news
in addition to celebrating my 28th birthday at AWP this year, i’m celebrating this whole month with some really awesome new work out! new poetry comes from both my thesis book and my newest chapbook project, both of which i am excited to share with the world in the near future. (there may also be something from a secret third thing in here?)
published poems: “a bad gay guard” and “your kiss” in JAKE
published artwork: “Juicy” in Another Chicago Magazine
published poem: “tumblr knew” in MEMEZINE
published poem: “things are constantly happening” in All My Relations, Issue 6: Resistance
published poem: “pov: a commenter on your r/ptsdhumor post has just informed you that you have tinnitus” in manywor(l)ds Issue 3
new chapbook: salt box can now be ordered from kith books in print or digital format!
editor feature: we’re running a fun little editor feature series over on the fifth wheel press blog! go read my poems “c-ptsd as the matter splatter galaxy,” “dream in which the bay swallows us,” and “bleuet”.
raffle: my thesis raffle ends on 2/29! check out this tweet for more information.
notes
as my thesis churns along, i’m still finding time to work on other projects. i’ve made some edits to two full-length manuscripts i have out on sub right now (including a title change for one!) as well as managed to buckle down and finally finish a chapbook about queerness that i’ve wanted to write for a long time. it’s still very new, but it feels fun and airy, and i’m looking forward to sharing it (and the hyperspecific aesthetic vision for it that i may or may not have dreamed up).
sneak peek
i promised y’all a poem last month, so here i am delivering! (note: it reads best on desktop/horizontally on mobile because of long lines.)
felt cute, might dissolve later After Kayla Renee i want no one to think of me. i want my hair to serve as a curtain between me & greedy demons out for my squishy bits, to release the hollow of hurt i have stopped up. i want a bottomless buffet of my grandmother’s crab cakes & mashed potatoes, served with gravy. i want a miracle: for the nerves in my back to replenish themselves, rich with feeling. for the tendons which stretch the length of my tibia to loosen up. i want to look at myself in full length mirrors & spin around, merry. to know the days i’ll carry with me in pockets till the grave are not behind me. i need to know this is worth it, gasping for something, for a sort of splendid i’ve never quite touched.
friends
call: nightshade lit mag is taking submissions for their inaugural issue until 3/1
release: 11 shitty astrology poems by arden will
current events
here’s what i’ve been reading, watching, listening to, and playing.
books: Recyclopedia by Harryette Mullen, Sympathetic Little Monster by Cameron Awkward-Rich1
tv: The Traitors (Peacock), Vanderpump Rules (Peacock)
games: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Animal Crossing: New Horizons
solidarity: i recently signed the open letter condemning PEN America’s silence on the ongoing genocide in Palestine and recent platforming of an outspoken ceasefire opponent. i encourage you to read and do the same.
i’m SO ashamed of how little i have been reading lately, but damn, it’s been busy! i have, however, recently picked up some books at AWP that i’m excited to catch up on, and i’ve been making an effort to go to more readings, too, so i’m not totally deprived of literature.