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Caitlin Conlon
@cgcpoems.bsky.social
leo, award-winning poet, & buffalo bills fan. I wrote ‘Burning the Ghost Light’ and ‘The Surrender Theory.’ [she/her]

https://linktr.ee/cgcpoems
Friends! Family! Kind strangers! I’ll be reading poems & signing books at Rust Belt Books in Buffalo, NY, one week from today! Come celebrate my new poetry collection ‘Burning the Ghost Light’ with me :)

*I’ll only be able to accept cash or venmo payments for books & merch at this venue!*
September 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
In case you missed it, my new book 'Burning the Ghost Light' is available now! I'm also going on tour this Fall!
Come see me read poems if you're in/around Albany (NY), Buffalo (NY), Cleveland, (OH), or Ann Arbor (MI).
More info can be found in the tour posters below!
September 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I’m reading & signing books in New York, Ohio, & Michigan this Fall!! I hope you can come!!!
July 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The first 100 people to email me at cgcpoems@gmail.com with proof of preorder & mailing address will get a sticker in the mail, which contains a link to an exclusive digital "playbill" :) Plus, you'll be entered to win a gift certificate to any indie bookstore of your choice!!

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May 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I'm so happy & excited to announce that my sophomore poetry collection, Burning The Ghost Light, is officially available to preorder!! I'll link my publisher below, but you can preorder through any indie bookstore or online retailer--wherever you get your books! :)

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May 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
If you were planning on preordering my book through Barnes & Noble, today is the last day to take advantage of their 25% off sale!!

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/burning-th...
April 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
can’t stop thinking about this
April 25, 2025 at 3:46 AM
so so excited to reveal the cover to my upcoming poetry collection!!!! I love it so much!!!!
April 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I’d argue that Challengers could not have existed without this coming before it.
March 2, 2025 at 2:15 AM
@aribcofer.com & I are thrilled to announce our next retreat, INTERROGATION, is happening this August in Grand Island, New York. FAQ & more are at this link!! www.unearthwritingretreats.com/interrogatio...
February 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
afc championship vibes
January 27, 2025 at 3:05 AM
This poem of mine came out at the end of 2023 with “midsummer magazine." I've been thinking a lot about my teenage self lately, who she could've been if she wasn't so self-conscious. In some ways, l've spent my whole life trying to be seen (something I explore a lot in my upcoming book, lol).
January 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
would like everyone to know that the last video I ever watched on tiktok was a hunger games x hozier edit
January 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
still riding the high of winning my fantasy football championship with this ragtag bunch
January 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM
currently stuck in hell
January 18, 2025 at 4:05 AM
not sure if this is common knowledge that I just haven’t seen, but I was in my substack settings under “privacy” & noticed this “block AI training” section, which was automatically turned off. if you don’t want AI being trained with your newsletters, please go into your settings & turn the block on!
January 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
something I love about writing is being able to look back on a piece and know exactly where I was when I wrote it. I wrote this for NaPoWriMo many years ago, in one of the study rooms of the library I worked at. it was a poem I both needed to write & needed to read.
January 9, 2025 at 1:06 AM
GO BILLS
December 30, 2024 at 2:09 AM
boomers when they have to wait in any sort of line
December 13, 2024 at 2:19 AM
lol
December 9, 2024 at 8:18 PM
watching people complain about their week off being over when you work in retail feels like this
December 2, 2024 at 4:35 AM
omg boygenius spotting at the macy’s thanksgiving day parade!!
November 28, 2024 at 4:18 PM
dream blunt rotation
November 23, 2024 at 3:28 AM
one of my favorites from “The Surrender Theory” :)

www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Su...
November 21, 2024 at 2:42 AM
another substack excerpt, this one from an essay about Corduroy the bear & finding home!

open.substack.com/pub/cgcpoems...
November 21, 2024 at 2:39 AM