Christa Fairbrother
@christafairbrother.bsky.social
Gulfport, FL poet laureate
I write poems about bodies - ours, animals, water, our collective nature
Here to connect with poets & poetry lovers
Author of Water Yoga (Singing Dragon 2022).
Lover of tea & avocados 🥑
https://christafairbrotherwrites.com/
I write poems about bodies - ours, animals, water, our collective nature
Here to connect with poets & poetry lovers
Author of Water Yoga (Singing Dragon 2022).
Lover of tea & avocados 🥑
https://christafairbrotherwrites.com/
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Surprise! We were (easily) convinced to nominate for the @pushcartprize.bsky.social! So, the nominees are...
Rania Omar, Kelley Dundas, @christafairbrother.bsky.social, Alex Pellerin, Chloe Glass, & Olivia J. Bennett! Congrats!
Read their work here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/nominations/
Rania Omar, Kelley Dundas, @christafairbrother.bsky.social, Alex Pellerin, Chloe Glass, & Olivia J. Bennett! Congrats!
Read their work here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/nominations/
What a holiday gift 🎁
Thanks to @flaremagazine.bsky.social for giving all spoonies a voice and for elevating my piece 😍
#poetry #poetrysky #pushcart #arthritis #spoonies #chronicillness #chronicpoetry
Thanks to @flaremagazine.bsky.social for giving all spoonies a voice and for elevating my piece 😍
#poetry #poetrysky #pushcart #arthritis #spoonies #chronicillness #chronicpoetry
A great review of my friend Jackie Craven's collection, WHISH.
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#poetryreviews #poetrybooks #poetry
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#poetryreviews #poetrybooks #poetry
Sundress Reads: Review of Whish - The Sundress Blog
The more I read about time, the more I contemplate my relationship to it, and its fleeting nature, the more overwhelmed I get. I become so tangled up in my own bewilderment, I could never really imagi...
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December 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
A great review of my friend Jackie Craven's collection, WHISH.
sundressblog.com/2025/11/20/s...
#poetryreviews #poetrybooks #poetry
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#poetryreviews #poetrybooks #poetry
"A poem is a little machine made out of words." - William Carlos Williams
December 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"A poem is a little machine made out of words." - William Carlos Williams
Reposted by Christa Fairbrother
Issue 004: Corkscrew Willow is out! Thank you to all of our contributors. We hope you enjoy!
December 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Issue 004: Corkscrew Willow is out! Thank you to all of our contributors. We hope you enjoy!
Pinterest predicts poetcore is the next trend in 2026.
Our turtlenecks and fountain pens have come back into style 🤣
#poetcore #poetryhumor #poetry
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Our turtlenecks and fountain pens have come back into style 🤣
#poetcore #poetryhumor #poetry
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Poetcore | Pinterest Predicts™ 2026
Gen Z and Millennials will have the “write” stuff with oversized turtlenecks, vintage blazers and messenger satchels—no MFAs needed.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Pinterest predicts poetcore is the next trend in 2026.
Our turtlenecks and fountain pens have come back into style 🤣
#poetcore #poetryhumor #poetry
business.pinterest.com/pinterest-pr...
Our turtlenecks and fountain pens have come back into style 🤣
#poetcore #poetryhumor #poetry
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I dreamt last night that poetry agitators were demanding the President fund poetry in every state.
He said only Congress approves funds. We pushed back that he's funded tons without their approval.
He punted us to the Kennedy Center board.
Politics is invading poetry in my sleep 🤣
#poetryhumor
He said only Congress approves funds. We pushed back that he's funded tons without their approval.
He punted us to the Kennedy Center board.
Politics is invading poetry in my sleep 🤣
#poetryhumor
December 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I dreamt last night that poetry agitators were demanding the President fund poetry in every state.
He said only Congress approves funds. We pushed back that he's funded tons without their approval.
He punted us to the Kennedy Center board.
Politics is invading poetry in my sleep 🤣
#poetryhumor
He said only Congress approves funds. We pushed back that he's funded tons without their approval.
He punted us to the Kennedy Center board.
