I am really excited that I get to read my work with Monica Wendel, Rebecca Watkins, and Meghan Nolan! Juan Mobili, Rockland County Poet Laureate put the reading together. Come to Finkelstein Memorial Library in Spring Valley on August 25th at 7 PM for an evening of teacher-poets!

Yay! My kitty poem is up in Rust + Moth, which adds poems to issues weekly. Have a look? Lots of other good work in there, too. rustandmoth.com/work/people-...

People with Cats | Rust & Moth

Consider people who live easily with cats. Their homes offer double greetings: a glass of iced tea (or wine) and a nose silently extended, sniffing. Pat your lap and the tabby or flute-slender Siamese...

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My brother's sweet doggo Asta actually has TWO eyes, but alas, she cannot read. Unlike you, she cannot enjoy the just-dropped issue of one of the oldest and best lit mags on the 'Net, Eclectica. There's poetry, all kinds of prose, & a writing challenge every issue. Read it to her? Eclectica.org

It sure is February--but that's okay! There's a new Grist for the Mill up on The Rockland County Business Journal, warming you up with the best poetry in our beloved county. This month poet Lily Greenberg. I've got a little news in there, too. Read all about it! rcbizjournal.com/2026/02/05/2...

A gentle, snowy reminder: my poetry reading with Rich Jordan and Carol Parris Krauss is on 2/19 at 8 Eastern. Here's the ZOOM link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We rescheduled! I'm honored to be reading poems from my new book Why I Don't Take Xanax on February 18th at 8 PM Eastern US time. The registration page for the Zoom reading--that's right, you can attend from ANYWHERE--is over on the FB and I'll provide a link to sign up below. Come listen!

New poetry book alert! Why I Don't Take Xanax, my first full collection since 2018, just came out on Kelsay Books. It's not about anti-anxiety drugs. It is about beauty and sorrow. kelsaybooks.com/products/why...

Why I Don’t Take Xanax

Christine Potter is the poetry editor of Eclectica Magazine. She has also been a chef, a ringer of tower bells at churches, a chorister, and a high school English teacher. Her poetry has appeared in E...

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Grist for the Mill, Rockland County's local poetry column features Maureen Henry this month. Have a look in the Rockland County Business Journal. rcbizjournal.com/2026/01/08/g...

Honored that my poem about mansplaining and the cosmos found a good home in Thimble Magazine! This issue's great--you should take time to enjoy ALL the poems. www.thimblelitmag.com/.../someone-... Someone Always Needs to Explain

Someone Always Needs to Explain

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Good news! I have two poems, "More Reasons I Can't Flee the US" and "Shelter" in the new Willows Wept Review. It's a terrific winter issue, full of writing and art about nature and resilience. I'm on page 31... #willowsweptreview. #poetsofinstagram www.magcloud.com/webviewer/32...

December comes! My column in the Rockland County Business Journal features Nyack poet Julie Agoos this month. Have a look! rcbizjournal.com/2025/12/08/g...

COVER REVEAL for my first full-length collection of poetry in way too many years, Why I Don't Take Xanax®, on Kelsay Books. You'll find my Rattle poems therein, as well as lots of poems about the 70's, drunken squirrels, and, oddly, hope. Written by a fully vaxxed poet! Out later this winter.

This lucky poet has two books coming out this fall/winter. First up is my chapbook from Bottlecap Press, Before The World Was On Fire. It's about growing up in the 60's and 70's, and being an old gal in the 20's. And how you get through everything with the power of the word.

Wednesday, October 29 at 7 PM, Pearl River Methodist Church--join six Rockland County poets who have written for a very, very long time. Julie Agoos, Tim Doyle, Maureen Henry, Wally Glickman, Brian Kates--and MOI! Thanks to Rockland Poet Laureate Juan Pablo Mobili for setting this up. Do come!

How can you both escape the current horrors and resist them? Read Eclectica, the literary magazine with a conscience and also fabulous poetry, CNF, and fiction. And lots of other stuff. Autumn issue OUT NOW, and free for all to read. www.eclectica.org/index.html

Local Rockland County poets face the current discouraging times with encouraging verse and soulful advice in this month's Grist for The Mill, from the Rockland County Business Journal. Link in comments.

Delighted to see my poetry column live at Rockland County Business Journal. Grist for the Mill this month is about Mary Lou Buschi, an excellent local poet. Link in the comments.

Game on.

Thanks to Midwest Quarterly for including this poem about my eleventh finger (no kidding) in their summer issue!

Hi, Bluesky poets and writers! I'm poetry editor at the venerable Eclectica Magazine, one of the 'net's first 'zines. General submissions for poems are just about filled up for the autumn issue, but if you've got something really good, why not shoot it our way? www.eclectica.org

Three Poems open.substack.com/pub/wrongtur... Delighted to be included in Wrong Turn Lit today! These are all favorite poems.

Three Poems

by Christine Potter

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Hey, we're busy reading POEMS over at Eclectica Magazine. Our Autumn issue comes out around October 1. How about trying our WORD CHALLENGE? Include the words Curio, Cider, Foil, & Dolorous in a poem of any style, and send it to us through our WORD CHALLENGE portal. No reading fee!

Did you know? Rockland County, NY, has more poets than you would believe. We have so many poets that poetry even poets it up in the Rockland County Business Journal--because poetry is the business of life. This month's column stars poet/creativity coach Mary Jo Lillian. Happy August!

Are you the reason?

Thus ends the “Great Experiment.” We kinda had it coming.

Bella has the antidote to neo-fascism and despair; Fancy Feast for kitties, and the newest issue of Eclectica Magazine, one of the net's OG 'zines, for hoomans. Link in comments to the best poems in forever and fab prose, too.

We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.

New column's up about Rockland County, NY's Wally Glickman in RCBJ. Wally's delightful. Read all about his last performance at Nyack's Big Red Books. Link in comments, photo by Richard Fulco.