Cati Porter
@catiporter.bsky.social
I enjoy rearranging words. Cat hair is a legitimate accessory. Menopause is awesome. Having children was the best worst decision of my life. I love #Inlandia #Wompo #Poets #Cats
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Cati Porter
@catiporter.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Hello, BlueSky! Just a note to say that I'm hoping to curate this space to focus entirely on books and writers and writing--specifically, on my life as a writer. So, hello, prose writers and poets and people who read!
2008. My first book launch, seventeen years ago. I remember seeing this photo for the first time and thinking I looked fat. Now I see it differently. Why can’t we just be generous with ourselves at the start, why only in hindsight? *sigh*
August 5, 2025 at 5:54 AM
2008. My first book launch, seventeen years ago. I remember seeing this photo for the first time and thinking I looked fat. Now I see it differently. Why can’t we just be generous with ourselves at the start, why only in hindsight? *sigh*
Tomorrow! This is where I’ll be. Come on out.
April 16, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Tomorrow! This is where I’ll be. Come on out.
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I’m reaching out with a one-time request I believe is important. You might remember me from my PEN days.
My social reach has shrunk off Meta. I’m hoping you'll find this worth sharing. @carolee.bsky.social
@catiporter.bsky.social
@robbienestor.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/renpowel...
My social reach has shrunk off Meta. I’m hoping you'll find this worth sharing. @carolee.bsky.social
@catiporter.bsky.social
@robbienestor.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/renpowel...
Call for Submissions
An anti-fascist poetry anthology
open.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I’m reaching out with a one-time request I believe is important. You might remember me from my PEN days.
My social reach has shrunk off Meta. I’m hoping you'll find this worth sharing. @carolee.bsky.social
@catiporter.bsky.social
@robbienestor.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/renpowel...
My social reach has shrunk off Meta. I’m hoping you'll find this worth sharing. @carolee.bsky.social
@catiporter.bsky.social
@robbienestor.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/renpowel...
So far this year I have read 9 books and have two significantly in progress. This is how I’m coping with America becoming an absurdist reality TV show. I don’t know any other way to do this. How are you managing?
March 3, 2025 at 6:27 AM
So far this year I have read 9 books and have two significantly in progress. This is how I’m coping with America becoming an absurdist reality TV show. I don’t know any other way to do this. How are you managing?
Taking a knife to this heart seems almost criminal. But I did it. And it was good. (Ally’s Valentine to the household, plus homemade cinnamon rolls with pink frosting.)
February 16, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Taking a knife to this heart seems almost criminal. But I did it. And it was good. (Ally’s Valentine to the household, plus homemade cinnamon rolls with pink frosting.)
Just finished reading these two memoirs back to back. Highly recommend. Read Grealy first, then Patchett. It is the story of a friendship. It is a medical memoir. It is a memoir about the prize & fellowship circuit. It is a love story. But don’t just read one without the other.
February 13, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Just finished reading these two memoirs back to back. Highly recommend. Read Grealy first, then Patchett. It is the story of a friendship. It is a medical memoir. It is a memoir about the prize & fellowship circuit. It is a love story. But don’t just read one without the other.
Sometimes conversation / is too fast / for my slow thoughts / so words / fall from my mouth / like a rockslide / bury the thought beneath
February 4, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Sometimes conversation / is too fast / for my slow thoughts / so words / fall from my mouth / like a rockslide / bury the thought beneath
Hip the moon / suck light through a straw / ground all the birds tonight / the earth needs the weight of their song
February 3, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Hip the moon / suck light through a straw / ground all the birds tonight / the earth needs the weight of their song
What kind of reader are you? One book at a time, cover to cover? Or several at once, like me? Right now I have three books actively in progress: one paperback, the memoir Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy; audiobook Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro; and eBook How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell.
January 15, 2025 at 6:42 AM
What kind of reader are you? One book at a time, cover to cover? Or several at once, like me? Right now I have three books actively in progress: one paperback, the memoir Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy; audiobook Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro; and eBook How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell.
There are so many worse things in the world but I’m having a hard time making peace with the fact that our time is limited. Cancer sucks. He is 16.
January 10, 2025 at 6:36 AM
There are so many worse things in the world but I’m having a hard time making peace with the fact that our time is limited. Cancer sucks. He is 16.
I was on a waiting list for months for the Lessons in Chemistry audiobook. A friend loaned me the book but I never got around to reading it. Thought I’d take the shortcut.
Listened until it became evident that the characters were wholly unbelievable.
Returned it same day.
Anyone else read it?
Listened until it became evident that the characters were wholly unbelievable.
Returned it same day.
Anyone else read it?
December 21, 2024 at 6:29 AM
I was on a waiting list for months for the Lessons in Chemistry audiobook. A friend loaned me the book but I never got around to reading it. Thought I’d take the shortcut.
Listened until it became evident that the characters were wholly unbelievable.
Returned it same day.
Anyone else read it?
Listened until it became evident that the characters were wholly unbelievable.
Returned it same day.
Anyone else read it?
I joke that I’m a book junkie but there’s truth to it. I am always on the lookout for my next read, even if some of them are fails, and generally have at least one physical book in progress along with an audiobook.
