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Writer. Founding editor of Little Thoughts Press (@littlethoughtspress.com) clairemtaylor.com otherthoughts.beehiiv.com 📍Baltimore Chapbook One Good Thing available from Bottlecap Press https://bottlecap.press/products/one

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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · Jun 30

At no point this year has it stopped feeling like a weird time to share good news, but screw it, I’ve got good news to share.

I’m gonna have a whole book published!

My full length poetry collection, April, And Back Again is coming early 2026 from @pubgen.bsky.social!

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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 10h

Today's weather is good for feeling a little bit sad.

Not too sad. Just like a teensy bit of woe.

This is teensy bit of woe weather.

Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 2d

Based on personal experience, in a couple of years your kid will pedantically inform you that actually your pterodactyl is upset because you’ve yet again called him a dinosaur when really he’s a pterosaur.

Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 3d

The world may be hot garbage but my dahlias are tremendous.

My hand holding a bunch of beautiful dahlias

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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 4d

Watching sports is really fun because you can just sit in the comfort of your living room feeling like you’re about to die.

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the Under Review @underreviewlit.bsky.social · 4d

ICYMI we are currently open for submissions to our upcoming winter issue!

We’re open for all the things until November 1 at 11:59 pm CT (cc: @submittabledaily.bsky.social).

Check out all the details 👇

www.underreviewlit.com/submit-open

Submit - Open — The Under Review

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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 4d

A great thing about little kids is how you can spend half an hour setting up an activity that will keep them occupied for 5 minutes and creates a mess that will take another half hour to clean up and the whole time you’ll both be on the verge of tears.

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chris-ture from the black lagoon @thecorlew.bsky.social · 4d

real great podcast with my real great friend @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social you're gonna wanna check it out

apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

spotty: open.spotify.com/episode/2m6f...

scary stories with the lights on with Chloe N. Clark

Podcast Episode · The Lazy & Entitled Podcast · 09/10/2025 · 36m

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 8d

My poem “Shapeshifters Local” has been published in the Autumn 2025 issue of @kaleidotrope.bsky.social, alongside what looks to be an amazing TOC. Read my poem here: kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

“Shapeshifters’ Local” by Rick Hollon

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Francesca Leader @mooninabucket.bsky.social · 5d

oneartpoetry.com/2025/10/09/w...

Weights & Measures by Francesca Leader

Weights & Measures I still don’t know how You can compliment a girl Without infecting her, Say she’s perfect Without seeding worry Of when she won’t be Anymore, span her Waist with hands Amarve…

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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 6d

The month of September is looking at this Tigers team today like, “WTF you actually know how to hit?!“

Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 6d

Today does have a strange Friday energy.

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Bookshop has free shipping today! Find River River Book titles there 🌊 🌊 📚 #poetry #booksky

Our Poetry Catalog

Checkout out this list on Bookshop

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 6d

BIG thanks to @bryanharvey.bsky.social for a great conversation, and I cannot express how honored I am to have my book next to Buddha Edwards, Cecil Fielder, and Travis Fryman's cards. Deeetroit!

Bryan Harvey @bryanharvey.bsky.social · 6d

Spoke with @mitchnobis.bsky.social about his book, trees, Tree Rollins, more trees, and his book.
medium.com/@bryan-s-har...

Airport Beers with Mitch Nobis and his poetry in ‘The Size of the Horizon, Or, I Explained…

Airport Beers is an interview series. The following is an interview between Bryan Harvey and writer Mitch Nobis. Mitch’s book The Size of…

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 6d

I'm reeeeeally supposed to be grading... so put together this @bookshop.org list of these fave recent indie press short story collections:

bookshop.org/wishlists/0a...

recent fave indie press short story collections

Bookshop.org Custom Wishlist

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 11d

People need food, and World Central Kitchen brings it wherever it's needed. Happy to be able to support them in this way. Pre-order sale in effect until next Tuesday!

Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 11d

$1 from every pre-order of Donna Vorreyer's Unrivered will go to support World Central Kitchen! Find out about the important work that they do here: donate.wck.org/give/525879/...

World Central Kitchen

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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 11d

It's looking very likely that a picture book I've been trying to get published since 2018 is finally coming out before the end of this year. I'm excited, of course, but more than that, I'm so relieved to be able to finally move on from the effort of trying to turn this story into an actual book.

Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 13d

How does NAWP feel about logging in late to reading events? I want to attend but kid soccer practice keeps me out until a little after 7 on Tuesdays.

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 14d

One week until the official release of Unrivered means one more week of the low sale price! If you are so inclined, pre-ordering also gets you a custom broadside.

Thanks to those of you who have supported the book in this early phase...it means a lot.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 14d

That’s enough, mosquitoes. Time to go freeze and die now.

Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 19d

Why do these people always say it’s okay to share their responses? I’d be like, eh no, I kind of sound like a jackass, best we keep this just between us.

Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 19d

I love a folded up potato chip. Every time I come across one in the bag it’s like, ooh goody!

Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 19d

Very excited to receive a Best of the Net nomination for my poem about dinosaurs & existential dread.

Huge thanks to the editors of DMQ Review for being such fans and champions of this piece!

WHILE MY SON RATTLES ON ABOUT DINOSAURS I
CONTEMPLATE THE FUTILITY OF LIFE

I understand why the Evangelicals are skeptical. These strange feathered beasts. Fanged monsters. Sharp-clawed short-armed freaks. The plesiosaur is technically a marine reptile. The brontosaurus doesn't actually exist. Or maybe it does again? So much has changed in the brief history of my living. So much has stayed the same. Pterosaurs are not dinosaurs at all, my son informs me. The things I thought I knew have been lost to time. I tell him we once owned a
machine that rewound VHS tapes; it worked at twice the speed of the VCR. He can't fathom a reason for this device which is how I feel about AR-15s and every vitamin for sale on Instagram. Could a gun kill a dinosaur, he wonders and I try not to picture him shot dead while learning math. I have no idea. Probably yes. Definitely not. I understand so little about evolution and extinction. One thing changing, something else dying away. He asks me how life begins and I speak vaguely of sperm and ovum, some notion of love but he's talking about the
world-how did it get here, when will it end. I haven't the energy for science or poetry. To explain how the stars are our kin. Imagine a day when dinosaurs return, our bones drifting in sea-rise graves. They'll talk of God and mysteries. Dust clouds. Intolerable heat. How we mowed each other down. We go back and forth about which dinosaurs are our favorites and I settle on the triceratops because it's one of the few I can remember. He picks one I've never heard of before and I nod along, say that's a good one, though I've already forgotten its name

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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 20d

My toddler, feeling sleepy this afternoon, said, “Let’s lie down and talk about trucks.” So we snuggled on the couch and took turns naming trucks we like.

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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 20d

Two things I have done today for the first time in 10 weeks:

1. A one-hour yoga class
2. Work on my novel for one hour

I feel better after these two hours than I have felt in months.

However you have to do it, find a way to make time for the things you need that are just for you.

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