ZINE LUNCH What do you love? A free zine workshop with Stephanie Burt Friday, May 9 12pm EST Preregister on Zoom

There’s still time to sign up for TODAY’S free⚡️Zine Lunch!⚡️ with Steph Burt. Link in bio!

je vois dans le hasard tous les biens que j’espere When you said ‘accidental’ I thought it was that you were formal and sat down. When I went home I did not go home. You said go to bed, and sleep, and later everything will be clear. It was a lovely morning yesterday and I think things have at last happened which will not go away.

everything will be clear.

Robert Creeley

ii The authentic! I said rising from the toilet seat. The radiator in rhythmic knockings spoke of the rising steam. The authentic, I said breaking the handle of my hairbrush as I brushed my hair in rhythmic strokes: That’s it, that’s joy, it's always a recognition, the known appearing fully itself, and more itself than one knew.

Denise Levertov

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy and isn't a selfie

That dusty x app literally won’t open for me now. And I like this new place so much better 💗

Excited for this! (and what a cover 😍)

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Thanks for sharing this piece! Those works of art are two of my happy places and I love that connection between them

The Great Salt Lake from the sky, half blue, and half pink because of tiny enduring creatures that love salinity and can sleep inside salt crystals for years

Elio Schneeman FOR THE NEW YEAR Nights, and winds and the million spaces between Rain paints the city a shade of poverty Hearts wrestle, out of place, in the rustle of leaves Words scattered by sleep in early morning’s light avenues Texture of dreams I’ve forgotten, And air I remember Slipping into memory I move silently Around the clock’s face.

Slipping into memory

Elio Schneeman

Please give her a hug from me!

Your Body Is Not a Horror with James R. Gapinski This is the world we live in. But it’s not the world our characters need to live in. Reclaiming queer bodies in speculative fiction.

Writer buds: join my brilliant friend James Gapinski for a class on body horror + reclaiming queerness. Tomorrow at
@xraylitmag.bsky.social

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Such a great list! The Lighting Field is one of my bucket list visits

There’s so much to see! That would be a great road trip

Journeyed to Sun Tunnels yesterday, a work of Land art by Nancy Holt in Utah’s west desert

Open-Reading Periods Submit your book-length manuscripts to Alternating Current Press by following these submission guidelines for our open-reading periods.

Happy September! We're open for book-length FICTION manuscripts for our open-reading period! 🥳💡

Reading about Barbara Rossi, a Chicago Imagist and former nun-turned-artist, who passed away this week. Languid, unsettling, and sometimes funny, her paintings are like the best poems to me. www.artforum.com/news/barbara...

Yes! As a transplant out west, I've had to spread the word about "bless your heart." Folks really do think it's a middle finger, not a nuanced, multi-purpose phrase.

Ashley Marie Farmer’s Bluesky profile

It’s @amfarmer.bsky.social, you guys! 🙌