january '23

new year, back on the same bullshit.

news

another year, another publication?

• published poem: “clamshell” in GLHF Press Issue 1

• published poem: “maryland crab” in the minison zine, issue 17: soup (my first minison!)

• published poem: “a haibun of indifference to my body” in The Bitchin Kitsch, Volume 14 Issue 1.

• published poem: “livewire” in Neologism Poetry’s December 2022 issue

• published poem: “conspiracy to steal pink” in Rejection Letters

• published poems: “free & for sale (iso wholeness),” “free & for sale (selling shame),” “free & for sale (yard sard)” in Bullshit Lit

• published fiction (!!!): “Shedding” in JAKE

• new chapbook: self portrait as several clusters of stars, my first CNF chapbook, is out now with Bottlecap Features

• interview: i did the “40 But 10” interview series with The Next Best Book Club

• i got a boob! (a best of our bullshit award from Bullshit Lit).

notes

i’ve come to really appreciate the chapbook as a jumping off point. there’s something about working in an abbreviated space that allows me to really explore concept in a way that i also found with photobooks and zines. my new CNF chapbook is fairly conceptual, and i recently finished writing another concept chapbook of poetry that i’m in the early stages of sending out. i’m not sure exactly what my next foray into a short hybrid publication will look like, but i’m excited for it. something visual feels like it might be bubbling.

also, unrelated, but a huge thanks to everyone who supported my name change raffle! i raised the money too quickly to put it in my newsletter, and i am excited to both change my name and get my entire collected works into someone’s hands!

sneak peek

i’m dropping a little zine tomorrow on itch.io called nightmarescape! here’s a spread from it.

friends

• call: the minison zine is open for their 17th issue, minigames, until March 31

• release: Stanchion released their first book, The Woman’s Part by Jo Gatford

• and also: fifth wheel press is open until February 28 for a themed digital anthology, come sail away