Reader. Writer: Poetry, Flash, cnf. Disabled & Unashamed. Latina. Woefully Bad Singer. Sings Anyway. Insta: cj_taylor_writes, Bsky: crystaltaylorsa
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When your email app summarizes text as, “Not a fit, wait 3 months…” Reading my name and the title of my piece made rejection feel much more personal.
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Need help, please. I have a 700 word spec flash/sordid comedy/social satire piece that I like. (I said it.) I have no idea where to send it. Please help!
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Two of my earliest poems. Possibly my favorites. (Sheetrock and Particulate Matter)
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Two new poems out today. Thank you, @SunlightPress thesunlightpress.com/2026/01…
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Ooh. I bet this is good!
Grateful to Red at @thealienbuddha for publishing this chapbook of poems. These are more love poems, but they're funny sometimes.
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Yippeee! Happy, happy day!
Friends, we are back and officially open for submissions today! We will be reading for our Feb issue with a deadline of Jan 30th. Please take a moment to review our guidelines as we have made some changes. We very much look forward to reading your work!
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Fire!
i am #18 on @OneArtPoetry1's most read poets list for 2025:
a much needed smile that so many ppl read this poem:
here is the poem:
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Poetry is the only circumstance in which I would voluntarily contemplate Math. And even then, only to throw shade.
POEM 292: "Math" by Crystal Taylor (@CrystalTaylorSA)
"thumbtacks the moon to a paper sky,
draws a tangent line where the sun sinks
and a constellation rises."
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I checked my email & screamed over an acceptance email in my (parked) car, a first for me. My first flash fiction acceptance! The feeling of being understood is unmatched! (I saved the Elaine Benes dance moves for when I got home.) So exciting!
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Where Love Is - I have a cute little micro out today in @MicromanceMag
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My husband’s reaction was not to sweat the small stuff. This is NOT small stuff. This is a travesty. I’m plunging into a dark spiral.
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Always a good read.
Trampoline #28.5 is excited to have poems from Nicholas Alti, Sophia Carroll, and Richard LeDue.
trampolinepoetry.com/
Take care.
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Gorgeous!
Playtime ~ by Sage Tyrtle milkcandyreview.home.blog/20…
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