Chelsea B. DesAutels
@cbdesautels.bsky.social
Poet. A DANGEROUS PLACE (Sarabande Books). She/her.
I was so pleased to write for Consequence Forum about Minneapolis & resistance. Thank you to the editors & to the wonderful poets of Houston, whose questions got this piece off the ground. ❄️❤️
The Poetry of Minneapolis
Nonfiction by Chelsea B. DesAutels. "... the question I want to answer isn’t 'What is the role of political poetry?' but 'Are the ways poetry changes us relevant to political resistance?'"
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Miss the deadline for our annual prizes? We’ve got you. 🫶
#Essayists! Would love to see more cnf in the @westbranchmagazine.bsky.social submissions database! Flash and work under 3500 words most welcome. No fee submissions. We pay contributors. Additional details: westbranchsubmissions.bucknell.edu
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Please behold this magnificent octopus I saw on a shore dive last week. 😍 (Photo credit Lukas Arias)
Frost flowers on the creek yesterday. These only form when it is very cold, and very still, and it has been both. It feels like magic. ❄️
Many, many thanks to @narrativemag.bsky.social for making a home for "Some Half-World." This poem means a lot to me. ❤️ (Link in comments.)
Let's endure winter together, by making our own little web of work. ❄️ Check out The Winter Writer: Six Weeks of Writing in Community. ✨ Tuesday evenings, online, starting February 11. ✨
We marked the new year with a small offering. May you get what you need this year. ✨
Reposting b/c AWP has a legit means of transferring registrations. You should go to LA! Let's talk!
Chelsea B. DesAutels@cbdesautels.bsky.social · 2y agoAnyone need a discounted AWP registration? Hit me up. It looks like I'll be flying in the opposite direction instead. 🍀
Many thanks to @cincinnatireview.bsky.social & @lisaampleman.bsky.social for giving a home to two new poems, including the first in a short series of prose poems considering shame & girlhood.
Anyone need a discounted AWP registration? Hit me up. It looks like I'll be flying in the opposite direction instead. 🍀
What are your favorite winter poems? ❄️ Here's one of mine.
Are you a poet 40 and over who has published no more than one full-length collection of poetry?? Send ten pages of poems for me to read for this year's @poetrysociety.org Robert Winner Memorial Award!
Here's my new favorite joke: knock knock who's there? hike hike who? Unsuspecting friend. I await with bated breath. Sets the perfect trap.
Really happy to have a recent poem in the fall issue of Pleiades, which is packed with great work. Many thanks to @jennymolberg.bsky.social & @caitlincowan.bsky.social.
Sixteen years ago tonight I kissed my husband for the first time. We were first-year law students & the party was wild & I thought I was defending his honor but I had the story wrong.
Chelsea B. DesAutels@cbdesautels.bsky.social · 2y agoRemember when the night before Thanksgiving was the most raucous night of the year?
Remember when the night before Thanksgiving was the most raucous night of the year?
Aproned in the kitchen listening to 1970s jams, prepping syrups & scones & cornbread & stuffing, & wishing my grandma, who was hilarious & complicated & taught me to cook, was here, too. 💚
Looking for a writing ritual to push through the darkest days? ✨ Join us during the week of winter solstice (Dec 16-20) for an online, early-morning writing circle & write five new poems, fast. ✨ We'd love to have you! Link for info & registration in comments.
Thrilled to have a new poem in the (stellar) fall issue of Copper Nickel. Many thanks to the editors!
After a long time away, peeking back through the blinds into social media & so glad to see so many poets here. 💚
Only two seats left! Join us—it’s going to be wonderful!
