“There is thrill in feeling the rigid shatter against the soft” - Allison Thung, MOLAR @poetrybyallison.bsky.social Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/molar eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/molar

Two of four new poems I have in @rfpress.bsky.social’s latest issue! “Maybe: Human” is for the girlies (gender neutral) who sometimes feel like they’re cosplaying Person rather than just being one; while “Hands” grieves death metaphorical into literal.

I’ve four new poems out in the latest issue of RFP! Read them here: www.roifaineantpress.com/post/maybe-p...

Are you ready for a poetry party hosted by the wonderful Allison Thung? @poetrybyallison.bsky.social “Maybe:Person” is in the 8/31 edition bringing to light personhood & how that concept sometimes lays just out of reach. There are a few more by this same author in this very edition out on Sunday!

Swimming as Allegory for Living Allison Thung @poetrybyallison.bsky.social 31 days of wim's favourite poems from kith books #SealeyChallenge 6/31

Many thanks to @sundresspub.bsky.social and guest curator Alexis Ivy for this week featuring poems from my debut poetry chapbook REACQUAINT (@kithbooks.bsky.social) in the Best Dressed section of The Wardrobe! This is “Singular”: sundressblog.com/2025/08/04/t...

Wrote a #poem about (not) retiring, getting retrenched, and all that fun stuff. #poetry

Wrote a #poem about (not) retiring, getting retrenched, and all that fun stuff. #poetry

Allison Thung’s poems are narrational and intimate. Peppered with questions and lines inviting introspection, Reacquaint tells one side of a story, leaving each reader to find their own You. @poetrybyallison.bsky.social

Check out our first review for April on Molar by Allison Thung Read here: rb.gy/lseokl

“Damage / on a Tuesday; / consequence / on a Saturday.” (Damage) Thus begins the story that leads us to Molar, Allison Thung’s micro collection of poems that center her fractured relationship with her tooth. @poetrybyallison.bsky.social

I want more, so I can patchwork it all into some monstrous tribute to/cheap clone of you. Build a screwed up, Calvin-and-Hobbesque snowman of you. - Spring Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/reacquaint eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/reacquaint @poetrybyallison.bsky.social

we can't wait to see you! trans, Crip, queer books forever!

Thung stands in the first light of distance, reflecting back on all that's been said and done. Reacquaint meets us in this moment and urges the reader to see how far they've come. @poetrybyallison.bsky.social

Allison Thung’s Molar centers her fractured relationship with her tooth. These poems are at once visceral and reflective. Floss in the gap between canine and incisor, Molar slips past the crown and exposes the bone. @poetrybyallison.bsky.social

The body— how it knows to rid itself of what by which it is no longer served. - Allison Thung, Bone spicules @poetrybyallison.bsky.social kithbooks.com/shop/p/molar

Happy first birthday to my first book baby! If you have supported Reacquaint in any way at all this past year, thank you. If you haven’t read it yet, it’s available in both print and digital formats via @kithbooks.bsky.social here: www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/reacq... I hope you’ll check it out!

Happy first birthday to my first book baby! If you have supported Reacquaint in any way at all this past year, thank you. If you haven’t read it yet, it’s available in both print and digital formats via @kithbooks.bsky.social here: www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/reacq... I hope you’ll check it out!

Touching on embodiment, illness, burgeoning adulthood, and the emotional detritus of loves lost and found, Thung’s poems are peppered with questions prompting introspection. Reacquaint tells one side of a story, inviting each reader to imagine their own. @poetrybyallison.bsky.social

If someone started a brand of eye drops called “House of Eyedration”, they’d have the perfect tagline in “Not a dry eye in the house”.

“Damage / on a Tuesday; / consequence / on a Saturday.” (Damage) Thus begins this micro collection centering Allison Thung’s fractured relationship with her tooth. Floss in the gap between canine and incisor, Molar slips past the crown and exposes the bone. @poetrybyallison.bsky.social

The body— how it knows to rid itself of what by which it is no longer served. - Bone spicules @poetrybyallison.bsky.social kithbooks.com/shop/p/molar

Call for Work: Until You Get Here, Queer Epistolaries Deadline: March 15, 2025 "Queer folks have been keeping each other company on the page for as long as we’ve existed—to practice solidarity, extend generosity, resist, wonder, flirt. The queer epistolary is a reverent space..."

I’ve a poem in the latest issue of the inimitable @sixthfinch.bsky.social! Read “Second Nature” below, and be sure to check out the full issue here: sixthfinch.com/mainwinter25...

