“An impressive execution of recurring motif capturing the metamorphosis of masculine and feminine, SWARM encapsulates both a sharp bite and the frenzied dance of a gossamer wing.” - Devon Webb @apocalypsepoet.bsky.social Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/swarm eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/swarm

"Each ... haibun captures a unique facet of this breathtaking landscape, weaving together poetry and prose to illuminate the essence of the Canadian Rockies." - A.R. Williams Abecedarian: Banff, Canada Melanie Hyo-In Han Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/banff eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/banff

"Each ... haibun captures a unique facet of this breathtaking landscape, weaving together poetry and prose to illuminate the essence of the Canadian Rockies." - A.R. Williams Abecedarian: Banff, Canada Melanie Hyo-In Han Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/banff eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/banff

"These poems will carve you, empty you, so they can fill you; will press & stick to the roof of your mouth." - Amy Jannotti, author of Angels & Insects are Creatures With Wings Fatherland, Motherland Leo Rose Rodriguez Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/rodriguez eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/rodriguez

"Jannotti's poems know well how excruciating is waiting—waiting to be seen, to be held, to be loved." - Lilia Marie Ellis Angels & Insects are Creatures With Wings Amy Jannotti @cursetheground.bsky.social Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/jannotti eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/jannotti

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"Jannotti's poems know well how excruciating is waiting—waiting to be seen, to be held, to be loved." - Lilia Marie Ellis Angels & Insects are Creatures With Wings Amy Jannotti @cursetheground.bsky.social Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/jannotti eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/jannotti

there were four of us kids so Dad set up a rotation. on his turn, he played a blank Maxwell 60 minute. front side, then back.

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Holds Up When Shattered Merri Andrew @merriandrew.bsky.social "This is a voice to listen to, a collection to re-read and re-read." - Sarah St Vincent Welch, author of chalk borders Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/shattered eBook: kithbooks.com/shop/p/shattered

cosign. our dependence on distro monoliths has been, and will be, disastrous for books.

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"I didn't realize that all these little rituals we're only letting the mourning swallow me while." - Odette Augustine, For Spite and Rosemary @brigibee.bsky.social Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/forspiteandrosemary eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/forspiteandrosemary

Friends, we are in need of a guest tomorrow who can share their embarrassing poems (ones that should never leave the drafts folder) with the world... mayhaps it be you?

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I'm so excited to annouce that Do It Wrong: How to Be a Poet In the Twenty-First Century is now available for preorder from @pressassembly.bsky.social assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...

"You're an animal. We're all animals. Even you, son." - Parker Wilson, Painted Rocks Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/paintedrocks eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/paintedrocks

"You're an animal. We're all animals. Even you, son." - Parker Wilson, Painted Rocks Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/paintedrocks eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/paintedrocks

freaky transsexual chapbook coming out next month with @kithbooks.bsky.social don’t miss it!

“Start a fire in my kitchen, a small one not to burn down the house just to have the fire department over” - Davi Schweizer, False Alarm from ECHO DECAY Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/echodecay eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/echodecay

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FRENCH WRITERS: @banffcentre.bsky.social welcomes applications for writers across genre from France and its territories for a *fully-funded* residency -- apply by SEPT 24, 2025! www.banffcentre.ca/fr/programs/...

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Body, Dissected Ivi Hua Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/bodydissected eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/bodydissected

A Haunting Most Cold Lauren Carter @writerlcarter.bsky.social Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/ahauntingmostcold eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/ahauntingmostcold

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/

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a mother’s creature and a father’s reminder, Bones is coming out of the womb shrieking. bloodied, unbeaten; with gore in their teeth. - Atlas St. Cloud, author of SEDIMENT & Here I Am, Pry Me Open Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/maybejustthis eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/maybejustthis

Block anyone who implies it’s crass to try to sell art bc of “Everything Going On.” Motherfuckers there is going to be a LOT going on FOREVER, and artists sell art AS THEIR JOB. Do you go to fuckin McDonalds and scream at the staff “HOW COULD YOU BE MAKING FRENCH FRIES AT A TIME LIKE THIS??” Grow up

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New! #Crohnic by Jason Purcell (@jasonvpurcell.bsky.social) is a poetic meditation on what it means to live a medicated life, looking toward sites of nature where life and death exist side by side. Out now in Canada & the US. 👉 Read more: arsenalpulp.com/Books/C/Croh...

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To Bring You My Love is not an easy text, not a mainstream or palatable story of disordered embodiment since cured. And it rings among the truest of any I’ve read. -[sarah] Cavar, author of Failure to Comply Print kithbooks.com/shop/p/tobringyoumylove eBook kithbooks.com/digital/p/tobringyoumylove

hi! I have been unemployed since March despite my best efforts to find a job. so I am freelancing in the meantime & am open for novel manuscript consults & book coaching. email me marisacrane12(at)gmail(dot)com www.marisacrane.org/manuscript-c...

Doubleback Books announces their Open Reading Period from August 15 - September 30! doublebackbooks.wordpress.com

To Bring You My Love is not an easy text, not a mainstream or palatable story of disordered embodiment since cured. And it rings among the truest of any I’ve read. -[sarah] Cavar, author of Failure to Comply Print kithbooks.com/shop/p/tobringyoumylove eBook kithbooks.com/digital/p/tobringyoumylove

“There is thrill in feeling the rigid shatter against the soft” - Allison Thung, MOLAR @poetrybyallison.bsky.social Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/molar eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/molar

“There is thrill in feeling the rigid shatter against the soft” - Allison Thung, MOLAR @poetrybyallison.bsky.social Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/molar eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/molar

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"This collection is a monsoon, flooding our expectations of gender. May no man in charge of our laws find peace in these pages; they were always meant to drown." - Jason B Crawford space neon neon space @lunareyhall.com Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/spaceneon eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/spaceneon

Last day to check out this sale and grab some ebooks on the cheap, if you're missing a title~~! 🔽🔽🔽

"This collection is a monsoon, flooding our expectations of gender. May no man in charge of our laws find peace in these pages; they were always meant to drown." - Jason B Crawford space neon neon space @lunareyhall.com Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/spaceneon eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/spaceneon

surprise! I am teaching a 4-week, online, asynchronous class on writing sex scenes, including expanding what a sex scene can be, complicating character psychology and emotional and relational history, and beyond. it runs from Oct 4 - Nov 3. sign up below! docs.google.com/forms/d/1YvY...