Chelsea B. DesAutels
@cbdesautels.bsky.social
Poet. A DANGEROUS PLACE (Sarabande Books). She/her.
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Miss the deadline for our annual prizes? We’ve got you. 🫶
February 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Miss the deadline for our annual prizes? We’ve got you. 🫶
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#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
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February 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
#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)
February 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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. ❄️
January 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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. ❄️
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.)
January 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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.)
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. ✨
January 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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. ✨
January 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
We marked the new year with a small offering. May you get what you need this year. ✨
The ether is in the ice again. 💙
December 21, 2024 at 8:45 PM
The ether is in the ice again. 💙
All bundled up. Time to test the lake ice. ❄️
December 21, 2024 at 7:09 PM
All bundled up. Time to test the lake ice. ❄️
The 10yo & I made peppermint marshmallows!
December 20, 2024 at 2:18 AM
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!
Anyone need a discounted AWP registration? Hit me up. It looks like I'll be flying in the opposite direction instead. 🍀
December 17, 2024 at 12:02 AM
Reposting b/c AWP has a legit means of transferring registrations. You should go to LA! Let's talk!
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.
December 16, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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.
Anyone need a discounted AWP registration? Hit me up. It looks like I'll be flying in the opposite direction instead. 🍀
December 13, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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.
Here's one of mine.
December 13, 2024 at 7:27 PM
What are your favorite winter poems? ❄️
Here's one of mine.
Here's one of mine.
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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!
December 4, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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. ☀️❄️
December 4, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Two sides of the same lake. ☀️❄️
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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.
knock knock
who's there?
hike
hike who?
Unsuspecting friend.
I await with bated breath.
Sets the perfect trap.
November 14, 2024 at 4:30 AM
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.
knock knock
who's there?
hike
hike who?
Unsuspecting friend.
I await with bated breath.
Sets the perfect trap.
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.
December 2, 2024 at 11:28 PM
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.
Booked AWP! Who else is going to be there? 🌴
November 30, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Booked AWP! Who else is going to be there? 🌴
Listen, a cold walk is a tonic. ❄️
November 29, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Listen, a cold walk is a tonic. ❄️
Sixteen years ago tonight I kissed my husband for the first time. We were first-year law students & the party was wild & I thought I was defending his honor but I had the story wrong.
Remember when the night before Thanksgiving was the most raucous night of the year?
November 28, 2024 at 4:44 AM
Sixteen years ago tonight I kissed my husband for the first time. We were first-year law students & the party was wild & I thought I was defending his honor but I had the story wrong.
Remember when the night before Thanksgiving was the most raucous night of the year?
November 28, 2024 at 4:27 AM
Remember when the night before Thanksgiving was the most raucous night of the year?
Aproned in the kitchen listening to 1970s jams, prepping syrups & scones & cornbread & stuffing, & wishing my grandma, who was hilarious & complicated & taught me to cook, was here, too. 💚
November 26, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Aproned in the kitchen listening to 1970s jams, prepping syrups & scones & cornbread & stuffing, & wishing my grandma, who was hilarious & complicated & taught me to cook, was here, too. 💚
Just trust me; it’s worth it.
November 23, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Just trust me; it’s worth it.