pleeeeeeaaaase 🍏

need recommendations for poems or collections in which the speaker is unabashedly pathetic

Genuine question: what exactly are we all doing.

yeah every day im like. I need something to happen. Can anything happen

the fuck it will

every day is just me constantly refreshing my email hoping to receive some news that will change my life or at least give me a brief hit of validation

Pharmalynk is doing a 48 hour sale on Flowflex rapid covid tests! $1/test! Im not affiliated at all I just saw the email store.pharmalynk.com/products/flo...

You're about to see headlines saying abortion pills can't be shipped. THAT IS NOT TRUE You can still get abortion pills by mail to all fifty states. Some providers will switch to miso-only, some will ship both mife & miso. I got into all of this when the federal court ruling first dropped:

This grief and healing event by the UW Trans Collective and Gender Justice League is taking place on Saturday, May 16. See more below.

NEW: Seattle might declare a civil emergency to help LGBTQ (mostly trans) people fleeing red states, so I looked for a Texas angle. An organizer told me that Texas is #1 among trans people looking to relocate: "The baseline hostility to their existence is unbearable." www.chron.com/culture/arti...

being #brave and mixing patterns. I feel like I’m giving young Mortimer Goth. if anyone calls me dapper I will kms

🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶 for this extraordinary book

And I can make it more complicated. - Yanyi’s Catallus 85

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you could tell me that any middle aged blonde woman was Celine Dion and I would believe you

good morning, I’m evil today

I began to be sensible of strange feelings. I felt a melting in me.

It’s been six months of moon wobbling! happy half birthday to my little book!

i will succeed because i am a pervert 🥳🫡

I spend a third of my life asleep and the other two-thirds yearning to be asleep

Read poetry from @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social this #APAHeritageMonth! In LET THE MOON WOBBLE, Ally Ang “refuses the deadening distances of capital, borders, and patriarchy, embracing instead the richest, queerest intimacies.” —Chen Chen www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/le...

A Feature reading coming up Wednesday, May 20th, at Speak Out Seattle!! Solo Bar, come by 7 to sign up for open mike.

I wonder if my former work enemy is dead yet. she was old as fuck

for some reason, the AI writing convention I find most grating is “And honestly?”

Just read through my set for the poetry reading tonight and realized that I use the word "genitals" four times, which feels like a lot for a 20-minute set. Come to Cedar Tea House tonight for a genital-full night of poetry!

“Please,” cried Frog, “please go away!” But no one went away.

I’m reading new poems with some of my all-time favorite poets tomorrow at Cedar Tea House!

make bisexuality chic again

YIKES: The Seattle Times rejected a union request to not replace workers with AI saying "Journalism doesn't mean journalists." www.instagram.com/p/DX7Tkxpj55...

sadly I did not win a pulitzer 💔😔 maybe next time

May 3rd is the birthday of Hind Rajab. She would be 8-years-old. She called for help. She loved pretending to play doctor. She was kind. She should still be alive ❤️‍🩹 Happy birthday, Hind 🎈 We remember you. Thinking of your mom, may all of the kindness and beautiful memories of you seek her heart 💛

Oh, honey I've gone away

would any moneyed institutions like to pay me to do something (or better yet, nothing) for AANHPI month?

look at his little teeth!!!

I wrote about my favorite book!!

please…i’m dying and the only thing that can save me is juicy gossip

he should ask Claude the immortal question

2 data center developers pull Seattle plans amid opposition, talk of ban

Hailing from the Randolph College MFA program, Revolute Issue .007 opens with an interview with Ally Ang, cover art by Michiko Itatani, and a variety of new poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and microreviews to read online. #litmags #literarycommunity #readingcommunity

“CLICK TO VERIFY YOU ARE HUMAN”: a new poem by Ally Ang (@theoceanisgay.bsky.social), which zig-zags between the superficial rush and the existential dread that permeate our lives both on and off the screen. M Randall shares four eerie collages in response to Ally's poem: www.chum.news/twic/mally

all of social media is autofiction (derogatory)

now that I’ve been on T for almost 3 years, I have roughly the same vocal range as Elaine Stritch in her 80s

even though I write about sex in my poems, I am a sexually unavailable prude! as far as you're all concerned, I am asexual

celebrity is a scourge upon society. every day I’m grateful that I’m nobody and always will be

Grab a pot of tea with us on May 7 for the first CHUM News poetry reading, hosted by Poetry Editor Lue Hughes at Cedar Tea House in Columbia City 🫖 Featuring: - Ally Ang - Quenton Baker - Dujie Tahat Free entry, but plz RSVP here: forms.gle/3d5kXsCTXJUK...

every time I am tempted to reveal anything about myself or my life on the internet I think of this and hit delete

thrilled to finally get to share Ally's ekphrastic chicken wing hot sauce sex poem it's good read it below

That’s queer, too.

Thanks @selizabeth.bsky.social and @jamesolearypoet.bsky.social for including my poem about my ex getting hot sauce in my vagina in this excellent issue of GARLAND!