It’s hard for me to imagine after yeeaaarrrs this book is on shelves TODAY!! And y’all have already almost wiped out Amazon’s inventory (yet another reason to support your local independent bookstore!)
Thanks but dyeing things rainbow and wearing a fur suit to worship a shirtless man is just a regular weekend for me.
All long clothing needs tattoo holes.
Hi April, it’s me, the fool.
A great day to remind everyone to support trans-inclusive spaces like @utubookstore.bsky.social Support artists. Vote like joy and autonomy depend on it. Realize we need not wizards and all the magic is right here on earth.
Poster for the book launch of The Sun Has Shifted As Have I. The poster features two saguaro flowers in front of silhouetted mountains and agave stalks. A crescent moon and stars are in the sky. Poster reads: Release ceremony at the historic San Pedro Chapel for Jonathan T. Bailey's poetry collection, The Sun Has Shifted as Have I. Join us for an evening of poetry & desert magic in conversation with poet nan seymour. Event is at April 19th, 6:30PM, and is free to attend. Invite friends and loved ones.
Join me in Tucson for my book launch! This special event will take place in the San Pedro Chapel, built in the early 1900s & also Tucson’s first historic landmark designated on the National Register of Historic Places. Visitors will pass through an intact Sonoran Desert ecosystem right before sunset
I adore that this is the way this poem is introduced to the world. As I replied to Riley, queer history has always been a reckoning between love and mortality.
This is one of the most personally meaningful poems and I’m glad it resonated. It is bursting with love & gratitude for the queer community. Our history has always been a reckoning between love and mortality.
Thank you so much! This made my day. 🤎
Images feature a note from a reader at the Tucson Festival of Books. It reads "There’s a feeling of nature’s rhythms throughout this collection that is just so delicious—I can hear the buzzes, the breezes, and feel the sun warm my skin while reading it. And it captures that miraculous ecstasy of being alive, and limitless, while still rooted in everything around us—from ancient fish to stardust. It’s so full of life and light, while also giving room for death, as also part of life. It makes me want to take it with me outside and read it amongst the trees, the rivers, and the sounds of birds."
I’m heartened by the young people, and unconventional readers, who showed up for the soft launch of my poetry collection, and also by their beautiful reactions sitting in my inbox this morning. Thank you for sharing your time with human artists, and for having more-than-human sensibilities. ❤️❤️❤️
See you at the Tucson Festival of Books!
It is hard to talk about books when the world is burning around us. What I will say is this: this book is about joy and wildness, yes—but it is mostly about adapting under extreme constraint, and finding some direction through the things we cannot face, but must anyway.
If peace is a noun, defined as ‘a freedom from disturbance,’ who is allowed to live undisturbed? Who decides? By what means is it enforced? What does that peace look like?
There will be excerpts in various magazines, which I will share when that time comes.
It’s so special for me to bring these words back to the land. This has been the most spiritual, creative, and joyful project of my lifetime. Much here originated from having far too little water and too much sun. There is, quite literally, my blood on these pages, as well as my salt.
Broad-billed hummingbird, Cynanthus latirostris, and environs.
Survivorship bias - U.S. / Mexico border.
Luminescent Hypholoma.
Let last our animal bodies.
Dusk. Ironwood NM. Gopherus morafkai.
Thank you! There's definitely love to the Pacific NW in here. Glad to hear it will be read from there, too!
Thank you for the kind words, Grant! Your support is so much appreciated.
Wow. It’s hard to find the right words for what this has meant to me.
🌞 The Sun Has Shifted As Have I is coming April 2026 from Torrey House Press. Preorders launched today!!! You can preorder your copy via the link in my bio. It will be available everywhere else very soon!
#books #poetry
Sometimes you know when something is one of the most important things you will do. Weird that much is out of my hands after so many years, but I’m thrilled to be re-joining the Torrey House fam. More later. For now, I hope you find the love in this as I found pulling it upward through my ribcage.