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Chrissy Stegman @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Suzanne Lumière. Captured on an early Autochrome Lumière glass-plate color photograph around 1910.

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Chrissy Stegman @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The poems are flowing. And not terrible ones!

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Chrissy Stegman @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Of course I support women’s rights! But. I also support women’s wrong turns. Their strange and unnecessary lamps. Her mysterious notebooks. The extremely elaborate soups.

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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Found this today while reading the backlog on @offbeatlit.bsky.social . So much emotion arising out of a “quantitative” assignment. Really intriguing work, @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social 👏 👏 #poetry #poetsky #writing #writesky

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Chrissy Stegman @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Summer in Baltimore is eating an heirloom tomato sandwich (maybe over the sink)fresh-baked bread, Maldon salt, an absolutely irresponsible amount of Duke’s mayo, tomato juice running down your wrist.

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

High Fives to contributors Julia Clebsch @jen-bryant.bsky.social Richard LeBlond @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social & @beekaekae.bsky.social. Head to our Substack 5minutes100words to find out what they published, and where!

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Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I guess I’m kind of a sociopath because I just walked away from the news and . . . kind of finished my book today? To be sure, it has raggedy portions and needs much polishing, but — it’s a book! With a beginning, middle and an end. My 30th if anyone’s keeping score. (It’s me, I’m keeping score.)

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Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Read "The Intruder" written by @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "The intruder is clean—skin smooth, freshly shaved, black hair wet from the shower. He is toweling off in my bedroom while I stand watching from the doorway." tinyurl.com/ydfv2wy4

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The Intruder — Ghost Parachute

The intruder is clean—skin smooth, freshly shaved, black hair wet from the shower. He is toweling off in my bedroom while I stand watching from the doorway. He smiles lightly at me, as if maybe I knew...

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HoCoPoLitSo @hocopolitso.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Just on the other side of yesterday's The Little Patuxent Review reading debuting the poem, let's share congratulations to @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize! Winning poem & learn a bit about the poet in the link. hocopolitso.org/2026/02/17/m...

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Chrissy Stegman @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

My new flash piece is up at Variant Lit! I wrote about an unnamed extra in the “I am your father” scene from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. I loved writing this during my MVCWI Fellowship last year. I stayed in my room for a week writing, drink too much coffee. variantlit.com/back-in-the-...

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Back in the Tall Grass

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Chrissy Stegman @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

When you enroll in Wawa’s rewards program, you are treated like a GOD. They hand you a scepter made of hoagie and a crown woven from goose feathers. The cashier bows. The fluorescent lights flash thrice.

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Thank you so much @happilander.bsky.social for including my piece and thank you for always always always supporting me. And thank you so much, @mattkendrick.bsky.social, for #Mondettes.

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Chrissy Stegman @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I saw a deer eating Cheetos from a busted vending machine in a rest stop parking lot once and thought: this is the new pastoral. The meadow is Wi-Fi enabled.

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Chrissy Stegman @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Queen's Gambit, but make it Halloween.

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

"When the left hand pointed a plastic finger to the horizon, I followed it." Big love for this tiny perfection by @ezhang77.bsky.social in @claudineliterary.bsky.social 💙💙💙 www.claudineliterary.net/elenazhang

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Elena Zhang | Call Me

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Chrissy Stegman @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

The chicken dreams of jumping over the moon.

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Chrissy Stegman @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Why can’t we just greet each other the way Dylan Thomas intended: Ho, hullaballoing clan, agape, woe in our beaks, flapping dramatically on the gabbing capes...

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Chuffed to have a collab with @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social merging Persephone and Born Slippy! Hope you enjoy! “And the boy tries the club, doing what he can to forget. Skin hot and lager-damp. His hips grind in the groin behind” gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

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Gone Lawn 61 : Kathryn Reese & Sumitra Singam

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

"Just the sea of drift releasing him molecule by molecule." This extraordinary poem really resonated. Brilliant writing by @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social 💙💙💙

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Gone Lawn Journal @gonelawn.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

It's of course absolutley förbjuden for us to reveal anything related to the upcoming issue. You will need to wait until 7 September to see who's in it. And what a field! You'll gasp not a bit way through it! Really, you'll love it, and that cover art! Oh, satisfaction! You'll see, you'll see.

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mary-sonoma @mary94930.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Beautiful poem. What he abandoned, I gathered: scrap wind, a dead name, the luminous debris of his daughter

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

@tomljanovic.bsky.social “Squirrels Played Elton John’s Tiny Dancer on my Living Room Piano” —story link in comments

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

“My Dad. He is snow. No, snow is too soft. He is the sound of snow. He is the hiss of it falling in the dark. The way it is blind to everything but itself.” I Watch a Movie Starring My Dad + 2 by @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social in Gargoyle gargoylemagazine.com/chrissy-steg...

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Chrissy Stegman Back to Gargoyle Online The Empress of Dying Falcons It was forever evening in a hospital without clocks. There was a white funeral bloom clutched in the iron of Apollo’s fist…

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Char Hamrick @charhamrick.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

“…count the hours since he left. I count past stars and across galaxies until I find a convenience store on Mars. It’s called Stop. His orange Volkswagen Beetle is parked out front, bright as a pumpkin, as real as absence.” 💔 @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social gargoylemagazine.com/chrissy-steg...

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Chrissy Stegman Back to Gargoyle Online The Empress of Dying Falcons It was forever evening in a hospital without clocks. There was a white funeral bloom clutched in the iron of Apollo’s fist…

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Chrissy Stegman @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Mead batches. Four types. Sassafras and molasses, chamomile and vanilla, apple cider, and caramelized honey. Time to make the labels.

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Chrissy Stegman @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

So grateful to chat with Andrew @andrewcareaga.bsky.social about writing, inspiration, and how to keep going!

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

"his mother died, and he inherited her lighthouse. Even though there is no longer a tide, and the sea around it is dry, the light still sweeps for something." #TodaysPoem #poetry The Moon Files For Bankruptcy @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social (2025 @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social‬) tinyurl.com/yevupt7b

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The Moon Files For Bankruptcy - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Samantha Kennedy on Unsplash by Chrissy Stegman The stars look away, abashed, while the lawyer who files on the moon’s behalf feels his remorse grow antlers, and everyone pretends not to noti...

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Michael C. @snakeborn.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

⚡️⚡️@chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social stopped by P&W the other day. Join us this Wednesday, June 11th, 10pm cst! ⚡️⚡️ (or after, I'm not your momma, you're free to listen in your own time) Cheers y'all! #poetrypodcast #writingcommunity #writingpodcast #poetry #creativitypodcast #poemsandwhiskeypod

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