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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer

@kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social
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Writer • Syracuse MFA '24 • NYU PhD '29-'30. BAD ANIMAL, Riot in Your Throat Press, 2023 • SMALL GEOMETRIES, Ethel, 2023

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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
New blog post! kcbrattpfotenhauer.wixsite.com/website/post...
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New Year, Old Stats
Happy New Year from your favorite once-again delinquent blogger! I would make an resolution to keep better records in 2026, but over the last year I've become especially wary of making any kind of sta...
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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Loving this incredible & absolutely brilliant endorsement of MORE FLOWERS (@triohousepress.org) from Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer (@kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social)! Kathryn, thank you for blessing MORE FLOWERS with your abundant spirit & with everything that makes you, you! I am so grateful! 🌸🌺🌼
If books were flowers, distinct and awesome in their beauty, Susan L. Leary has given us a bouquet of wonders. More Flowers toes the line between fiction and unrequited love, the Creator and the Mother: ruthless and meticulous constructions all. In this collection, girlhood is a trial by fire, a bullet aimed at the head, a girl rubbernecking the scene of herself, counting herself dead. With lyric deftness, Leary's poems in More Flowers bristle with beasts: the swan, the ox, a bird named Ego, and at the center of it all, the animal woman folded in on herself while God watches, impassive and inscrutable as His miracles. Leary's speaker is twin to that of W.B. Yeats, going out in search of her own face and yearning for a world uninterrupted by the illusory safety of marriage and the societal pressures to have children, more girls churned out into the charnel house. Leary's poems are dark; good. To examine girlhood is to live in its inherent darkness: feathers pulled from the wings of birds; mothers apologizing to their girls through broken mirrors; the heads of flowers hanging low over their snapped necks.

KATHRYN BRATT-PFOTENHAUER, AUTHOR OF BAD ANIMAL
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R.S. Saha @rssaha.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
We're thrilled to have them! "Caleb" made me audibly gasp with the line '...my father, lost to a syringe dangling from his arm like an ellipsis...' and I sat with it for a while.
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Thrilled to share two poems in the newest issue of The Maine Review! First one is a new offering from the poems I think will make up book three, and the second is an older persona poem I wrote trying to connect with a poet character from my novel manuscript. I hope you enjoy!
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Just booked some Amtrak tickets because BAD ANIMAL is being taught in a college classroom this October. So excited to explore Providence and talk about poems. If you have any recommendations on what to do for three days there, let me know!
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Compression wraps procured and thrown into the mix: 17,436 words, and this project is essentially novella-length!
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
The Nightmare Before Christmas is just Jack Skellington having a hypomanic episode send note
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I don't think I've ever clocked 15,000 words on a novel built off pure and unadulterated spite, but I guess there's a first time for everything.
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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
🌸COVER REVEAL🌸 for MORE FLOWERS & it’s a beauty! I’m grateful to so many: @triohousepress.org, @krisbigalk.bsky.social, @natashakane.bsky.social & to @fascicles.bsky.social, @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social, & @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social for their kind, generous words! Pre-order link in comments!
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$ (Poetry Is Currency) @poetrycurrency.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Congratulations to @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social, whose poem "IT ISN’T UNTIL I’M LECTURING MY STUDENTS ON FIRE SAFETY AND THEY’RE ALL LOOKING AT ME LIKE I’VE GROWN TWO HEADS THAT I REALIZE MAYBE I’M NOT TAKING YOUR DEATH AS WELL AS I THOUGHT" from $ was a finalist for Best of the Net!
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
So this happened. Many thanks to @rosswhite.com for the notification and to Best of the Net for acknowledging my poem pubbed by the lovely folks at @poetrycurrency.bsky.social as a finalist for this year.
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Hello all! It's been a bit. Exciting things may or may not be afoot---if you're intrigued, you can subscribe to the email list on my website to get the news (that may or not be coming) when I get the all clear to announce. :) kcbrattpfotenhauer.wixsite.com/website
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Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer | poetry
Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer's website, showcasing exercepted poetry and fiction as well as books available for purchase.
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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Valzhyna Mort
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Little sick day short story acceptance---"WRAITH" coming your way soon-ish!
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Johnathan Appel @johnathanappel.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
In @mcsweeneys.net with @madelinegoetz.bsky.social talking about the Disney canon www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-a...
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I Am the Servant in the Beast’s Castle Who Was Turned into a Chamberpot, and Nobody Ever Asks Me to Sing
Hey, everyone, I couldn’t help overhearing in this giant, nigh-deserted, echoey castle that you were doing an elaborate musical number where everyo...
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
@riotinyourthroat.bsky.social is having a National Poetry Month sale, and you can find BAD ANIMAL and friends for only $10! Treat yourself to some fierce, fabulous, feminist poetry.
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The first of my hurricane stories is live today in The Lindenwood Review! It's beyond exciting to find my fiction in their pages. Eternal thanks to the incomparable Beth Mead and the editorial staff for their kindness and care. Link in the comments to read!
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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
From Kevin Young's Book of Hours: bookshop.org/a/862/978037... #poem #books #writing
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
@riotinyourthroat.bsky.social is having a National Poetry Month sale, and you can find BAD ANIMAL and friends for only $10! Treat yourself to some fierce, fabulous, feminist poetry.
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Catapult Book Group @catapultbooks.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Save the date! 🗓️ Join author Sarah Aziza & guest readers for the launch of her memoir THE HOLLOW HALF on April 22nd at Storm Books in Brooklyn, NY!
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
She's ready for her closeup.
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Probably going to finish this novel rewrite in the next week and my main character is going to give me the electric chair and it will be SO WELL DESERVED
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Little sad saucy poem in the newest beautiful issue of Cherry Tree. I wrote this one when I began fleshing out the concept for my novel, a Hades and Persephone retelling. So happy to be back in Cherry Tree's pages, and all my thanks for the editors.
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
60,000 words on the novel rewrite and morale is high! Stay tuned to find out just how quickly that tune changes for the next and last section.
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
My bank spending snapshot telling me I spend way too much on office supplies: The 13 floppy binders in my shopping cart:
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
OFFICIALLY AT 55,000 WORDS ON THE NOVEL! Officially past the previous draft's total wordcount!
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Novel rewrite is over 50K now!!! Still a ways to go before it's over, but AHHHH.
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Get ready for your feeds to become annoying again, for I finally have the energy to make crocheted things for people again. Retrospective: December 2024 projects.
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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
author copies of We Contain Landscapes arrived!! WCL is out with @tinhouse.bsky.social on March 18th 🌀
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
seeding the dark, Deborah Digges
First Fire of the Season

