We're so excited to welcome issue 8 of manywor(l)ds into this particular world, featuring work by @bogiperson.bsky.social, @1159cowboy.bsky.social, @torpor-chamber.bsky.social, @sadeebee.bsky.social, + more! (pictured below is Aylli Cortez's "in this viral struggling") manyworlds.place/issue-8/

trans voice update: my voice cracked and my brother said he wasn't gonna say anything but that was my third time tonight

I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

every day i see several men i will never look like and it's ruining my life

If you love me, then keep it to yourself.

my chapbook is me pre-transition going "you get what i'm saying?" to an imagined audience that clearly does not get what i'm saying

I should post a poem a day for National Poetry Month April 6 — Eduardo C. Corral

Gerald Brockhurst's portrait of his first wife Anaïs Folin was made around 1914 soon after a trip to Italy. It was this journey that gave him his first experience of the Italian masters, particularly those of the Quattrocento; it completely changed his style and ambition.

We're open for our 14th annual e-chapbook contest. Manuscripts must be between 12-26 pages in length. We welcome submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid work, as well as visual poetry, poetry comics, and visual hybrid works. www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/03...

i put a pause on en*gendered because i got scared, got angry, as all trans people have. it's not passing so I'm coming back angry. let's get so fucking insufferably loud. if you're angry & frightened; if you're holding yourself, & our people, so defiantly gently; i want it here

"...we will live beyond you. we grip our city with arms and hands made fast by all your evil tools. we are posting this to TikTok so the Chinese government knows that we are hot and young and slutty in our artificial cages, in our handcuffs" —G.H. Plaag

sometimes i just think these sharon olds lines to myself: "i am sane as a level" "i am sane as a friend"

thank you to my past self for putting in the work for my present self and looking out for my future self :^)

how do I remind my brain that I have too much work to be sad!!

there's this 54 year old man that i have a celebrity crush on & i'm frustrated cause i've seen him in 3 tv shows and 2 movies and he dies in all of them!!!

'Ditchling Beacon, East Sussex.' (1936) For many years Charles Knight lived in Ditching, a picturesque village at the foot of the South Downs - many of his landscapes are of a similar quality to this work, yet they are often stored away and so Knight is another obscure artist.

I made this as a goof a few weeks ago, and thought I may as well release it into the world. Fare thee well, Lowly Yaldabaoth!

the dragon/eel, resting his wings

happy trans day of visibility 🩵 i'm one month on t, and it's been one month since i started hitting the gym! i try to appreciate where i am, even though every selfie i take feels like a before picture. maybe that isn't so bad. i'm glad that i got here!

It’s #TransDayOfVisibility No matter how much hate fills the world, somehow trans joy always always always rises above. You have never lived in a world without trans people and you never will 🏳️‍⚧️

Douglas Kearney

In this week's #SundressReads Aylli Cortez reads and reviews T. De Los Reyes’s latest chapbook, And Yet Held, available now from Bull City Press! sundressblog.com/2025/03/23/s...

can't make sense of my mood shifts lately. but what even is a normal response to everything that's going down currently

I wrote an essay for them dot us, if u can read ❤️ www.them.us/story/james-...

nico carney is a dreamboat... and my transition goals

Urgent Mutual Aid Ask! An ANMLY team member became unhoused last December. He's finally secured a safe place to live, but needs help with his security deposit GFM is too slow & we don't want him to lose this opportunity. His shelter shuts down at the end of the month! Goal: $700 Venmo: JLMoultrie

tuna iron

today was my first poetry reading since feb 2024 and i had so much fun!!! really felt the fire and talent from the other readers ❤️‍🔥

"special permission is requested intimacy is requested flesh download and soft interface is requested cut flowers are requested definite heat of the morning sun is requested all of experiential life is insistently requested..." —Karla Khine

Charles Wright

‪“Cyclone” 70 x 72 inch ink and acrylic on canvas. Available on my website. #horses #equestrian #painting #paintings #art #horse #animals #horseart #equineart www.equineartiststevemessenger.com

In the field

Ursula K. Le Guin on the true pain of being a writer

oh boy i love reading

Today's Feature: An excerpt from Like The Night Inside The Eyes by Daniel Lipara, trans. by Robin Myers, from Poetry Nation Review (@pnreview.bsky.social). Read here: poems.com/poem/like-th...

I know you've tried everything, but have you tried just actually writing it?

i miss having fun on the internet. there was a certain kind of joy that came from being in fandoms and playing mmorpgs in the 2010s, & having multiple accs dedicated to certain media, but these platforms became either defunct or hostile and now i just have a few main accs that i over-curate :^(

"this chain to the throat which tightens not unlike lichen. encroaching encircle. collared from heaven." —Temperance Aghamohammadi

When we say that we hope this post is ‘awesome,’ we don’t mean we want it to be expressive of awe or terror. We mean that we hope you like it. This reduction of a word's intensity is called ‘semantic bleaching.’

Join us for ANMLY: Friends & Enemies! A virtual reading on Thurs. March 27, starting at 6:30pm EST. Featuring a stellar lineup of ANMLY editors and ANMLY contributors! Email [email protected] for the Zoom link. RSVP: www.facebook.com/events/39634...

This sunset is among the most dramatic of pastel compositions created by Monet during the late 1860s and forms part of a series of studies that focus on the skies near Le Havre under different atmospheric conditions.

been playign creature walking sim

the thrill of knowing my work is being studied in schools truly never fades ⚡️⚡️⚡️ I can't wait to discuss "The Daddy Thing" and dark fairytales with @nicanstett.bsky.social's fiction class tomorrow!

my friend: i LOVE song of achilles me: i haven't read it.. my friend: YOU HAVEN'T READ IT?? me: BUT I'VE READ THE ILIAD?

super happy to share that my debut poetry chapbook will be published by gacha press! coming this june 🌱

Today is the beginning of a cause dear to my heart! @trreadathon.bsky.social is an initiative encouraging people to read books about trans characters and/or by trans authors, and donating to trans causes in the lead up to #TODV. For more info: transrightsreadathon.carrd.co #transrightsreadathon

Theophanies by ⁦‪Sarah Ghazal Ali @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social #poetry

Hestia is a blind spinster who dares the gods to smite her in her quest to feel the touch of a lover. A sensual, gentle exploration of eroticism with a dash of melodrama; canon to the larger Hestia story. Ignatz nominated; 44 pages drawn in 20 days. Celineloup.com

"My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night." a letter from Mahmoud Khalil in ICE detention mondoweiss.net/2025/03/lett...

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