i am exhausted by my own stupid soul

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 🖤

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

🐟🌙Offerings to the Sturgeon Moon🌙🐟 OUT NOW! Give it a gander: sillygoosepress.com/sturgeon-moon

Blessed monarch season! 🦋 #monarch #butterfly #summer #pollinator

Small #poem for something that's felt sharp to hold.

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

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

"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-...

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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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.

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

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

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

Favorite read of the year so far! 🙌🏻 Read my review at kaitquinn.com/posts/cord-swell-brittny-ray-crowell/ #poetry #bookreview

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

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

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

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

It's not peace I want—it's bruised knees at the altar of your freckles. #poetry

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! 🦋

"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

Therapy is just realizing, "Oh, I can do that?"

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

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

One of the best poems I’ve read all year. by Jeremy Radin

A Day! Help! Help! Another Day! —Emily Dickinson

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.") 🧛🏻‍♀️

Half a dosage down in reducing my meds and feeling all the feelings. Suffering...but happy about it. 😅😭🥹

Do you like poems about poetry? Read FIVE of them (including one by me) on my Substack! kaitquinn.substack.com/p/five-poems...