Thank you my sweet and kind friend. You are so lovely!! Happy December to you and yours ๐
08.12.2025 16:34 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0@kellathornton.bsky.social
Seeker, writer, curious | Midwestern | Patty & Selma in a trench coat | wholesome and horny | "the most fun, overwhelmed person I know" | she gets a long letter, sends back a postcard ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Thank you my sweet and kind friend. You are so lovely!! Happy December to you and yours ๐
08.12.2025 16:34 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I'm exceedingly grateful to the incredible editorial team @trampset.bsky.social for a Best Microfiction nomination for "Green" ๐ thank you from the bottom of my heart for this incredible kindness ๐
08.12.2025 16:23 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Lingering Inland Book Launch Party - The New Territory Magazine share.google/YFRZmrZAfs8k...
Wanna party in St. Louis & celebrate the gorgeous, gritty beauty of Midwestern writers?
Join me & a bunch of incredible writers, editors, & publishers who make the writing world a better place on 12/13
Gina, thank you, thank you for reading and being so generous!! ๐๐๐
09.11.2025 15:17 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thank youuuuuuu, Kathy! ๐๐๐ You're so incredibly kind and I learned so much from you
09.11.2025 15:16 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0This is a gorgeous and moving story, Laura. Brava!! ๐
07.11.2025 15:59 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0"I am the cool fizz of prosecco sliding down oneโs throat during the golden hour. The chartreuse velvet couch we make out on after eating Vietnamese take-out."
@kellathornton.bsky.social's "Green"
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The Northern Lights in Laugarvatn, Iceland on Saturday, October 18, 2025.
The mossy green forest floor on a hike in Laugarvatn, Iceland on October 18, 2025.
The view outside the Hรฉraรฐsskรณlinn Historic Guesthouse, October 2025.
Seventeenth century Italian Baroque painter, poet, and priest Francesco Furini's arresting painting of Santa Lucia, as seen in the Galleria Spada in Rome, Italy by the writer, Michaella Thornton, in September 2024.
Baby's first published prose-poem in @trampset.bsky.social, just in time for Halloween: "Green" trampset.org/green-b178ab...
31.10.2025 10:18 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0PREACH ๐๐ป๐๐ญ
28.10.2025 21:23 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I'm so glad you called our attention to this... Sometimes this news cycle feels, well, overwhelming ๐๐
28.10.2025 21:21 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Gah, this whole scenario also reminds me of Richard Preston's nonfiction book, The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story (1994)
28.10.2025 20:59 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0So honored to be included in this dream publication. This Friday will mark my first-ever prose-poem publication ๐ a beautiful ode to the color green sparked by a writing prompt by the incredible writer and teacher @kathyfish.bsky.social in Casperia, Italy last fall (thank you, Kathy!)
28.10.2025 20:51 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0In a field outside of Geysir Geothermal Area in Iceland
The interior of an A-frame of wood framing two sconces and a window looking outside to Laugarvatn, Iceland
Me, Michaella Thornton, wearing a black raincoat and wine-colored hat and black hood on a walk in Iceland
The road to Friรฐheimar, a beautiful windbreak of trees lining the road to the family restaurant and hothouse
Sending love from Iceland ๐๐ฎ๐ธ๐
18.10.2025 08:49 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I responded to Sarvin directly on this thread! Thank you, Dave! ๐
27.07.2025 02:17 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Hello, Sarvin, and welcome! The St. Louis Poetry Center is amazing: stlouispoetrycenter.org - I have made wonderful friends through the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis, High Low Readings (and Literary Death Matches)... WashU, UMSL, and SLU all have vibrant writers in each higher ed context too
27.07.2025 02:15 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Well, with an editor like you at the helm, I knew this book was going to be fabulous ๐คฉ
23.06.2025 19:44 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I'm super excited to be in this gorgeous anthology writing about one of my literary heroes, Kate Chopin, and about making art as a single parent when the world is falling apart
23.06.2025 19:19 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Thank you, Andy!! ๐ป๐ป๐ป
23.06.2025 19:17 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0One of my favorite poems and poets:
"Enough" by Suzanne Buffam | The Poetry Foundation share.google/kRNpFRjNO0FZ...
I'm teaching a five-week humor writing course beginning this week, and while there's an abundance of chaos and tragedy all around us, now, more than ever, we need to also employ humor to satirize, challenge, protest, ridicule, and illuminate what's happening in our country ๐
10.06.2025 02:41 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Happy birthday all the same. I'm sorry it's been a rough go of it, and I'm hopeful things look up soon. Also, I think it's healthy to be real when reality is hitting us. ๐๐๐
29.05.2025 15:48 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Gah, Midwestern Weird and Deep Time is the genre of champions ๐ kids-on-bikes novels and films are also rad
21.05.2025 18:03 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It's very sobering to know that my home and child's elementary school were less than 4 miles from the tornado's path ๐ญ
21.05.2025 01:45 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This weekend I helped a friend move some of their belongings out of their apartment in the Central West End. I won't share any of the photos I took, and I teared up driving to their apartment off Union.
If you can, please help the St. Louis tornado relief efforts: www.stlmag.com/news/st-loui...
Lady Anna peonies in their springtime glory in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. May 6, 2025 ๐ธ
Success sometimes looks like eating red beans & rice on the porch of my brick bungalow while pale pink peonies bloom, Ani singing through the window, & I just finished meeting with my childhood library system, where I will be facilitating a workshop with a publisher whose work elevates the Midwest ๐ฉท
06.05.2025 17:26 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Wound by Larry Levis
I've loved you
as a man loves an old wound
picked up in a razor fight
on a street nobody remembers.
Look at him:
even in the dark he touches it gently.
Human beings are not an โadministrative errorโ
16.04.2025 15:18 โ ๐ 471 ๐ 66 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 3Hey Kansas City writers! I'm facilitating a Micro Essay Writing in-person workshop in collaboration with The New Territory Magazine & The Story Center of Kansas City, Missouri on May 31, 2025 from 10 AM-4 PM Central.
To register for this free workshop, please visit: www.mymcpl.org/events/10615...
How to be roasted by my 8yo right before bed this evening: read a graphic novel about dinosaurs, and she dead-eyed looked at me and smiled as she asked me: "So, these dinosaurs were around in the '80s right?"
Sis, 65 million years ago dinosaurs died out. Not the '80s, not when I was a child ๐ญ๐๐
CD Eskilson & Anna Cabe, holding SCREAM QUEEN after CD signed Anna's copy. At AWP
Janelle Bassett with Anna Cabe holding up THANKS FOR THIS RIOT after Janelle signed Anna's copy!
๐ While you are at #AWP25, please make sure to pick up a copy of SCREAM QUEEN by our own @cdeskilson.bsky.social from @acrebooks.bsky.social & THANKS FOR THIS RIOT by @janellebassett.bsky.social from @prairie-schooner.bsky.social ๐
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