Alright y'all - this starts in less than 24 hours! When we say "protect trans kids", this is a super practical way to do it - helping a trans kid escape the US will change her life. Plus look at all the amazing people joining! Come hang out and consider helping if you can! Reshares are helpful, too!

Six more days until my poetry chapbook Hippie Speedball is available for preorder!

From the Merrimack Valley Horror Festival today:

You procrastinate, and then you write the fucking paper the way the gods and nature intended. Several hours before it's due, high off either caffeine, nicotine, sugar, drugs, and PANIC. Fuck AI.

"Sobriety becomes an incantation, a summoning spell. I gather bird feathers and selenite. I keep my pocketknife close." - Christy Tending, Sobriety Through the Major Arcana @christytending.bsky.social Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/sobriety eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/sobriety

I wrote this when I was struggling with my gender identity and it may or may not have been written mostly in one shot during a manic episode.

icymi, i lost my job and am running some workshops to make money to uh, live? tickets for the first run of THE RANDOMIZER are up now at natraum.com/links. the rest are coming soon!

PSA: If reading wasn’t political, they wouldn’t be banning books.

I’m running out of steam trying to promote this. Just got to hack it, much like Shane must hack it as he hitchhikes across America trying to get home. If you are a fan of grit lit, might I make you an offering in this trying time?

Help @lyfaulk.bsky.social reach their goal!

anyone wanna read a poem of me trying to work thru a DV relationship I survived that went on for 6 years? 😅

this is SO good! lucky enough to get to blurb this story & for the price of a Big Gulp, you get to read a wonderful hit of exquisite heartbreak. What's not to like? :D

This lands tomorrow 😱

one of the best stories I've read in years. please pick this up next Wednesday ✨️✨️✨️

Looking for a workshop? Contributor @cavar.bsky.social is co-teaching a hybrid writing workshop this November with @fahmidangroup.bsky.social! Get all the details here: buff.ly/g325d1g

I hope this cursed videotape finds you well

Bedroom tip: try incorporating ancient rites and chants, to spice things up

Please stay safe, friends. ♡

Williams was a photographer for Jet magazine. He took the photo himself. The OG selfie. Iconic. Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956

In case you missed it yesterday

@kithbooks.bsky.social genuinely can't ever say enough good stuff about them. amazing ppl, amazing publisher. :) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💐😊✨️

girl who had dental surgery yesterday, but is being Very Brave about it 💖💖 @moon-flowers.bsky.social after you went to bed she plopped & DEMANDED pets lol

THE EFFERVESCENT THREAD ✨🧵

something for @kithbooks.bsky.social & my fellow press/label mates. y'all are the best. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💐🦩🌟🌵 youtu.be/6dVArDoPiv8?...

Rabbits Merri Andrew @merriandrew.bsky.social 31 of wim's favourite poems from kith books #SealeyChallenge 20/31

Please don't let outside forces damper who you are. Please do not let people destroy your light. You were meant to shine bright and whatever tries to snuff out that light is not meant to be in your life.

thank you everyone who still makes art despite everything

every day in August I'll be sharing a personal favourite all books are available at kithbooks.com in print & eBook eBooks, as ever, are free for the asking by DM or email, no reason required.

If I see gen AI compared to the advent of the camera one more time they are getting an elbow to the face. The camera did not require billions of dollars of infrastructure, training, stolen data, and environmental destruction to operate.

my baby with picture by my sweetie 💕

Can’t say this enough, if your not getting paid to draw, draw what you like.

❤️ Books Upstairs, Dublin. #SolidarityIsAVerb 🇵🇸

hey friends. mental health not in a good way. First&last day on a new job today - was lied to about the position, the schedule, the hours, the pay, etc, and got yelled at for daring to check my phone for a possible emergency. kind thoughts & cute memes are much appreciated rn 🙃

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fifthwheelpress.myshopify.com/products/mak... you know you wanna buy so bad 🦉🔮👁️ @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @kithbooks.bsky.social @kenyonreview.bsky.social I'll send y'all one, hmm? 🤷‍♀️ see what all the fuss is about? 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

every day in August I'll be sharing a personal favourite all books are available at kithbooks.com in print & eBook eBooks, as ever, are free for the asking by DM or email, no reason required.

To celebrate June's nomination as a Lambda finalist for Love/Aggression, we will keep our sale going on Payhip for now. 🎇 You can grab many of our titles for cheaper, and a couple of them for free! payhip.com/tRaumBooks

The best part of being a poet is when the Great Owl visits you each month to retch up bits of mouse bone, teeth, and fur, into your hungry mouth.

that's the spirit 😄

since I'm in the throes of developmental editing with kith authors this weekend... I'll have paid slots (& waivers!) opening this week should anyone want what amounts to a workshop for one. poetry & prose. trans, Crip, queer, POC, indigenous, & police/system involved to the front

Birders, are you ready? 🐦 Our Conservation Science Program is offering a 6-month class on the birds of Utah! This comprehensive class is weekly and will focus on a group of birds common at that time of year. Get your binoculars ready and register, link in our bio!

overbound Katarina Gotic 31 of wim's favourite poems from kith books #SealeyChallenge 7/31

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort. It aired in 1990.

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

Is that an ART??! 🥨🥨🥨

One way to reduce stress is to meditate. Another way is to not live under a fascist government. This has been wellness tips!