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Abigail Welhouse
@welhouse.bsky.social
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what if I got really into ________

latest poetry chapbook: SMALL DOG
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first time using a hatchet but not the last 🪓
August 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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thought you all should see this neighbor dog
A tiny gremlin dog puppy looks up at the camera. She has a cone around her face. Her paws are on the fence and she has a crooked underbite.
August 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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The most validating thing is when your dog treasures the tiny tennis balls that you got him
A little dog is curled up in his plaid dog bed. He looks at the camera. Beside him are two blue tennis balls and a red rope toy.
August 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Richie says hi.
A small tan dog sticks his nose close to the camera.
July 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Richie would wish you a happy Sunday, but he's too sleepy.
A sleepy little dog enjoys resting on a gray couch with pillows. In the background, you can see a tiny portrait of the same little dog wearing a lobster costume.
July 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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good day to stop for beverages
A black and white cat lies down on a rug that says "Deli."
July 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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NYC lifeguard shortage hitting hard this summer
Sign says "We're looking out for you––literally." A crow sits in the lifeguard chair.
July 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Reading poems this Sunday by the Gowanus Canal. See you there 🛶
Flyer for "A Persistence of Cormorants," Sunday, May 18, 2025 1:30-3:30 PM featuring Scott Hightower, Kristina Andersson Bicher, Estha Weiner, and Abigail Welhouse.
May 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Maybe we spend too much time telling people to have long-term plans and goals instead of encouraging them to stay curious and see what they can learn. Someone asked me recently, will you be here in 30 years?

I don't think you have to know the answer for an experience—and a life—to be worth it.
April 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Marge Simpson holds up a potato and says, "I just think they're neat!"
March 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Yay for small dogs running! My little guy was enthusiastic about doing couch-to-5k with me in 2020 and he always got smiles from strangers
A little dog looking VERY EXCITED A little dog and a sunset
February 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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someone at the barn where I teach made this pony a valentine that says "little" 😭
A little brown pony with white on his face sticks his face over a red stall door. Above him is a sign that says "CHAMP" and below him is a purple heart that says "Little."
February 23, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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I got a literary agent! Monica Odom at Odom Media Management is now representing my writing.

We've got a bunch of projects in the works and will hopefully go out submission this year with a poetry collection and a novel for adults. This has been a long time in the works and I'm excited!
A loopy-looking Abigail poses in front of a pink wall that has "take risks" written in black. She wears an orange hat, a gray coat, and black jeans.
February 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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glad to finally have context for this line, which @monostich.bsky.social and I say to each other often
Image of a weird little green guy from animated TV show THE TICK (90s edition). White text says: "Read a book!"
February 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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I was about to reply that I could go even more giant, and looked at some photos for inspiration. Then I realized that I am currently wearing almost this exact sweater
Picture of Edward Gorey wearing a cozy white sweater next to some of his illustrations. Abigail wears a similar sweater. Her hair looks very curly!
February 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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made a lil graphic for my Boog City reading tomorrow. full schedule and livestream info: wordpress.boogcity.com/2025/02/04/w...
Graphic says: "Welcome to Boog City Arts Festival. Reading poems around 1:10 PM ET. Facebook Live. In-person at Block Hill Station (Park Slope, Brooklyn).
February 16, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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new poem / trying to make the dead laugh welhouse.beehiiv.com
An image of orange, pink, and blue watercolor circles with black text overlaid: "live your life so that all the young freaks hang out in the back of the church, stepping outside for cigarette breaks."
February 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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saw a dog in a baby carriage, if anyone needs it. ears were gloriously moving in the wind and I wish I had a video
A beagle with a sweet expression rides along cozily, pushed in a carriage.
February 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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We need less AI and more horse sense.
Photo taken from a horse's back. It is winter and the trees are bare. The horse is bay and her ears are pricked toward the field.
February 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn last night
Photo of a large brick building that says on the side: "United House of Prayer For All People." Photo of a street with the sun setting. It's a little crooked. Photo of the setting sun behind subway light poles. A person next to the pole holds a shopping bag.
January 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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There's something so cute about how strangers move out of your way when you're taking a photo
A large sculpture of a person with a background of blue sky and trees.
January 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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the Algorithms have determined that I want to see old photos of Mikhail Baryshnikov with dogs and they are correct
Mikhail Baryshnikov sits with his legs crossed and pets a dog. He has a towel around his neck and is looking pensively out of the frame.
January 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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POV: you went for a walk in Gowanus
View of the Gowanus Canal, which is weirdly iridescent. Grafitti says in block letters: "I feel like A.I." The dots look like eyes. Beneath it, an abandoned coffee cup. Someone has written in pen on a wall: "smile --> far aint it --> you did --> keep going --> Forever"
January 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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It would have been cool to see one of my poems cited next to Rita Dove. Unfortunately...this is AI nonsense created from plagiarism software. I never wrote this poem.

I've asked this website to delete the piece, and I'm thoroughly creeped out. Thankful for human critics who write about real poems.
AI nonsense text that describes a fake poem called "The Love Song of Hades and Persephone," purportedly by Abigail Welhouse. I am Abigail Welhouse and I did not write this.
January 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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one excellent thing: horses' Whiskers
A chestnut mare wears a cozy blue blanket and a halter. Her nose looks soft and fuzzy with prominent whiskers. There are trees behind her as well as blue, clear sky.
January 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM