Reposted by Kait QuinnChen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026i am exhausted by my own stupid soul 0224
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 23/09/2026Blessed 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 🖤 010
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 04/09/2026My 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 131
Reposted by Kait QuinnSilly Goose Press @sillygoosepress.bsky.social · 27/08/2026🐟🌙Offerings to the Sturgeon Moon🌙🐟 OUT NOW! Give it a gander: sillygoosepress.com/sturgeon-moon 153
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 28/08/2026Blessed monarch season! 🦋 #monarch #butterfly #summer #pollinator 000
Reposted by Kait Quinnhannah eve @hannaheve.com · 21/08/2026Small #poem for something that's felt sharp to hold. 031
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 25/08/2026Watching 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 000
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 16/07/2026A 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 010
Reposted by Kait QuinnPhilly 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-...phillychapbookreview.orgThree Poems by Kait QuinnRead three poems by Kait Quinn, our fifth biweekly poet of the Spring 2026 issue, along with a few words about "The Tomato." 042
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 16/04/2026Emily'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. 000
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 07/03/2026An 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 010
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 05/03/2026Winter'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 0161
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 04/03/2026I’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 #writingworkshopskaitquinn.comPoetry Workshops for Women's History Month | Kait Quinn PoetryOriginal poetry and resources for the poetry community 020
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 01/03/2026Favorite read of the year so far! 🙌🏻 Read my review at kaitquinn.com/posts/cord-swell-brittny-ray-crowell/ #poetry #bookreview 020
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 21/02/2026We'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 020
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 04/02/2026I'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 #poetryworkshopskaitquinn.comProtest Poetry (& Other Workshops/Resources for February) | Kait Quinn PoetryOriginal poetry and resources for the poetry community 000
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 08/01/2026I 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 010
Reposted by Kait QuinnChen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 07/01/2026i love how you have to whisper in a library. there should be more whisper-only spaces. speak softly if you must speak at all 49124
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 03/01/2026It's not peace I want—it's bruised knees at the altar of your freckles. #poetry 051
Reposted by Kait QuinnONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 02/01/2026First 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! 🦋 142
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 020
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 12/09/2025The 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 010
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 10/09/2025First 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 010
Reposted by Kait QuinnONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 23/05/2025One of the best poems I’ve read all year. by Jeremy Radin 151
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 25/05/2025What a beautiful piece! I wanted to linger in this world awhile 😌 010
Reposted by Kait QuinnChen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 09/05/2025A Day! Help! Help! Another Day! —Emily Dickinson 113826
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 12/05/2025Not 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.") 🧛🏻♀️ 010
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 05/05/2025Half a dosage down in reducing my meds and feeling all the feelings. Suffering...but happy about it. 😅😭🥹 000
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 25/04/2025Do you like poems about poetry? Read FIVE of them (including one by me) on my Substack! kaitquinn.substack.com/p/five-poems... 010
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 09/04/2025My comfort dark chocolate has officially become a part of my writing ritual. (By comfort dark chocolate, I mean micro dose caffeine replacement.) 010
Reposted by Kait QuinnExposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 07/04/2025When 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 032
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 05/04/2025I 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 040
Reposted by Kait QuinnONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Most of your writing will never see the light of day. But neither do diamonds until someone digs them up. Keep going, little goblin. 1238
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 26/03/2025I am not as honest as fresh snow, and you'll never forgive me. #poetry #linesofpoetry 021
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 24/03/2025Rewatching 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. 010
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 24/03/2025I pour my coffee slowly in the post-apocalypse glow and dream about the moon. 🌙 #poetry 021
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 21/03/2025But what if every time I visit a city, we don't meet up for coffee - we meet up and get tattoos? 010
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 21/03/2025Blessed Ostara! Here are some spring poems! kaitquinn.substack.com/p/poems-for-... #poetry #poems #spring #ostarakaitquinn.substack.comPoems for Ostara/Spring EquinoxAn appreciation for spring expressed through art & poetry. 010
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 20/03/2025I met my younger self for coffee, and when I told her I only drink decaf now, she cried into her third double shot latte. 000
Reposted by Kait Quinnblackfoxlit.bsky.social @blackfoxlit.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Reminder: 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 063
Reposted by Kait QuinnAnteroom (formerly The Winged Moon) @anteroompoetry.bsky.social · 10/03/2025WRITING 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 094
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 10/03/2025My 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 #indieauthorkaitquinn.substack.comUPDATED Self-Publishing Tip: Platforms & PrintingHow to get started in publishing, PART 1. 030
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 07/03/2025ICYMI, 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... 021
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 05/03/2025Me: 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. 010
Reposted by Kait QuinnONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I 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 1286
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 01/03/2025I 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. 000
Kait Quinn @kaitquinn.com · 25/02/2025About to get fingie tats on my right hand knuckles 👊🏻 Guess the word! 000