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Kait Quinn

@kaitquinn.com
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Minneapolis-based poet, cat lover, professional shower singer, unlikeable girl. "I shall never grow up; make believe is much too fun." - Eisley 🌙🧜🏻‍♀️ kaitquinn.com

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
i am exhausted by my own stupid soul
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 23/09/2026
Blessed Mabon! 🍂 Autumn Equinox Cake (aka apple cake) is in the oven. The house smells like apples, spices, and the neighbor's backyard campfire. And here's poem from my OG poetry collection, A Time for Winter. It's still one of my favorites. I hope you found a little way to welcome autumn today 🖤
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 04/09/2026
My poem “If I Should Wash Upon the Shore, Dead, Wrapped in Plastic” found a home in @sillygoosepress.bsky.social 's “Offering to the Sturgeon Moon” mini issue! Read the full poem (and the whole issue) here: sillygoosepress.com/sturgeon-moon/if-i-should-wash-upon-the-shore-dead-wrapped-in-plastic
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Silly Goose Press @sillygoosepress.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🐟🌙Offerings to the Sturgeon Moon🌙🐟 OUT NOW! Give it a gander: sillygoosepress.com/sturgeon-moon
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 28/08/2026
Blessed monarch season! 🦋 #monarch #butterfly #summer #pollinator
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hannah eve @hannaheve.com · 21/08/2026
Small #poem for something that's felt sharp to hold.
A poem titled "Poem with multiple metaphors for my mother's OCD"
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 25/08/2026
Watching the orb weaver that lives on my deck is like watching the spider version of Alone. But instead of being like, "Whoah! He caught two 40-foot pikes!" I'm like "Woah! It got five bugs!" Good job, buddy! #spiders #nature
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 16/07/2026
A poem for 38. From your local moody, water-eyed, Cancer sun/Leo moon poet who misses the ocean, listens to the cicadas, has a heart too big for her body, and will always stop everything to point out a butterfly or the moon. 🌙🦀🦋🤍 #poem #poet #poetry
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Philly Chapbook Review @phillychapbook.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
"Every time I plucked a few of the little orange sun sugars to take inside, their garden smell lingered on my fingers." Read three #poems by @kaitquinn.com, along with a few words about "The Tomato." #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/three-poems-...
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Three Poems by Kait Quinn
Read three poems by Kait Quinn, our fifth biweekly poet of the Spring 2026 issue, along with a few words about "The Tomato."
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 16/04/2026
Emily's reaction to getting her period during a party in Season 1, Episode 3 of Dickinson is the appropriate amount of dramatic. This is still my reaction to getting my period two decades+ into menstruating. I impatiently await the blessing of the menopause goddesses.
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 07/03/2026
An excerpt of my poem in Issue 11 of one of my fave literary journals, Ink & Marrow Lit. Read the full poem and issue at inkandmarrow.com/issue-11 🖤 #poetry
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 05/03/2026
Winter's death rattle shakes out its indecency, / and I am eager for the scandal of light / to constellate my body where hurt once puckered and dimpled. #poetry
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 04/03/2026
I’ve curated a bby list of upcoming poetry workshops that are perfect for Women’s History Month! Check them out at kaitquinn.com/posts/march-... #poetry #poetryresources #writingworkshops
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Poetry Workshops for Women's History Month | Kait Quinn Poetry
Original poetry and resources for the poetry community
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 01/03/2026
Favorite read of the year so far! 🙌🏻 Read my review at kaitquinn.com/posts/cord-swell-brittny-ray-crowell/ #poetry #bookreview
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 21/02/2026
We're always more wrong than we think. We always forget / how history never really roosts once it's buried in a page // and shoved on a shelf. That bodies remember what souls forget. #poetry
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 04/02/2026
I've curated a list of poetry classes happening this month and how you can use them together (with some additional resources) to create protest poems and act through your art. Check it out at kaitquinn.com/posts/februa... #poetry #poetryworkshops
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Protest Poetry (& Other Workshops/Resources for February) | Kait Quinn Poetry
Original poetry and resources for the poetry community
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 08/01/2026
I have two poems published in the first issue of Nettle Literary! Read the full poems and the whole issue at nettleliterary.com/january-26 #poetry
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
i love how you have to whisper in a library. there should be more whisper-only spaces. speak softly if you must speak at all
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 03/01/2026
It's not peace I want—it's bruised knees at the altar of your freckles. #poetry
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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
First Submission Call of 2026! ★彡 Poem of the Month 💙 This month, the theme is: BEGINNINGS. Interpret it however you wish. 🌀🖌️ Comment one New Year's resolution & we'll DM you how to submit your poems! 🦋
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 03/12/2025
"I would stain December gluey red. / I would bring you rabbits in my teeth." Read full poem at kaitquinn.com/posts/nightb... #poet #poetry #poem #indieauthor
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 04/11/2025
Therapy is just realizing, "Oh, I can do that?"
