new from above/ground press: EL REY MURCIÉLAGO // THE BAT KING, by Yaxkin Melchy Ramos (translated from Spanish by Ryan Greene abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/08/new-...

“Always trying to arrive is one way to seldom do. An ever-arriving coincident with a failure to recognize it, the air of our heads conditioned to miss the particles we land on, over and over, this progress.” Ian U Lockaby (@ursalockaby.bsky.social), DEFENSIBLE SPACE / IF A CROW— #finished & loved

We’re excited to return to the New Orleans Poetry Fest in a week! We’re hosting a reading to celebrate @ursalockaby.bsky.social ‘s luminous chapbook A Seam of Electricity with an equally glowing line up ⚡️🔋🔌🪡🧵

Today's Featured Poem: An excerpt from A Seam of Electricity by Ian U Lockaby (@ursalockaby.bsky.social), published by Ghost Proposal (@ghostproposal.bsky.social). Read here: poems.com/poem/a-seam-...

Ian Lockaby, Defensible Space / if a crow / @omnidawn.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/02/ian-...

Today’s Featured Poem: “Once a whale” by @ursalockaby.bsky.social, from defensible space/if a crow—, published by Omnidawn. Read here: poems.com/poem/once-a-...

ALOCASIA #6 is here! We're howling at the moon to share queer planty writing w/u w/ nat raum, Peach Delphine, sterling-elizabeth arcadia, Moni Garcia, Tara Labovich, heidi andrea restrepo rhodes, Allya Yourish, Natalie D.C., J.C. Otiono, & Jerry Portwood alocasia.org

Mathias Svalina, from the new issue of The Tiny Mag: www.thetinymag.com/current-issue

We've added a music column over at Anomaly! The wonderful @oliviamuenz.bsky.social is our editor. Check out a little intro to the column and Olivia here: https://medium.com/anomalyblog/the-markings-of-music-an-introduction-1f8e3f93362d

who wouldn’t want to be inside this though

@jiminseo.bsky.social told me I should post that he’s giving up poetry to pursue a career as a voltron pilot

@ursalockaby.bsky.social said I should post “death is also a circle”