Cassie Premo Steele
@cassiepremosteele.bsky.social
Bestselling and award-winning environmental writer.
Novels: Beaver Girl, The ReSisters, & Shamrock and Lotus.
Nonfiction: Earth Joy Writing, Moon Days, and We Heal from Memory.
7 books of poetry.
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www.cassiepremosteele.com
Novels: Beaver Girl, The ReSisters, & Shamrock and Lotus.
Nonfiction: Earth Joy Writing, Moon Days, and We Heal from Memory.
7 books of poetry.
🦫🌎☘️🪷🐢🐙🦦🌳🌊🌈
www.cassiepremosteele.com
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Let Me Help You with Your New Year Resolutions
And a bonus poem for letting go of the year
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Let Me Help You with Your New Year Resolutions
#writing #poetry #nature #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #environmental #ecoanxiety #mindfulness #journaling #trauma #healing
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#writing #poetry #nature #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #environmental #ecoanxiety #mindfulness #journaling #trauma #healing
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Let Me Help You with Your New Year Resolutions
#writing #poetry #nature #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #environmental #ecoanxiety #mindfulness #journaling #trauma #healing
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#writing #poetry #nature #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #environmental #ecoanxiety #mindfulness #journaling #trauma #healing
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Let Me Help You with Your New Year Resolutions
And a bonus poem for letting go of the year
open.substack.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Let Me Help You with Your New Year Resolutions
#writing #poetry #nature #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #environmental #ecoanxiety #mindfulness #journaling #trauma #healing
open.substack.com/pub/cassiepr...
#writing #poetry #nature #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #environmental #ecoanxiety #mindfulness #journaling #trauma #healing
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Spots are available for my Tuesday evening class at @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social starting in February! The perfect antidote to these trying times. 💚🌳💚
#writingcommunity
#poetrycommunity
#nature #journaling #mindfulness #environmental #writing
loft.org/classes/eart...
#writingcommunity
#poetrycommunity
#nature #journaling #mindfulness #environmental #writing
loft.org/classes/eart...
Earth Joy Writing
Based on Cassie Premo Steele's book, Earth Joy Writing: Creating Harmony through Journaling and Nature, this class will introduce students to environmental mindfulness practices that can enhance their...
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January 20, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Spots are available for my Tuesday evening class at @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social starting in February! The perfect antidote to these trying times. 💚🌳💚
#writingcommunity
#poetrycommunity
#nature #journaling #mindfulness #environmental #writing
loft.org/classes/eart...
#writingcommunity
#poetrycommunity
#nature #journaling #mindfulness #environmental #writing
loft.org/classes/eart...
My first #vss365 post was on February 19 of last year, and since then I’ve written and posted a poem every day. I’m noodling over ways to celebrate the anniversary with this beloved community next month. Let me know if you have ideas or would like to participate!
#poetrycommunity
#writingcommunity
#poetrycommunity
#writingcommunity
January 20, 2026 at 5:53 PM
My first #vss365 post was on February 19 of last year, and since then I’ve written and posted a poem every day. I’m noodling over ways to celebrate the anniversary with this beloved community next month. Let me know if you have ideas or would like to participate!
#poetrycommunity
#writingcommunity
#poetrycommunity
#writingcommunity
Reposted by Cassie Premo Steele
I read multiple drafts of this as it was being written, and cannot recommend it enough; given recent events, it could not be a more salient guide to many of the emotions we are feeling every day now.
Hard Feelings
From a psychotherapist and the New York Times bestselling author of Monkey Mind, a thoughtful, deeply personal exploration of our most difficult em...
www.simonandschuster.com
January 18, 2026 at 1:30 PM
I read multiple drafts of this as it was being written, and cannot recommend it enough; given recent events, it could not be a more salient guide to many of the emotions we are feeling every day now.
Sometimes while knitting
I come across a dapple
Of difference in the skein,
And my mind whirls
To a scene of sheep,
Smell of lanolin on
Me as my newborn
Sleeps, rising in memory,
And I think this is
Why we are here,
To touch skin to wool
To skin again, love made
Visible and clear.
