Adrian Dallas Frandle

& congratulations! 🎈

I just got a sneak peek of the @splitlipthemag.bsky.social round-up that's coming your way next week, & the amount of work the FAM has published this fall is absolutely BONKERS and BANANAS and BEAUTIFUL!! OMG so much good news. I'm really proud of this community. We are really doing the work!

a balm ❤️ my nerves needed this today - thank you! ☺️

[As Katharine Hepburn]: “You see, a poet’s life is his work, and his work is his life…or his life is his work..or…oooo…”

You’ll hear poems by featured readers Brett Hanley, Jen Harris, @benkline.bsky.social, @ritamookerjee.bsky.social, Caridad Moro-Gronlier, & Julie Marie Wade, followed by an open mic with 20 amazing poets. Reserve your tickets today! www.eventbrite.com/e/a-very-gay...

Giant rose lily and below it the poem text: Han VanderHart Desert Hearts, 1985 Dir. Donna Deitch flying backwards down the highway blue shirt knotted at the waist when desire hunts she says: I'm interested casino. bath. dance. the soft bisexual lighting at Pyramid Lake kissing through an open car window in the rain when you ask your love for something, make it small: not for all their life, but, from the train: "...forty more minutes with you." Published in poetry magazine Jan/feb 2026

“when you ask your love for something, make it small”

/ new poem I’m so pleased to have arriving in mailboxes 🩷

These Explanation of Benefits never seem to benefit me.

thank you!

naw, it's a poetry collection - I don't have the stamina for a novel 🤪

a pink balloon is floating in the air next to a purple balloon . Alt: Kirby, the pink balloon is dropping into a chasm

that manuscript i submitted to the open reading period

This sentence has been caught in my teeth for days, chewy and true and hard to live up to—

We're given so many chances to sell out [everything]. Good to remember it's not an imperative.

it's 2025 and the gangly guy who appeared on a few seasons of The Office is now our only mirror to society

Sent in my December poetry column! Thanks for all the snow poem recommendations, friends! ❄️

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

yes, this is mine, now too! Chicago trained me for four years that there is a whole negative spectrum of the Fahrenheit thermometer!

Also, it’s official: I am an adult, because I now like marmalade?

I have transitioned from a Californian to New Englander because my mind unironically formed the thought “oh, nice! it’s 40°! way warm enough to walk!”

Franks*, tho.

*(a dad joke about Bidart)

my last thought before going to bed last night was about the scarcity of hot dogs in Pulitzer Prize winning poetry collections

Olives. Microgrant for Palestinian Writers. Any genre, no fee. $500, one-week residency, potential publication. Apply by December 31st, 2025. Sundress Publications.com

Sundress Publications (@sundresspub.bsky.social) is open for submissions for microgrant applications from Palestinian writers with a chapbook or full-length book in progress. Projects of all genres are welcome. Learn more and apply by December 31, 2025:

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happy stylish but illegal monkey day to all who celebrate!!!!! by the way his name is darwin and he lives a farm now

my family used to talk, now it’s just them texting me inscrutable Wordle score grids with variously colored squares, and me responding with nonsense phrases that rhyme with “Wordle”

Jimmy Fallon feels like a psy-op

just a helluva collection of 7 knockout shorts
@keersteemack.bsky.social

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he yelled at me! 😭

"At the end of the next apocalypse when all the people are gone, will the internet try to kill everything else? What do the mushrooms think?"

—Umang Kalra :: “REMEMBER WHEN THEY TOLD US THE MUSHROOMS COULD TALK”

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Mikey Burrito, the brown old chihuahua basks on a grey blanket in the sun

we are so pretty this morning

crude chalk drawing of a bird labeled “burb”

burb

Watched “Dance, Girl, Dance” (1940) with Lucille Ball & Maureen O’Hara in an excellent sort of proto “All About Eve” + “Burlesque” - need to watch more Dorothy Arzner films!