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@chrispygal.bsky.social
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Poet, writer, lover of music and kitty cats. Ken's wife. Po-editor at Eclectica Magazine, author of The Bean Books. She/her

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I am really excited that I get to read my work with Monica Wendel, Rebecca Watkins, and Meghan Nolan! Juan Mobili, Rockland County Poet Laureate put the reading together. Come to Finkelstein Memorial Library in Spring Valley on August 25th at 7 PM for an evening of teacher-poets!
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Thanks for including my work. My cat Bella also thanks you.
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
That's a really good poem, David. Take that, AI!!
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Yay! My kitty poem is up in Rust + Moth, which adds poems to issues weekly. Have a look? Lots of other good work in there, too. rustandmoth.com/work/people-...
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People with Cats | Rust & Moth
Consider people who live easily with cats. Their homes offer double greetings: a glass of iced tea (or wine) and a nose silently extended, sniffing. Pat your lap and the tabby or flute-slender Siamese...
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Tis! I'm proud to be in this issue with Amy's fine work.
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
My brother's sweet doggo Asta actually has TWO eyes, but alas, she cannot read. Unlike you, she cannot enjoy the just-dropped issue of one of the oldest and best lit mags on the 'Net, Eclectica. There's poetry, all kinds of prose, & a writing challenge every issue. Read it to her? Eclectica.org
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
It sure is February--but that's okay! There's a new Grist for the Mill up on The Rockland County Business Journal, warming you up with the best poetry in our beloved county. This month poet Lily Greenberg. I've got a little news in there, too. Read all about it! rcbizjournal.com/2026/02/05/2...
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
A gentle, snowy reminder: my poetry reading with Rich Jordan and Carol Parris Krauss is on 2/19 at 8 Eastern. Here's the ZOOM link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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Poetry Reading: Christine Potter, Carol Parris Krauss & Richard Jordan
Event by Richard Jordan on Thursday, February 19 2026
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
We rescheduled! I'm honored to be reading poems from my new book Why I Don't Take Xanax on February 18th at 8 PM Eastern US time. The registration page for the Zoom reading--that's right, you can attend from ANYWHERE--is over on the FB and I'll provide a link to sign up below. Come listen!
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
New poetry book alert! Why I Don't Take Xanax, my first full collection since 2018, just came out on Kelsay Books. It's not about anti-anxiety drugs. It is about beauty and sorrow. kelsaybooks.com/products/why...
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Why I Don’t Take Xanax
Christine Potter is the poetry editor of Eclectica Magazine. She has also been a chef, a ringer of tower bells at churches, a chorister, and a high school English teacher. Her poetry has appeared in E...
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Grist for the Mill, Rockland County's local poetry column features Maureen Henry this month. Have a look in the Rockland County Business Journal. rcbizjournal.com/2026/01/08/g...
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Honored that my poem about mansplaining and the cosmos found a good home in Thimble Magazine! This issue's great--you should take time to enjoy ALL the poems. www.thimblelitmag.com/.../someone-... Someone Always Needs to Explain
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Someone Always Needs to Explain
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Good news! I have two poems, "More Reasons I Can't Flee the US" and "Shelter" in the new Willows Wept Review. It's a terrific winter issue, full of writing and art about nature and resilience. I'm on page 31... #willowsweptreview. #poetsofinstagram www.magcloud.com/webviewer/32...
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Issue Thirty-Nine: Winter 2026
Our winter issue dwells in deep time and lived aftermath, moving between the geologic, the historical, and the human. Brantingham’s opening suite reminds us that “you can still see the ice age if you ...
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
December comes! My column in the Rockland County Business Journal features Nyack poet Julie Agoos this month. Have a look! rcbizjournal.com/2025/12/08/g...
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
COVER REVEAL for my first full-length collection of poetry in way too many years, Why I Don't Take Xanax®, on Kelsay Books. You'll find my Rattle poems therein, as well as lots of poems about the 70's, drunken squirrels, and, oddly, hope. Written by a fully vaxxed poet! Out later this winter.
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Want to have a read? Buy link is here: bottlecap.press/products/bef...
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Before the World Was On Fire, by Christine Potter
Poetry, chapbook, 40 pages, from Bottlecap Features. How do you navigate a world in flames? This chapbook says take a look backwards and consider how far you’ve come.
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
This lucky poet has two books coming out this fall/winter. First up is my chapbook from Bottlecap Press, Before The World Was On Fire. It's about growing up in the 60's and 70's, and being an old gal in the 20's. And how you get through everything with the power of the word.
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Wednesday, October 29 at 7 PM, Pearl River Methodist Church--join six Rockland County poets who have written for a very, very long time. Julie Agoos, Tim Doyle, Maureen Henry, Wally Glickman, Brian Kates--and MOI! Thanks to Rockland Poet Laureate Juan Pablo Mobili for setting this up. Do come!
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
How can you both escape the current horrors and resist them? Read Eclectica, the literary magazine with a conscience and also fabulous poetry, CNF, and fiction. And lots of other stuff. Autumn issue OUT NOW, and free for all to read. www.eclectica.org/index.html
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Here's the link --> rcbizjournal.com/2025/10/01/g...
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Grist For The Mill – A Poetry Corner For Rockland County - Rockland County Business Journal
The arts are a significant thread in the fabric of Rockland County. They inspire, enrich, and chronicle our lives. They also play a role in our economic well-being; theater, writing, dance, crafts dra...
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Local Rockland County poets face the current discouraging times with encouraging verse and soulful advice in this month's Grist for The Mill, from the Rockland County Business Journal. Link in comments.
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Here ya go--> rcbizjournal.com/2025/09/07/g...
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Grist For The Mill - A Poetry Corner For Rockland County - Rockland County Business Journal
RCBJ-Audible (Listen For Free) Editor’s Note: The arts are a significant thread in the fabric of Rockland County. They inspire, enrich, and chronicle our lives. They also play a role in our economic w...
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Delighted to see my poetry column live at Rockland County Business Journal. Grist for the Mill this month is about Mary Lou Buschi, an excellent local poet. Link in the comments.
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Excellent
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Game on.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
This is scary!
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Thanks to Midwest Quarterly for including this poem about my eleventh finger (no kidding) in their summer issue!
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Hi, Bluesky poets and writers! I'm poetry editor at the venerable Eclectica Magazine, one of the 'net's first 'zines. General submissions for poems are just about filled up for the autumn issue, but if you've got something really good, why not shoot it our way? www.eclectica.org
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Three Poems open.substack.com/pub/wrongtur... Delighted to be included in Wrong Turn Lit today! These are all favorite poems.
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Three Poems
by Christine Potter
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Here's our home page. Click on Submit and use the WORD CHALLENGE portal. www.eclectica.org
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ECLECTICA Magazine Homepage
Eclectica Magazine: Finest poetry, fiction, reviews, art, essays and more!
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Hey, we're busy reading POEMS over at Eclectica Magazine. Our Autumn issue comes out around October 1. How about trying our WORD CHALLENGE? Include the words Curio, Cider, Foil, & Dolorous in a poem of any style, and send it to us through our WORD CHALLENGE portal. No reading fee!
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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Grist For The Mill — A Poetry Corner For Rockland - Rockland County Business Journal
Kelly Jo Lillian is a poet and a healer who lives in Rockland County. She shares the faith that poetry is often wiser than poets themselves—that the poem tells you what you want to say, not the other ...
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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Grist For The Mill — A Poetry Corner For Rockland - Rockland County Business Journal
Kelly Jo Lillian is a poet and a healer who lives in Rockland County. She shares the faith that poetry is often wiser than poets themselves—that the poem tells you what you want to say, not the other ...
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Did you know? Rockland County, NY, has more poets than you would believe. We have so many poets that poetry even poets it up in the Rockland County Business Journal--because poetry is the business of life. This month's column stars poet/creativity coach Mary Jo Lillian. Happy August!
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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
"This airplane flies on collective exhales," the pilot announces. "Please breathe together."

