live band: okay we’re going to play some more new music live band: *plays ‘roar’ by katy perry*

running away from home to join the french quarter typewriter street poet scene

having fun wandering the streets of new orleans but if there’s anything i must must hit lmk

a collection of lines written by my cat that i'm calling a poem

every day on my way to work i pass a decrepit broken mansion once owned by an old-money millionaire and every day i want in

del toro just directly recreated lord byron and unfortunately that really works on me

btw catch me reading at this in baltimore tonight!!

10.29 is BRUISER HALLOWEEN at the House Handcrafted in bucolic Hamilton, featuring a bevy of Baltimore's weirdest. See you there

putting a top coat on my nails as a sign of maturity

remembered a time i told a man i liked ska and he said “oh yeah i think i’ve heard a few of their songs”

um. now watching "butt boy" (2020)

this could be us

they’ve turned the library into a club

it’s a chicken place. as you were

can i *afford* sub fees? not really. am i putting them down anyway right now? you bet

for newbies and veterans alike, this workshop breaks down the nitty gritty of how and why i submit to literary magazines. it's very helpful, according to my students who have received most of this advice already. natraum.com/workshops to sign up

being a depressed middle schooler in the early 2010s meant keeping my melancholic diary with orange gel pen in a "i mustache you a question but i'll shave it for later" notebook

@morenothings.bsky.social and i made a friend today

“male loneliness epidemic” i say to my cat while he wails that i went to the bathroom

open the window to hear sounds of people and it's neighbors arguing into the phone, yappy little dogs, and kids yelling "I'M GONNA TELL YOUR FATHER"

think i'm gonna lose my marbles if i don't start something full-time by the end of the year so i everyone has their nets ready to catch them

#Poetry Here it is, folks! If you preorder, good things will surely follow. (Or, a book, at any rate.) Thank you thank you thank you! 🎶💯👀🤩☄️

it happened to me: a young adult in the library asked me for poetry recommendations

both honored and terrified that JAKE has seen my embarrassing younger self and decided to make BOTN read it <3

i’ve fallen ill with whatever disease makes you point at something and say “that’s a poem”

my quarter life crisis begins today

took this in the wawa parking lot while a stranger called to me from her car

Assata. 🕊️🖤

i'm so thankful my 10th grade english teacher had me read assata shakur & i'm thankful two kids dropped the class in outrage & i'm thankful i will always have her on my bookshelf & we will always have her in our hearts, minds, and praxis

awp baltimore needs a cage match

i will only post my full birth chart on main if someone promises to put little hexes on me

bedroom email punk

for the first time in a minute, here’s a new collage from me <3

"starting over" by Stephanie Anderson (@whoastanderson.bsky.social) genrepunkmag.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/s...

………….code lyoko

so my cat is having another feline idiopathic cystitis flare and uh if anyone knows anything about that i am desperate for a solution

Artists from Maryland's 2025 Genrepunk Awards (@genrepunkmag.bsky.social) noms! EDITOR'S CHOICE: Kelci Tillman, @eldritchjellyfish.bsky.social, Jordan Byrum WILDCARD AWARD: @whoastanderson.bsky.social HAUNTING AWARD: Hayley Igarashi Thomas, Breasia "Bree" Boyd, @aetheblkpoet.bsky.social

still real proud of this one happy #smallpoemsunday

i want to found an all-cat tetherball league

new poem in the illustrious burial mag :)

been following the work of @whoastanderson.bsky.social for some time now…theirs is razor sharp, but filled with playfulness, with discovery: just a truly wonderful poet who should be on your radar. and they will be now if they are not. this is ‘sideswipe’ burialmagazine.neocities.org/sideswipe

me & my 2016 dusty rose matte lipstick working from home against the world

i was sad about spending a saturday night watching a video of a stranger watching fireworks but instead i lit a half-dozen candles and put on a cool jazz record. things can look up

third eye blind’s self titled is back in a big way

Pro tip: All of the coolest people you know are probably intimately familiar with at least 2 deep cuts off of third eye blind’s self-titled

a face is a malleable thing

facebook marketplace seller sent me to an overgrown boarded up shed. this might be the end

unfortunate that i wasn't born a mist

my favorite part of being in the public library's union is when we tell c-suite understaffing is killing us & for a "tight budget year" they haven't had problems inventing $350k+ in new admin positions & then the CEO posts an internal memo telling everyone to shut up

the internet used to be a place where tumblr blogs like "women poets wearing sweatpants" could exist