#vss365 #dapple
I come across a dapple
Of difference in the skein,
And my mind whirls
To a scene of sheep,
Smell of lanolin on
Me as my newborn
Sleeps, rising in memory,
And I think this is
Why we are here,
To touch skin to wool
To skin again, love made
Visible and clear.
#vss365 #dapple
January 17, 2026 at 2:05 PM
This is amazing and makes me proud to have grown up in Minnesota.
January 15, 2026 at 7:52 PM
This is amazing and makes me proud to have grown up in Minnesota.
Reposted by Cassie Premo Steele
A bill to outlaw the sale, possession, transport, and distribution of farmed octopus in Washington advanced out of the state's House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday. washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/washi...
Washington may ban sales of farmed octopus • Washington State Standard
A bill to ban the possession and sale of farmed octopus in Washington advanced out of a House committee on Wednesday.
washingtonstatestandard.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:45 PM
A bill to outlaw the sale, possession, transport, and distribution of farmed octopus in Washington advanced out of the state's House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday. washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/washi...
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She has been a powerful voice on anti-colonialism and resisting Native erasure. She's still writing, and has a collection coming out later this year!
I think her piece "How to Write a Poem in a Time of War" is EXACTLY what we all need right now.
#poetry
www.best-poems.net/joy-harjo/ho...
I think her piece "How to Write a Poem in a Time of War" is EXACTLY what we all need right now.
#poetry
www.best-poems.net/joy-harjo/ho...
How to Write a Poem in a Time of War poem - Joy Harjo
You can’t begin just anywhere. It’s a wreck.
Shrapnel and the eye
Of a house, a...
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January 15, 2026 at 3:43 PM
She has been a powerful voice on anti-colonialism and resisting Native erasure. She's still writing, and has a collection coming out later this year!
I think her piece "How to Write a Poem in a Time of War" is EXACTLY what we all need right now.
#poetry
www.best-poems.net/joy-harjo/ho...
I think her piece "How to Write a Poem in a Time of War" is EXACTLY what we all need right now.
#poetry
www.best-poems.net/joy-harjo/ho...
Reposted by Cassie Premo Steele
Reposted by Cassie Premo Steele
An aerial view of the huge crowd here in Columbia, SC that walked with the Buddhist monks for peace yesterday.
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Buddhist monks cross Gervais Street Bridge on Walk for Peace
YouTube video by News 19 WLTX
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January 11, 2026 at 11:10 PM
An aerial view of the huge crowd here in Columbia, SC that walked with the Buddhist monks for peace yesterday.
youtu.be/1hodBd-v3LU?...
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Sometimes the sun
Sees all we’ve done
And pauses in its run
For a final moment,
A heartfelt one,
To look upon us
With compassion.
#vss365 #heartfelt
Sees all we’ve done
And pauses in its run
For a final moment,
A heartfelt one,
To look upon us
With compassion.
#vss365 #heartfelt
January 15, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Sometimes the sun
Sees all we’ve done
And pauses in its run
For a final moment,
A heartfelt one,
To look upon us
With compassion.
#vss365 #heartfelt
Sees all we’ve done
And pauses in its run
For a final moment,
A heartfelt one,
To look upon us
With compassion.
#vss365 #heartfelt
Reposted by Cassie Premo Steele
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
January 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
Here in the South,
When I walk the loop
So my dog can poop,
People sit on the stoop
Saying, Hey, hear the scoop?
Or, How bout them hoops?
As nice as this seems,
There are folks on the street
Who haven’t been seen
Since the year turned mean.
Loop. Poop. Scoop. Regroup.
#vss365 #stoop #ICE
When I walk the loop
So my dog can poop,
People sit on the stoop
Saying, Hey, hear the scoop?
Or, How bout them hoops?
As nice as this seems,
There are folks on the street
Who haven’t been seen
Since the year turned mean.
Loop. Poop. Scoop. Regroup.
#vss365 #stoop #ICE
January 13, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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*Quick Response Submissions*
We need more Fiction, CNF, and Brewer's Choice submissions for Flight 4!
