I don’t understand grief

Hey y’all sorry I’m not on here that much. Mostly just trying to survive

Photos from our 30th Showcase Exhibition Opening this past week! Thank you all for the incredible turnout! Our next reading, 1/15 7-9 pm, features @chingin.bsky.social, @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social, @floweroid.bsky.social, and Nora Treatbaby, as part of our 30th Showcase Exhibition reading series 📚

Today’s poem: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “In Memoriam”, section 119. #lunchpoems

My goal is to write 5000 words a week so I can bout almost done with this essay collection in 10 weeks

I think people often mistake my “Trans Dad moniker. It has a double meaning I’m basically a dad because of my personality and I’m trans but also I am willing to be a father figure for other trans youth that need a person to talk to. They just think I’m a guy (I’m not) with a trans kid. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Ok fine! Opens laptop… starts a short story

January 15, 2026 | 7-9pm @chingin.bsky.social, @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social, @floweroid.bsky.social, and Nora Treatbaby January 22, 2026 | 7-9pm Ahmad Almallah, Mandy Shunnarah, Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, and @lenakt.bsky.social

jason b crawford, YEET! / @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social @omnidawn.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/jaso...

My book was featured at two of my favorite local bookstores!!

Btw… today is my pub day 🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

7am rink time for small one’s ringette, so attempting new poetry titles by Christina Shah and jason b crawford, // @christinashah.bsky.social @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social @omnidawn.bsky.social @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social

Books are officially here

If you miss any of our In Conversations, we have them on our YouTube channel... Most recent event with @taylorbyas.bsky.social & @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social up now! youtu.be/MYV3LJ2Vj8Q

What is what one thing I WILL do at the club??? Start writing an essay

We are thrilled to announce our very first Best of the Net nominees! @prayfortheapex.bsky.social @josephlezza.com @erinmurphy.bsky.social @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social Mike Nees Ellene Glenn Moore @mattkish.bsky.social @amymiller.bsky.social

Ok fine! Opens laptop… starts a short story

So what to do with my life post poetry? Should I start gardening? Maybe I’ll move to Montana and start gardening?

Formally would like to pack up my bag and retire from poetry. I have had a few good seasons but my knees are starting to give in. Thank y’all. 😌😌

We're finishing ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with a double accomplishment 🎉 Contributors @taylorbyas.bsky.social and @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social will be discussing friendship and poetry with @notebookscltv.bsky.social Sept. 16th! 🙌 Get your free tickets to this virtual event here: buff.ly/tAs68NP

Our September In Conversation features @taylorbyas.bsky.social & @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social! Click through to snag your (free) ticket and to learn more about these remarkable, brilliant poets. thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-con...

For more writing from @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social, read their poem from our “Flux” issue (bit.ly/ExpoIf), and order their books YEET! @omnidawn.bsky.social) and YEAR OF THE UNICORN KIDZ (@sundresspub.bsky.social) in our @bookshop.org: tinyurl.com/ExpoBookshop!

We’re delighted to see #ExpoContributor @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social in @sundresspub.bsky.social’s Best of the Net! Check out their @westtradereview.bsky.social piece in BOTN: bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-...!

I don’t know what to say poetically.

I am asocial enough to not talk to people at the bar, just watch me.

Realizing the difference between longing and fomo

Stunning work from @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social, poet of the week @ Only Poems! "I start every story with/ noticing: what I can touch,/ who I cannot." www.onlypoems.net/poets/jason-...

Reading #ExpoContributor @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social ekphrastic poems in The Writer’s Center’s Poet Lore spotlight…& then reading jason’s #ExpoReview “Flux” poem (bit.ly/ExpoIf) …& looking forward to YEET! due out in October from @omnidawn.bsky.social (bookshop.org/p/books/yeet...)! Happy Sunday!

My shed came in!!!

Honestly, July has been good to me. Again

My best impression of a disappointed father looking at his children (poems). Was a great time reading eith @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social and @emilyhockaday.bsky.social at NYC Poetry Festival.

I’m truly not sure why I agree to things like this

"Fuck ICE" Seen in Oakland, California

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Calling all women poets of color! Submissions are now open for the Blessing the Boats Selections 2025! Learn more at www.boaeditions.org/pages/blessi...

I need these youngins to learn how to pass the ball. Sure you got to the bucket but I watched you dribble for 14 seconds to miss a free throw

I truly need to write a Taco Bell poem so i can finally submit to @tacobellquarterly.org

I have just discovered Ed Roberson and unfortunately for you all this will now become my entire personality 😌😌😌

I truly as a poet set myself up by writing so many poems as a sequence. A lot of my poems have the same name which makes it real hard when submitting them.

Was not expecting to cry (happy tears) at the bar tonight

Since it is the last day of June. I will end here.

Who is going to the NYC Poetry Festival?? Poets of Queens is hosting a reading on Sunday, July 13th at 11:30am with @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social @emilyhockaday.bsky.social and yours truly.

My book, YEET! now has my blurbs up! I am so grateful to have people I admire so much to speak to and about my work. Thank you Quintin Collins, @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social, Sawako Nakayasu, Rio Cortez, and Danez Smith! Preorder link is live btw! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

September 30!

Hi, I exist

We feel very lucky that so many people submitting to our open reading period have elected to pay a reading fee— their generosity has already ensured that we’ll be able to select at least two chapbooks.

I will continually think about how white artists like to steal and imitate Black culture and life to make a quick buck while constantly excluding Black people from their Black equation.

Poems--something! Poems?