Buzzing with joy in the
@HoneyLiterary
Hive - please feast on these 3 queer canapés (ft. Sondheim, my gay husband, and some collected pot wisps) in the new ISSUE 7! 🍯🐝
Hear me out: Anne Hathaway plays Shakespeare’s wife, Anne Hathaway, in a film where Anne Hathaway is reincarnated in modern day as Anne Hathaway who just landed the role of a lifetime playing Anne Hathaway.
I don’t get mad, I get motherf*cking gorgeous!
They yelled faggot from their car so I put on a dress and read a poem,
My chapbook was accepted - art is compassion!
I think a lot about how a residency fellow once cautioned, "some things - prison, starvation, war - are more than just metaphors. Be careful when using them in your writing..."
Mary Ruefle on the “panic” caused by the indeterminate “you” in poems - this has come up so many times in workshop that I might start bringing this as aegis to every one…
“…read the poem, use your noggin, and figure it out.”
Reminder that you can request books be stocked at your local library as a New Year's gift to your favorite authors. For mine I simply Googled the local library and "request" and voila. Filling out a few now!
Sunday ACCEPTANCE from
@BendingGenres
--
She's a fiction girl, now!
Many thanks to
@aliner
for the incredible workshop that spawned the story
Can't wait for you all to read it in June!
same with abelist metaphors like blindness, deafness, missing/phantom limbs, etc...think hard before you deploy a device that you have zero life experience using
For my 40th Birthday today, please post your favorite poems (extra points if they deal with the inexorable hurtling through the cosmos that is aging)
🎈:
crying rn going thru old boxes. i’ve ALWAYS been a poet. i’m finding lines & whole poems left & right. i’d forgotten for decades that this is who i am and always wanted to be.
i realized i have post-encounter anxiety: i mostly feel good meeting people, but then will play back the event 100x, cringing at everything i said & did.
#AWP22
Proud to announce that
@KithBooks
will be publishing my chap “Book Of Extraction: Poems with Teeth” - it’s about the body, faith & loss, the failures of our healthcare system, the evils of dentistry & so much more!
📕
Normalize weird sign offs in email! I’m done with “Best,” “Thanks,” etc. how about like “Pouting,” or “Tired but love you more,” or “In desperate need of sandwich,” etc
Learned that the term “crocodile tears” entered English during the Elizabethan era via Greek tales of a mysterious beast that moaned like a human to lure its prey, then after eating, would cry out in pity for the consumed.
enough time has passed for it to sink in that it's not a mistake...but I WAS ACCEPTED TO THE
@kenyonreview
Writers Workshop for Poetry this July!!!
More info to come, but i'm over the moon 🌜
My debut chap from
@KithBooks
is now available for pre-order! For friends at AWP: there’s an option to have it hand delivered (or picked up) in Seattle!
We are open for POETRY CHAPBOOK SUBS!
@TaylorByas3
& I await your words!
I’m looking forward to reading & thank you for entrusting us with your work. 📚
wow…are you f*cking serious?! There’s one (cursed) nursing room for the whole conference & you can’t keep track of the keys? Where is our $$$ going?! Lanyards are like $300, I guess? JFC
We are psyched to announce Adrian Dallas Frandle
@adrianf
, a PH poetry first reader, is stepping into an Associate Poetry Editor role with us!
Adrian (he/they) is a poet & queer fish. Poetry Acquisitions Editor for Variant Lit Press & a reader for Okay Donkey Lit Mag/Press. ❤️
sometimes i wonder if i write poetry because it is the genre most accommodating of my brief attention span, so i can constantly switch topics/metaphors/images/points of view without having to support the weight of traditional teleological narrative. is this a thing?
initially, i thought this piece of storm-tossed flotsam was some sort of beige medical device, but then i realized it’s an effaced & limbless Mr Potato Head, which is a poem: a sad, sad, poem.
Daisugi is a 14th century Japanese forestry technique that allows growing and harvesting perfect tall trees from the upper portions of existing trees leaving the base and root structure of the “mother tree” intact.
📸IG iszkt2g
excited to announce the wonderful
@jmwwjournal
will be publishing my weird queer CNF hermit crab piece! 😈❤️🔥
this is a dream come true - thrilled to be queering the logos again soon!
I just got the most wonderful news.
I'm astounded.🫢
I get to study with
@pswordwoman
later this month...I just found out I got accepted to the Napa Valley Writer's Conference (
@napawriters
) for Poetry!!!
Sad to see an “old guard” set of writers defending PEN America, without also addressing its embarrassing & harmful apolitical positioning re: Palestine - as if an organization can’t do good with one hand & wrong with the other. It’s disheartening, from scholars I respect.
i gained another
@havehadhavehad
skull to knock musically against the first & keep it company!
been working on some short poems i’ll get to share with you soon 💀💀
thanks
@Aaron__Burch
the contract is signed: i have joined The Hive
@HoneyLiterary
! Can’t wait to share some queer food musings, poems, & pot wisps with you in the Winter 2024 issue!
Thank you
@dorothykchan
!
🌶️🥣🔥🍯💖🪩✨
Thrilled to share two trans-temporal love letters to Borges, out today with the wonderful
@hexliterary
- would be delighted if you’d give these micros a read 💌
@MehPoeting
once heard
@Danez_Smif
call these “bay leaf poems” and that stuck with me, as a former cook. They season the whole pot, but on their own are inert…
at night, we have taken to passing back-and-forth fantasy maps, like exquisite corpses, each of us taking our turn to fill in a feature, add more description…
I got my 💀 from
@havehadhavehad
!
I'm shaking in the wind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They understand my soul's twinned passions of dendrology & America's Next Top Model 😭🌲
etymology poem accepted
@StanchionZine
for issue 9!
i’m a big fan of the mag & can’t wait for folks to read it! ✨
thanks to Jeff, who I know is reading a bajillion subs & traveling, etc.
I want an introduction, a forward, a prologue, an overture, a revised introduction, a letter from the author, a note from the translator and at least 5 pages of epigraphs before the main text.
Rejoicing in gay that my flash cnf prose poem is up
@havehadhavehad
- thank you
@sofiafeycreates
for the 🌈 💀 (i’m such a huge fan your work & honored that you read, let alone selected, this - thank you!)
First Reader | Adrian Dallas Frandle
@adrianf
(he/they) is a poet & queer fish, as well as Poetry Acquisitions Editor for Variant Lit Press & a reader for Okay Donkey Lit Mag/Press.