We are so excited to announce that long-time novel/novella reader jonah wu ( @rabblerouses.bsky.social ) is our new Novel/Novella Editor!!! We received many incredible applications and it was a very hard decision, but we're confident jonah will do an incredible job leading our N/N team.

Jack Handey

‘If there is any lesson from history, it is that few sexual orthodoxies endure.’ James Butler (@piercepenniless.bsky.social) on gay history and its uses. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

PROMISES TO KEEP is out in the world from @wayfarerbooks.bsky.social! Order a signed copy. www.mehpoeting.com/promises-to-...

According to Hegel, Epicurus’ mother Chærestrata was a sorceress who “earned money, like the women of Trace and Thessaly, by furnishing spells and incantations, as was quite common in those days.” “Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Vol 2.” (tr by E.S. Haldane)

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Favorite April poem

Only a few days left to save on our entire Radical Thinkers series! Books from Adorno, Rose, Baudrillard, Jameson, Marable, Debord, Reich, Ross, Arrighi, and many more - all 40% off until Friday, April 10th at 11:59pm

Stock up on @triohousepress.org titles during poetry month! Buy one get one free, including pre-orders!! triohousepress.myshopify.com

I love when Miami-Dade Transit riders send me photos of the poems they are enjoying on their daily commute. 💙

According to Hegel, Epicurus’ mother Chærestrata was a sorceress who “earned money, like the women of Trace and Thessaly, by furnishing spells and incantations, as was quite common in those days.” “Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Vol 2.” (tr by E.S. Haldane)

Good morning to joy, fuck (don’t fuck) fascists and their violent political puppets, have a good cup of coffee, call your reps, tell someone you want to kiss them

"when was the last time–I swam downstream with the bluegills, sifting through algae coated rocks for crawfish and clams as my nephew laughed and screamed in the sandbar" —Anangookwe Wolf :: “i want clean water goddamit” alocasia.org/2025/08/15/a...

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

Spent all day drafting a poem and it went: Good. Good. What? Strange... Who? Better. Better? Much worse. Ruined it. Wait, fixed it? Nope, off... Oh, yep! Better! Beetle? Pome- Bitter Wurst. Line breaks! No, prose. Indent? Bees? Bees! Bees! Poem done? Throbbing.

happy #twopageplustuesday all! today’s for longer poems you’ve written or loved, that would run to 2+ printed pages—share ’em if you’ve got ’em :) today’s also my mom’s birthday, so here’s one from my book Reclaimed Water that owes a great debt to her music, which I’ll 🔗 below—

Day 4: Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance by @toddedillard.bsky.social 💙

Rick Reid

ICYMI I have new work out about dragon fruit, cinnamon toast, and eggs. I really hate eggs, and it was a pleasure to destroy them in a poem.

It's an incredible honor to have my book reviewed alongside new work from Kimiko Hahn, Arthur Sze, and many other excellent writers here. Many, many thanks to Plume and PW Bridgman!

We've got more poetry to share. 🔥 Flash reader @adrianf.bsky.social's poems DRACAENA TRIFASCIATA, MONSTERA DELICIOSA, and SPATHIPHYLLUM were published in Alocasia! buff.ly/FLBK2aE

This essay by @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social is a gift to literature: lithub.com/the-responsi...

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5 days left to send in work for ALOCASIA's THORNS issue! We're seeking work for an upcoming themed issue examining lived experiences of queer domestic violence, partner violence, and sexual assault through the lens of horticulture and plant life. alocasia.org/about-send-w...

Oct. 2026!! Can't wait to share this chapbook

kith retreat where we weave by day, throw pots on our breaks, and work on our writing at night.

"Connie wasn’t that long ago, in the historical sense, but she was eons ago in terms of language evolution." Don't miss Carol M. Quinn’s fiction piece COGS, HEART AND SOUL before it hits the archives. 🔥 buff.ly/LxsRoC3

so relatable, @djvorreyer.bsky.social “When drafting new work, topical prompts almost never work for me as a writer. If you tell me to write about a time I was surprised, my whole life will suddenly roll out before me like a scripted narrative, no surprises to be found.”

"When I was young I said I didn’t want to be a boy or a girl, I wanted to be a plant. I had never been a go-getter but the want grew to be bigger than my body." —Zoe Adrien Lapa :: “Consummation” alocasia.org/2026/02/15/z...

National Poetry Month: Prompt 6, from @djvorreyer.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉 Time to play with NUMBERS ✨

"The year 2020 separated us, but It's Easy to Lose Your Breath brings us together." Here's the first blurb for my upcoming book, out next month! A huge thank you to my pal, @mitchnobis.bsky.social, for saying some really kind things about my book. Pre-order it today!

saw a turkey today waiting at our front door for the rain to stop #birds #birding

My first "fiction" slash prose hybrid in several years and a wonderful collaboration with a dear friend!

Happy Easter Sunday! @ketchi_klein and I thought it would be funny to drop a loosely parent-themed issue on the ultimate daddy-issues holiday

National Poetry Month: Prompt 5, from Jessica Coles (@prairievixen.bsky.social). Get ready to COOK! (with memory) 🍅

We're shouting out poetry for ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY✨ Flash reader @adrianf.bsky.social has two poems in @havehashad.com ✨ Check them out: buff.ly/0Z1nU90

“Good Time Jesus” for Easter, “Those Winter Sundays” for Father’s Day, and “The Tiger” for every other day of the year

Today is the one day when Jesus absolves your eggs if they're deviled.

April 30/30 prompt the fifth Discounts at the [_______] Store Write a poem where you go shopping at a store that primarily sells a feeling, memories, replacement parts for past loves and traumas. What is in the discount aisle? What, if anything, do you buy? Here is a list of potential ideas:

[as gay club]: how did you get here?! you’re not supposed to be here!

Flash prose/micro series and poetry subs for our summer issue close tomorrow! ☀️ variantlit.submittable.com/submit

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Since it's National Poetry Month, CNN lyrically describes the sublime beauty of venting urine in space: "The pee trickles by like glowing gems in the vacuum of space as it zooms by the Orion’s windows..." Also many hilarious quotes here: www.cnn.com/2026/04/04/s...

apropos of absolutely nothing: youtu.be/yMpSQV1-bsA

“The action of nature is very similar to the exercise of art whereby anyone heals himself [sic].” - - Aristotle, Physics II (cited in Hegel’s “Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Vol. 2)

The tender things are those we fold away.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

National Poetry Month: Prompt 3, from Jameela F. Dallis It’s time to go outside! (Or sit by a window!) ✍️ 🌼