We practice. The plane shudders, lifts slightly.

"Think light thoughts," she adds.

A child giggles. We rise ten feet. Someone remembers their wedding—twenty feet. The couple beside me kisses—we're airborne.

"What happens if we panic?"

"We land," she says. "But we always take off again."

Below, other planes circle, waiting for their passengers to synchronize hope.

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Eyes of Texas ❌👑 @twaaustin.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Are you the reason?
Be the reason someone believes in good people.
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Mark Brazill 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇻🇪 🏳️‍⚧️ @markbrazill.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Thus ends the “Great Experiment.” We kinda had it coming.
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
www.eclectica.org
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ECLECTICA Magazine Homepage
Eclectica Magazine: Finest poetry, fiction, reviews, art, essays and more!
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Bella sez: read this!! www.eclectica.org
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Bella has the antidote to neo-fascism and despair; Fancy Feast for kitties, and the newest issue of Eclectica Magazine, one of the net's OG 'zines, for hoomans. Link in comments to the best poems in forever and fab prose, too.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Here's linkage: rcbizjournal.com/2025/07/01/g...
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Grist For The Mill — A Poetry Corner For Rockland - Rockland County Business Journal
Wally Glickman is an astonishing reader. His poems are musical (he writes songs, too), funny, political, and somehow also reverent.
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
New column's up about Rockland County, NY's Wally Glickman in RCBJ. Wally's delightful. Read all about his last performance at Nyack's Big Red Books. Link in comments, photo by Richard Fulco.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/06/2025
This is beyond cruel, especially for young folks who are going through it. Cutting off LGBTQ+ youth from specialized suicide prevention help is a death sentence disguised as bureaucracy. Shame on every official who signed off on this. You’re not protecting children, you’re abandoning them.
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I’m sorry!!
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Do you ever listen to Nick Lowe’s look-alike, Robyn Hitchcock? (I love em both.)
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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Still processing the loss of Brian Wilson. May he go with God. His hits with the Beach Boys were inescapable--and stunning. His NYT obit identifies someone else I love, Judee Sill, as a fan. She, too, had an often-tragic life. She created this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=40O8...
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Lady-O (Remastered)
YouTube video by Judee Sill - Topic
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
A woman walking home alone was shot point-blank with “non-lethal” rounds fired by officers in Los Angeles. A neighbor filmed the assault and rushed to help only to be fired on and ordered back.
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