Genevieve DeGuzman 🐸🐤🕺🏻🪩

🙌🏼✨ what a collab!

(words/word donors 2 of 3)

MIRACLE - @karenmsteiger.bsky.social
PERMISSION - Melinda Farrar
PROLIX - Meesh Montoya
REGENT - @stonespiral.bsky.social
SIMULTANEOUS - @norbaikin.bsky.social
SIPHON - @gendeguzman.bsky.social SYMPHONIC - Patrick Dorsey
TIDE - @krislindbeck.bsky.social

white square image. a page of a digital book appears at the center. the book page has a close-up of the cover art in the background. the attention is mostly on the yellow shading but there is orange shading in a small sliver to the right vertically (but not straight) down the page. “& daylight” heading text is at the top left of the page in bold white font black text reads discusses more about how the project (alt text won’t fit - msg me if you need help!) a white box with a black border and two columns contains the following black text: APRICITY - Marie Marchard DAYLIGHT - Oswald Perez FREQUENCY - Julia Beach GOSSAMER - Linda Crate HARBINGER - Madeleine Corley HEARTSICK - K Weber KERFUFFLE - Elizabeth Fletcher MIRACLE - Karen Steiger PERMISSION - Melinda Farrar PROLIX - Meesh Montoya REGENT - m klein SIMULTANEOUS - Norb Aikin SIPHON - Genevieve DeGuzman SYMPHONIC - Patrick Dorsey TIDE - Kris Lindbeck VERIFY - Kim Mannix WOMB - Kashiana Singh The following appears in black text outside of the box at the end of the page: I am really excited for all to read these poems... for the authors to see who contributed the words they were assigned... and for the word donors to see how their words inspired the authors! The page number six appears in black text at the bottom center

white square image with black text reads: on page 6 we have the intro to a new series of donated words writing. i called this section & DAYLIGHT. the background is a simple zoom-in of the front cover but with more attention paid to the yellow-shaded area. this portion of the book contains 17 original pieces - 16 poems & 1 microfiction - by 17 authors. i received 17 donated words for this project. i got creative in how i assigned words randomly to each author from the pool of 17 words. revisiting the WELCOME section (pages 2 & 3) you can find more detail as to the methods and tools i used. i decided to give each author 3 words, from those provided to us, to infuse into our writing. no 2 authors share more than one of the same donated words with the exception of one writer - who i gave 4 words - as she participated as an author in the first donated words collection, THIS ASSEMBLY, in 2019. each author was given an optional, unique challenge wherein they chose a word to incorporate into their piece. pages 7-24 contain these new works and show which words and challenges were weaved into them. i am so excited to take a deeper look into all of the resulting writing and the donated words and tie it all together! this has been a beautiful collaboration! you can get the free PDF here: tinyurl.com/2025daylight

white square image with black text reads: here are the words & word donors who made this project so vibrant: APRICITY - Marie Marchand DAYLIGHT - Oswald Perez FREQUENCY - Julia Beach GOSSAMER - Linda M. Crate HARBINGER - Madelinksi HEARTSICK - Kristi Weber KERFUFFLE - Elizabeth Fletcher MIRACLE - Karen Steiger PERMISSION - Melinda Farrar PROLIX - Meesh Montoya REGENT - m klein SIMULTANEOUS - Norb Aikin SIPHON - Genevieve DeGuzman SYMPHONIC - Patrick Dorsey TIDE - Kris Lindbeck VERIFY - Kim Mannix WOMB - Kashiana Singh

white square image with black text reads: our amazing authors who took on new challenges and created fantastic poems & microfiction: Julie Luepke K Weber Karen Steiger Kiley Lee Marie Marchand Melissa Flores Anderson Michael Metivier Millie H Misty D. Hudson Oswald Perez Preston Danvers Sara Matson Sarah O’Brien Scott Nickell Steph Patterson Tiffany Sciacca Will Davis

DAYLIGHT & TENFOLD ORIOLES walkthrough!

PAGE 6: & DAYLIGHT/intro to the project featuring 17 authors & 17 donated words

this resulted in 16 poems & 1 microfiction work! credits in thread!

i will be focusing on 1 poem at a time in the 17 posts ahead!

get the free PDF: tinyurl.com/2025daylight

Collage of five stolid birds on top of five worried heads

Here are all the birds you need to worry about this week

love the reference to sampaguitas

"Chimera/ of passion flowers running into Lady Banks/barely keeping pace with the sampaguitas." 💖

Selfie of Andrea Deeken, Theresa Tran, and Genevieve DeGuzman. We read at HOCUS Live, a reading series in Portland held at the Rose City Book Pub that emphasizes poetry and prose and literary games and community.