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 23/09/2025
Background image a view upward beneath a tree with a dark brown trunk and branches and orange and amber leaves. A white box in the center of the photo contains qupted text that reads: "September has mellowed whatever there was of roughness in her heat: the days are more perfect, but less vigorous. The summer in fact is on the wane; peacefully fading like some brilliant spot of light. The colours of the sunset are everywhere." Quote is attributed to Virginia Woolf, A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals 1987-1909.
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 12/09/2025
The thing about me is I have been a wax melt in too many balmy hands; sought protection from bodies that only saw me as prey. #poetry
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 10/09/2025
First spooky season read (from August): "The Invocations" by Krystal Sutherland. 10-word snapshot: Queer. Witchcraft. Curses. Helpful(?) demons. Murder. Girl power. Necromancy. Ancestral lineage. Highly recommend as a witchy read this fall 🔮 #books #witchybooks #spookyreads
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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
One of the best poems I’ve read all year. by Jeremy Radin
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 25/05/2025
What a beautiful piece! I wanted to linger in this world awhile 😌
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
A Day! Help! Help! Another Day! —Emily Dickinson
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 12/05/2025
Not me quoting "Interview with a Vampire" to my therapist during an EMDR session. (In which adult me tells teenage me, "I'm going to give you the choice I never had.") 🧛🏻‍♀️
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 05/05/2025
Half a dosage down in reducing my meds and feeling all the feelings. Suffering...but happy about it. 😅😭🥹
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 25/04/2025
Do you like poems about poetry? Read FIVE of them (including one by me) on my Substack! kaitquinn.substack.com/p/five-poems...
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 24/04/2025
One of my absolute favorite pieces you've done 😻
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 09/04/2025
My comfort dark chocolate has officially become a part of my writing ritual. (By comfort dark chocolate, I mean micro dose caffeine replacement.)
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
When selecting Best of the Net (@sundresspub.bsky.social) nominees, we thought of our favorite “POP!” pieces that recognize & embrace the opportunities of digital media. Read them here: tinyurl.com/Expo24LitNoms @tomasbaiza.bsky.social @kaitquinn.com @georgia2newengland.bsky.social #ExpoReview
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 05/04/2025
I think of heartbreak like sticking a pinkie into the spindle hole to wind the pulled-loose tape taut and expecting it to play the same as it did before. #poetry #napowrimo
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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Most of your writing will never see the light of day. But neither do diamonds until someone digs them up. Keep going, little goblin.
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 26/03/2025
I am not as honest as fresh snow, and you'll never forgive me. #poetry #linesofpoetry
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 24/03/2025
Rewatching the Harry Potter movies. Honestly, I'm surprised the Dursleys even let him have glasses. Also, I have so many questions about the house in the middle of a stormy ocean.
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 24/03/2025
I pour my coffee slowly in the post-apocalypse glow and dream about the moon. 🌙 #poetry
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 21/03/2025
But what if every time I visit a city, we don't meet up for coffee - we meet up and get tattoos?
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 21/03/2025
Blessed Ostara! Here are some spring poems! kaitquinn.substack.com/p/poems-for-... #poetry #poems #spring #ostara
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Poems for Ostara/Spring Equinox
An appreciation for spring expressed through art & poetry.
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 20/03/2025
I met my younger self for coffee, and when I told her I only drink decaf now, she cried into her third double shot latte.
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blackfoxlit.bsky.social @blackfoxlit.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Reminder: Our free general submissions are open! We’re looking for short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry for upcoming issues! We publish in print and online! blackfoxlitmag.com/submit/ #litmags #writers #amwriting #callforsubmissions
Floral background with dark blue overlay and white text: Free submissions are open! Submit fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction. @blackfoxlit
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Anteroom (formerly The Winged Moon) @anteroompoetry.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
WRITING COMPETITION Submit now… We can’t wait to read your poems/micro fiction/prose in response to this month's prompt, ‘TIDES’ Deadline is March 19th! Read here for guidelines:thewingedmoon.substack
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 10/03/2025
My latest Substack post is a first in a series on self-publishing tips. Susbcribe for FREE to get the next one directly to your inbox! kaitquinn.substack.com/p/self-publi... #poetry #writer #selfpublishing #indieauthor
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UPDATED Self-Publishing Tip: Platforms & Printing
How to get started in publishing, PART 1.
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 07/03/2025
ICYMI, check out my FREE newsletter for March! Includes curated lists of open calls and upcoming classes, a writing prompt, and more! kaitquinn.substack.com/p/march-news...
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 05/03/2025
Me: You're definitely a Slytherin. Carlos: I know. Me: ...I think I'm a Hufflepuff. Carlos: I don't know what that is, but you're definitely a Hufflepuff.
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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I don’t want to ‘work to live’ or ‘live to work.’ I want to sit in a sunbeam like a cat and have snacks appear in front of me
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 01/03/2025
I wrote a Twin Peaks poem for a workshop even though I told myself not to write a Twin Peaks poem because then I'd want it to be in my already-published book, but the prompt wanted it to be a Laura Palmer meets The Little Mermaid poem, so I wrote the poem, and now I'm mad that it's not in Blue Rose.
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Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 25/02/2025
About to get fingie tats on my right hand knuckles 👊🏻 Guess the word!
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