We are opening a quick response submission window: anyone who submits before 8pm AK time on Wednesday, January 14th will receive a response by the afternoon of Saturday, January 17th.
We need more Fiction, CNF, and Brewer's Choice submissions for Flight 4!
We are opening a quick response submission window: anyone who submits before 8pm AK time on Wednesday, January 14th will receive a response by the afternoon of Saturday, January 17th.
January 11, 2026 at 2:01 AM
*Quick Response Submissions*
We need more Fiction, CNF, and Brewer's Choice submissions for Flight 4!
We are opening a quick response submission window: anyone who submits before 8pm AK time on Wednesday, January 14th will receive a response by the afternoon of Saturday, January 17th.
We need more Fiction, CNF, and Brewer's Choice submissions for Flight 4!
We are opening a quick response submission window: anyone who submits before 8pm AK time on Wednesday, January 14th will receive a response by the afternoon of Saturday, January 17th.
In one hour: EARTH JOY WRITING, a live class combining environmental themes in journaling, poetry, and meditation. Everyone is welcome. #writing #environment #mindfulness
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January 12, 2026 at 6:07 PM
In one hour: EARTH JOY WRITING, a live class combining environmental themes in journaling, poetry, and meditation. Everyone is welcome. #writing #environment #mindfulness
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#WritingCommunity
Slapdash doesn’t mean you don’t care.
It means you have a job kids spouse mouths to feed no inherited wealth collective trauma and ongoing bigotry against your race class gender sexuality humanity.
It means you’re still writing anyway.
#vss365 #slapdash
Slapdash doesn’t mean you don’t care.
It means you have a job kids spouse mouths to feed no inherited wealth collective trauma and ongoing bigotry against your race class gender sexuality humanity.
It means you’re still writing anyway.
#vss365 #slapdash
January 12, 2026 at 1:32 PM
#WritingCommunity
Slapdash doesn’t mean you don’t care.
It means you have a job kids spouse mouths to feed no inherited wealth collective trauma and ongoing bigotry against your race class gender sexuality humanity.
It means you’re still writing anyway.
#vss365 #slapdash
Slapdash doesn’t mean you don’t care.
It means you have a job kids spouse mouths to feed no inherited wealth collective trauma and ongoing bigotry against your race class gender sexuality humanity.
It means you’re still writing anyway.
#vss365 #slapdash
January 11, 2026 at 1:31 PM
From that distance, she was unmissable.
For the rest of us, there is a hole in our hearts the size of a warship where already we are planting the desire to save the planet from the impermissible.
#vss365 #unmissable
For the rest of us, there is a hole in our hearts the size of a warship where already we are planting the desire to save the planet from the impermissible.
#vss365 #unmissable
January 10, 2026 at 1:23 PM
From that distance, she was unmissable.
For the rest of us, there is a hole in our hearts the size of a warship where already we are planting the desire to save the planet from the impermissible.
#vss365 #unmissable
For the rest of us, there is a hole in our hearts the size of a warship where already we are planting the desire to save the planet from the impermissible.
#vss365 #unmissable
My delivery of birdseed coincides with the bus coming by to get kids for school, and this bluebird alights to say that we, too, will make it through this fascist rule, as Native and enslaved peoples did, with so many who stayed or fled, but survived. Like the birds, stayed alive.
#vss365 #delivery
#vss365 #delivery
January 9, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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Potentially momentous developments in Iran. "Video verified by the BBC shows thousands of protesters taking to the streets in Iran's capital, Tehran. Cars can be heard sounding their horns as they attempt to make their way through the crowds." www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
Internet blackout in Iran as large anti-government protests held across country
Protests are reported in Tehran and other major cities, while an internet monitoring groups says there is a
www.bbc.co.uk
January 8, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Potentially momentous developments in Iran. "Video verified by the BBC shows thousands of protesters taking to the streets in Iran's capital, Tehran. Cars can be heard sounding their horns as they attempt to make their way through the crowds." www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...