Theresa Tran, Genevieve DeGuzman, and Andrea Deeken squeeze onto a bench at the Rose City Book Pub behind our hot toddies and HOCUS Live programs. Shelf of books lines the wall behind us.

Reunited and it feels so good. Dropped by HOCUS Live for the PBF Cover to Cover series and read with local poet/writer besties, Andrea Deeken & Theresa Tran. We managed to channel Moon, Tower, & Fool energy for the night's Major Arcana theme, helped with some hot toddies. #pdxbookfest

Pre-game this weekend’s #PDXBookFest. Come by Rose City Book Pub on NE Fremont, 7pm TONIGHT 11/7 for some tarot-themed poetry & prose and literary games with local writers. Hosted by HOCUS as part of the Cover to Cover series. #PBF25

Mamdani: "Yes, aunties."

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

SAY. THAT. SHIT!

Ohh your ARC is here! Nice mirroring effect with the cover art.

Thanks for stopping by. ✨🧨

A gorgeous day in the PNW.

We need this.

Poem titled Date Night By Saeed Jones I meant to bring you flowers but when I reached your door, all I had in my hands was teeth. Sorry, I meant to say /grief/. Seems like all I say is /grief/. Or /ghosts/. Or /please, don't leave/. Lately, I say it in my mother's sleep. She used to cry and call out her brother's name in her sleep. I've written about this before. Grief, of course, but also, her sleep, but also, her brother. He doesn't call me anymore. He is my blood, and in a book I wrote but I don't think he bothered to read. I grind my teeth in my sleep. A man I used to sleep with told me I talk in my sleep but blushed and held his tongue when I asked him to say what I said in my sleep. When a Venus Flytrap flowers, the two white blossoms sit atop a very tall stalk. Green teeth way down at the bottom. It's trying to avoid triggering its own traps. It's trying to keep

the bees it needs for pollination away from its own traps. I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting. Nothing but teeth. Nothing but the same words calling out to me in my sleep. Grief asking its ghosts not to leave. Please. It's not up to me when I get to stop crying. Or hurting. Or holding memories in my mouth, gentle as bees I promised not to eat, but oh, the hurt is so sweet.

Just gorgeous: Saeed Jones’ “Date Night”

This was a fantastic workshop—thanks for all the resources too. Got a good draft going. 🙌🏼

I’ve learned to love reading the criticism/review sections in journals lately. More critical essays!

Please read our statement to support immigrants and immigrant communities.

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Genevieve DeGuzman | poet and writer Karaoke at the End of the World, goes boom in 3.16.26

Thanks for the love, folks. In the coming months, I’ll be posting book updates and events info here (yay!) and on my website:

genevievedeguzman.carbonmade.com/karaoke

Do have the Vermont Studio Center Pokémon? It’s the last one I did and I had a great time there. Trying for Willapa next year.

I’m excited about the book too! ☺️ thx

oh sweet. Congrats! you are ruling the residency circuit.

it's been on a journey. so grateful, Taylor 🥹❤️

Ahhh!! Thank you! 🥰

Cover art for Karaoke at the End of the World, a debut poetry collection by Genevieve DeGuzman, out from JackLeg Press in March 2026. Cover is an illustration of a lit stick of dynamite and rays of light emanating around it with frenetic energy. Pink and orange and beige yellow. Pre-order details coming soon.

🚨 📙 My forthcoming book has a cover! I hear dynamite gets lit once you start reading. 🧨

The one-and-only @taylorbyas.bsky.social was my editor and @simonemuenchie.bsky.social brought me into the @jacklegpress.bsky.social fold. ✨

Goes boom on 3.16.2026. More info coming soon!

Bottom of the 18th. Sisyphus, tired of pushing the rock, is grateful to break up his time in Hell by getting hit with a pitch.

I don't follow baseball but I've been enjoying the Lovecraftian glimpses of it I get here. Like something beyond human understanding has just occured in America.

Fun fact the time between now and the beginning of this game is the same as between the beginning of this game and the construction of the pyramids

It’s that side eye she gave me

Tuxedo cat giving her owner the side eye. Cat is curled up on a blanket, about to rage nap. It’s raining out and she’s stuck inside.

A rain soaked #caturday in Portland. No outdoor time. Beezy decides to rage nap instead.

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

Mutual aid. YES