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Cati Porter

@catiporter.bsky.social
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I enjoy rearranging words and collecting ceramic tchotchkes made by grandfather Brad Keeler. Cat hair is a legitimate accessory. Menopause is awesome. Having children was the best worst decision of my life.

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Cati Porter @catiporter.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
2008. My first book launch, seventeen years ago. I remember seeing this photo for the first time and thinking I looked fat. Now I see it differently. Why can’t we just be generous with ourselves at the start, why only in hindsight? *sigh*
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Cati Porter @catiporter.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Tomorrow! This is where I’ll be. Come on out.
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Ren Powell @ren-powell.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I’m reaching out with a one-time request I believe is important. You might remember me from my PEN days. My social reach has shrunk off Meta. I’m hoping you'll find this worth sharing. @carolee.bsky.social @catiporter.bsky.social @robbienestor.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/renpowel...
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Call for Submissions
An anti-fascist poetry anthology
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Cati Porter @catiporter.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
So far this year I have read 9 books and have two significantly in progress. This is how I’m coping with America becoming an absurdist reality TV show. I don’t know any other way to do this. How are you managing?
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Cati Porter @catiporter.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Taking a knife to this heart seems almost criminal. But I did it. And it was good. (Ally’s Valentine to the household, plus homemade cinnamon rolls with pink frosting.)
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Cati Porter @catiporter.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Just finished reading these two memoirs back to back. Highly recommend. Read Grealy first, then Patchett. It is the story of a friendship. It is a medical memoir. It is a memoir about the prize & fellowship circuit. It is a love story. But don’t just read one without the other.
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Cati Porter @catiporter.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Sometimes conversation / is too fast / for my slow thoughts / so words / fall from my mouth / like a rockslide / bury the thought beneath
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Cati Porter @catiporter.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Hip the moon / suck light through a straw / ground all the birds tonight / the earth needs the weight of their song
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Cati Porter @catiporter.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
What kind of reader are you? One book at a time, cover to cover? Or several at once, like me? Right now I have three books actively in progress: one paperback, the memoir Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy; audiobook Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro; and eBook How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell.
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Cati Porter @catiporter.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
There are so many worse things in the world but I’m having a hard time making peace with the fact that our time is limited. Cancer sucks. He is 16.
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Cati Porter @catiporter.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
I was on a waiting list for months for the Lessons in Chemistry audiobook. A friend loaned me the book but I never got around to reading it. Thought I’d take the shortcut. Listened until it became evident that the characters were wholly unbelievable. Returned it same day. Anyone else read it?
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Cati Porter @catiporter.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I joke that I’m a book junkie but there’s truth to it. I am always on the lookout for my next read, even if some of them are fails, and generally have at least one physical book in progress along with an audiobook. I have been reading more memoir than anything else lately and started compiling
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Cati Porter @catiporter.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I have stacks of “real” books by the bed, two of which I’ve begun reading this week—and maybe only one that I will finish because I’m just not finding the first one compelling enough. Which brings me to audiobooks. These are obviously easier to consume because I can listen while driving or shopping
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Cati Porter @catiporter.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
#BlueSky, we have pie. (Baked by one of my kids.) Also, I vacuumed the cat hair off the couch covers, finished @appletwigli.bsky.social’s Wednesday’s Child and started Crying in H Mart. And I submitted an essay to @longreads.com.
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Being Reese @beingreese.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Audiobooks count as reading. Audiobooks count as reading. Audiobooks count as reading. Audiobooks count as reading. Audiobooks count as reading. Audiobooks count as reading. Audiobooks count as reading.
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Cati Porter @catiporter.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
One of the books I picked up at a used bookstore last weekend. I hadn’t noticed until I started reading it that some passages are underlined. The book had a life before it was mine. Also: I silently apologized to the author when the booklight clamp covered her face, a little weird but fitting.
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Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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Cati Porter @catiporter.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I usually steer clear of politics but with every new Trump administration cabinet pick it becomes clearer that we are all a part of his new reality show. His cabinet picks are the cast and we are the audience biting our nails.
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Sheila Squillante @sheilasquill.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
We are open for our next themed issue celebrating 20 years of The Fourth River! Submissions are free for BIPOC writers until 11/22. Send us your birds! 4thriver.submittable.com/submit
Yellow and brown stylized birds sitting on branches against a light green background. Text reads “Online 2025 Issue: For the Birds, Submission Open! November 15-January 15.
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Brecht De Poortere @brechtdp.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
My ranking of 1000+ literary magazines www.brechtdepoortere.com/rankings
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Rankings | Brecht De Poortere
Ranking of the best literary magazines and journals
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Collin Kelley @collinkelley.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Just a reminder — and to all the new followers — submissions are open for “White Winged Doves: A Stevie Nicks Poetry Anthology” coming in 2026! Guidelines/submit here: madvillepublishing.com/submission/
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Cati Porter @catiporter.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I love working with teens and poetry. Last week we “revised” The Red Wheelbarrow by rearranging ourselves, resulting in “the glazed rain chickens”. SO MUCH BETTER, don’t you think?
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Cati Porter @catiporter.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Hello, BlueSky! Just a note to say that I'm hoping to curate this space to focus entirely on books and writers and writing--specifically, on my life as a writer. So, hello, prose writers and poets and people who read!
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Cati Porter @catiporter.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Hello #PoetsOfBlueSky and #Poets at large and #Writers in general!
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