Cassie Premo Steele

Persepolis (film) - Wikipedia

Highly recommend if you haven’t seen it before. Even if you have.
#Iran

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This is great! I wonder if you could add Bluesky links for folx who aren’t on X?

That’s true for the Meta platforms, too. Especially as a queer person given their new policies. I’ve been off them since January 20 of last year and felt tremendous support and community here on Bluesky. 🩵

Lenny Bruce camouflaged in bed with his frog and puppy friends

No, he’s not timid.
He just wants to stay in bed.

#vss365 #timid
#DogsofBluesky
#SundayScaries

Sunrise over the marshes along the South Carolina coast

Her quest to find
The perfect sunrise
Ended when she
Finally turned within
And allowed herself
To soar freely inside

#vss365 #quest

In case you need something else to be obsessed with other than
politics/ fascist/ pedo/
racist/ tech-bro/gynophobic/ testosterone/
humanity-hating/
earth-destroying
themes in your feed,
here is our daughter’s bunny dreaming with her eyes open and making little noises in her sleep.

#vss365 #obsessed

Thank you for your leadership. I wish you all the best! 🩵

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

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YELLOW ARROW PUBLISHING 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION CASSIE PREMO STEELE FEATURED READER March 4, 2026 6:00 - 8:00 PM Barcocina Baltimore, MD AWP Off Site

YELLOW ARROW 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY READING FEATURING: TAÍNA EMILY DECKER MICHELE EVANS ISABEL CRISTINA LEGARDA BARBARA PEREZ MARQUEZ ANN QUINN CASSIE PREMO STEELE SARA STREETER CANDACE WALSH KESHNI NAICKER WASHINGTON MARCH 4 2026 6-8PM yellowarrowpublishing.com AWP oft-site @Barcocina, Fells Point

YELLOW ARROW PUBLISHING CASSIE PREMO STEELE Book Signing 1:00 - 2:00 pm March 7, 2026 AWP Conference Baltimore Convention Center Booth #543 Yellow Arrow Publishing

SATURDAY, MARCH 7 2:30-3:00 Cassie Premo Steele Book Signing with Finishing Line Press AWP Baltimore Conference Center Book Fair Booth 600

Let’s gooo #AWP2026!

I’ll be doing one reading and two book signings and heading to events #eco #environmental #dystopian #trauma #queer #intersectional #feminist
#poetry

@awpwriter.org
@yellowarrowpub.bsky.social
@finishinglinepress.bsky.social

Reckoning's green and spiny Maya style skull guy logo by Monica Robles Corzo and the words #AWP26 booth T714

Reckoning will be at #AWP26 in Baltimore next week, March 3-7! If you're around, please come visit us at booth T714? Meet @cgaubrey.bsky.social, @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social, @ruthjoffre.bsky.social, @martin65.bsky.social, and @andrewkozma.net and chat about creative writing on environmental justice

Cassie Premo Steele stands next to a tall tree in Olga on Orcas Island, Washington

The velocity of trees
Is calculated by measuring
The height of these
Whispers inside each
Trunk and dividing by the
Length of the skin of your
Hand and factoring in
Whether you are listening

#vss365 #velocity

Yyyyaaasss! I agree. Thanks for your response. Glad to be in community with you. 💜

Hope to see you in a week! Where I'll be at AWP, plus updates on the Congaree Anthology, and more...

My schedule for #AWP2026 and a way you can help save a #NationalPark and support #artists and #writers plus-and-also my answer to why I still live in the South as a #queer #creative.
@awpwriter.org
@liberationislit.bsky.social

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Columbia, South Carolina, United States - Seasons graph and Earth's orbit © Gaisma.com

Equinox means equal night
And marks the point of
Balance in the year’s wheel
But this moment must be
Rolled along the orbital path
For us to have seasons at all
And this is only possible
Because the planet is tipped
On its axis. This is the source
Of beauty on earth: mistakes

#vss365 #orbital

The patriarchy. The bromance.

For this #TerrierTuesday, here is Lenny Bruce over the past few days as he accompanies me while I do strength training in the garage. It’s gotten cold.

Thank you! 😊

Honored and grateful to be featured in this article about #writers in central South Carolina making local and national waves. (Fun reveal in here about my novel, Beaver Girl, too!)
#writingcommunity
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YELLOW ARROW 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY READING FEATURING: TAÍNA EMILY DECKER MICHELE EVANS ISABEL CRISTINA LEGARDA BARBARA PEREZ MARQUEZ ANN QUINN CASSIE PREMO STEELE SARA STREETER CANDACE WALSH KESHNI NAICKER WASHINGTON

Done deal!

I’ll be there and look forward to seeing you!

Rev. Jesse Jackson to lay in state at SC Statehouse Rev. Jesse Jackson will lie in state at the South Carolina Statehouse on March 2, an honor requested by his family.

Oh wow! The Rev. Jesse Jackson will be lying in state at our State Capitol a week from today. The flags over our Capitol will also be flown at half-staff in his honor that day.

Congaree Anthology ​Astonishing biodiversity exists in Congaree National Park, the largest intact expanse of old growth bottomland hardwood forest remaining in the southeastern United States. Waters from the Congaree...

Here is more info about the anthology of #art, #writing and #music and how you can help support it and receive acknowledgment in the #book

www.congareeanthology.com#/

Still Here: Honoring history at Congaree National Park Columnist Cassie Premo Steele writes about how hardships, violence and trauma are intrinsically tied to the SC landscape, which bore art, music, stories.

My #BlackHistoryMonth column for @postandcourier.bsky.social about South Carolina #history, our #NationalPark, what still waits to be remembered, grieved, and honored - and how you can be a part of that.
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Stars at night and clouds illuminated by their light

What if the stars are not far
When seen with the heart
And stellar dust is just us
Cells wanting to discuss
The possibilities of night
When we realize that light
Is all there is and distance
Gives us the space to dance

#vss365 #stellar

Thank so much, Daniel! I appreciate your loyal support. 🩵

Come two women Come two women through the forest dark hair and eyes bright with the glow from the sun in their spirits know of laughter and soul kisses which touch hands and this is life and this is death and all is good. Evil is forgetting sunlight spirits and kisses. Be good and do not forget, the women whisper as they walk away. -Cassie Premo Steele Originally published in The New Review 4 (1997): 52. Reprinted in Tongues in Trees: Poems 1994-2017. Unbound Content, 2017. https://www.cassiepremosteele.com/tongues-in-trees.html

I did not knowingly write
This poem that night
That would become
A published one
Nearly thirty years ago.

But it’s alright
We never know
How our soul kisses
Will touch hands
And this is life
And this is death
And all is good.

Be good and do not forget,
The women still whisper.

#vss365 #knowingly

Red-bellied woodpecker in the dogwood tree

In a store, dazed
By the selections for
My bird friends - homes
And feeders and more.
A woman turned to me
And said, “You’re a little
Young for this, aren’t you?”
I shook my head. “No,” I said.
“You’re never too young
Or old to be crazed by flight.
Feathers. Hope. Life.”

#vss365 #crazed #birdsky

We'll Find a Way Communities around the country are under attack. Minnestota's communities have continued to set an incredible example for the rest of us, demonstrating the power of uniting to protect our neighbors an...

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