Archive - Poetry, Prose & Pottery

When I was a baby poet...

What to make of those cringeworthy poems written in earnest by an earlier iteration of you?

May 18 • Cati Porter

Writer at Work: Dispatch from LitChella

Where my younger self bumped into my older self and said hello

May 14 • Cati Porter

88 Unashamed Black Mental Health Stories

Coming to a medicine cabinet near you May 2026.

May 1 • Cati Porter

April 2026

How a bunch of little changes can add up

Apr 30 • Cati Porter

Notes on (not) writing

Or, what I've been doing instead of working on my new novel

Apr 22 • Cati Porter

Clay Bodies Excerpt: Brad Keeler's Lost Bronze Period

I am closing in on this book, which means I really need to quit it with the rewrites.

Apr 18 • Cati Porter

Please Do Not Feed the Distractions

Hint: Reading and research are not distractions but binging on Tootsie Rolls is.

Apr 11 • Cati Porter

Correction: National Poetry Month NOT Canceled!

Also, a couple of poems for NaPoWriMo

Apr 2 • Cati Porter

National Poetry Month is cancelled

Apr 1 • Cati Porter

March 2026

85 Days of War and Peace: Halfway there!

P.S. It's hard to read through a cat.

Mar 31 • Cati Porter

A Poetry Collection is a House Made of Poems

(In case you forgot I was a poet)

Mar 27 • Cati Porter

War and Peace Day 71, forty-two days behind

Mar 17 • Cati Porter

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