C.T. Salazar

Neon Night Mic AWP Offsite Reading Hosted by [neonpajamas] Alina Stefanescu Jose Hernandez Diaz Michael Martone Annelyse Gelman Nicky Beer Chen Chen Johannes Goransson Alina Pleskova Katie Jean Shinkle C.T. Salazar David Simmons David Wojciechowski Kenyatta Rogers Henry Goldkamp Matt Bell Grant Wamack Jon Woodward @ Old Major 900 S. Carey St. Batimore Wednesday, March 4 Doors: 6:00pm Readings: 7:00pm-10:00pm

AWP 💥 BALTIMORE 🚨 Mark your calendars‼️

It’s all happening on March 4. See you there?

has a man ever held me / in a crosshair

"did I have enough money for the carcass / at the end of my time"💥

A poem I wrote about state violence last year, ringing in my head again with new names

Pseudo Myth Again, I've confused the horseman for the horse, the artillery of a muscle for a minor hero's sling. What we do in the name of obedience, not thinking wonder has anything to gain over wit. The wheel, at times, will envy the hands that clutch it. The horse, the inoperable reigns. Trust me. I, who have neither head nor heart, whose name is not mine but Girl. What's torn through the center is as good a guide as any.

Sharing the opening poem, “Pseudo Myth” from MORE FLOWERS, out with @triohousepress.org on February 1st, 2026! 🌺

#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Yea BlueSky finally added it, but for like 4 months MS folks were just…not allowed to be on it lmao. Jim Crow shit

Mississippi passed “age-verification” laws that many websites didn’t want to comply with because it compromises privacy and personal data

Mississippi really banned this app for several months —wild

IF Suppose we are a fragment? A perfect night of immediacy in vital places. Up here I am the disguised flower you are where it came from. To allow the hidden. So slowly. My body. And wouldn’t you begin to make friends with it? I can wait.

Kathleen Fraser

Honored by these words from @ctsalazar.bsky.social about Signal to Noise 🙏🏼

1408: Noah's Nameless Wife Takes Inventory by C.T. Salazar Today’s poem is Noah's Nameless Wife Takes Inventory by C.T. Salazar.

A poem by a BlueSky poet! we will starve soon...
@ctsalazar.bsky.social
www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...

The Black Panthers were accurately describing the US as fascist in the 60s. That's how far behind you are if a dictator moving troops in to occupy cities & arresting his opposition & disappearing people is just clicking as fascism for you.

TONIGHT!

Join us for the virtual book launch of @writesloud.bsky.social collection: FIRST KICKING, THEN NOT (@stanchion.bsky.social)

Readers include: @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social, @toddedillard.bsky.social, @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social, and me!

Register here:

www.eventbrite.com/e/hannah-gri...

😌💞

deep enough into this cave / when our oxygen runs thin we'll confuse the glowworms for teeming yellow moons

C.T. Salazar

@ctsalazar.bsky.social
@acrebooks.bsky.social

It seems like “release the list” has become a fantasy for people who feel helpless for different reasons. Even if it were right in front of everyone, it wouldn’t enlighten us about what we already know is horrendous. Furthermore, who’s supposed to enforce the imagined consequences of being on it?

The Surreal-Absurd Sampler: a print anthology

Zachary Schomburg Jennifer L. Knox Tom Jenks Michael Chang Barton Smock Rachel B. Glaser John Maradik Aase Berg Réka Nyitrai Liam Bates Evan Nicholls Shivani Mehta Satoshi Iwai Sawako Nakayasu Joyelle McSweeney Lesle Lewis Evan Williams Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi Kristin Bock Howie Good Jeff Alessandrelli

An anthology of contemporary surrealism? Say less!

Compiling four years of our Surreal-Absurd Sampler series, we have 80+ poets across 370 pages, full of weird poems & micro essays on the surreal

Thrilled to have helped with this tome 📚

More here: www.mercurius.one/books/the-su...

I'm beyond thrilled to finally share some amazing news. My second full-length collection, Alchemy of Nests, will be published by
@acrebooks.bsky.social in 2027. Thank you to Lisa Ampleman and Nicola Mason for selecting this manuscript and for already being wonderful editors / collaborators.

Absolutely delighted to share this news! Please welcome @bethgordonpoet.bsky.social to Acre Books! 🎉🎉🎉

Fiston Mwanza Mujila, from his poetry collection The River in the Belly (2021)

translated by J. Bret Maney

@deepvellum.bsky.social

America is my myth.

—Natalie Diaz

Everyone thrives (dies) in the necro-economy

Oh this is so great thank you!

Opening, red fabric, legs wanting to be that. There is want and then there are stones. I was a stone once myself. A smooth blind projection. I create you in the image of my desire. Which makes you nothing. I forget my own desire, which has a blame factor. A record of convolution. Remember, L----, I become consumed in waiting and then there's nothing else. All time is nothing. The days just pass and I'm in anguish. Anguish is a red hurt, basalt. The time of expanded presence. What if we're all lovers. What if we're all little books. Little consequences.

What if we're all lovers. What if we're all little books. Little consequences.

Dawn Lundy Martin

Poets! What are your favorite poems about stars? ✨

This is incredible—and one of the few Beachy-Quick collections I haven’t read! I loved his Circle’s Apprentice and Gentlelessness

Poets! What are your favorite poems about stars? ✨

Poets, what’re your favorite contrapuntal poems? 👀

Thanks for sharing this one!

I need to revisit it! You’re absolutely right! 🙏🏼