I've been waiting all year to repost this 🎃

How are you going to protect us, @govpritzker.illinois.gov?

I wrote some Chicago-inspired city poems

Sweating! At the Apple Fest

As a city lover, I appreciate how these poems show the power of cities imprinting on one's body and soul.

So excited to have a new story in one of my very favorite magazines today. Super proud of this one, and I hope you all like it.

Yes I am to a small extent flooding the zone this morning with reminders that JB Pritzker, while saying the right things, is indeed the chief executive of Illinois, which puts him ultimately in charge of the Illinois State Police, which means he is presently an ICE collaborator.

“Relief is at the next stop.” Small city poems for today’s commute. @ezhang77.bsky.social in @havehashad.com

I just called the governor's office because I'm deeply concerned with what I am seeing at Broadview today, with Illinois State Police detaining people who are doing what the governor has been telling Illinoisans to do: protesting and filming federal agents gov.illinois.gov/contact-us/c...

"...I'm overcome with the sudden certainty that she'll vanish, the door transporting her to the moon or Siberia. But before my fear can get away from me, she's already through." "Door in the Woods" by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝

Shane just wants to go home. Stranded in L.A., he must somehow make it back to Georgia. As he hitchhikes his way across America, he encounters transphobia, crooked cops, swindlers, kindly folks, drugs, tragedy, and a high speed chase. Only 99 cents! ko-fi.com/s/781b0b9855

Thrilled to have three tiny poems up on @havehashad.com! www.havehashad.com/hadposts/amp... Here’s one:

These small @ezhang77.bsky.social poems are actually giant poems.

I wrote some Chicago-inspired city poems

really really nice, careful trio today from Elena Zhang, love the way they weave together! here's the first https://www.havehashad.com/i28zv

Thrilled to have three tiny poems up on @havehashad.com! www.havehashad.com/hadposts/amp... Here’s one:

Mary Reufle

Check out my latest Pele micro in Ghost Parachute! Thank you @brettpribble.bsky.social and love the art @damicandrea.bsky.social ❤️

Thank you to Malcolm for the interview (please ignore my derpy face)!

Thank you to Malcolm for the interview (please ignore my derpy face)!

I personally think about my favorite writer who I’m going to Talented Mr Ripley someday

Omg! Thank you so much @hexliterary.bsky.social for the nom!!!

Crying screaming throwing up to be on this list with so many folks I admire! Good luck everyone!!

Over 80 degrees on apple fest day??!?

A good time to re-read this Lucille Clifton poem, always a good time.

Really thrilled to get a Best of the Net Nomination for this piece about my ass published in Ran Off with the Star Bassoon. Thank you Rogan and staff, and congrats and good luck everyone! Read it here: ranoffwiththestarbassoon.com/koss/ #botn, #nomination, #fiction, #microfiction, #flash

Okay…*deep breath and sorry for awkward promotion things….*, my new flash fiction chapbook ‘Light Chemical Sea’ is coming Fall 2026 with Bull City Press. ✨⚗️🌊 Sign up for a one time email notification that will let you know when the book is released! forms.gle/yJPmMGThEiDW...

One week from today—Monday October 6–our new issue launches!!! 💚🐈‍⬛💚 @ezhang77.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @jekwriter.bsky.social

New issue alert! It has multiple sets of wings and eyes and creepy crawlies. Just in time for fall. Full story here: www.paranoidtree.com/read/vol-57

One of mine in @bruisermag.com #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

while we’re thinking about apples… a james tate poem

Thanks, HAD, for publishing this tripartite shortie. I'm honored to be back on the site. 🐂 💦 🤠

and whatever happened to the other other guy who was at that house show, actually i remember he used to eat the silica gel packets out of beef jerky and i feel bad i egged him on TALLY by @romyewing.bsky.social www.bruisermag.com/ewing_tally

Lemons | Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social | Frozen Sea - Issue Nine

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

I have a new horror story about an airplane up at Marrow Magazine. Safe travels --> marrowmagazine.com/the-last-fli...

Once a week you can probably hear me screaming “the shared pedestrian street on Argyle is a fucking joke!!!!!” if you’re ever in uptown

Imagine if NPR had actually talked to safe streets advocates for this story and learned how the solutions to drivers killing people is not, in fact, victim blaming

We are still seeking submissions, and are desperately low! Please send!

This is such a nuanced and big-hearted piece on the evolution of autism as a diagnosis, by an anthropologist of mental health who is also the dad of a now-grown daughter on the spectrum. Great reading (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Rude

COVER REVEAL!!! So excited to finally share the cover of Naming a Dying Thing with you all. You can preorder a copy from @yellowarrowpub.bsky.social www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/store/p/nami...

Reducing car dependency is a key tool in defending democracy in a whole lotta ways.

“I imagine seeing the stellar nurseries glowing pink and red, pulsing with newborn stars, as heavy as my love for you, as weightless as your nebulous body will soon be.” @ezhang77.bsky.social in @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social

Omg an acceptance from my fave @hexliterary.bsky.social! Three hexes, baybee ✨✨✨

Holy shit, four skulls baybee 💀💀💀💀

bits, candles, carats, horsepower it's been a bit since I did a spontaneous call send me something I'll love no limits (except a reasonable amount of respect for my very fleeting attention) <3 @crowjonah.com havehashad.submittable.com/submit/4178e...

I wonder if my cat appreciates me throwing her toy for her to chase or just thinks I’m a huge asshole

"There is an aperture in my hand, a thumb-print whirl where tissue once flowed uninterrupted—" We are obsessed with this wonderfully weird @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social story. A manifesting of grief that you won't soon forget. A wound that's more than a wound. Do NOT miss "The Hand's Aperture"! 🐌

🚨 new Benjamin Niespodziany day! two amazing new shorties!! 🚨 "The magician looks the other way when he removes his first foot. The butcher cooks the bear meat he captured in his pasture. The executioner refuses to remove his mask..." https://www.havehashad.com/vr767