"I lizard-tongue into your eager heat, tease the thin membrane between pleasure and disgust. O beads of sweat bedazzling your skin, I lap you up until you’re soaked" —Ally Ang beestungmag.com/issue24/two-...

Here are some local must-read fall releases you'll definitely want to add to your library hold list:

I hear you’re not allowed to celebrate fascists getting murdered on this website

Thank you @splitlipthemag.bsky.social for the shoutout!!! 🥰

as we were leaving Canada, the customs officer asked me and Zury what our relationship is and I said “we’re lovers” and he just nodded and said “hey, better than haters, right?” 💀

Ok so in case yall missed the memo like I did. David Lehman, series editor of Best American Poetry is a Zionist ass. Literally feel embarrassed that I wound up in this situation. I was literally the only person of color in a room of 50+ people. It was terrifying. #poetry #bestamericanpoetry

Thanks for sharing this poem from my forthcoming book Let the Moon Wobble (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social) 🌝

Today's Featured Poem: "Owed to My Father's Accent" by Ally Ang from Let the Moon Wobble published by @theoceanisgay.bsky.social Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/owed-to...

Congratulations to beestung's #BotN Best of the Net nominees in poetry for 2026! Ally Ang arushi (aera) rege Jazz Bell t.r. San Mandy Shunnarah Amari Amai Read their work at beestungmag.com

I’m so glad that I grew out of the phase where I was overly invested in naming and delineating identity

this month I watched 22 films and read 33 books 🤓 can you tell I can’t bear to be alone with my thoughts 😎

“I have no charms. Admittedly.” A poem by Vievee Francis.

do any of you also crave sexual attention but become repulsed when actually receiving it or is that just me 🧍

I have two vulgar little poems in the new issue of @beestung.bsky.social! These poems are also in my book Let the Moon Wobble forthcoming from @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social in November :)

"I lizard-tongue into your eager heat, tease the thin membrane between pleasure and disgust. O beads of sweat bedazzling your skin, I lap you up until you’re soaked" —Ally Ang beestungmag.com/issue24/two-...

I should move to hollywood to pursue my dream of being a zombie extra in a zombie movie. I’d be great at it, I’m so good at yelling and biting 🧟‍♂️

My friend Eslam has had her account removed by bluesky moderation. This is not the first time. I want to tell you what she said happened to her, but first, i’d like you to see Eslam’s campaign, since she is apparently not allowed here to share it herself. bit.ly/artist-eslam (1/?)

Yesterday, some sugar and cheese were brought in after more than five months of deprivation. These days, more goods are being brought in. This is the best time to donate and support us and compensate us for the previous period, which was full of deprivation.

I hope the blue angels crash

Seattle: Join us Aug 12 at Hugo House for "Towards Collective Liberation"—a live poetry event celebrating FREELAND by @leighsugar.bsky.social, with readings by @theoceanisgay.bsky.social & Shelby Handler. ✨ 6–8pm PT | Theater Lobby 📍 Register: buff.ly/9VT0osq #SeattlePoetry #LiveLit #HugoHouse

We need to stop saying shit like "IP" and "content" when we mean art. Don't let them strip the walls in your own brain, man.

do secular reading/study groups for religious texts exist?

I always avoided reading Moby Dick bc I assumed it’d be boring but I’m finally reading it and not only is it super gay, it’s also got some of the most beautiful sentences I’ve ever read 🐳

give me your favorite summer salad recipes/inspo!

Tomorrow afternoon Councilmember Hollingsworth and I will be restoring “Hot Rat Summer” in Cal Anderson Park. This mosaic was wrongfully painted over and we are going to fix it.

🚨 Cover reveal alert! 🚨 @electricliterature.com was kind enough to publish the exclusive book cover reveal for Let the Moon Wobble, featuring a gorgeous painting by Katherine Bradford. Read what designer Tiani Kennedy and I had to say about the cover here: electricliterature.com/exclusive-co...

Happy pride! Come to Other People’s Poems at Open Books tonight at 7pm or else you’re heterosexual and also dead to me

Thank you @vitcavage.bsky.social and @debutiful.bsky.social for featuring Let the Moon Wobble as one of the most anticipated debut books of 2025! 🥹

idk why everyone talks about “burnout” they should just call it being alive because there’s no such thing as living without being burned out

"I put my fingers inside the moon like a mouth, to see how wide I can spread it open." 💫 Wow, did we publish a stunning poem in our May Issue! 🌕 Check out FROM HOLES WE EMERGED, AND INTO HOLES WE SHALL RETURN by Ally Ang in our May Issue: buff.ly/qcaNRXN

Southeast Asian Duran Duran cover band called Durian Durian

fun fact for washingtonians: if you tap into the quoted thread, there’s a call script for patty murray. you can help her do her job by explaining the language of the budget bill that would strip healthcare from trans people that she’s supposed to be reviewing as a member of the budget committee!

trying to get my remaining unpublished book poems picked up before the book comes out makes me feel like a nobleman trying to marry off his homely spinster daughters before they turn 30

being a poet is the ultimate exercise in delayed gratification

an eyelash abandoned upon the stair…I’m going to start sticking it in random women’s eyes until I find Cinderella

I keep seeing people on the way to the protest carrying american flags? what kind of protest is this??? 🤡

yesterday I finished reviewing the 2nd round proofs for my book…which was the last chance I had to make any changes at all 😮‍💨 it’s in God’s (and my publisher’s) hands now!

I miss the days when I could buy a sandwich for less than $10

"Not queer like a rainbow slapped onto a Wells Fargo debit card, gay as in let's hurl a Molotov cocktail thru the window of the bank at nightfall and kiss while we watch the glass shatter like a supernova." —Ally Ang beestungmag.com/issue21/two-...

the rent a cops at safeway and qfc who check receipts are such losers. why are you wearing a bullet proof vest you silly bitch 😭

Delighted to have a weird poem about holes in the lovely May issue of @splitlipthemag.bsky.social 🕳️🕳️🕳️

Delighted to have a weird poem about holes in the lovely May issue of @splitlipthemag.bsky.social 🕳️🕳️🕳️

Here it is! Our ✨amazing✨ MAY ISSUE! As always, much love & gratitude to our contributors 🥰 WORDS: John Jodzio, @joshdenslow.bsky.social , @cindyhouse.bsky.social & theoceanisgay.bsky.social ART: Natalie Christensen PLUS: Barrak Alzaid reviews noam keim Start reading now! buff.ly/h13a7FK