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Christa Fairbrother

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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.

go.bsky.app/9KjrQgN

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Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 7d

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 · 8d

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 · 9d

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 · 11d

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 · 11d

You're welcome 🙏

Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · 11d

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 · 14d

Thanks so much 🙏

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Phylum Press @phylumpr3ss.bsky.social · 15d

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 · 16d

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

#poetry #poetrysky #newpoems #grief

Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · 16d

"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 · 16d

Thanks for sharing 👍

Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · 17d

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 · 21d

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 · 23d

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 · 26d

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 · 29d

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 @phylumpr3ss.bsky.social · 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 🤩

Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thanks to @robmclennan.bsky.social for inviting me to write this article about my approach to being a poet laureate.

If you want your community to create a program, there are suggestions for making that happen😀

#poetrysky #poetry #poetlaureate #poetryarticles

rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · Sep 3

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social : What is it to be a Poet Laureate ;
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/09/chri...

Christa Fairbrother : What is it to be a Poet Laureate

The title poet laureate implies a certain weight and brevity, like a Greek man, laureled, orating on high as a plinthed sculpture....

periodicityjournal.blogspot.com

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Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · Sep 2

Lovely 😍

Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · Sep 2

I have a haibun, Pain is a romance novel, in the latest issue of Call of the Page.
There's a lot of interesting work in the issue 😀

#poetry #newpoems #poetrysky #haibun

www.callofthepage.org/the-pan-haik...

Call of the Page - The Pan Haiku Review

New page

www.callofthepage.org

Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · Sep 1

This is exciting to have another journal in this space.

Please share
@mailbykite.bsky.social @kimmalinowskipoet.bsky.social @emilyhockaday.bsky.social @aislingwalsh.bsky.social @louisekenward.bsky.social @sonyahuber.bsky.social

Nerve to Write @nervetowrite.bsky.social · Sep 1

Nerve to Write is a new online magazine for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers to showcase creative innovation and build crip community. We are officially open for free submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid writing, and artwork!

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Paul @paulwritespoems.bsky.social · Sep 1

So happy to feature the excellent @pascalepetit.bsky.social as part of The Book Bag: Poetic Voices monthly feature.

It is a real honour 📚💼

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