Vanessa Stauffer
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Vanessa Stauffer
@vanopticon.bsky.social
free range word person | Houston PhD, MFA | poems in various places | semi-dormant publishing professional | cat servant

writing, services, contact: vanessastauffer.com
assorted poetry warblings: amomentarystay.substack.com
I inaugurated the Windsor free half marathon and decided to keep going since this month is 14 years cancer-free. Shout out to Dr Peter Ferguson, who possesses the bonkers ability to remove part of a leg in such fashion that it can still do dumb shit like this.
October 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
lmao no you do not have an exciting opportunity penguin random house
October 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Get it together guys
September 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
All aboard
September 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I have a poem in the September issue of the LRC, an elegy for the late great Richard Sanger, whose final collection, WAY TO GO, I was lucky to work on. It's a book, to me, about dying well, though that's coloured by my ongoing admiration for how Richard met his last August: with wit, ardour, grace.
September 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?

Tuesday night on Heaven Lake, the long misty line of Lake Huron yonder in the south.
September 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Currently being watched over by Louise
August 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Good morning from auntie Annie
August 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
fuck me up lao tzu
August 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I remember writing this in the dorm one autumn morning and being surprised to discover that it rhymed, a real mindfuck from which I have never recovered
August 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Oh
July 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This is normal right
July 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
apropos of nothing by which I mean general rage
June 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I like to respect the print / digital divide, but the hockey canada trial makes me want to scour my brain with steel wool so here's a poem instead.
May 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I sent this poem out 17 million times but now it is in @agnimagazine.bsky.social, there really is a santa claus
May 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
it took a while, but I finally understand the true purpose of social media, which is to show as many people as possible that someone made you a fleabag James Joyce bucket hat
May 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM