technically it’s still may so 🐀✌️ happy mental health awareness month! here are poems from my hybrid book in celebration AWC is about diagnosis, institutional violence, bipolar, & batman. writing this book was so instrumental in accepting my diagnosis 🩵 link in bio!

I am holding it together with coffee, mild delusion, and the vague idea that something beautiful might happen to me for no reason.

oh hey i forget about this website but i have a little book out with @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social, shout out to @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social for literally everything: fifthwheelpress.myshopify.com/products/goo...

It's that time again. More info at the link in bio.

This @bobsykora.bsky.social poem from Utopians in Love made me go "goddamnit Bob" out loud

My debut collection TELL ME YOURS, I’LL TELL YOU MINE is coming October from Stillhouse Press! I put my whole heart into this book, and it’ll be out in autumn: just the season for fortune telling, scary story swapping, strange skin wearing, and pinky promising…

Coming soon 🎧

ICE raided a popular restaurant in a San Diego neighborhood. About 3 dozen agents, some in full tactical gear, arrested restaurant workers while patrons were enjoying dinner. The ICE agents didn't expect a resounding rejection by neighbors & patrons. The community spontaneously protested.

Morning. Barn Swallow, John Gerrard Keulemans, 1869.

It’s been one month since the release of my debut collection, THE LOWEST BASIN: ARIZONA STORIES, from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social Thank you to everyone who ordered it. And if you haven’t, this could still be you!

10am. 1st June. Our first anniversary subs open 🦝 No theme for this one - just a strong story with a great voice. Make us feel something. Make it linger. Any genre. trashcatlit.com/general-subm...

Hey, want to support wildlife rescue? Monies from the VanderMeer Creative Threadless shop go to that worthy cause. Southern Reach designs, too! vandermeercreative.threadless.com

aight giving this app a whirl again 🧍 i’ll start w/ an offering, aka my newest fixation (sleep token), & if you’ve listened to the new album…. pls hmu

Kicking off our new year of short fiction, we're pleased to share "More of You" by Anjali Ravi necessaryfiction.com/stories/more...

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Looking for another great indie press deal? @gameoverbooks.bsky.social books are 51% off at checkout today if you put in code "hellyeah," meaning you can likely get my chapbook w/ shipping for under $13!!! www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/woma...

@gameoverbooks.bsky.social’s titles are 51% off today w/ code hellyeah at checkout 👀👀 meaning you can get my little rat book at a very very good price! www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/a-we...

today’s mood: behind-the-scenes emmett cullen holding a bag of eggs he can’t eat, right next to a counseling poster. we call this surviving not thriving

this is huge. THE CALLS WORKED

check it out!! & check out SG’s substack—it’s abundant w/ community, resistance, queer power. honored to be interviewed by them 🩵

I interviewed @brigonzalez.bsky.social about their incredible collection A WELLNESS CHECK for trans poetica. truly a must-read for anyone interested in Chicanx bipolar poetics and pop culture infused writing:

I'll be there:

Recently published by @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social

also… baby’s first fiction publication? 🫣 grateful to have this flash piece in issue 31 of four way review! fourwayreview.com/last-faces-p...

two new poems out in cuéntame lit w/ my fave issuemate @sgpoet.bsky.social ❤️❤️ go support this new latinx run magazine! the whole issue is a banger: cuentameliterary.com/2024/11/15/d...

It’s hard to think about love lately, but it's also the only thing worth thinking about. @honeyliterary.bsky.social, which centers marginalized writers & artists, is open for subs til 12/16. As Valentines Editor, I'd love to see any form of artistic expression touching on all types of love. ♥️

bluesky! my batman parody collection was published two months ago! 🐀 if you’re into critiques of how media portrays & commodifies mental illness w/ a side of absurdism, you can order here: www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/a-we...

"i understood the way soft necks adhered to wood stalk & drank light to their death—" Read "ABSCISSION THEORY" by Elliot Rose Winter in beestung #1

i made that!

I made a list of the literary magazines and small presses I’ve found here so far. Definitely not comprehensive, I’m sure I’ve missed lots. Feel free to tag any I’ve missed in the comments. go.bsky.app/PBU24ts

this flash & short fiction writers starter pack filled up incredibly quickly (150 is the max, and I guess there are a lot of us). Anyway share if you're into short and flash fiction! go.bsky.app/53R6ziA

Please remember to include disabled & chronically ill people in your humanitarian and/or revolutionary plans. There are things some of us can do (even from our homes). One very fine example of this is #CripsForESims h/t @sfdirewolf.bsky.social @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4u8pka9h

when i say my heart is full i mean it’s full of ghosts

hi 🦋 i’m new here. so is my poetry collection from Game Over Books. www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/still

35. aging is a funny, gorgeous, achy little miracle. 🌀 here’s a poem from We Contain Landscapes, forthcoming with @tinhouse.bsky.social in March

I recently enjoyed Lowest Common Denominator by Pirkko Saiso (Two Lines Press) and A Wellness Check by @brigonzalez.bsky.social ( @gameoverbooks.bsky.social)!

Now that I’m back on here and it’s that time of year again, so I humbly present for your consideration: MY BEST WORKS PUBLISHED IN 2024. If you’re the voting type, and you would like access to any of these titles listed here, please let me know and I’ll slide one ur way! 🖤🐍🩸🔪🔥🥀💋

Not comprehensive and still very much a work in progress, but I have begun building a user list of Black Romance Writers (which can also be pinned as a feed). bsky.app/profile/did:...

Proud to announce that one of my favorite poems, “Shapeshifters Local,” will appear in a future issue of @kaleidotrope.bsky.social!

Hey if u like supernatural and poetry or even if u dont tbh u should read summer farah's stackednatural newsletter. Here's today's it rules eveningconversations.substack.com/p/stacked-da...

bluesky! my batman parody collection was published two months ago! 🐀 if you’re into critiques of how media portrays & commodifies mental illness w/ a side of absurdism, you can order here: www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/a-we...

Hi hello i really cannot stress enough how hot your activism is, like how devastating your showing up and speaking out is, just life-ruining the way you take concrete action towards making life better for your neighbors even though it’s hard and discouraging and exhausting. Radicalized you is HOT

university press of kentucky is seeking submissions (essays, poems, pitch ideas) for an anthology of appalachian writers living with disabilities. email "kendra @ readappalachia (dot) com" for inquiries and submissions. @kdwinchester.bsky.social

It would be an understatement to say that the past week has been rough, but I realized today that the week has also brought some really lovely moments of connecting with people over poetry, and I want to hold on to those experiences. www.katiemanningpoet.com/2024/11/10/e...

hi again bluesky, what’d i miss??

cat + call your reps to demand a ceasefire

not in the practice of posting here but maybe i’ll get on it—meanwhile here’s my cat dahlia + a reminder to call your representatives and demand ceasefire in gaza

The new COVID shot is not a booster, it's like the flu shot: researched and formulated to protect from the most dangerous and common strains this year! It'll still help against other strains! Get it soon as you can and help www.yalemedicine.org/news/updated... yourself and your community!