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Christa Fairbrother
@christafairbrother.bsky.social
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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/
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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
A photo of the cover of the book Darwin, A Life in Poems by Ruth Padel taken in front of a poinsettia and white mums.
December 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone 💓
May you have some time to reflect on everything beautiful in your life.

#happyThanksgiving #Thanksgiving2025
Sunrise over the St. Lucie canal. The sky has a few pink wispy clouds and the pines and palms on the far shore reflect onto the still water.
November 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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My writing chair view this morning 🌄

#7amwritersclub #morningwriters
#apoetsview
Sunrise over the St. Lucie canal. There are two pylons in the foreground. In the background the water reflects the palm trees on the far bank.
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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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
Florida alligator on the bank.
November 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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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
The back of the Barack Obama library in St Petersburg, fl. The view from the back deck of the Barack Obama main library in St. Petersburg, fl. There's a small lake and an anahinga drying it's wings in the foreground.
November 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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My current poetry project- sea poems 🌊✍️

#poetryproject #poetry #obsessions #writerslife #rachelcarson #ecopoetry
The spine of a hardback edition of The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson. The title and author text is in black and the book is green.
October 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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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
The cover of the poetry book Hardly Creatures by Rob Macaisa Colgate. The cover depicts a pink salamander on a yellow alabaster classical sculpture of a woman's head but the head is broken and only the bottom half under her nose is there.
October 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Bok Tower Gardens was a lovely venue for the Florida State Poets Association fall conference.

#poetry #poetryevents #gardenpoetry
The carillion at Bok Tower gardens shown in the reflecting pool.
October 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Thanks to Crannog Magazine for publishing this poem 😀
Christa fairbrother holding up the latest issue of Crannog Magazine. She's wearing a tan sleeveless collared sweater in front of an oak tree with a philodendron climbing it. The poem A Bearcat is Not a Bear or a Cat but a Threatened Species
October 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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No Kings protest signs.
St Petersburg, Florida representing.
#nokings #nokingsprotes
#democracyforever

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No kings protest in st Petersburg Florida. The signs say "No faux king way" and "democracy over kings"
October 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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St. Pete represented this morning 🤩

#nokings #democracyrules
October 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Calling #floridapoets our last open mic of 2025 is this Thursday.

#poetry #poetryopenmic #openmic #tampabay
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Because you needed more pumpkins in your feed 😜🎃

#pumpkin #fall #pumpkinspice #pumpkins
A green Cinderella pumpkin with a French blue pumpkin on top of it and a sugar apple on the top of the stack. In the background is a regular orange pumpkin floating above the sugar apple on a cabinet.
October 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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This is a planet of a pumpkin 🎃

#fall #writerslife #pumpkin
Close up photo of a warty pumpkin in the grass.
October 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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I came to the zoo today to work on my zoo poems.
This is the yellow billed stork who sits down like a folding chair.

#poetryfieldtrip #poetryinspiration #poetryday
Photo of a yellow billed stork on a pillar at Zoo Tampa.
October 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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I'm transplanting orchids today and enjoying the beautiful poems @djvorreyer.bsky.social shared from her new collection, Unrivered, on the latest episode of @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social 😀

#poetrypodcast #poetrycommunity #newpoetry #poetrybooks
(picture of orchids blooming in March)
Photo of a yellow Phalaenopsis with pink veins and a pink Phalaenopsis with a pale center.
September 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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I didn't get a Writer's residency in October. Of course in my head, I planned the whole week out already.
Since that's not happening I'm just diving in anyway. We'll see what surfaces.

#poetrylife #poetryprojects #erasure #managingdisappointment
The cover of Rachel Carson's book, The Edge of the Sea photographed above a swimming pool. This edition of the book is paperback and shows a dark tide pool surrounded by rocks.
September 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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I know some writers say they hate facing a blank page but I think there's nothing better than starting a new notebook.
All that potential 😍

#writerslife #poetproblems #poetrylifestyle #poetry
Traveler's Notebook covered in decoupage of vintage stamps of flowering plants and cacti. The faceplate in a spiral bound Traveler's Notebook. The notebook is inside a brown leather case. The faceplate has been decorated with a postcard with an illustration of a hammock chair surrounded by plants in front of an open window surrounded by plants. Plus stickers of plants and cacti. Blank Travelers Notebook (the spiral bound size) pages in a brown leather cover.
September 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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I'm loving @tracibrimhall.bsky.social new book. Such lush language.
"...all those xerces flexing,
blue apexes on the hust of a poppy's lip until
silence ushers them into a quieter fog."

#poetry #poetrybooks #poetrybook #quotes
September 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Snapshots from my morning poetry walk listening to Eugenia Leigh.

I think there's a poem in a pile of dead sea pens.

#poetrywalk #morningwriters
A white seagull feather photographed against the sea. A brown seagull feather photographed in front of beach sand. Piles of dead sea pens washed up on the beach.
September 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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The poetry was authentic and emotional at last night's open mic night.

If you're ever in Gulfport, Florida, on the third Thursday of the month, come and join us at the public library.

#librarypoetry #poetryopenmic #poetryevents #poetry #poetrysky #poetryreading
Pictures of five different women reading their poetry at the Poetry Open Mic night at the Gulfport, Florida, Public Library. Each is standing holding a paper except for the woman in the lower left, who's reading off her phone.
August 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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#sealeychallenge book.
As a stunning anthology I'm not getting through this in a day but it's a diverse collection of contemporary eco poetry well worth reading 😀

#whatimreadingnow #poetry #poetrysky #ecopoetry
#poetrybooks #poetrybook
Cover of the book, Attached to the Living World. The cover is an illustration of a large red fur tree in front of a conifer forest. The book is being held up in front of a Vermont forest.
August 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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A great haul from the lovely Crow books in Burlington. Adding to my Sealey Challenge pile 😀

#sealeychallenge #whatimreadingnow #poetrysky #poetrybooks #poetry
A photo of three poetry books. We are Mermaids by Stephanie Burt that has three animals style female mermaids on the cover, Information Desk by Robyn Schiff which is yellow with a burgundy museum floorplan on the cover, and Coloratura On a Silence Found in Many Expressive Systems by Alic Fulton with Chinese papers on a black background.
August 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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If I had my own dedicated writing room this is what it would look like 👍

In reality it's the docent desk at the Shelbourne Inn 😀

#writingroom #vermont #poetrydreams
A photo of the docent desk at the Shelbourne Inn with a vase of flowers on the desk in front of late 19th century bookshelf filled with books arranged by color.
August 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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The sunrise was serene this morning and got me meditating on the role of pink in Florida.

What is your relationship to the color pink?
Sunrise in Florida over dark trees.
July 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM