C. Desirée Finley, poet + writer
On twitter as @coastalwrite & on Instagram
C. Desirée Finley is a writer and artist now living in western Massachusetts. Her poetry is published in Straw Dog Writers Pandemic Poetry, Silkworm Journal (print), Cape Cod Times & Willawaw Journal among others. Accepted into Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 2018 for fiction Fin, who goes by her last name or a truncated version of it, says her writing, which had been focused primarily on fiction, is heavily poetry of late, a fact she attributes to the influence now of "having a mountain in my backyard."
 C. Desirée Finley (Fin)
Finley is a member of Straw Dog Writers Guild, Florence Poets Society, New England Poetry Club, SCBWI, and Willamette Writers (from her Portland, Oregon days). She finds grounding and connection in western Massachusetts' community of writers. Mostly, she spends time writing and drawing and always has.
It's not November yet, but I've signed up for the Center for New Americans' fundraiser, 30 Poems in November. Here's a way to reach this year's donation page for this effort. Think about it - this organization does good things. "I love the apron of land behind where I live, how I can see the river when enough leaves have fallen in autumn and at midnight, looking out at moonlight on the snow. I've lived on both coasts, in cities and ocean adjacent. Now that I live by the side of a mountain, the poet side of me has stepped forward, and even though I used to think of myself as a strictly a fiction writer, there is a bleeding through from one genre to another. Even essays are somehow different. Poetry affects everything." >>Visit Fin's poetry page> R E S O U R C E S Western Mass. Links for Writers: (short list)
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"At the Close of Day in Pieces (below) was written in the winter of 2020 when communication was limited to what we heard about each other's day and what we told each other. "I was (am) grateful for that communication, how we tried (still try) to be with each other in words even if our physical lives were (are) separate." 
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@COASTALWRITE on twitter (click if feed isn't working)
>>LINK (we're always on the cost of something, right? If twitter (X) isn't loading embeds (again!) here are a few images to keep you distracted. This is a drawing of my daughter's orange cat. Jump to @coastalwrite, which often shares writing worth noticing. [09/06/2023]
And here's a photo of mine from California days...This one is called The Swimmer.
One more pic just to balance out the page. Here's a photo that I quite love. Two people at the top of a dune. I call it The View.
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All photographs and artwork on this website are under copyright.
© 2023, C. D. Finley
© 2023, C. D. Finley