Prisms danced on the cover of Bird Body this morning! Thank you @zoefaystindt.bsky.social for meeting with the Blue Stones last night to share new work and talk "stretching our strangeness" for the coming creative season. You've inspired us to embrace the wondrous and the weird.

i'm struggling with how to write this post without seeming like i'm capitalizing on trans suffering. but if you're like me, and reading the work of other trans writers makes you feel less alone, i publish a whole quarterly mag for trans writers and artists. it's what i've got. www.beestungmag.com

Y'all, some of your favorite small presses and literary organizations just got a gut punch from the NEA. Today would be a great day to support them. May we suggest that you buy a book from @hubcitypress.bsky.social?

Excited to share two pieces in the Jan/Feb issue of POETRY ✨ “Girl Blood Ritual One” and “Girl Blood Ritual Two” www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/amelia...

Please help Doaa get the medical treatment she so desperately needs

There is no way you should comply if your employer texts you a survey asking if you are Jewish. The "current administration" probably wants Jews to turn in anyone who has taken part in pro-Palestinian protests so they can be declared "un-American" & deport them. Don't let yourself be used like this.

saving this for the next time someone asks me how to organize a book of poems

It was disturbing to be in court today. As I wrote: [I]n an alarming sign for LGBTQ people, it was clear that at least three of the justices believe that describing queer people accurately — acknowledging their equal existence — amounts to taking sides or trying to “influence” children.

Excited for this one!

Hope y’all come out and join us for poetry tomorrow in Durham, NC— free to all ❤️📚🎙️ Some righteously stunning poets assembling gosh darn it I will try to be AWAKE! 🌙 💫 #ReadingForTheEndOfTheWorld #NationalPoetryMonth #Poetry shadowboxstudio.org/events/readi...

submit to a real good magazine

From the Department of Things Columbia Could Have Done

ANMLY is seeking a new Creative Nonfiction Co-Editor to join our all-volunteer team! Time commitment is about 1-2 hours per week. Deadline: April 30th. Please email applications and questions to [email protected]!

lands on my shoulder it's a face mask

The Museum of African American History in Boston is losing federal funding. You can help. (Or find something local). I know we can't save everything that gets defunded. This is the one I've supported today.

Who's the sucker for focusing on art instead of a 401K now, hmmmmm?

weird, what could explain this

To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

A few thoughts about today's protests: 1) The April 5 Hands Off day of action clearly ranks as one of the very largest mobilizations in U.S. history, by two different measures: -- total national turnout (~ 3 million) -- number of local protests (~ 1400)

The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people. We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.

Hope you can join us! This lineup is so 🔥!!! Email me for the zoom link!

I know you've tried everything, but have you tried just actually writing it?

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

never forget how “unskilled labour” suddenly became “essential work” when a pandemic reminded the wealthy of workers’ true importance in the world

—D. A. Powell, “(Mis)adventures in Poetry”

Our attention is so precious. Some q's I’ve been asking myself recently: in the turbulence of shock & awe, who do I devote myself to today? How can I more deeply attend, or tend to, the beings in my communities near & far? Grateful to gather around this reverence with others in Oga Po'geh this week.

12 more days!

Every day will give us a new hero somewhere.

have you signed up yet?

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth! What began as a simple reading list of forthcoming Black transfemme novels blossomed into a full critique of White supremacist publishing, Black literary erasure, and the supplementarity of the Black transfemme body as text 🖤

According to an investigation by Ha-Makom, in May 2024 during the Israeli invasion of Gaza's Zeitoun neighborhood, a senior officer of the Israeli Nahal Brigade forced an 80-year-old Palestinian elder, who relies on a walking

Sandhill cranes in all their dinosauric glory! Travel well, old friends 🫀

Oh my god. They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service. "Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights" WOW.

What do hellbenders have to do with poetry? What does poetry have to do with the extinction crisis? How can centering in deep love for the wild foster resilience for the many interconnected battles we're facing? Join us next week ✏️💓🌎@nickolebrown.bsky.social Link in comments @biologicaldiversity.org

Had to take days off soc meds this past week, but today I'm too excited about having a cover not to post!

Oh hey guess who decided to show up. 💌 www.ohioswallow.com/978082142591...

What is the difference between a cathedral & a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales & on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves & pray till we're blue. — Annie Dillard A field of mustard, no whale in sight, the sea darkening. — Basho

COVER REVEAALLLL: The cover for my second poetry collection, RESTING BITCH FACE, is HERE!!! Soft Skull and Nicole Caputo did their BIG ONE with this one 😭 And, word on the street, you can preorder it RIGHT NOW. softskull.com/books/restin...

If you’re the kind of person who easily forgets what you’ve accomplished, you need a practice for reminding yourself. Count the years, the finished projects, the progress, the praise, count it all up and use it as evidence against the ever present criticism in your head that you’re not doing enough.

That time we all heard it, cool and clear, cutting across the hot grit of the day. — that we are each other’s harvest: we are each other’s business: we are each other’s magnitude and bond. “Paul Robeson” by the great Gwendolyn Brooks #everynightapoem #blackhistorymonth

This is sneaking up on us, so HEY! GO RSVP FOR THIS EVENT WITH TWO AMAZING POETS AND CO-HOSTS OF THE VS PODCAST AND ALL-AROUND WONDERFUL PEOPLE, @britrogers.bsky.social and @moonsatdusk.bsky.social!!!

We love you! Come sit w us!

We're closed for general subs right now, but are wide open for this really amazing new call!

So glad to have three new poems from LARKS featured in @periodicities.bsky.social today! One I read for the first time last night, The Lily Crucifix; I love a lily.

Two new poems up at @sonorareview.bsky.social this week ❤️‍🔥 thank you to Nellie and the rest of the SR crew! sonorareview.com/2025/01/31/t...

This week on Sonora Review, poets takeover and the world butts up against language in ways that are complicated, delicious, and unyielding. Check 'em out and be transfixed. live now on sonorareview.com <3

So thrilled to announce that my second collection, DEED has been selected as the winner of the Stonewall Book Awards Barbara Gittings Prize! This is an award I’ve dreamed for years of seeing my work receive and it means the world that the panel chose DEED for this immense honor