JAKE will be missed. Sending all the love & gratitude for what we’ve all gained through JAKE being part of this community 💕

annnnd pre-ordered ✅

I love this poem

Loving Issue 01 of @lilacperil.bsky.social — “Taboo” 🔥

So much gratitude for how AHC curates this space. Check out the whole issue (& wow to James’ Editor Remarks) 💕 My poem, “In the dark of the ocean” here: heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/poetry-...

🕯️ ONE WEEK LEFT until submissions close for our next print anthology IDOLS 🕯️

The fear that Beijing is going to kill off Cantonese was/is part of the many concerns behind the HK pro-democracy protests. "Cantonese is my mother tongue" Source: Telegram (Sep 2019)

Excited to have a piece forthcoming with @antiheroinchic.bsky.social! 💕

very cool and handsome of @burialmagazine.bsky.social to publish my tiny, furious poem

Ta-Nehisi Coates lays bare in brilliant prose the original sin of the Department of Homeland Security. It is right there in its name. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

New story out now from @lightspeedmagazine.com! This one is all about how it feels to work in higher education these days. Spoiler: it feels extremely bad, like “what if your university signed a compact with the actual devil and now there’s an unbreakable curse” levels of bad 🫠

WORKSHOPS ARE BACK, BABY 🫦 Writing For Trans Justice with KB Brookins Join us for a free, virtual workshop about how to write and pitch op-eds, and what op-eds can do for trans rights! Register here: Writing for Trans Justice with KB Brookins www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-fo...

who are you outside of what you've been told you should be?

For Carl Phillips, writing poems began as an act of necessity—as a way to stay alive. In TYR today, Phillips looks back at his debut collection. yalereview.org/article/carl...

Current favorites are “ghazal for lost nights,” “gender as door flung open,” and “nights aglow” from Erica Leslie Weidner’s poetry book “identity sbagliato” @troublemakerfire.bsky.social 🔥

Reading “You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis” by Kelly Weber and the poem “Blood Firsts” made me cry.

genuinely haven't been the same since reading this one

Oh I love this.

A new flash by yours truly, on All The Feelings of finding out you're going to have a boy 👦🏻 Thank you @flashfrog.bsky.social and @ericscottryon.bsky.social for giving this a home! flash-frog.com/2026/01/12/b...

I love this so much.

Our social media promotion of Issue Six ended yesterday. So proud of this issue, and cannot wait for submissions to open for Issue Seven (!!!) in February. #writingcommunity #poetry

Tbh love this. Yay for celebrating each other!

“Chaos is how we know we're in love.” Truly an honor to have two short love poems in the new issue of The American Poetry Review. Here’s one —

more sad poem today @burialmagazine.bsky.social burialmagazine.neocities.org/thereslayers...

Wow. This 🔥 @jayesimpson.bsky.social

Finding myself included in the Heated Rivalry mix, thx to syntax, wasn’t anywhere on my end-of-2025 bingo card, but I’m absolutely here for it…

love this

four years ago i wrote about the intersection of queerness and hockey for @thewalrus.ca — if you've been loving (or feeling a certain way about) Heated Rivalry lately you might find this interesting!

Not to spoil it (which doesn’t even really matter) but I think this might be my fave ending I’ve written.

hello friends! it’s third Thursday week for the last time in 2025, and we’re going out with a marvelous Night Light reading featuring Danniel Schoonebeek, Allyson Paty, and Anna Moschovakis!! sign up at the 🔗 below to listen in live — hope you can join us for the last reading of the year :)

New issue dropped! All collaborative poetry 💕 check it out!

Tomorrow is release day for Issue Six, and we are so excited! In advance, we want to shout out the cover artist, Sophia May, who created the cover for the issue! sophiamay.carrd.co

@adamg.bsky.social absolutely loving this 🔥

Many thanks to Owen and Amy for publishing my poem “What are we but mycelium, mud, & mistakes” in this issue! Special shout out to the @barrelhouse.bsky.social June camp which is where this piece was born 💕 gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

Super excited to have a story included in the latest issue of Moss Puppy. This is one of my oldest pieces, and one that is very close to my heart.

TWO WEEKS AWAY!!!! Just look at that lineup!!!! Join us for live literature, and help raise funds for @translifeline.org It’s FREE and ONLINE so anyone can join from anywhere! Info and registration at: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

ahhhhh this makes me feel things 🔥

Pre-ordered!!!

Thanks for the #HorrorWritersChat! For more on “Aromantic Frankenstein” and ace horror, check out this interview with Ace Dad Advice @codydo.bsky.social! acedadadvice.substack.com/p/horror-tel...

I have a new poem in @havehashad.com that answers the burning question of "what is the opposite of an 'eating poems' poem" "it's all coming up now, milkweed and mango..." www.havehashad.com/hadposts/hei...

I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers. "Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."

This 🔥

it's your last chance to register for next wednesday's workshop, centered around submitting to literary magazines! natraum.com/workshops

I could not have written this poem were it not for my students in the Calvin Prison Initiative. For them, I am immeasurably grateful. And my thanks, too, to the folks at Muzzle. Link to the full issue in first comment.

Pub day for The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe by Lauren D. Woods (@ladiwoods.bsky.social)! So proud to share this stunning debut collection with the world. 💖 #shortstory #fiction #indiepress

The world is falling apart and we’re going to read some poems. But we’re going to do it together and for a great cause. Join us. Register here: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

This means so much 💕

Wow 💕 Thank you so much for the nomination, for the kind words, and also to everyone who takes part in our collaborative process—who makes this journal what it is 💕