@lilyweiner.bsky.social and I are starting second canon, a project we've been talking about for going on a year (while trying to plan our wedding lol)
we are writing about rare books and overlooked authors/influences in an obsessive but non-elitist way
cool things to come pls subscribe 💙📚
The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”
(misc fish from finding nemo) aw, you guys made me unc...
twitter is finally making me mentally ill enough that I deleted it from my phone so here I am
working on a long essay about the evolving poetics of gendered madness in the poetry of sylvia plath, alejandra pizarnik, alice notley, and jamie hood - intro below and next installments coming soon so tune in
I feel like I could make bluesky a better place for myself than twitter is esp b/c I can put substack links on here without getting throttled okay bye
just watched nosferatu... so in honor of that, here's a short story from a while back about a baby vampire fighting a shark underwater for its first kill
trying to write more essays this year - have a new one up on why we might not really think our own thoughts, how that bears on the first drafts of poems we write, and how I'm adjusting my writing process in 2025
raliapo.substack.com/p/the-metaph...
my little bro put me onto this citypop album when I was home for his hs graduation
when a culture-shifting album comes out meaghan garvey's reviews are required reading (or any other time tbh)
pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
poems in progress go way harder when you throw them into charli's brat generator
everything is romantic - charli xcx (2024)
chap includes poems pubbed in SPECTRA, Corporeal and dirt child + many others no one has seen (unless u were in a workshops w/ me). finishing design/layout but if u want an electronic ARC for fun or to review, please DM me
thank u love u 🙏 ❤️
in 2023 I sent a chap to some presses, got nos, edited more, got better nos, edited more, missed sub deadlines, took workshops, edited more etc... this thing is finally ready and prob only now ready to sub, but I'm impatient so I'm going to put it out myself & would love ur support 💙
poem haul
I had a trial version of afterlife from some demo sampler and was obsessed with it but my catholic parents forbid me from playing once they found out about the subject matter
He’s only half-joking. But this really is the way to do it. Once you’ve accumulated a critical mass of people who have read the book you hand-sold to, the book starts selling itself. The number is different for every book and there are so many chance factors involved it’s impossible to predict it.
Well, we're here now. Hi everyone!
for any poetry/writing people out there: u gotta read this jawn
since I started doing the artists way again I've been writing daily sonnets to practice form. highly recommend as a writing exercise!!
every 5 mins reading julia cameron
how does one 'pop off' on bluesky
denise duhamel was/is one of my first favorite poets
gearing up for the IKEA residency
post ur first drafts of poems u say? ok sounds good
are there any in-person poetry workshops based out of LA
every night I realize I need a snack, and every night when I do I get this look
if I die and go to h-e- double hockey sticks, my torturers should know now that my equivalent of pushing a ball up a hill is trying to feed medicine to two different cats simultaneously
quick sealey challenge moment but really every month is the sealey challenge
