Cassie Premo Steele, Ph.D.

You were 🔥 today. Mic drops as a back beat.

The robot in my phone
Says this video is from
Four Corners but it’s not-
It’s also not Arizona or Utah.
It is Diné Nation, land of the
Navajo, who hold animals
As sacred. Dogs in particular
Are earth listeners, and here
Lenny narrates to me what
He feels and hears and sees.

#vss365 #corner

He’s doing much better each day! 🙏

We love you, Luna! And we can eat healthy together! Love, Uncle Len

This is the preface
To every day, greeted
By such precious.
He’s been in recovery
From pancreatitis
But still greets us
With kisses and hugs
Before courageously
Eating his breakfast.

#vss365 #precious
#DogSky

Thank you so much! 💙

Yes! He’s been dealing with pancreatitis this week so I’m keeping quiet and still next to him for comfort. 💙🐶💙

When peace comes,
It won’t be rushing
To a getaway car
Like Bonny and Clyde,
It won’t be because
You tried and tried,
But because you let
Go, let gravity flow
Over your body and
Admitted that this is
All you ever wanted
Or needed to feel
Deep peace. Peace. Peace.

#vss365 #bonny
#DogsofBluesky

Halfway through your interview with @nicollewallace.bsky.social
now, very moved as always by your kindness and wisdom, and can’t wait to share the book with my mil fam friends. We need more leaders who can cry when they speak of love.

Thank you. Yes. We still tear up when we think of her. But we know that’s the testament to how she loves us.

From the age of 8 to 16,
My daughter had a bunny
Named Harmony, and they
Were best friends, ate and
Slept and stayed together
Constantly. When she died,
We held a family ceremony
And feel she became an
Ascended master. Harmony
Is the ability to love and be
Connected in deep belief.

#vss365 #harmony

Thank you, Daniel! 🩵

Lightning appears in my poem, “In March We Fell in Love,” written during this month 13 years ago when my wife and I did just that. The lightning and the love.

The poem found a home in the September 2020 issue of @samfiftyfour.bsky.social

I found a home in her. 💜

#vss365 #lightning
#queer #LGBTQ

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Thanks, Maria! 🐢🌊💙

Like Carlotta, the green turtle who returns to the sea after finally arriving homebound to lay her eggs, I watch spellbound as the clock jumps forward on my way to the airport for a sunrise flight. As she knows, time is magical and depends on the angle of light.

#vss365 #spellbound

#AWP is a wrap! I had a dream of a time doing the readings and signings and hearing such beautiful writing and selling some books and seeing good friends.

Writing is a way of taking creative action in the face of destruction.

From what I saw of the 11,000 writers here, trust me:

We got this. 🩷

Thank you so much, Georgia! 🩷💙💜

#AWP #OOTD

My mentor Louise De Salvo modeled for me knitting as a way of thinking as a writer, and this is the sixth sweater I’ve hand-knit and worn at the conference this year in her honor. 🧶❤️

My engagement ring,
Modeled after tree branch,
Pulled from her pocket
On stage before singing—
Wedding band, too, tree ring
Themed. But the ring for our
10-year anniversary vow
Renewal ceremony is waves
And islands in the Salish Sea.
She knows this world is the
Real jewelry to me.

#vss365 #jewelry

You got this, Luna! 💜🐰💜

I really enjoyed meeting the team today!

Come by and see me Saturday at the AWP Book Fair where I’ll be doing two two poetry book signings - and get a Cass hug! 💜

@yellowarrowpub.bsky.social from 1:00-2:00 at Booth 543
@finishinglinepress.bsky.social from 2:30-3:00 at Booth 600

#AWP #OOTD

The first marine being to narrate my new novel is Carlotta, a green sea turtle who lays her eggs 130 miles from where the coastline was before sudden sea level rise.

But magnanimous in the face of calamitous is her motto, and she’s really good at math, so she lays 130 eggs.

#vss365 #magnanimous

I’ve been talking to folks here at AWP about the class I’m teaching in April that incorporates writing, mindfulness and trauma-informed practices to help navigate climate change and eco-anxiety, so I thought I’d share the link in case you’re interested. 💚
consciousdyingcollective.com/navigating-e...

#AWP #OOTD

This article is nuanced and complex.

Texas 25th Congressional District Primary Election Results

Dione Sims won the Democratic nomination for the 25th congressional district in Texas yesterday. Ms. Sims is the granddaughter of Ms. Opal Lee, the grandmother of Juneteenth.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Oh, how bountiful is
The night after poets
Laid down the light
(Puerto Rican Dominican
Filipina Korean South Indian
South African Black White And Feathered Friends) to
Cross the street and show
It’s “not too late to change
Your mind.” Everyone has
Justice in their sight.

#vss365 #bountiful #AWP