I have been reading more memoir than anything else lately and started compiling
I have been reading more memoir than anything else lately and started compiling
December 13, 2024 at 6:12 AM
I joke that I’m a book junkie but there’s truth to it. I am always on the lookout for my next read, even if some of them are fails, and generally have at least one physical book in progress along with an audiobook.
I have been reading more memoir than anything else lately and started compiling
I have been reading more memoir than anything else lately and started compiling
I have stacks of “real” books by the bed, two of which I’ve begun reading this week—and maybe only one that I will finish because I’m just not finding the first one compelling enough.
Which brings me to audiobooks. These are obviously easier to consume because I can listen while driving or shopping
Which brings me to audiobooks. These are obviously easier to consume because I can listen while driving or shopping
December 6, 2024 at 6:34 AM
I have stacks of “real” books by the bed, two of which I’ve begun reading this week—and maybe only one that I will finish because I’m just not finding the first one compelling enough.
Which brings me to audiobooks. These are obviously easier to consume because I can listen while driving or shopping
Which brings me to audiobooks. These are obviously easier to consume because I can listen while driving or shopping
#BlueSky, we have pie. (Baked by one of my kids.) Also, I vacuumed the cat hair off the couch covers, finished @appletwigli.bsky.social’s Wednesday’s Child and started Crying in H Mart. And I submitted an essay to @longreads.com.
November 28, 2024 at 2:55 AM
#BlueSky, we have pie. (Baked by one of my kids.) Also, I vacuumed the cat hair off the couch covers, finished @appletwigli.bsky.social’s Wednesday’s Child and started Crying in H Mart. And I submitted an essay to @longreads.com.
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Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
November 22, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
One of the books I picked up at a used bookstore last weekend. I hadn’t noticed until I started reading it that some passages are underlined. The book had a life before it was mine. Also: I silently apologized to the author when the booklight clamp covered her face, a little weird but fitting.
November 22, 2024 at 7:35 AM
One of the books I picked up at a used bookstore last weekend. I hadn’t noticed until I started reading it that some passages are underlined. The book had a life before it was mine. Also: I silently apologized to the author when the booklight clamp covered her face, a little weird but fitting.
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November 22, 2024 at 5:20 AM
I usually steer clear of politics but with every new Trump administration cabinet pick it becomes clearer that we are all a part of his new reality show. His cabinet picks are the cast and we are the audience biting our nails.
November 20, 2024 at 6:59 AM
I usually steer clear of politics but with every new Trump administration cabinet pick it becomes clearer that we are all a part of his new reality show. His cabinet picks are the cast and we are the audience biting our nails.
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We are open for our next themed issue celebrating 20 years of The Fourth River! Submissions are free for BIPOC writers until 11/22. Send us your birds!
4thriver.submittable.com/submit
4thriver.submittable.com/submit
November 16, 2024 at 11:45 AM
We are open for our next themed issue celebrating 20 years of The Fourth River! Submissions are free for BIPOC writers until 11/22. Send us your birds!
4thriver.submittable.com/submit
4thriver.submittable.com/submit
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My ranking of 1000+ literary magazines
www.brechtdepoortere.com/rankings
www.brechtdepoortere.com/rankings
Rankings | Brecht De Poortere
Ranking of the best literary magazines and journals
www.brechtdepoortere.com
November 16, 2024 at 7:59 AM
My ranking of 1000+ literary magazines
www.brechtdepoortere.com/rankings
www.brechtdepoortere.com/rankings
Reposted by Cati Porter
Just a reminder — and to all the new followers — submissions are open for “White Winged Doves: A Stevie Nicks Poetry Anthology” coming in 2026! Guidelines/submit here: madvillepublishing.com/submission/
November 17, 2024 at 1:46 AM
Just a reminder — and to all the new followers — submissions are open for “White Winged Doves: A Stevie Nicks Poetry Anthology” coming in 2026! Guidelines/submit here: madvillepublishing.com/submission/
I love working with teens and poetry. Last week we “revised” The Red Wheelbarrow by rearranging ourselves, resulting in “the glazed rain chickens”. SO MUCH BETTER, don’t you think?
November 17, 2024 at 4:37 AM
I love working with teens and poetry. Last week we “revised” The Red Wheelbarrow by rearranging ourselves, resulting in “the glazed rain chickens”. SO MUCH BETTER, don’t you think?
Hello, BlueSky! Just a note to say that I'm hoping to curate this space to focus entirely on books and writers and writing--specifically, on my life as a writer. So, hello, prose writers and poets and people who read!
November 16, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Hello, BlueSky! Just a note to say that I'm hoping to curate this space to focus entirely on books and writers and writing--specifically, on my life as a writer. So, hello, prose writers and poets and people who read!
If you're looking for #poets to follow, here's a great big list of 'em!
Also, I'm still following back--I swear there's an easier way to do it than I'm what I'm doing...lol
Also, I'm still following back--I swear there's an easier way to do it than I'm what I'm doing...lol
Can we do a POET Roll Call to see who's all here?
#poetrycommunity Drop a note, reshare, etc.--let's see who's here!
#poetrycommunity Drop a note, reshare, etc.--let's see who's here!
November 16, 2024 at 7:35 AM