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I’m trans, tired, and probably writing poems. billiewritespoems.com
And now nothing will grow here. Not even grass. Every seed in the Earth spits back out yellow and hard as bones or black as bruises. Every tuber and root sinks into the soil tight as dogs’ jaws and doesn’t come up. The soil is wounded and abused and unwelcome. So nobody plants. Billie Sainwood, The Great Blight of Yeats County, New York engenderedlitmag.com
"The Great Blight of Yates County, New York"
Wilhelmina "Billie" Sainwood
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The cover of the Billie Sainwood book What was eaten was given
"Love letter to my first crop top" The way you hold me stretched taut as canvas across. Flattering, honest. There is no hiding No cover for the stomach. Soft geometry. This is my body. Its unruly pop and bulge. It dares you to love. Gift from my ex wife. Once hers, now mine. Legacy. Woman to woman. Your strong cotton hands. Grip me and squeeze. Pull me tight. Lift me. Support me. Stomach horizon. Cliffs of breasts above ocean. My new tectonics. You show me new worlds. You gently teach me new tongues. The way you hold me.
Day 18 of the #sealeychallenge
August 18th- What was eaten was given, Billie Sainwood
@kithbooks.bsky.social makes beautiful books, and the poems inside this collection are funny and well-crafted
💛💛💛 thank you 💛💛💛
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Nothing, lover, will die with you.
-T4T4T4T4T4T4ever
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What was eaten was given Wilhelmina "Billie" Sainwood cover: a glistening raw liver on a drawing of a place setting outlined in white on a background of black. text: "The Sapphic Prometheus" The gods' mistake was saying forever and thinking they wouldn't have time to fall for each other. That a titan and an eagle couldn't find more in common than pain and a full belly if they had forever to figure out.
Sainwood’s naked discussions of sex, mental illness, fear, hope, & longing beg the reader into their own self reflection. Cis, trans, queer, straight, our bodies all pray to something. How do you worship? What lies deep inside you? What must you let out?
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Hell yeah!
06.04.2025 18:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Put a liver on a plate, that’s poetry
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what was eaten was given Wilhelmina "Billie" Sainwood cover: a shiny liver sits on a white line drawing of a plate flanked by cutlery on a background of gloss black the cover image appears in a white circle surrounded by the words "EATEN GIVEN" in black all caps on white
Sainwood’s naked discussion of sex, mental illness, fear, hope, and longing begs the reader into self reflection. Cis, trans, queer, straight, we are sites of creation, deserving of worship. What lies deep inside you? What must you let out?
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A photo collage of 60+ book covers accompanied by the following text: kith est 2022 trans, queer, and disabled owned and operated submissions always welcome wim@kithbooks.com the funny little press making funny little books
18.12.2024 06:02 — 👍 27 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 4Always happy to see Ryu Murakami on the timeline
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New blog post up!
Epiphanies of Impossible Women: Tokyo Godfathers, the Virgin Mary, and Trans Nativity
Reminder that I wrote a book of poems that I would just LOVE if you bought, read, or begged your libraries to stock
10.01.2025 15:04 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Read it here!
A yellow title card with black text that reads: 12/21/2024 Drowning in Coats: 2024 in Review Read more
Posted my year recap! I did entirely too much.
21.12.2024 22:48 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Interior Castle is surprisingly easy to read in some translations. Catherine writes really relatably
18.12.2024 15:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I have rediscovered how cute I look in pigtails. The world may never recover
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Billie, in black boots and a white and midi black dress, stands behind a desk and a laptop. Behind her is a projection of a power point presentation. The slide is solid black with a single white word: tits.
This photo is the crowning achievement of my life.
11.12.2024 05:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I have written the Acknowledgments section to my latest project and realized, again, that it is a poem in disguise.
27.11.2024 07:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh, I guess I’m back here now. I will occasionally be posting about poetry, art, and unrelenting sapphic yearning
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Please eat this little piece of me:
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The cover of What was eaten was given by Wilhelmina "Billie" Sainwood on a pale peach background overlayed with a red rectangle that reads "All those women, so far up there they could’ve been angels. It is because of their height, I knew I could climb." sits beside black text reading, "release date July 14 pre-orders are open" on the cover a glistening, uncut liver rests on a white line drawn plate flanked by cutlery on a black background. the title and author's name are rendered in white.
Hi! Please pre-order my book I worked so incredibly, unbelievably hard on it. It’s gay, it’s trans, it’s sexy, it’s violent, it has FEET in it!!!
18.06.2024 01:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Mornin!
16.06.2024 12:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0![[Desc: a promotional flyer for my poetry collection that reads PRE ORDER OPEN JUNE 17th 2024. The background is spruce green, the text is coral pink. To the right is the book’s cover, a glossy black background with the words “What was eaten was given” over a piece of liver meat laid out on a sketched white table setting (plate, knife, fork) and the text “poems by Wilhelmina “Billie” Sainwood” at the bottom right]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qv3mqelz2lps2jxdgao6uch5/bafkreietvbdfptsdexucsg74rcp2apgppga2inhatslxhhro6ehjvd4atm@jpeg)
[Desc: a promotional flyer for my poetry collection that reads PRE ORDER OPEN JUNE 17th 2024. The background is spruce green, the text is coral pink. To the right is the book’s cover, a glossy black background with the words “What was eaten was given” over a piece of liver meat laid out on a sketched white table setting (plate, knife, fork) and the text “poems by Wilhelmina “Billie” Sainwood” at the bottom right]
I have a book coming out next month. If you like body horror, love poems, religious trauma, and feet?
You’ll have a new favorite book by July.
WHAT WAS EATEN WAS GIVEN
out July 14th
Friends near and far! TOMORROW, at 7:30 Eastern, you can catch Billie Wood @billiewrites.bsky.social and me in a virtual reading and conversation about queer horror for Pride. I'm really excited about this one and I hope you'll join us!
www.charisbooksandmore.com/event/z-word...
Screenshot of a link: 5/23/2024 Airports, Horror, and the Love that Bleeds Read More
New blog post up! Link in replies!
We talk about Vincent Price, opera, and how much I miss my girlfriend.
Register here:
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I’m doing a Zoom Show with some of my friends and peers. Hear me do TWO (2) poems about A Star Is Born!
Link below