Politics is invading poetry in my sleep 🤣
#poetryhumor
Looking forward to picking up a few of these 😀
My picks of the poetry books of the year (in the UK at least), for @theguardian.com. Usual disclaimers that I have no doubt missed your fave off, not spread my net wide enough etc. But I will say: the Scott is magnificent, magnificent: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
The best poetry books of 2025
From Seamus Heaney’s collected poems and Simon Armitage’s animal spirits, to prizewinners Karen Solie and Vidyan Ravinthiran
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Looking forward to picking up a few of these 😀
Reposted by Christa Fairbrother
The coherent and cogent use of syllabics in English cannot ignore the natural stresses, the iambs and trochees, the anapests and dactyls – all surging and ebbing within a syllabic framework that offers a quieter music just below those stresses...
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Matthew Stewart reviews 'Still' by Alan Buckley (Blue Diode Press, 2025)
The Friday Poem on 5th December 2025
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December 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The coherent and cogent use of syllabics in English cannot ignore the natural stresses, the iambs and trochees, the anapests and dactyls – all surging and ebbing within a syllabic framework that offers a quieter music just below those stresses...
thefridaypoem.substack.com/p/matthew-st...
thefridaypoem.substack.com/p/matthew-st...
An early Christmas present for myself I can't wait to dive into.
Science and poetry colliding is a gift 🎁
#Darwin #whatimreadingnow #poetry #poetrybooks #poetrysky
Science and poetry colliding is a gift 🎁
#Darwin #whatimreadingnow #poetry #poetrybooks #poetrysky
December 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
An early Christmas present for myself I can't wait to dive into.
Science and poetry colliding is a gift 🎁
#Darwin #whatimreadingnow #poetry #poetrybooks #poetrysky
Science and poetry colliding is a gift 🎁
#Darwin #whatimreadingnow #poetry #poetrybooks #poetrysky
This is a fun shaped poetry piece 👌
"A body speaks in fabric..." - excerpt from Available Space, visual poetry by Shannon Cates
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#TheMetaworker #visualpoetry
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#TheMetaworker #visualpoetry
December 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
This is a fun shaped poetry piece 👌
Reposted by Christa Fairbrother
Listen to @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social’s 2025 #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth playlist this weekend!
It features poems by Indigenous US poets, including Danielle Shandiin Emerson, Chris Hoshnic, Malia Maxwell, Tim Moder, Sofia Rasic, and J. K. Tsosie: shopoetryjournal.com/native-ameri...
It features poems by Indigenous US poets, including Danielle Shandiin Emerson, Chris Hoshnic, Malia Maxwell, Tim Moder, Sofia Rasic, and J. K. Tsosie: shopoetryjournal.com/native-ameri...
Native American Heritage Month 2025 - Shō Poetry Journal
To celebrate Native American Heritage Month, we've curated this selection of poems by Indigenous U.S. poets Danielle Shandiin Emerson (Diné), Chris Hoshnic (Diné), Malia Maxwell (Kanaka Maoli), Tim…
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November 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Listen to @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social’s 2025 #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth playlist this weekend!
It features poems by Indigenous US poets, including Danielle Shandiin Emerson, Chris Hoshnic, Malia Maxwell, Tim Moder, Sofia Rasic, and J. K. Tsosie: shopoetryjournal.com/native-ameri...
It features poems by Indigenous US poets, including Danielle Shandiin Emerson, Chris Hoshnic, Malia Maxwell, Tim Moder, Sofia Rasic, and J. K. Tsosie: shopoetryjournal.com/native-ameri...
What a holiday gift 🎁
Thanks to @flaremagazine.bsky.social for giving all spoonies a voice and for elevating my piece 😍
#poetry #poetrysky #pushcart #arthritis #spoonies #chronicillness #chronicpoetry
Thanks to @flaremagazine.bsky.social for giving all spoonies a voice and for elevating my piece 😍
#poetry #poetrysky #pushcart #arthritis #spoonies #chronicillness #chronicpoetry
Surprise! We were (easily) convinced to nominate for the @pushcartprize.bsky.social! So, the nominees are...
Rania Omar, Kelley Dundas, @christafairbrother.bsky.social, Alex Pellerin, Chloe Glass, & Olivia J. Bennett! Congrats!
