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Reproductive Wrongs: A short history of bad ideas about woman by Sarah Ruden

today's read

for all the Trans Rights Readathon participants still making their lists 👀

it's a good time to read the incredible trans surrealist novel love / aggression by June Martin

as a lifelong non-driver, ghost bus is sometimes just part of the fun

godspeed!

March 8, 2026

"[A poem] arises from the tough, delicate, heartbreaking rooting of what-is in its own nonbeing. From that rooting, there arise elemental movements of being: of hunger, of play, of rage, of celebration, of dying...A poem enacts those movements in words."
- Dennis Lee, Wrestling With Cadence

Wrestling with Cadence: Essays on writing and intuition by Dennis Lee

today's re-read

An outline of a naked woman is embroidered on linen in the same bone white colour as the linen. She stands legs together, her right hand covering her groin, her left hand, palm up, extended slightly to her side. She looks to the right. Her entire body except for her belly is covered in intricate markings representing different neurological sensations. Her face is a mask of green lines, feathery grey lines cover her shoulders and chest. There is a thick band of intricate burgundy stitching around her waist. Her forearms and hands are covered in thick blue undulant lines. Her right leg has bands of burgundy along the muscles, with small dots around them. Her inner left leg has a thick line of blue running up it, with thin branches spreading towards her outer leg.

For this #InternationalWomensDay I’m sharing a symptomatology #embroidery, body map (2016), in which I stitched my #MECFS symptoms freehand over a few months. ME/CFS affects mostly women, and the symptoms are often ignored or not taken seriously because of medical misogyny.

#SciArt

If you're a writer, I encourage you to read widely--across lengths and genres and eras, self-published books and wildly popular books. Each author has a different way of solving the problems presented by a story, and in reading their solutions, you make those solutions available for your own work.

March 7, 2026

nudging people into this sweet spot is a big part of editing if you're me. there's nothing worse than a book that exhausts you for nothing, or prose that never does anything interesting.

neon space space neon Luna Rey Hall Cover: a nebula colourized in magent and lavender is overset by the title in bold all caps white, printed with the first half facing up and the second half down. “hall’s poems challenge us, implicitly and visually, ... to look at gender and sexuality like the water that permeates this glittering collection: a boundless, beautiful paradox, capable of occupying any and every shape.” Raye Hendrix, author of What Good Is Heaven kith books literary home of the trans, Crip, queer, & sick

“hall’s poems challenge us...to look at gender and sexuality like the water that permeates this glittering collection: a boundless, beautiful paradox, capable of occupying any and every shape.”
- Raye Hendrix

neon space space neon
@lunareyhall.com

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Hair Shirt, poems by Adrian Sobol — Malarkey Published April 1, 2025 Get a free sample here HAIR SHIRT, Adrian Sobol’s second full-length poetry collection, continues his particular take on poetry. Filled with trademark black humor and...

If you order a copy of Hair Shirt, poems by @yoadrianididit.bsky.social, we will include in your order a loose page from the unbound print proof. If you will the take that page and turn it into a blackout poem we would love to display it on our website.

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shout out notable @jacklegpress.bsky.social poet.... Omar Epps

Yup---THE LIVING COPY by @alessandrostardust.bsky.social is going to be our fall release and we are so, so excited for it!! This is a gorgeous (and experimental!) story by an author whose voice and style we really admire. <3

new from above/ground press: Wilkins, Maloukis, van Vliet, Cone/Lipschutz, Bach, Sparrow, Macdonald, Kennedy, Sparling, Burgoyne, Wells, Levy + Sharp, Touch the Donkey #48 + a bilingual anthol eds. O'... Towards A Poetry Of <something> Tentative / Notes from a stalled art project , Grant Wilkins $6 ; TWO , Rose Maloukis $6 ; inventions , Ro...

new from above/ground press: Wilkins, Maloukis, van Vliet, Cone/Lipschutz, Bach, Sparrow, Macdonald, Kennedy, Sparling, Burgoyne, Wells, Levy + Sharp, Touch the Donkey #48 + a bilingual anthol eds. O'Meara/Sylvain,
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PAINTED ROCKS Parker Wilson Cover: a black and white photo of the author in his eagle scout uniform. his head has been drawn over with the head of an alligator. “Painted Rocks lays bare the rituals of masculinity that corrupt us, kill us, and keep us apart.” K. Christopherson, author of Beast Country kith books literary home of the trans, Crip, queer, & sick

