Gardner Dorton

I’m coming out! as someone who told all his high school classmates he was gonna be a DJ (had no experience)

I release you I release you I release you I release you

Joy Harjo

I was one of her students once. I remember she read this poem to us the first time Trump got elected that morning. I still cry thinking about it 🧡

Padam Padam X Little Drummer Boy remix

It’s a Kylie Minogue Christmas

I’m sorry but if you’re wearing a cowboy hat in your wedding photos—

Two years ago I was about to download tinder premium hours away from meeting my husband

Telling everyone it is true cause yeah agree it is wonderful

Wait…is this real???

As always, it’s an honor to work with @glasspoetry.bsky.social 🧡 I love this little poem, wish it luck!

www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2024...

2025 Monarch Queer Literary Awards Steven Sanchez "Grief Is the Raven" Olivia Lehman "Winter Solstice" Gardner Dorton "Love Poem Featuring Ton 618" Malik Thompson "*" Keenan Teddy "Sonnet Unrequited" CB Wilson "We Harvested, We Harvested"

Announcing our 2025 Monarch Queer Literary Awards nominations!!

@icarus-flies.bsky.social "Grief Is the Raven"

Olivia Lehman "Winter Solstice"

@gardnerdorton.bsky.social "Love Poem Featuring Ton 618"

Malik Thompson "*"

Keenan Teddy "Sonnet Unrequited"

CB Wilson "We Harvested, We Harvested"

As always, it’s an honor to work with @glasspoetry.bsky.social 🧡 I love this little poem, wish it luck!

www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2024...

Eat shit Kim Davis I hope you trip into a volcano but scrape all your limbs on the way down

The thing about me is I’m gonna light a candle

If I don't continuously work for the good, I become, bit by bit, hateful

When the line you built the poem around gets cut in the first revision

I say this to my husband daily

Throw your tomatoes, but my Christmas tree goes up tomorrow (I’m a Taurus)

When your best friend and high school prom date is also an author and then the world feels smaller in the best way

I can’t think of a specific example but I believe Li-Young Lee writes all of his poems at work in a manufacturing plant! (Source: heard it once at a reading)

Sharties

This is my therapy experience

Sharties

Does anyone need a virtual reader? I just realized I haven’t read since spring!

a cartoon character with a tongue sticking out and the words that 's a rock fact below it ALT: a cartoon character with a tongue sticking out and the words that 's a rock fact below it

But never TW 🧡

Substack is proof we YEARN for 2000s blogging

Buying your husband flowers for the reaction>

The thing about me is YES, YES I am going to listen to The Counting Crows during fall!

The thing about me is YES, YES I am going to listen to The Counting Crows during fall!

Hypomania is just bouncing between “I should listen to The Black Eyed Peas more” and “I curse the soil I was born on”