ari b. cofer
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ari b. cofer
@aribcofer.com
poet, novelist, recovering sad person
(she/they)
🌿paper girl and the knives that made her (central ave, 2022)
🌿unfold (central ave, 2023)
🌿randolph mfa alum
meta is pushing me to chat with AI narcissist therapist or AI egg :/
March 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
new poem out with anodyne mag — would love if people stopped the “when are you having babies” question so i can stop saying “i can’t” 🙂‍↕️
March 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
new piece out today with Everscribe Magazine 🫶🏽
March 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
what a life we’ve lived, what a love we’ve made
February 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
ten years of being in love with my valentine
February 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
In WHAT ABOUT FRANKIE?, Naomi finds a platonic soulmate in the boy next door until circumstance forces the two to grow up, grow without, and decide if history is enough to continue to grow together.

☀️ Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret x We Are All So Good at Smiling
☀️ Black/queer rep
#questpit
February 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
wrote about my relationship to sex over on substack + how complicated it can be when hypersexuality mixes with depression. sometimes it’s hard talking ab this stuff but i also know it is so so important to be honest ab it
February 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
also new in Shō Poetry Journal —
January 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
January 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
2017 (BA) // 2025 (MFA) 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️
January 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
i got my masters degree

(ari b. cofer, mfa 🙂‍↕️)
January 8, 2025 at 4:30 AM
excerpts from todays substack that manifested after listening to Growing Up Is Hard by Chelsea Cutler on loop for 2 hours
December 30, 2024 at 9:31 PM
this week makes four years without self-harm and i talked about that (and how mental health has impacted my relationship) over on substack today 💗
November 27, 2024 at 11:07 PM
new author photos just dropped like …….. hello. i am a bad bitch and i also write books
November 22, 2024 at 1:52 AM
if u become my friend expect me to almost exclusively write h*rny love poems about you

(published earlier this year in @passionfruitlit.bsky.social 🫶🏽)
November 18, 2024 at 3:21 PM
my fridge exactly one minute after my edible hits
November 18, 2024 at 4:08 AM
i love writing but hate when i’m drafting and whatever im processing irl unexpectedly appears in the WIP and makes me cry. it feels like this
November 17, 2024 at 11:20 PM
today’s poem of the day is by Akwaeke Emezi from Content Warning: Everything
November 15, 2024 at 9:34 PM
remembered the before and after the poetry reading selfies, but neglected to take one while i was there so you have to take my word when i say it was wonderful and i feel so warm and fuzzy after reading to a beautiful and kind group of seattle queers
November 15, 2024 at 3:23 AM
thinking about this day a while back when i checked in on my husband bc his mood was low and his response reminded me why i married him
November 14, 2024 at 11:25 PM
hey quick q if you have a cat how do you get your writing done because i achieved a measly 127 words before she interrupted and now i cant move
November 14, 2024 at 2:33 AM
this poem also lives rent-free in my brain. it gets me every single time
November 14, 2024 at 2:12 AM
thinking about this poem today — thank you universe for Lucille Clifton
November 14, 2024 at 2:10 AM
i don’t know if bluesky targets the local algorithm, but if it does and any poetry-loving queers in Seattle see this, i’m reading tomorrow at Charlie’s Queer Books and would love to see ur beautiful face there 🫶🏽
November 14, 2024 at 12:10 AM