Blessed is the word igniting now
under the green spitting wood alive with insects.
Blessed the names, dissembled, falling,
blessed their miraculous erasures.
How quickly a nest would burn this evening, the shell-

embedded down, the underweavings.
How quickly become a fist of fire opening
mid-air, plummeting.
When I was a child a falling star meant someone’s dying—
the terrible luck of knowing

seeding the dark, growing like prophesy,
as if some distant farmhouse light had gone out
for good in the imagination, some bird
jumped in its sleep, feeling
the dead pull of the migration.
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Novel rewrite is at 49,500 words and I'm only 3/5 of the way done. This time last draft, I was wrapping up the action entirely. Here's to new growth!
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Suzanne Frischkorn @suzfrischkorn.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
All morning the / Morning has been blackening, / —Sylvia Plath
Sheep in Fog poem by Sylvia Plath
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Two rejections for writing things I *really* wanted. At least space them out, guys, come on...
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Really pleased to have two poems from GRIEF SUITE in the new issue of Modern Language Studies, and even more pleased to be presenting on Ilya Kaminsky's DEAF REPUBLIC and women-led utopian resistance narratives at NeMLA (which sponsors MLS!) in two weeks.
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
40,000 words of the novel rewrite logged and not anywhere close to being done. It's a relief and a pain---last draft clocked in at 55,000 words total, so I'm glad to be blowing past it, but also I wish I could skip to the part where the draft can stand on its own.
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
You know, I'm usually a cynic when it comes to love, but I got to spend the weekend with someone I adore and we went to the NYPL and walked the Brooklyn promenade and watched movies in bed with a bottle of Georgian wine and if there is such a thing as happiness, I finally found it, I finally did.
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Nothing stronger than the bond between a NYC student and their preferred bagel shop.
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Still, There are good things in this world. James Wright
Trying to Pray

This time, I have left my body behind me, crying In its dark thorns.
Still,
There are good things in this world.
It is dusk.
It is the good darkness
Of women's hands that touch loaves.
The spirit of a tree begins to move.
I touch leaves.
I close my eyes, and think of water.
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Section 2 (of the novel) Electric Boogaloo done, we are now rocking a cool 34,161 words.
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Hit 30K of the novel rewrite and I am so ready to be done with this section it's actually making my teeth itch.
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Little unpublished love poems for your Valentine's Day perusing.
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Got ya something
Valentine’s Day heart that reads: you complete mess (it’s supposed to be: you complete me)
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
What is that, dear ones? You need to hear some good news? We are bringing you Jennifer A Sutherland’s @jasutherland.bsky.social’s House of Myth and Necessity in Spring 2026! 🌊 🌊 📚 #poetry #booksky 💙📚 Alcestis & math & legal testimony, confession, violence, love—ohh this book is a lyric powerhouse.
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House of Myth and Necessity by Jennifer A Sutherland
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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/02/2025
EPA Warns Of Dangerous Levels Of Romance In Air theonion.com/epa-war...
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EPA Warns Of Dangerous Levels Of Romance In Air
WASHINGTON, DC—Responding to a dramatic increase in cases of starry-eyed gazing and spontaneous poetry, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a general health warning Tuesday for hazardous levels of atmospheric romance across the entire North American continent.
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Ordered my Dad's doctoral dissertation to use it in a Secret Poetry Project and I'm having a lot of feelings about the whole following in his footsteps thing.
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Rebecca Lehmann @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
It’s official!! The Sweating Sickness, my third book of poetry, is out today from @upittpress.bsky.social! I’m so proud of these poems, and hope you love them.
The Sweating Sickness by Rebecca Lehmann propped against house plants. Rebecca Lehmann holding The Sweating Sickness against a brick wall. Rebecca Lehmann holding The Sweating Sickness against a brick wall. The Sweating Sickness propped against a window.
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