Sent out like... 7 submissions today to some big-name mags because I keep getting personalized/tiered rejection letters and someone has to bite eventually 🥸

Cryptopsy to double chocolate chip hits DIFFERENT

My definition of a villain era is baking cookies to death metal that's playing a little too loud

Sorry I'm late—I've mostly been offline—but check out my interview with @bulbculture.bsky.social!

I was going to do a thread on each piece and publication but the draft got erased and I'm tired 😭

I'm late but here's a line or two from every piece I had published in 2024

Does anyone know what happened with Bullshit Lit?

Something tells me I'll be sourcing a lot myself from rage this year

Walked 2 miles and back from the grocery store because I was bored

Jay-Z's verse on Monster aged so poorly holy shit

Saw the Nicole Kidman AMC intro for the first time last night and I'm a new man

Had a dream about my late-abuelito last night. He called me through a payphone just to catch up. Don’t remember what we talked about, but what he said before abruptly hanging up was: "Well, I love you, mijo. I gotta go, but you're going to do great—I'm proud of you. Good luck in Berkeley."

"You think if the algorithm told Mr. Beast to shoot a man he would do it?" Is the craziest sentence I've heard all week and it's from fucking videogamedunkey

Wrote "I'm too stubborn to quit" in my cover letter to a publication that's rejected me like 4 times already 😶

On my own for Christmas. Any ideas?

Reading Kurt Cobain’s journals and I'm exhausted

Antony and Cleopatra is about the world's first situationship. In this essay, I will—

You can learn a lot about a poet based on their moon poem

🫶 y'all too!!

Gonna submit to a little mag or two this week and then take a break until the new year. Between the final round rejection letters and personal hardships, I think I need time to rest, turn my phone off, read, and really question this insecurity I have of feeling perpetually not good enough.

Hater to lovers was invented by boomers to sell more divorce

Guess who got in

Newt spotted in Berkeley

What if you shared your favorite CDs with me and I wrote a poem about all the ways you're my favorite person 👉👈

Ran into Fresno poet Sara Borjas here at Berkeley and I think it's the first hug I've had in months. I feel ready for finals now

New-ish poem about a crisis with no sirens in @bulbculture.bsky.social

Thank you so much to @jaredpovanda.bsky.social and @scoops.bsky.social for giving this one a home and keeping the lights on 💡(pun not intended)

You're too sweet 🥹 thank you so much ✨️

Oh my god we lost Nikki Giovanni

Kinda worried about V.B. and Bullshit Lit