in Paris, writer friends!
My #fridayreads is “Foster” by Claire Keegan, which I began reading in a lovely, leafy park in Brussels 💜
September 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
My #fridayreads is “Foster” by Claire Keegan, which I began reading in a lovely, leafy park in Brussels 💜
Don’t ask me to do anything for the next month. I already HAD too much writing to do, and now that I’m fresh off the @saloneurope.bsky.social salon in Brussels, there is even MORE writing to do. I’m at my desk. And I’m not leaving it until Madrid. 💜
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September 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Don’t ask me to do anything for the next month. I already HAD too much writing to do, and now that I’m fresh off the @saloneurope.bsky.social salon in Brussels, there is even MORE writing to do. I’m at my desk. And I’m not leaving it until Madrid. 💜
I am in Brussels and 😍😍😍 I already love this city!
September 1, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I am in Brussels and 😍😍😍 I already love this city!
I’ll take it. 😌🤷♀️🎉🥂
August 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I’ll take it. 😌🤷♀️🎉🥂
An exciting chapbook development 🎉🎉😊
August 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
An exciting chapbook development 🎉🎉😊
My #Fridayreads is “Shadow Tag” by Louise Erdrich, who writes like no other. Popular with Oliver P. James, household cat, as well.
August 1, 2025 at 11:19 AM
My #Fridayreads is “Shadow Tag” by Louise Erdrich, who writes like no other. Popular with Oliver P. James, household cat, as well.
You will find a story by me in this fantastic new issue of Penstricken, and I have spent the morning enjoying every other contributor’s glorious work. 💜
Love and Hate is OUT NOW! ❤️🗡️🥳 Featuring brand new short #fiction, #poetry and #nonfic about #writing, including the winning entry of our recent flash fic competition. Grab your copy today 😉 👇
Penstricken #3: Love and Hate
Love and hate: commonplace words that encompass an almost endless array of interweaving feelings and actions. From the true story of the Auschwitz priest who sacrificed himself for a stranger, to a…
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July 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
You will find a story by me in this fantastic new issue of Penstricken, and I have spent the morning enjoying every other contributor’s glorious work. 💜
I’m now writing a prose poem about that time I slighted my neighbor thanks to another lovely workshop with @saloneurope.bsky.social and @julieirigaray.bsky.social
So grateful for this community 💜
#poems #amwriting
So grateful for this community 💜
#poems #amwriting
July 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I’m now writing a prose poem about that time I slighted my neighbor thanks to another lovely workshop with @saloneurope.bsky.social and @julieirigaray.bsky.social
So grateful for this community 💜
#poems #amwriting
So grateful for this community 💜
#poems #amwriting
At Silent Book Club tonight, reading up on The Little Virtues in preparation for next week’s book club with @saloneurope.bsky.social 💜 📚
July 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
At Silent Book Club tonight, reading up on The Little Virtues in preparation for next week’s book club with @saloneurope.bsky.social 💜 📚
New York friends. Please. ⬇️
On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park.
New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.
New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.
June 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
New York friends. Please. ⬇️
Sunrise in St Augustine, FL this morning. 💜
June 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Sunrise in St Augustine, FL this morning. 💜
Here, I write about Champagne (yayyyy 🥂) and misquote rap artist Rick Ross (nooooo 👀). Cheers.
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A Splash of Single-Grower Champagne – I’m Cari. And this is my website
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June 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Here, I write about Champagne (yayyyy 🥂) and misquote rap artist Rick Ross (nooooo 👀). Cheers.
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Judith Magazine has put out a gorgeous folio on their substack called “This Moment.” I have a poem included among the poems of some of my writing heroines. Check it out. 💜 judithmagazine.substack.com/p/this-momen...
June 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Judith Magazine has put out a gorgeous folio on their substack called “This Moment.” I have a poem included among the poems of some of my writing heroines. Check it out. 💜 judithmagazine.substack.com/p/this-momen...
Were the notebooks ever really mine? Was the desk? A lament.
June 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Were the notebooks ever really mine? Was the desk? A lament.
Poem acceptance just came in from one of my favorite journals, excuse me if I am impossible for the rest of the day.
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June 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Poem acceptance just came in from one of my favorite journals, excuse me if I am impossible for the rest of the day.