“Painted Rocks lays bare the rituals of masculinity that corrupt us, kill us, and keep us apart.”
- K. Christopherson, author of Beast Country

PAINTED ROCKS
Parker Wilson
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trans rights readathon March 17-31, 2026 About: The Trans Rights Readathon is an annual call to action to readers and book lovers in support of Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) on March 31st. How to Participate: Read and uplift books by and/or featuring trans, nonbinary, 2Spirit, and gender-nonconforming authors and characters. Donate and fundraise for trans aid organizations in your community. Join Us: @transrightsreadathon transreadathon@gmail.com transrightsreadathon.carrd.com official sign up, book and charity recommendations, and more! all kith eBooks are free during the readathon. it's time to get planning.... kithbooks.com

it's almost time for our fave time of year!!!

join us from March 17th-31st as we shout out authors and readers that show up for trans lit and trans people, each & every day. we need you more than ever.

for the duration, kith eBooks are FREE

start planning...
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Hinting at Decolonization Nicola Andrews Cover: A portrait of Captain Cook is graffitied over to replace his eyes with Xs and his mouth with a frown. Over the entirety of the image is a nearly transparent all caps LAND BACK From West Auckland to San Francisco, Andrews tracks erasure, co-option, and theft as they appear in western popular culture, the performance of contrition, and the products on our shelves. kith books literary home of the trans, Crip, queer, & sick

From West Auckland to San Francisco, Andrews tracks erasure, co-option, and theft as they appear in western popular culture, the performance of contrition, and the products on our shelves.

Hinting at Decolonization
Nicola Andrews
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For Spite and Rosemary Odette Augustine Cover: a sketch in black of a boned corset on a background of parchment washed over with pink watercolour paint Augustine scratches out the why of her longing, bumps up to a hard truth, flags it, and turns the page over then does it again. We are patience and white page, a lover invested, taking our own notes as she leads the way. kith books literary home of the trans, Crip, queer, & sick

Augustine scratches out the why of her longing, bumps up to a hard truth, flags it, and turns the page over then does it again. We are patience and white page, a lover invested, taking our own notes as she leads the way.

For Spite and Rosemary
Odette Augustine
@brigibee.bsky.social

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March 6, 2026

the only money in publishing is in printing and, even there, I'm not convinced.

A gouache painting of a canine mouth, focus on teeth. Dominant colors are red, black, pus, and bone. Cover for C.L. Methvin's horror collection, EUSECT. This is an eclectic collection of flash and then longer short stories, covering a wide range of horror themes. In some cases, extreme horror/splatterpunk. Cover art by Dusty Ray. Interior collage art by Florian S. Fauna.

"This is a good pick if you're looking for something to make you flinch... I think it's my favorite horror anthology thus far." We live for reviews like this!! Thank you. ❣️ If you've got a horror itch, check out our collection, EUSECT, by @hypetaph.bsky.social

Women Among Monuments: Solitude, Permission, and the Pursuit of Female Genius Kasia Van Schaik

today's read

March 5, 2026

cover of Split / Game of Little Deaths by Réka Nyitrai

@pizamapress.bsky.social

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"One side is a hybrid & experimental work blending Nyitrai's real diary entries w imagined diaries of surrealist artists Unica Zürn, Hans Bellmer, & Francesca Woodman. The other is a dream world mixing free verse & prose poetry."

Escaping the Body: Poems Poems

Looking for oldies but goodies at AWP? Head over to @interstellarflight.bsky.social booth and grab a copy of Escaping the Body.

full bias but, if i taught middle school through college (or had kids of those ages—which i do!), i'd keep this around. if you want to take your conversations past land acknowledgements and into our day to day cooptations of indigenous culture, Hinting at Decolonization is a great start.

with code TMG you can get 30% off my first chapbook, HEAVEN, EKPHRASIS, when you order it's forthcoming spiritual sequel, TRANSMASC MARVEL GIRL!