news
starting off this year with a busy news day! let’s get right to it.
zine housekeeping: this is a reminder that you can still join the zine club i started to pull in a bit of extra income. $2 per month ($6 quarterly) gets you 3-5 zines every quarter, or $7-10 for a monthly mailing (depending on whether you’re inside or outside the usa). two of the most recent quarter’s zines, BUBBLING and the time is ripe, are now available for free download on my itch.io
i’ll also be bringing my zines to the Baltimore Zine Fest on 1/24 at Peabody Heights Brewery, selling from 2–6pm. i’ll have print copies of everything in my library along with a brand-new release.
as an aside, and if it wasn’t already clear: i am working on expanding my zine practice! you can now download all my zines in one $10 digital bundle if you want to support. i’m also selling physical zines on etsy, and you can follow all of my zine-related adventures @ramenzines on instagram.
published poems: “casting spells with drugstore roses,” “i’d begin at the beginning,” “pantoum for patterns,” “phillips square, friday afternoon” and “the hole” in Be About It Press
published poem: “pseudotsuga menziesii (artificial)” in Some Words
published poems: “my body doesn’t understand itself, electric” and “instagram keeps sending me” in Michigan City Review of Books
published prose: “sorry” in shoegaze literary issue 2: act of attrition
published poem: “there’s layers to this shit” in Burial Magazine
published nonfiction: “after love” in JAKE
published poem: “garden suburb hermit” in Dodo Eraser Issue 1
published poems: “gatekeeping my own suffering,” “grave hag genesis,” and “rush hour” in BRUISER
published poems: “apologies” and “democracy” in petrichor 29’s Pebbles section
published poems: “there’s all these rings in my chart” and “essex diner, saturday morning” in Troublemaker Firestarter Volume 10: fairweather1
new microchapbook: icymi, my poetry micro, totaled, is now available for free download from Artists from Maryland
poetry book spreadsheet: i have brought back the spreadsheet i made in 2024 of upcoming 2026 poetry releases—please add your own chapbooks and full-lengths if you’ve got them! this sheet is based on one i came across in 2023, and it was excellent for finding new reads.
notes
behold, one line from every piece of writing i published in 2025! i look forward to a quieter 2026, but i’ve also already got some exciting things planned. i’ve decided this is going to be a year that begins with furiously pouring my efforts back into my practice in all ways, so please reach out if you’d like to work together on a creative collaboration!
sneak peek
here’s a poem from WANT, my new chapbook coming soon with ink&ivy lit!
token straight friend
there’s a rumor that all-girls prep schools
are an incubator for a certain kind of woman
& i can’t attest to the school’s involvement but i saw
the best minds of my generation decide they were gay
as fuck & i didn’t budge, not then. my friend group
slowly came out around me & i insisted on my love
for a man (& i suppose he felt he owed me nothing,
but that’s a different conversation). i saw the lips
of my friends intertwine in prom pictures & i still
can’t explain the envy i felt despite my insistence
that i was straighter than a plastic ruler.
oh, how mistaken i could be. friends
call: Abode Press is open for 2026 Virtual Retreat applications until 3/7 (i did this retreat last summer and it was excellent!)
release: Evelyn Berry’s chapbook T4T is now available to purchase from Small Harbor Publishing
current events
here’s what i’ve been reading, watching, listening to, and playing.
books: Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. by Noor Hindi
tv: Southern Charm, The Traitors (U.S.)
games: Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Pokémon Legends: Z-A
the part where i ask for money
i have reopened paid subscriptions. while the pool will always be 100% free, i am still out of work and appreciate any support i’m able to get right now. if you’d prefer not to ferry your money through substack (i get it), you can also set up a recurring donation on ko-fi or send me a tip (scroll to the bottom of the page for payment links).
finally, those of you that follow me on other socials may know i have (hopefully temporarily) lost access to unemployment and have set up a gofundme. i met my initial goal, but am leaving it open through my hearing date on 2/2 to hopefully accumulate some sort of emergency fund.
please also hit me up for freelance work! i’m happy to discuss your project ideas via email.
i also lent a hand with the cover
I am so so happy you’re expanding your zine practice!! I can’t wait to see all the wonderful things you create🥹