Cat Ingrid Leeches

A friendly reminder that if you go to a church where the pastor supports the regime that zip tied children in Chicago, you don’t have to go to that church anymore.

Remember, at a certain point, complacency becomes complicity.

i think there should be a program that pairs the emotionally needy with recovering alcoholics who haven’t made new friends sober yet. sort of a big brother/sister program for impossibly dysregulated people

Things that have the same energy:
1. When updating your voter registration, they'll ask you to select from a drop-down menu of street types (e.g., "Lane," "circle," "Meadow," "Drive"...)—It's a surprisingly long list.
2. The Wikipedia chart detailing every one of Guinevere’s abductions.

It is likely a coral snake! But I left the baby alone, and luckily avoided stomping on ‘em accidentally.

Almost stepped on this baby today 🐍

If anyone (@thebaffler.com @nplusonemag.com @publicbooks.bsky.social) might be interested in an article
offering an ideological post-mortem of almost four decades of The Best American Poetry anthology as a conservative publishing project, I'm yr guy.

Ok so in case yall missed the memo like I did. David Lehman, series editor of Best American Poetry is a Zionist ass. Literally feel embarrassed that I wound up in this situation. I was literally the only person of color in a room of 50+ people. It was terrifying.
#poetry #bestamericanpoetry

this is nightmarish and should alarm you no matter what your opinions on pornography are

I love the smell of office supplies that have never seen the sunlight.

Image of a CRT screen showing Upheaval repeated over and over, with New Session Issue 4 and December 2025 in the text

excited to announce the fourth issue of New Session, the world's premiere telnet-based literary magazine

"Upheaval"

submissions are open today, and close November 7th, for a December release

read the guidelines and theme here: anewsession.com/issue4

Kathryn Davis Symposium with Kelly Link

Our Kathryn Davis Symposium with @kellylink.bsky.social is a couple of weeks away! Our Symposium series (this is the 2nd one) celebrates an under-read living writer. We're hoping this becomes a pretty special annual event that introduces readers to great writers portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-0...

The Town-Ho is hunting sperm whales 🤨 ok

The original French of

A photo of a poem in an anthology. The poem begins with… Stink stink stink /What’s that stink/ It’s Louis XVI that bad egg/and his head drops into the basket/his rotten head

Timely, no? “Louis XVI Goes To The Guillotine” by Benjamin Péret and translated by Charles Simic.

this is so upsettingly real

Disintegration in the wild, shout-out @leeches.bsky.social

grab a copy here (or DM us directly) --

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Me getting home from work this afternoon having been off socials all day

Thank you for sharing and I hope you enjoy it 🦇

Book Cover. Titled I Wander the Earth, Hungry for Semen by Cat Ingrid Leeches.

Book Mail from @carrionbloombooks.bsky.social of @leeches.bsky.social's newest book!!!
www.carrionbloom.com/books/p/leec...

I really hope you like it! I think they’ve shipped it out in batches, because some people received their copy and others haven’t.

Get your copy!! Seriously!!

please believe me when i say you REALLY want to get this book !!

I’m endlessly grateful to Rachel and Jace for helping this creature gnaw its way into this plane of existence.

A copy of my book, I Wander the Earth, Hungry for Semen, peeking out from beneath a sculpture/bench. The sculpture looks like a bird but has four fingered hands.

In the foreground: my book, I Wander the Earth, Hungry for Semen. In the background: Leonora Carrington’s sculpture, Cocodrilo, in Mexico City.

Some folks have started receiving their preorders of I Wander the Earth, Hungry for Semen, and I’ve loved seeing your photos and messages. Thank you for sharing them with me! If you haven’t picked up a copy yet and would like to, it’s still available through @carrionbloombooks.bsky.social.

Cis people broadly dramatically underestimate how difficult / impossible it is to escape your deadname / deadgender.

I changed my name and gender legally in Pennsylvania in 2020.

I regularly receive scam offers to my California address now addressed to my deadname.

Surveillance culture is hell.

happy non-binary day and week, i edit an online micro mag specifically for non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit writers and artists!

our next issue is coming out on aug 20, and you can catch up here: www.beestungmag.com

you can also follow us on this website at @beestung.bsky.social

Ad for my Tin House class. It features a headshot of me in a gray coat smiling at the camera in front of a bunch of yellow leaves. It also states the day as Sunday August 10 from 1 pm to 4 pm PST and explains that the class is called "Big Thinkers: Writing Characters with Ambitious Ideas with Eshani Surya"

Guess who'll be teaching a @tinhouse.bsky.social summer intensive! Hope to see you there! tinhouse.com/product/summ...

I also don’t think people realize how this is a direct result of the climate crisis. This kind of tragedy can happen to any of us and our families in the blink of an eye. We need to show up for each other, because our government will not.

It’s weird to see people blame the victims and their families just because they happen to be from the South.

As a kid, I spent my summers by the Guadalupe River. Every Texan I know is deeply saddened by what’s happening, and pissed off by our state government’s response. The missing are from all over the state.

This is useful. GPS and maps are the most important part of the smartphone to me, so thank you.