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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I was so pleased to write for Consequence Forum about Minneapolis & resistance. Thank you to the editors & to the wonderful poets of Houston, whose questions got this piece off the ground. ❄️❤️

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The Poetry of Minneapolis

Nonfiction by Chelsea B. DesAutels. "... the question I want to answer isn’t 'What is the role of political poetry?' but 'Are the ways poetry changes us relevant to political resistance?'"

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Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Miss the deadline for our annual prizes? We’ve got you. 🫶

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Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

#Essayists! Would love to see more cnf in the @westbranchmagazine.bsky.social submissions database! Flash and work under 3500 words most welcome. No fee submissions. We pay contributors. Additional details: westbranchsubmissions.bucknell.edu

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Please behold this magnificent octopus I saw on a shore dive last week. 😍 (Photo credit Lukas Arias)

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Frost flowers on the creek yesterday. These only form when it is very cold, and very still, and it has been both. It feels like magic. ❄️

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Many, many thanks to @narrativemag.bsky.social for making a home for "Some Half-World." This poem means a lot to me. ❤️ (Link in comments.)

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Let's endure winter together, by making our own little web of work. ❄️ Check out The Winter Writer: Six Weeks of Writing in Community. ✨ Tuesday evenings, online, starting February 11. ✨

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

We marked the new year with a small offering. May you get what you need this year. ✨

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

All bundled up. Time to test the lake ice. ❄️

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The 10yo & I made peppermint marshmallows!

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Reposting b/c AWP has a legit means of transferring registrations. You should go to LA! Let's talk!

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Many thanks to @cincinnatireview.bsky.social & @lisaampleman.bsky.social for giving a home to two new poems, including the first in a short series of prose poems considering shame & girlhood.

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Anyone need a discounted AWP registration? Hit me up. It looks like I'll be flying in the opposite direction instead. 🍀

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

What are your favorite winter poems? ❄️ Here's one of mine.

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Claire Wahmanholm @cwahmanholm.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Are you a poet 40 and over who has published no more than one full-length collection of poetry?? Send ten pages of poems for me to read for this year's @poetrysociety.org Robert Winner Memorial Award!

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Two sides of the same lake. ☀️❄️

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Jonathan Hammer-Slay (Halloween '26 edition)👻🎃🧛🦇🔪 @jhammersley.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Here's my new favorite joke: knock knock who's there? hike hike who? Unsuspecting friend. I await with bated breath. Sets the perfect trap.

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Really happy to have a recent poem in the fall issue of Pleiades, which is packed with great work. Many thanks to @jennymolberg.bsky.social & @caitlincowan.bsky.social.

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Booked AWP! Who else is going to be there? 🌴

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Listen, a cold walk is a tonic. ❄️

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Sixteen years ago tonight I kissed my husband for the first time. We were first-year law students & the party was wild & I thought I was defending his honor but I had the story wrong.

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Remember when the night before Thanksgiving was the most raucous night of the year?

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Aproned in the kitchen listening to 1970s jams, prepping syrups & scones & cornbread & stuffing, & wishing my grandma, who was hilarious & complicated & taught me to cook, was here, too. 💚

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Looking for a writing ritual to push through the darkest days? ✨ Join us during the week of winter solstice (Dec 16-20) for an online, early-morning writing circle & write five new poems, fast. ✨ We'd love to have you! Link for info & registration in comments.

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Thrilled to have a new poem in the (stellar) fall issue of Copper Nickel. Many thanks to the editors!

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

After a long time away, peeking back through the blinds into social media & so glad to see so many poets here. 💚

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

Only two seats left! Join us—it’s going to be wonderful!

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Under this bridge is where the ether leaves us its messages.

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Up to two partial scholarships remaining!

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

I’m excited to lead The Sustained Writer, an online guided writing circle beginning in January. ❄️✨❄️ We have a few seats left—join us! Link below for more info.

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Me, to every email I send, "Go with God."

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

A forever favorite by Keetje Kuipers.

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Love is on the other side of the lake. -Linda Gregg

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Someone on the internet had hard-boiled eggs with feta & dill & as I’m quite suggestible, I did, too. And now I wish I could feed you all this immediately.

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

8yo: “Dad! Truth or dare?” Husband: “Truth!” 8yo: “Who would you have married if it wasn’t Mama who you already know?” 🙌🙌🙌

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Twin Cities! I'd love to see you tomorrow eve!

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Really looking forward to reading this Friday at 7:00pm at Eat My Words (in Northeast Minneapolis) with Joshua Gottlieb-Miller & Haley Lasché! We'd love to see you! It's gonna drop to freezing Friday night. Let's warm up with some fresh poems!

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

The first time I read this poem was aloud, in an MFA workshop, & I was in tears by the end. The pleading, the longing, the anger. It wrecks me.

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Chelsea B. DesAutels @cbdesautels.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

So many times reading Glück‘s poems, I felt I’d been struck by lightning. 💔

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