I’ve a poem in the latest issue of the inimitable @sixthfinch.bsky.social! Read “Second Nature” below, and be sure to check out the full issue here: sixthfinch.com/mainwinter25...

Anyone want to receive new books & exclusive goodies in the mail every other month? The 2025 Stanchion Book Club is on sale for $10 off this week! Ladies, Ladies, Ladies e-reader PDFs going to members soon! And you can use Klarna to pay in installments! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

ANMLY: Friends & Enemies, an online reading March 27th, 6:30pm EST w/ sterling-elizabeth Arcadia, Rita Mookerjee, JL Moultrie, Allison Thung, Levi Cain, jonah wu, Aylli Cortez, & Temperance Aghamohammadi Add us to your calendar! More info coming soon!

Thrilled to be kicking off the new year with new work in a longtime dream pub! Check out “Second Nature”, a prose poem about fear of failure: sixthfinch.com/thung1.html Full, gorgeous issue this way: sixthfinch.com/mainwinter25...

Thrilled to be kicking off the new year with an acceptance from the incredible @sixthfinch.bsky.social! Looking forward to sharing my new poem with you all. 🩵

tell me I loved you like a renegade The Magi Come to Toronto by E.G.N Lafleur @egnlafleur.bsky.social Reacquaint by Allison Thung @poetrybyallison.bsky.social exit wound (no point of entry) by aera rege Propositions on Being Alive by Lilia Marie Ellis kithbooks.com/shop

I have a permanent toothache and a cut in my cheek Book of Extraction: Poems with Teeth by Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social Toothache by Ozzy Welch Molar by Allison Thung @poetrybyallison.bsky.social

Such a particular affection I have for this time of year, by which I mean 26-31 December. There is a charm to every meal being leftovers made over, time having no real meaning, and not knowing if I truly exist.

Love unexpectedly cracking a poem on which I’ve all but given up. We’re back on track with the fifth manuscript, baby.

Last publication of the year, and how cool is it that it’s with the brilliant Gone Lawn! Huge thanks to Owen and Amy for giving the perfect home to “Foul” and “Fair”, two prose poems characterised by water and ire. Read them here: gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

The cold moon is here, and would you look at it? Such magical company, a darling of spheres, and it has lots to share with you! gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

Last publication of the year, and how cool is it that it’s with the brilliant Gone Lawn! Huge thanks to Owen and Amy for giving the perfect home to “Foul” and “Fair”, two prose poems characterised by water and ire. Read them here: gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

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

How I know I've been submitting work a while: a journal with which I have a pending submission followed me on social, and my first instinct was not "omg a positive sign" but "I sense a rejection on the horizon". (Still hope it's gonna be an acceptance tho)

Decided to treat myself again this year and bought a membership! New tradition?

Finally got around to opening mail that arrived while I was away on vacation, and was happy to find amongst the bills and notifications the Autumn 2024 anthology by @querenciapress.bsky.social. Check out “Poem about”, one of two poems I have in this gorgeous publication!

I’m jet-lagged and up at nearly 6 am, so here’s a piece published earlier this year with Corporeal lit mag entitled “Hair as”. Two more poems from that issue here: www.corporeallitmag.com/volume-14/al...

one of two new poems in @ex-puritan.bsky.social today among so many, many friends! "...she says a poem where nothing impossible happens in it, just the truth, and I say OK and put her in this poem and she sprouts forty two robin wings down her neck and back and legs..."

Sundress Publications is open for submissions for grant applications from Palestinian writers with a chapbook or full-length book in progress. All eligible authors are welcome to submit during our application period which closes on December 31st, 2024. www.sundresspublications.com/submit#pgrant

Congratulations to our Pushcart nominees! Christy Lee Barnes, Andrea Janelle Dickens, Karol Olesiak, Kevin Roy, Jennifer Saunders (@magpiedays.bsky.social), and Allison Thung (@poetrybyallison.bsky.social).

Absolutely flipping out! Huge thanks to @rogueagent.bsky.social, both for nominating and initially publishing this piece so close to my heart. Check out my poem “For Now” below 🖤

Travelling as a poet is scary, because what if I come home without inspiration for at least five poems, if not a chapbook?

if you're ever worried a poem is boring just swap every period in it for an exclamation mark and add "(While Falling Down a Hill)" to the title

Turns out, all I needed to actually read the books I have, was a nice armchair in the corner of my living room. Finished Yellowface in just a few sittings, and on to Convenience Store Woman now.

The sky brightens earlier at my new place, and I keep starting awake at 7am thinking it’s much later in the day than it is. It’s time to end my days earlier so this feels more rewarding and less alarming.