New poems at Dream Pop and Witch Craft Mag

FIVE poems from COSMIC TANTRUM, my I’m-still-tinkering-with-it full-length collection, are up now at Dream Pop Journal! Learning to let the writing be weirder and more fun, the way I think it has always wanted.

I cover the void with bones.
Some kind of person 

must feel a way about them.
Bones are not-void. Bones suggest 

beinghood. Had-once-been-hood.
I cover the void in Bésame lipstick

the good shit, in tiny gold tubes.
Could a void give you a name brand? 

Probably.

I also have two poems in Issue #7 of Witch Craft Mag, which can be ordered here.

I’m like, Really, you mean a terrifying vortex

of uncountable wings and eyes

moving at incomprehensible speed,

so stabbing-bright that you are sore afraid?

Thank you, Dream Pop and Witch Craft!

New poem at Trampset

Photo by Hans Eiskonen on Unsplash

I have a new poem up at Trampset, on regret, waiting, treating the body like a plant, and how the beginning of *last* year felt like an ill omen.

This is how the year begins, already wrong.
Was it in my stars that I would never think
of now, that I would wall myself inside
with looping thoughts?

The full poem is here, along with a lot of cool work, including two amazing fiction debuts in the same issue!

New essay at Catapult on ASMR and chilling out when you have zero chill, etc.

This is my first essay for a new Catapult column called Internet as Intimacy: “You’re in Good Virtual Hands: On ASMR, Anxiety, Relaxation in the Side-Hustle Economy, and Being Baby.” Featuring some of my favorite ASMRtists, and one of the best meme-takes by my friend Aiden Arata.

Reading this weekend at NYC Poetry Festival!→

“Bed of Dragonflies” by Claudia Amuedo, courtesy of wearegrimoire.com

NYC POETRY FESTIVAL

I’ve been in New York City for a little over a year now. It’s been a lot, hence some radio silence, but the summer is shaping up magically.

I am reading poems THIS WEEKEND at The New York City Poetry Festival! If you’re in town and feel like taking the ferry to Governor’s Island, you might see me:

• Reading with Litbreaker on the Chumley’s stage at 2:00 pm

• Selling chapbooks and swag at the Sweet Action merch table at 4:00

• Reading with Sweet Action Poetry Collective on the Chumley’s stage at 5:00 pm

Full schedule for the festival is here.

SOFT SKULL AND CATAPULT

In other news, I am now the editorial assistant at Soft Skull Press and get to spend my workdays surrounded by books!! Since last July, I’ve also been soliciting fiction and the occasional essay for Catapult and have published these gems:

• “Dusty Secrets and Sleights of Hand” by Crystal Carey

• “The Evacuation” by Sarah Blake

• “North to the Future” by Luke Wiget

• “How to Love a Rabbit” by Nahida S. Nisa

• “Marisa, the Pitch Pine” by Joe Wadlington

• “On Violations, Macarons, and the Pursuit of Beauty I Can Control” by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

• “The Day Nothing Remarkable Happened” by Kamil Ahsan

PUBLICATIONS

My recent and forthcoming publications, since last update:

“Of all the classes of people who ever lived” and “THE FINANCIAL BENEFITS OF CHIVALRY” — erasure poems in the forthcoming anthology Erase the Patriarchy (University of Hell Press), edited by Isobel O’Hare

“Guided Meditation with Inner Mother” — poem at Grimoire

"Temperance" and "Becoming the Magician" — tarot medicine poems at Yes Poetry

"The Empress" and "Poem about My Uterus" — poems at FORTH magazine

Preorders open for THEY SAID from Black Lawrence Press!

Image courtesy of BlackLawrence.com

Happy National Poetry Month! I am pleased as punch to show you this beautiful-weird new cover for They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing—and more pleased than punch to announce that preorders are now open!! 

Poet-friend Isobel O'Hare and I co-wrote a poem that appears in here. You can read about our process in the back of the book once it makes its way to your hot little hands. The full list of contributors, advanced praise (including from the editors of ZYZZYVA—I swooned), and order link are in today's BLP announcement.

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Image courtesy of younginklings.org

In other Poetry Month news, Society of Young Inklings interviewed me as their resident poet for their monthly newsletter, the Ink Splat. You can read about me writing poems for online communities as a teen, gushing about Matthew Zapruder, and being inspired by young writers here.