sometimes you just need to drink tea & talk to your German uncles on videochat for an hour 💖

it’s funny when the rest of the world has to live in a liminal space, too

Emotionally I’m here

weekday brunch with the girls to renew my strength to finish the end of the year fiercely 💖🎉🪩

✨Thursday✨

sisters of mercy and house guest cleaning 🎶 frost giant appeasement begins tonight

maple syrup with edible glitter. holiday shopping for nieces/nephew/grand nieces complete.

wearing a black gown to visit nadya tolokonnikova’s exhibit, мрія що збулася 🖤🇺🇦

come find out what lies at the intersection of scratch n sniff and poetry ✨ free stuff is today 4-6pm, msg me for the location 🎉

my ancestors invented Scratch n Sniff technology, what a dreammmmmmm!!

give me an opportunity to get delightfully weird with it and I promise, I will. 🤩

give me an opportunity to get delightfully weird with it and I promise, I will. 🤩

Unbelievably excited for this ✨ puppets, poetry, and pals ✨ DM me for the address, it’s going to be a BLAST!!!

DAYLIGHT & TENFOLD ORIOLES walkthrough! PAGE 7: “slipper” by @saramatson.bsky.social featuring words donated by @opwriter.bsky.social - DAYLIGHT @krislindbeck.bsky.social - TIDE Meesh Montoya - PROLIX challenge: travel word author chose: beach free PDF collection: tinyurl.com/2025daylight

routine maintenance on a plumbing thing in the house and the plumber that came is a old pal from high school!! getting the hot goss when you don’t know the people is FUN

sometimes you just gotta eat veggie sushi with people you love

An honor and joy to read with these brilliant writers ✨ thank you Ben for curating such fantastic readings! ✨

Mal and Jayne Sunday snugglin’

Wednesday! ✨ I’m reading with extraordinary folks at the Whistler at 6pm ✨ hosted by the fantastic Ben Niespodziany!

DAYLIGHT & TENFOLD ORIOLES is here! this free PDF is packed with writing created by 17 authors that incorporates words contributed by many people! lots of thanks to all involved! everyone who took part is tagged in this thread! get the PDF here: tinyurl.com/2025daylight

Halloween 2025 costume reveal: Debbie Jellinsky Addams #whataboutdebbie

And finally: Gary J. Shipley @danikastegeman.bsky.social Saint Nick + Andrew C. Wenaus

Next up: @matthewkinlin.bsky.social @saramatson.bsky.social Monique Quintana, Ami J. Sanghvi

I miss david lynch 😐

it’s always disheartening when I find out a love song I thought was about a partner is about heroin. Or worse, god. 😹💀

This is the first Halloween since 2018 I’ll be wearing a wig, send me cooling thoughts at the end of this month 😹🎃👻🦇

It is October and I am, in fact, making weird cardboard bullshit out of old cat food boxes ✨

“I had worked hard for nearly two years…” Author copies are here and I’m thrilled!! Grateful to @mickmakesmagic.bsky.social for the cover, @taylorbyas.bsky.social / @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social / Warren Longmire for blurbs, and of course Holly at @interstellarflight.bsky.social for picking it up!!

Used this reaction image to respond to the group chat asking a ton of questions 😹😹😹😹 I crack myself up, yall

planning a west coast meetup with my California bestie is very exciting & gives me something awesome to look forward to next year 🌈 haven’t seen him in person since 2011!

Sara! Sara! @saramatson.bsky.social 🤩✨🙂‍↔️ wish I could make this. Chicago, I miss you and your poets

pink peppercorns

red dye from a squeezie teardrop bottle and black lipgloss is the most elite lip combo. also my sink is covered in red food dye now 😹💀

shout out to all the cosplayers that make tutorials, today I’ve learned at least 3 new ways to light myself on fire with my Halloween costume and I’m so glad I know what to avoid 😹😅

had an incredible evening with brilliant writers ✨ check out Words // Friends Autumn 2025 Edition on YouTube ✨ featuring readings from Ellis Eden, Ola Faleti, Sandra Marchetti, Skye Jackson, Lemmy Ya’akova, Bob Sykora ✨ it was such a joy!! youtu.be/IedrB9OGLiw

I am your favorite familiar’s favorite familiar

Happy pub day to the second edition of this FANTASTIC guide to green spaces in chicago, written by my bestie Lindsay Welbers ✨ get ur copy from u of I press at the link below 🌈 www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

What an absolute thrill to be a part of this wildly fun project, thanks for the opportunity and the bonkers trailer, Oli! 🖤

The trailer that was promised for upcoming Psycho H mega project, 'All The Colour Of The Dark', all 9 minutes of it, chock full of amateurish technical errors that I'm gonna lean into from this point on and say are intentional. www.youtube.com/watch?v=phZJ...

there are many awesome things happening this week and I’m going to try my best to make it to theseeeee

found this old pic of me

Chicago! Tonight at 7! So excited to read with @nberlat.bsky.social, @saramatson.bsky.social, @ejoylevinson.bsky.social, and my wonderful co-author Elena Rielinger Ferguson!

the cooling words at Free Stuff will ease my melting corporeal form, DM for the address ✨

my band, Cats Hate The Airshow, is playing this weekend under the couch 🎶

✨ I'll be at the StoryBoard 2025 Fellows Reading next Thursday at Roscoe Books. If you're in Chicago, come hear us read. Tasters of excellent poetry, CNF, and fiction promised. ⚡

Jayne curls his toes in delight when he gets tummy rubs and it’s one of my favorite occurrences on the planet 😻 #JayneCobbMatson

another adventure, another moment I wish I could text the cats (even tho, without question, they would not text me back, even if they could)

many of you have seen this already, but i have some work in the latest @thearsonista.bsky.social issue, curated by @saint-remus.bsky.social: burninghousepress.com/2025/08/01/j...

Honored to have new poems up at Burning House Press, curated by the ethereal M. Forajter 💖🌟 burninghousepress.com/2025/08/01/s...