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ICYMI: Poetry Editor @cdeskilson.bsky.social’s debut SCREAM / QUEEN was reviewed by @jamesolearypoet.bsky.social in @diodeeditions.bsky.social! buff.ly/pk0FBf5

a good tortilla soup can change everything

this picture doesn’t really do justice to how beautiful the desert has been during the rains the last few days

maybe it's just my newly acquired SSRIs talking but this year I went to Tin House, wrote some poems I'm really excited about, and actually published/got accepted in Poet Lore, Kenyon, Four Way, Sho, and Gulf Coast. so perhaps I'm not totally a washed disgraceful failure or whatever

really loving Kim Addonizio’s Now We’re Getting Somewhere

RIP Oscar Wilde, you would have loved The Substance (2024)

The newest issue of @anmlymag.bsky.social is here! There are many excellent poems in this issue. I want to shout out them all, but I'll start with McLeod Logue's "Descent" a ghost story in the shape of a chasm, a poem that floored me the first time I read it

I have two poems in the ANIMALIA folio edited by @sannawani.bsky.social at @ex-puritan.bsky.social 🐦 ex-puritan.ca/the-birds-ar...

not to be a sad sack but long covid sucks, my brain still has really bad days quite often. I often feel like studying anything is a matter of squeezing my brain like a dry stone for water

ANMLY is now open for new work! We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation! > anmly.submittable.com *Fee waivers available* Check out our latest issue to see what we're into! > anmly.org/ap40

Venus, take me in your summer gown Sally Wen Mao

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Nonfiction: Pretty by KB Brookins! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

we'll be opening for new work on october 1. get your best ready. get your worst ready. we want to read you. anmly.submittable.com/submit

Nora Hikari @systemwires.bsky.social

depression is weird because there are a thousand things that should be making me cry right now but the only thing that seems to have the power to actually do it is the soundtrack from a video game series about bugs experiencing Catholicism

to be honest I’m almost 20 hours in and I think Silksong is fantastic and I genuinely don’t understand what people are complaining about

I hope the tailless whip scorpions know that as much as I admire their beauty and grace I Do Not Want Them In My House

be very careful about what you post online

"we don’t question death for the pain inflicted by man; for the hollow dug in our hearts by man; because, sometimes, death fruits peace & mostly, all that man has given birth to is chaos." —Abdulbasit Oluwanishola anmly.org/ap40/abdulba...

Congratulations to ANMLY's 2025 Pushcart Prize nominees! Aida Bardissi Anton Lushankin Olga Zilberbourg translating Olga Bragina Ági Bori translating Miklós Vámos MK Kuol Curtis Emery & Laura Wetherington Read their work at anmly.org

This is one of my favorite poems I wrote this winter. It's a little messy but also one I was resistant to change? So glad @cerena.bsky.social and Poet Lore gave it a home in its current form. Every once in a while, I need to protect a sentimental poem.

actually got a submission in to the Cincinnati Review before they fill up for the time in like over 3 years. small victories D:

"we communicate over the Internet and to you the howls of snow and wind are something unheard of–it all reminds a quiet air alert. Finally, you come back disappointed and together we belatedly raise our kids hoping to outrace the time." —Anton Lushankin anmly.org/ap40/anton-l...

I don’t often post about whatever activism I do because I worry about being bragging about it and/or flattering my ego, which is fine, but sometimes I remember other people probably do this too; that people are working harder than is visible to make things better

Fortunate to have a poem that's very special to me in the newest issue of Four Way Review 💙 fourwayreview.com/issue-33/

this weekend I’m playing in my first chess tournament since I was like 11 years old. Just won my first game :)

"Alternative title: You become a queer elder by accident, not because you are good at living but because you are slow at dying." —Loren Maria Guay beestungmag.com/issue24/one-...

I hope the scorpions that keep coming into the house know that I am aware I am in a period of transformation, and that their presence as harbingers of change is largely unappreciated

"This is annihilation, o’shades of the empire. Numbers, statistics, and math often do more harm than good but just to break the spell locking frames in time, the martyrs orbit half a million in just fifteen+ months." —Thaer Husien anmly.org/ap40/thaer-h...

manuscript past 65 pages again. so... close....

Fortunate to have a poem that's very special to me in the newest issue of Four Way Review 💙 fourwayreview.com/issue-33/

Excited to have a poem from This Elegance in the latest @voicemailpoems.bsky.social. Follow the link below to hear me read it as well as read and listen to the other fab poems in the summertime issue!

Our ALOCASIA has unfurled a new leaf! And we're so proud! It's our first all-Indigenous issue! This is a showcase of the work of 20 writers from around the world, curated by our guest editors Yasmine Bolden, tripp j Crouse, and Sarah Clark. We hope you are as delighted by it as we are ALOCASIA.org

reading To The Place of Trumpets and it is just wild how incredible Brigit Pegeen Kelly's poetry is even in her first collection

not the character in Martyr! whose name is just Sad James 😭

Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.

Honestly, with hindsight, Radcliffe, Watson and Grint's public statements where they sided with trans people, expressed their support with no caveats, and willingly blew up any chances at future ties to the franchise has only gotten more and more noteworthy as more actors are revealed to be cowards

Day 1 Born Palestinian Born Black by Suheir Hammad If you are participating in #TheSealeyChallenge, read Palestinian poets and use this space to call for #EndtheGenocide and support The Sameer Project, a Palestinian-led mutual aid fund saving lives in Gaza. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

“Forgive me if I wander a little this evening, for I have all day been employed in a very abstract poem and I am in deep love with you—“ John Keats in a letter to Fanny Brawne

thinking about this dove’s brilliant bird feeder hack

O tenderness, I’m walking toward you. Patrycja Humienik

I’ve been going on little evening walks now that I’m back in Phoenix and I’m always amazed at all the bats, how beautiful and delicate they are

the first living writer I ever read, a lifetime hero, said some very nice things about my poetry today :)

it's the end of non-binary awareness week today, and beestung is stalled at $385/$1840 for our campaign to keep paying and publishing writers under the non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit umbrellas. and amount helps, and would be greatly appreciated! www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...

got a little childhood chess dream done :)