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Our Dashboard Award: Jumpstart WINNER is ...

Cade Smith's "Ode to the Strand of Hair That Got Stuck in My Gum," published by fifth wheel press & nominated by editor nat raum!

Bouncy & earnest, we found it irresistibly alive!

Read it here: fifthwheelpress.com/anth8-backen...

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i'm putting my whole everything into hosting these and have made absolutely zero plans for myself as an author of multiple books, if that tells you how good they are going to be

thank you, Phil!

they identify the same brain space for me (also have seen neither)

nat raum ain’t never been wise stop calling me superstitious now—i have medical proof that all of this has just been brushes with luck. i mean more than the way i have apparently been a scarecrow sinc…

a poem about being born with no wisdom teeth

beavermag.org/nat-raum/

and do NOT forget about fruitcake. a fun fact about fruitcake is that this is a REGULARLY SCHEDULED EVENT!!!! it doesn't go away when awp leaves the city!!!

with gasoline nat raum cover: a pink and black molotov cocktail on a background of blue. the title is in white in a bold gothic text fueled by righteous anger, moral clarity, and political courage. raum takes aim at transphobes, billionaires, bootlickers, boomers, and milquetoast liberals alike—in other words becoming “your worst fucking nightmare”—to help us envision instead a future of trans liberation. - Evelyn Berry, author of Grief Slut and T4T kith books literary home of the trans, Crip, queer, & sick

fueled by righteous anger, moral clarity, and political courage. raum takes aim at transphobes, billionaires, bootlickers, boomers, and milquetoast liberals alike."
- Evelyn Berry, author of Grief Slut and T4T

@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
kithbooks.com/shop/p/withgasoline

air after midnight now & i am instituting the freight train over lombard street shut the fuck up challenge & it's not an attack on trains but actually in defense of a silent night, soundtracked only by tires across slick pavement & an errant thrush. it's been months since i heard a whistle sound through the stark chill of midnight air & i swear this tree had leaves the last time i looked but here we are now, in the waxing-days of january staring at pockets of orangegrey between shadows of branches. i will always bemoan july's humid advances but never stop to consider the right now of it all—the way chills lurch up unsuspecting spine, regardless of the weight of my jacket. the black-iced patches of uneven brick sidewalk. the way a sound, any sound, cuts the sky in the first hours of a new year, ecstatic at all the streets it may roam unencumbered. i keep a stock of blades to cut the sky beneath my tongue / shaped like every sound that was rejected by my kin

"air," a Pushcart-nominated poem from the microchapbook (e)laments (coming Feb 23rd from @stonecorpse.com), co-authored with @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social , first published in @genrepunkmag.bsky.social

pre-orders now open!

not gonna post it here and now because i’m a marketing guru genius but @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social sent me the cover for Transmasc Marvel Girl today and they slayed it dead

@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social is cooking up a killer cover for this one and also said it "encapsulates the transgender experience" so y'know if you've ever been curious about transitioning or like watching movies you should keep an eye out!

Pre order!! So excited for these collaborative poems 🔥

kith digital kith so starved for touch i trace my own arms to feel skin on skin cracked lips tingle sinking battleship in the absence - ghost town salt box traces longing and desire over the c...

succumbed to the 202 books read in 2025 to 1 book read in January 2026 pipeline (it was @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social’s “salt box” and I read it on January 1)

a collage featuring red & blue ambient elements, grey structural elements, and a classically painted portrait

pre-orders are now open for (e)laments, a collaborative microchap written with @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social and published by @stonecorpse.com

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Line of Sight: A Trans Day of Visibility Poetry Cabaret — Elastic Arts Foundation Join us for an evening of trans poetics. Even as our lives are under siege by a violent and racist empire, trans people continue to live extraordinary lives and make art that reflects those lives. On...

hey so uh if you're in Chicago and you don't have plans for TDOV, you do now elasticarts.org/events/line-...

Help Families Pay The Rent — Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Donate to help immigrant families in Minnesota pay rent during ICE occupation. Emergency housing support rooted in dignity and community care.

here's the deal:

💙 make a donation of $5 or more to Immigration Rapid
Response Network (www.standwithminnesota.com/rent)

💙 email me at: hello[at]bridgetgordon[dot]com with a screenshot or other proof of donation

💙 I send you a copy of the zine

PLS SIGNAL BOOST

Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we offer an extensive reading list about border and police ab...

Yes, literally.

january '26 *ariana madix voice* i'm cautiously optimistic

new 'stack yesterday

natraum.substack.com/p/january-26

it was a genuine blast working on these experimental haibuns with @lowermelody.bsky.social and i couldn't be more thrilled that @stonecorpse.com is the press bringing this to life

i normally hate these kinds of posts but genuinely at an absolute impasse for this one: where to send a weird slipstream prose chapbook? (59 pages)

14 new islanders have entered the villa

thank you so so much for reading!!!

cannot overstate how valuable & important nat's work is, I'm eating up this series especially lately <3

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hi, i have added tiers to my zine club for monthly domestic and international mailings :)

ko-fi.com/natraum/tiers

i stop digging holes for you and consider how i / may save myself, so shrouded in dirt i swear //my nail beds may never recover.

Three poems by @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social

www.bruisermag.com/raum_Poems7

you are so kind, thank you so much ❤️‍🔥

thank you so very much ❤️‍🔥

thank you callie ❤️‍🔥

🥺 i'm blown away by how much kindness i've already been shown