The post can be read in a much more user friendly way on the newwordspress.com website. Thank you to everyone for your support and patience. This was a difficult decision. 🏳️‍⚧️

My #poem "First Shave" has become a part of the citizen trans* {project} by @newwordspress.bsky.social You can read it and the other pieces in the archive at the link below or at my website in my bio www.citizentrans.com/first-shave/ #trans #poetry #writingcommunity #rebellion #protest #queer

Hurry up and submit. https://newwordspress.submittable.com/submit

Today is release day for Jodi Lin’s The Tenderness of Glass. I sent out dozens and dozens of preorders this morning! Get your copy on the website and support trans* poets and new words {press}. Can’t say enough good things about this book and neither could Eileen Myles. 🩷 Help me congratulate Jodi!

Help you mystical beauties.

I also have a recent piece out on new words {press} @newwordspress.bsky.social www.newwordspress.com/issue-six-a-...

Part memoir and part manifesto, Jodi Lin’s debut collection, The Tenderness of Glass, is a non-traditional book of narrative verse and prose poetry. Each of the book’s six parts are named after a Tibetan Buddhist Bardo.

Issue 7 is officially open for submissions! newwordspress.submittable.com

Birch Wiley’s debut collection, Mythweaver is officially here. Those who attended the New York City Poetry Festival this past weekend were fortunate enough to purchase an advanced copy (we sold out), and the feedback has been exactly what I thought– this book is fire.

At last, issue 7 submissions open 7.21. Our guest readers are griffin epstein, Jory Mickelson, and Birch Wiley! We can’t wait to read your work! You can submit through Submittable next Monday (newwordspress.submittable.com) L, b

It is here! What better way to round out Pride month than the preorder of Birch Wiley’s masterful debut collection Mythweaver. Support trans artists! Get your copy! These poems are an act of mythweaving, meant to blend stories ancient and new.

TONIGHT! We’re a finalist for the @clmporg.bsky.social Firecracker Award for Best Debut Magazine. Would love to see familiar faces there. (zoom ceremony). Register: www.clmp.org/event/2025-f... Honored to be nominated alongside wonderful company like @revelliterary.bsky.social @short-reads.org

new words (@newwordspress.bsky.social) is a finalist for the Firecracker Award in Magazines/Best Debut. We’ll be celebrating the finalists and announcing the winner on June 26! www.clmp.org/event/2025-f...

We can’t wait to celebrate the finalists—and winner!—of the 2025 Firecracker Award in Magazines/Best Debut! @newwordspress.bsky.social @revelliterary.bsky.social @short-reads.org

Cover reveal for The Tenderness of Glass by Jodi Lin! Cover art by Rafael Santiago. Preorders will begin in a couple of weeks. You don’t want to miss this eclectic, engaging collection.

Awww. Thank you so much for the shout out! 🩷

“The Trans Agenda Is To Keep My F*cking Friends Alive” by Sol Rios. The poem was published by the @newwordspress.bsky.social. Sol reads for the WPLS on 6/11! #poems #poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #writers

Birch Wiley’ Debut Book, Mythweaver, Arriving in June! cover art by Aggie Johnson These poems are an act of mythweaving, meant to blend stories ancient and new. How do we make sense of the way violence, transformation, and passion impact queer selves and lives?

Congratulations to new words (@newwordspress.bsky.social), a finalist for the 2025 Firecracker Award in Magazines/Best Debut! newwordspress.com

This is a big moment for new words {press}. We are a finalist for the Best Debut Magazine!

Congratulations to the finalists of the 2025 Firecracker Award in Magazines/Best Debut! www.clmp.org/programs-opp...

So honored to be speaking on a panel at the Brooklyn Poets Poetry Festival. Tickets still available (zoom and in-person) as well as scholarships. The panel is What We Create for Each Other at 1:45 on Saturday, May 24th. Join us! Lots of great workshops and community.

Get your copy of the two year anniversary edition of new words poetry journal! Now available. So much great work. https://store.newwordspress.com/products/new-words-issue-no-6-p746965379 #transpoetry

now available for preorder! the two-year anniversary of new words poetry journal is here! (link in bio). two whole years! thank you to everyone that’s made this possible. please order a copy (only $10) and support a trans* press and trans* poets! love you all! b

got asked again during a Q&A what led to me becoming a poet, and this time i decided to answer completely honestly: "being a weird person"

A big thank you to @newwordspress.bsky.social for publishing this piece as part of the citizen trans* {project}! Go check them out and read the hundreds of other pieces published on the site. #litmags #trans #nonbinaryvisibility

This year’s table looks incredibly different than last year’s table at AWP when we had two issues for sale. Thank you to all the contributors, readers, supporters, and volunteers for making this possible. #stilltrans #newwordspress #

AWP has been so amazing so far. Thanks to everyone that’s supported us! And to @vinylowl and Miles for volunteering to help table. #awp #awp2025

so many of the manuscript submissions were stellar. we’d like to highlight Arya Burke, Harper Walton, and Liam Strong as our manuscript shortlist.

big news! say hello to our newest nw{p} family members! we are excited to announce that Samari Zysk, Jodi Lin, and Birch Wiley have all trusted nw{p} with their book publication. unfortunately, we could not extend more offers.

In LA? Come join us! From V4V: ✨R U a chaotic conference king, an Alt. Lit rebel babe, or a bookfair bestie? expansive voices. V4V, winner of @sapphic.la ‘s Best Open Mic🏆, is a bi-monthly Sapphic & Queer poetry event. This is their first collab🤝

We’re adding video poems from issue contributors on our website. Thanks to Ezra Fox for participating! And thanks to mj for volunteering to make this project happen!

As a staunch LGBTQIA+ ally, I'm proud to have contributed a poem to @brooklynbaggett.bsky.social 's citizen trans* {project}, published by @newwordspress.bsky.social, which exists to archive the voices of writers in an anti-trans, post-election country. www.citizentrans.com/florida-stat...

If you’ve ever struggled with titling your work—or wondered how a title can elevate rather than constrain—The Door of the Riddle: Titling Work with Yanyi will offer fresh insights and strategies and is the craft intensive for you! Sign-up: buff.ly/1ZopS3H

3 weeks before submissions close for new words issue 6! Can’t wait to read your work. #fucktrump #wontbeerased #stilltrans newwordspress.submittable.com

New merch. 💯 of the profits supports the citizen trans {project} and new words {press}. We need your support.

Thanks so much for sharing your voice! 🩷

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

If you're going to be at AWP in LA, come hang out and hear amazing poetry. The only offsite queer reading. #awp25 #LA #poetryreading #openmic

Get your copy today and lift trans* voices! #newwordspress #transpoetry #nonbinarypoetry #poetrycommunity #instapoetry #revolt

If your poem feels too short, just press tab a bunch of times between random words and tell people you're playing with white space.

Thank you so much for the shout out! 🩷

Message me if you’re interested! AWP volunteer needed. Free conference ticket.

the final list of contributors to issue 5. thank you to everyone so much. Go get a copy of this issue!!! It’s incredible. We need your support more than ever.

revolt. #citizentransproject #transrights #newwordspress

Go check the new citizentrans.com website! Please note: if you don’t see your work there yet, it will be there soon. if you’ve submitted and don’t see your work on either location, it will be there soon.