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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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Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · Dec 5

I'm loving all the poetry starter packs people are creating.
Florida poets, let's connect. If you're a FL poet, leave a comment or send me a DM and I'll add you.

Share this with your poetry friends too.

Let's shed some light on the hardworking poets of the sunshine state.

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Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · 2h

Calling #floridapoets our last open mic of 2025 is this Thursday.

#poetry #poetryopenmic #openmic #tampabay

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Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations 😍

Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to @stonecirclereview.bsky.social for publishing this piece set at my local zoo.

Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 2d

NEW POEM #274: "Bested by Charismatic Megafauna" by Christa Fairbrother (@christafairbrother.bsky.social)

"I told him I've been
to Australia, pet
the koalas, and
they're really not
soft, but scratchy. They
smelled like greasy, grey
linens."

stonecirclereview.com/bested-by/

#Poem #Poetry #NewPoem

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Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for bringing this piece out into the world 😍

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Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · 4d

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.

Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · 8d

This is a planet of a pumpkin 🎃

#fall #writerslife #pumpkin

Close up photo of a warty pumpkin in the grass.

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Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks Robin. These poems are starting to make their way out into the world and I look forward to sharing. I'm just starting to think of the individual poems as a collection and I came to get inspiration for the holes in the collection😀

Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · 12d

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.

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Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · 14d

For my UK friend:
This is a great book and it would help many people to have access to it in libraries and hospitals across Wales.

#disability #chronicillness #Wales
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/86e1e73e29...

Chronic Illness Book to Health Centres Across UK

To get copies of Grace Quantock's book, "Living Well With Chronic Illness" into waiting rooms & surgeries across Wales & the rest of the UK.

www.crowdfunder.co.uk

Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · 16d

This looks like a great event writer.org/event/disabi...

#disability #writingworkshops

Disability Through a Literary Lens - The Writer's Center

The Writer’s Center presents a FREE symposium addressing the subject of disability in literature and popular culture, offering free creative writing workshops and a panel discussion. Featured writers ...

writer.org

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Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · 16d

You're welcome 🙏

Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · 16d

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.

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Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks so much 🙏

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Phylum Press @handle.invalid · 20d

We are pleased to be hosting another reading series next Thursday, October 2nd, featuring writers Sneha Madhavan-Reese and Carla Hartsfield! From 7-9pm at the Niagara Artists Centre, we hope to see you there!

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Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · 21d

My poem in the latest issue of @susurrusmag.bsky.social

#poetry #poetrysky #newpoems #grief

Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 21d

"What I notice
is my hibiscus
wilting. The blossoms—
flat, peach
as her palm..."

"My Friend is Dying" by @christafairbrother.bsky.social

My Friend is Dying — Susurrus

www.susurrusthemagazine.com

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Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks for sharing 👍

Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · 22d

Here are audio recordings of two of my published poems, I Date the Allergist and Ode to the Bad Poems.

We're so fortunate to have a local literary magazine in St. Pete 😍

#newpoetry #newpoems #poetrysky #poetry

open.substack.com/pub/christaf...

Neptune - an audio reading

Our town has it's very own poetry magazine

open.substack.com

Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · 26d

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.

Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · 28d

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.

Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · Sep 12

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

Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · Sep 9

I'm down for the count today with a vestibular migraine. This has been going on for a month and it SUCKS 🤢😱😭

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Luisa A. Igloria @thepoetslizard.bsky.social · Aug 25

Excited for the book launch of THE NATURE OF OUR TIMES, which I co-edited with Aileen Cassinetto & David Hassler: at Kent State U/Wick Poetry Center, 18 Sept. 🌳🌿 There will be additional events: a reading at Cleveland Public Library, & this reading at Last Exit Books. Stay tuned for more info!

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Phylum Press @handle.invalid · Sep 3

We are still taking submissions for our fourth issue, Corkscrew Willow! Submit to [email protected]!

Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · Sep 4

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.

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Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thanks for publishing this 🤩