Read their work here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/nominations/
Rania Omar, Kelley Dundas, @christafairbrother.bsky.social, Alex Pellerin, Chloe Glass, & Olivia J. Bennett! Congrats!
Read their work here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/nominations/
November 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
What a holiday gift 🎁
Thanks to @flaremagazine.bsky.social for giving all spoonies a voice and for elevating my piece 😍
#poetry #poetrysky #pushcart #arthritis #spoonies #chronicillness #chronicpoetry
Thanks to @flaremagazine.bsky.social for giving all spoonies a voice and for elevating my piece 😍
#poetry #poetrysky #pushcart #arthritis #spoonies #chronicillness #chronicpoetry
Happy Thanksgiving everyone 💓
May you have some time to reflect on everything beautiful in your life.
#happyThanksgiving #Thanksgiving2025
May you have some time to reflect on everything beautiful in your life.
#happyThanksgiving #Thanksgiving2025
November 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Happy Thanksgiving everyone 💓
May you have some time to reflect on everything beautiful in your life.
#happyThanksgiving #Thanksgiving2025
May you have some time to reflect on everything beautiful in your life.
#happyThanksgiving #Thanksgiving2025
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I took two poetry workshops this morning and needed a walk after, to give the flesh a sunning.
Someone else felt the same way 😂
#poetrybreak #poetry #alligator
Someone else felt the same way 😂
#poetrybreak #poetry #alligator
November 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I took two poetry workshops this morning and needed a walk after, to give the flesh a sunning.
Someone else felt the same way 😂
#poetrybreak #poetry #alligator
Someone else felt the same way 😂
#poetrybreak #poetry #alligator
This is a shame. She was a fierce advocate.
A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
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I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
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Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51
Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.
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November 16, 2025 at 2:47 AM
This is a shame. She was a fierce advocate.
Reposted by Christa Fairbrother
POEM 283: "Soft machine, you are breathing wrong" by Alison Heron Hruby (@alisonheronhruby.bsky.social)
"I thought I could breathe well,
that I could draw in my ribs like an expert,
knew the fundamentals in my heart,
to exhale what I did not need."
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#Poem #Poetry
"I thought I could breathe well,
that I could draw in my ribs like an expert,
knew the fundamentals in my heart,
to exhale what I did not need."
stonecirclereview.com/soft-machine
#Poem #Poetry
November 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
POEM 283: "Soft machine, you are breathing wrong" by Alison Heron Hruby (@alisonheronhruby.bsky.social)
"I thought I could breathe well,
that I could draw in my ribs like an expert,
knew the fundamentals in my heart,
to exhale what I did not need."
stonecirclereview.com/soft-machine
#Poem #Poetry
"I thought I could breathe well,
that I could draw in my ribs like an expert,
knew the fundamentals in my heart,
to exhale what I did not need."
stonecirclereview.com/soft-machine
#Poem #Poetry
"Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate."
-Marvin Bell
#poetry #poetryquotes #poetrysky
-Marvin Bell
#poetry #poetryquotes #poetrysky
November 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
"Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate."
-Marvin Bell
#poetry #poetryquotes #poetrysky
-Marvin Bell
#poetry #poetryquotes #poetrysky
This sounds like such an interesting place- a Norwegian monument to witches www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/stories/e...
#womensart #witches #sculpture
#womensart #witches #sculpture
The Damned, the Possessed and the Beloved: About Art, Architecture and Witchcraft
Artists and curator Knut Wold remembers Louise Bourgeois jokingly referring to herself as a witch. But there were far more reasons why she collaborated with the architect Peter Zumthor on the so-calle...
www.nasjonalmuseet.no
November 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This sounds like such an interesting place- a Norwegian monument to witches www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/stories/e...
#womensart #witches #sculpture
#womensart #witches #sculpture
I love the Ed Pavlić poem in the latest issue.
"...to uncruel
the cruel when your owned face
is the cruelest list of rules..."
#newpoetry #poetry
"...to uncruel
the cruel when your owned face
is the cruelest list of rules..."
