I won a LAMMY!

Congratulations to Saúl Hernández (@elsaulhernandez.bsky.social), finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry for "How to Kill a Goat and Other Monsters"! For more of Saúl's work, check out Foglifter 6.2! (E-book available for free) buff.ly/CRDaGjC

We're so excited and grateful to see @elsaulhernandez.bsky.social's and Eduardo Martínez-Leyva's poetry collections named as finalists for @lambdaliterary.org's 2025 Lammy Awards in Gay Poetry and LGBTQ+ Poetry! 🎉 Check out the full list of finalists across all categories: tinyurl.com/yc5uu4ea

Join @riggstah.bsky.social on August 15th discussing EXTINCTION CAPITAL OF THE WORLD, a stunning portrait of Hawai’i—and a meditation on family, queer love, and community amid imperialism and environmental collapse. More info + RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/bookpeople... @elsaulhernandez.bsky.social

"Grief will make you want to begin again." - @elsaulhernandez.bsky.social theoffingmag.com/insight/in-t...

I’m teaching a grief workshop in less than two weeks! Check it out: writingworkshops.com/products/the...

Come find me next week at AWP & say HI!

I’ve been drafting a poem a week since September 2024. I took January 2025 off to recenter myself & let me tell you, I may have finally found my writing routine that works for me. What’s yours?

I’ve been committed to the gym for the past three weeks & I’m seeing a difference in my arms. Now I just need to commit to better eating habits. 😭

Always a fun time! Hope to see some of you in San Antonio.

hey new followers! I wrote a gay memoir about death, violence, murder, and horror movies (and family struggles, coming of age, etc) that some cool and trustworthy people wrote nice things about! I'd be honored if you picked up a copy, and maybe even left a review somewhere!

Join me & 20 other 2025 NEA Fellows for an afternoon reading at this offsite event during AWP!

Books I read this past month of February. I learned so much from these books and I also realized I missed reading so much. I’m feeling a little more intellectual.

Finished this beauty!

If you're in Miami on 2/15, come out to my event for Alligator Tears at @booksandbooks.bsky.social in Coral Gables!!! So surreal to go back to the neighborhood where I used to pick up cans with my Abuela to read from my new book??? 🐊❤️ RSVP it's freeeee-> www.booksandbooks.com/event/an-eve...

galleys are here, & i have so many feelings (more on that later). if you haven’t preordered EXTINCTION CAPITAL OF THE WORLD yet, B&N is hosting a preorder sale, which means members get 25% off & premium members get 35% off (through friday) with the code PREORDER25 at checkout! @barnesandnoble.com

I know blurbs are having a little moment right now, but I was excited to write one for @chriscampanioni.bsky.social's amazing hybrid memoir: "Evading classification at every turn, this deeply associative text is migratory and nationless, if genre can be understood as a state from which to emigrate."

Every time I listen to Ethel Cain I just want to burst into leaves & drift in the wind. 🍂

The deadline for the 2025 #THSW is this weekend! Don't delay and get your application in today. In addition to our General Scholarships, we also offer many community-focused awards such as our scholarship for North American Indigenous authors. Apply: tinhouse.com/workshop/sum...

I’m excited to be a visiting writer at Texas State University. I’m preparing a craft talk, a workshop, and I’ll be reading. Be there Feb 26! Also, I’m open for university bookings for Fall 2025 & Spring 2026, email me if interested.

Thank you for the support!!!

Two new poems published today in like a field journal

I reviewed Here to Stay, which gives voice to 52 undocumented, or once undocumented, poets. Their rebuttal to the Trumpian zeitgeist are invaluable. www.greenlindenpress.com/interviews-a... @j9joseph.bsky.social @marcelohcastillo.bsky.social @estherwslin.bsky.social @harperperennial.bsky.social

Happy to see my book receiving some love

If you sit down to write and for some reason still think that your work shouldn’t be “too gay” or “too political” or “too much about race” or whatever else, remember that motherfuckers are out here throwing up Nazi salutes. The time to go harder than ever is now.

I saw this on TikTok but I had to go see it for myself. The White House website, translated into Spanish—gone. And they’ve replaced the Home button with the words “Go Home.” www.whitehouse.gov/es/

Today is my birthday, and the greatest gift I could possibly get on this desperate, hopeless, futureless day is a future as a writer. I’m allergic to promoting myself, but if I can earn out my advance, hopefully, I can write another book. bookshop.org/p/books/magi...

Today’s Featured Poet: Saúl Hernández is a queer writer from San Antonio, TX who was raised by former undocumented parents. As a finalist for The Wisconsin Poetry Series, his debut poetry collection, How to Kill a Goat & Other Monsters, is out now, University of Wisconsin Press.

"For the longest time I’ve wanted to be alone. Friday nights are the loneliest. I’m afraid to admit— time is killing me. Sometimes I’m so far away I forgot silence is another form of living."

Thank you @poetrydaily.bsky.social for featuring my poem!

SO PROUD!!!!!!

So… I’m a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow! I’m still feeling speechless. I’m full of gratitude. www.arts.gov/impact/liter...

for the neptune lovers 💙

3 days left of vacation then back to working. *sigh* I haven’t done one single thing on my to-do list.

Sharing with y’all one of my favorite poems from this year by the incredible @victoriachang.bsky.social

Honored to share the final poem I selected for Zócalo Public Square, written by the brilliant Chen Chen (@chenchenwrites.bsky.social). I’m grateful for the opportunity to spotlight such incredible voices! Don’t miss this stunning piece: www.zocalopublicsquare.org/chen-chen/

Deadlines approaching: poetrysociety.org/awards

It’s 80 degrees in south Texas and the sun is burning. How am I sweating in December? 😵‍💫

What time is best to text my exes today? 🤭

Thrilled to share a beautiful new poem by Alfredo Aguilar featured on Zócalo Public Square! Take a moment to read it here: www.zocalopublicsquare.org/alfredo-agui...

Woahh. Alligator Tears has received a second starred review, this time from Publishers Weekly! When I tell you I never AT ALL expected this. Starred reviews are "awarded to books of exceptional merit," and means it'll be stocked by more libraries, bookstores, and will reach more readers. Let's gooo😭

Read @jjpena.bsky.social winning work!

grateful to gab about books with @debutiful.bsky.social !!! 💖

“Winter” (fall) walks in South Texas.

Is anyone else watching 100 Years of Solitude on Netflix? 👀

i’ve got 2 new poems in Quarterly West!! here’s one of them, “12 Questions,” which is inspired by Bhanu Kapil’s questions from The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers, a book i remain completely obsessed with for both poems: quarterlywest.com/issue-113-chen

I got to share the stage last night with Laurie Ann Guerrero ❤️💜

I spot my debut poetry collection 👀