My husband’s response to a poem I wrote about my ex and I watching sea lions give birth + me realizing I never want to have kids: “that is definitely a Steven poem”

I adore being read by this man—in every sense of the word 😂❤️

Glass: A Journal of Poetry Pushcart Prize Nominations Ashley Cline "on Mexico's Caribbean cost, mountains of seaweed grow" Derek Chan "Inheritance" Rachel Bunting "Event Horizon" Aekta K. "A Sky of Scattered Stars" Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey "with my back to the city" Cleo Qian "Grief Theory"

We're thrilled to announce our 2025 Pushcart Prize Nominations! Congrats and good luck to Ashley Cline, Derek Chan, Aekta K, Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey, and Cleo Qian!

2025 Monarch Queer Literary Awards Steven Sanchez "Grief Is the Raven" Olivia Lehman "Winter Solstice" Gardner Dorton "Love Poem Featuring Ton 618" Malik Thompson "*" Keenan Teddy "Sonnet Unrequited" CB Wilson "We Harvested, We Harvested"

Announcing our 2025 Monarch Queer Literary Awards nominations!!

@icarus-flies.bsky.social "Grief Is the Raven"

Olivia Lehman "Winter Solstice"

@gardnerdorton.bsky.social "Love Poem Featuring Ton 618"

Malik Thompson "*"

Keenan Teddy "Sonnet Unrequited"

CB Wilson "We Harvested, We Harvested"

Honored to have a new poem published by @glasspoetry.bsky.social today.

It’s about my Queerness, my grandma, and being glamorous af. I also didn’t realize it would be coming out a couple of days after her birthday.

Happy birthday, grandma.

What is a ‘criminal’ immigrant? The word is an American rhetorical trap | Jonathan Ben-Menachem Labels like ‘gang members’ and ‘terrorist supporters’ are an easy way to make humans disposable

It shouldn't matter if Trump’s victims have criminal records. If we only defend the “innocent,” the fascists will argue that their victim “was no angel.” An anti-fascist rhetoric that carves out exceptions for imperfect victims is a gift to our opponents.

New from me for @us.theguardian.com:

TOMORROW IS THE FINAL DAY for summer writing residencies in all genres at the Sundress Academy for the Arts. Fellowships available for writers of color and travel grants are available for Black and/or Indigenous writers! www.sundresspublications.com/news/2024/12...

It didn’t harm the anti-abortionists when someone got an abortion.
It didn’t harm cis people when someone changed their gender marker.
It didn’t harm anyone when a teenager used hormone blockers.
Fake outrage causes real damage.
It’s about control, not about preventing harm.

The Pollination Station — Apiary for Practical Support Through our Pollination Station, we vet and train potential volunteers for Practical Support Organizations.

Just because you can't control every terrible thing doesn't mean you're powerless. Find a way to DO something. Think small, think local.

Here's today's suggestion: train to become a practical support volunteer and support people traveling to access abortion care. apiaryps.org/pollination-...

Can you read cursive? It's a superpower the National Archives is looking for. The National Archives is looking for volunteers with an increasingly rare skill: Reading cursive.

The National Archives is looking for volunteers with an increasingly rare skill: Reading cursive.

Make sure it explodes into glitter shrapnel that lodges into heteronormativity forever.

video games are an invaluable tool in teaching children to find and kill god

My Gun Culture Is Not Your Gun Culture In Black Southern life, guns have been a sign of readiness against constant threats.

For @newrepublic.com I wrote about Black southerner gun culture, the rifle in the closet. So check that out because I'd be pleased to share with you.
newrepublic.com/article/1893...

I had the chance to work with Poet Lore to pick some amazing poems! I really hope y’all enjoy my selections
www.poetlore.com/2024/12/17/v...

Let’s see you at 21.

This was in a K-Mart fitting room. It was the last time I’d go to a Black Friday with my grandma, the only person in my family who was nothing but happy for me when she found out I was gay and in love.

Struck by how quick and insightful this poem by Perry Levitch in the new @newenglandreview.bsky.social is—

“fishbowl / of unparticular malaise. like everywhere.”

#poetry #amreading #poets #poem

My biggest accomplishment at work:

People skip their breaks less and respond with some variation of “I will right now, no free labor!” when I ask if they’ve gone yet.

BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row.

“Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.

a screenshot of a publishing agreement between Teo Shannon and The University of New Mexico Press for Teo's debut poetry collection titled "a chronology of blood"

HELLO FRIENDS! I HAVE A REALLY BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!! My debut poetry collection /a chronology of blood/ has been picked up for publication Fall 2025 by The University of New Mexico Press. I am so, SO excited for you to read these poems, which began once upon a time as my MFA thesis. ❤

#GivingTuesday is coming soon...

To all of the wealthy liberals and progressive foundations that will soon be panic donating to the "resistance"—below are nonprofit organizations that monitor, research, and produce in-depth analysis on the far right, violent extremists, and authoritarian movements👇

NYC neighborhood: not sure. I’ve never been, though my first poem was pubbed in Chelsea Station, so maybe Chelsea?

Global City: San Francisco!

When The Cincinnati Review asked if wanted to write anything for their sex issue, I was like uhh really?? Then I remembered I am *thee* Carrie Bradshaw of Queens and wrote a craft essay on why funny sex scenes are GOOD and even “LITERARY”? Hope you enjoy these tips on writing hehe and haha sex. 🥵🤡

Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

—C.D. Wright

Making a Way Out of No Way - Sixty Inches From Center Oral historian Rae Garringer looks back on the ten year journey to publishing their book “Country Queers: A Love Letter.”

Oral historian Rae Garringer looks back on the ten year journey to publishing their book “Country Queers: A Love Letter.”

When I fall asleep watching tv, I always know my husband noticed—he sets the tv to wind chimes and rain sounds before he goes to another room to play video games.

We should care about what’s going on in Gaza for MANY reasons. But if you need a selfish one, look up “imperial boomerang.”

Weapons and practices being used out in the colonies are eventually used on citizens as well.

Black people BEEN trying to warn y’all.

Trans Journalists Association Promoting more accurate, nuanced coverage of trans issues and communities in the media. Supporting gender-expansive journalists in their careers.

Dear Editors — If you’re considering publishing an article about issues related to transgender people, then perhaps you should consider assigning that article to a transgender journalist. Don’t have any transgender journalists in your newsroom?

@transjournalists.org has several valuable resources:

Heard her grumbling on the ground while I edited poems. I guess she wanted to help.

Changeling By Hieu Minh Nguyen Standing in front of a mirror, my mother tells me she is ugly says the medication is making her fat. I laugh & walk her back to the bed. My mother tells me she is ugly in the same voice she used to say no woman could love you & I watch her pull at her body & it is mine. My heavy breast. My disappointing shape. She asks for a bowl of plain broth & it becomes the cup of vinegar she would pour down my throat. Everyday after school, I would kneel before her. I would remove my clothes & ask her to mark the progress. It’s important that I mention, I truly wanted to be beautiful for her. In my dreams I am thin & if not thin, something better. I tell my mother she is still beautiful & she laughs. The room fills with flies. They gather in the shape of a small boy. They lead her back to the mirror, but my reflection is still there.

This is such a powerful poem by Hieu Minh Nguyen (@hieuminh.bsky.social). If you ever felt "not enough" for your parents or where raised in a "thin is good!" / diet culture home, this one if for you. It's one of my all-time favorite poems.

Extract the lines and images I like from a poem that isn’t working. Rearrange their order and see if it helps me see something differently.