#newpoetry #poetry
Our November/December issue is out now! Check out fresh new work from Devon Walker-Figueroa, Sharon Olds, Derrick Austin, Traci Brimhall, and many more at aprweb.org, and grab the in-print version via 🔗 in bio. And be sure to pre-order Devon's excellent new book Lazarus Species from @milkweed_books
November 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I love the Ed Pavlić poem in the latest issue.
"...to uncruel
the cruel when your owned face
is the cruelest list of rules..."
#newpoetry #poetry
"...to uncruel
the cruel when your owned face
is the cruelest list of rules..."
#newpoetry #poetry
Our main library is done with it's remodel after years of being closed.
It's so nice -my second visit this week. View from the back deck - all hail libraries.
#librariesrock #libraries #floridalitcommunity
It's so nice -my second visit this week. View from the back deck - all hail libraries.
#librariesrock #libraries #floridalitcommunity
November 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Our main library is done with it's remodel after years of being closed.
It's so nice -my second visit this week. View from the back deck - all hail libraries.
#librariesrock #libraries #floridalitcommunity
It's so nice -my second visit this week. View from the back deck - all hail libraries.
#librariesrock #libraries #floridalitcommunity
Reposted by Christa Fairbrother
happy to be on this excellent podcast talking about Lives of the Female Poets @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social with @gregorykearns.bsky.social
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Episode 32: Clare Pollard - "The poem itself is a haunted house"
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November 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
happy to be on this excellent podcast talking about Lives of the Female Poets @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social with @gregorykearns.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/0rMp...
open.spotify.com/episode/0rMp...
Reposted by Christa Fairbrother
A new medical poem about the horrors of medical diagnoses by Emma Woodard is now out on our site. Check it out! #listentowomen
#litmag #literarymagazine #revistachilena #revistaliteraria #medicalpoetry #anamnesis #WomensHealth #bookblog #publishing
www.ultramarinereview.com/post/anamnesis
#litmag #literarymagazine #revistachilena #revistaliteraria #medicalpoetry #anamnesis #WomensHealth #bookblog #publishing
www.ultramarinereview.com/post/anamnesis
Anamnesis
by Emma WoodardIt was growing pains, they said.Recess drama. The ache of new schools.Just puberty. You’re thirteen.It was homework. Stress. Nerves.The looming specter of SATs.It was the fourth thin en...
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October 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
A new medical poem about the horrors of medical diagnoses by Emma Woodard is now out on our site. Check it out! #listentowomen
#litmag #literarymagazine #revistachilena #revistaliteraria #medicalpoetry #anamnesis #WomensHealth #bookblog #publishing
www.ultramarinereview.com/post/anamnesis
#litmag #literarymagazine #revistachilena #revistaliteraria #medicalpoetry #anamnesis #WomensHealth #bookblog #publishing
www.ultramarinereview.com/post/anamnesis
Reposted by Christa Fairbrother
Don't forget! The Circle is always open. Submit a poem today. There's no fee and we promise a quick turnaround. Submission guidelines: stonecirclereview.com/submissions-...
#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag
#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag
October 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Don't forget! The Circle is always open. Submit a poem today. There's no fee and we promise a quick turnaround. Submission guidelines: stonecirclereview.com/submissions-...
#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag
#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag
My current poetry project- sea poems 🌊✍️
#poetryproject #poetry #obsessions #writerslife #rachelcarson #ecopoetry
#poetryproject #poetry #obsessions #writerslife #rachelcarson #ecopoetry
October 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
My current poetry project- sea poems 🌊✍️
#poetryproject #poetry #obsessions #writerslife #rachelcarson #ecopoetry
#poetryproject #poetry #obsessions #writerslife #rachelcarson #ecopoetry
I'm loving this collection.
So much meta context for a museum nerd like me and I love how accessibility is a given instead of an add on.
#poetrybook #accessibility #disability #poetrybooks #museums
So much meta context for a museum nerd like me and I love how accessibility is a given instead of an add on.
#poetrybook #accessibility #disability #poetrybooks #museums
October 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I'm loving this collection.
So much meta context for a museum nerd like me and I love how accessibility is a given instead of an add on.
#poetrybook #accessibility #disability #poetrybooks #museums
So much meta context for a museum nerd like me and I love how accessibility is a given instead of an add on.
#poetrybook #accessibility #disability #poetrybooks #museums