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ᎤᏣᎳ Lichen @lichenritual.bsky.social · May 22

Gravity Loop Presents:
CARVED JESUS, AFLAME by Pearl Crews @chopsyn.bsky.social
A comic done entirely in woodburning, trans woman Lucille Green journeys through the mystical, bitter, wrought landscape of the Southern US.
A Special Series not included in the Anthology
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Noemi Press @noemipress.bsky.social · 2h

Submissions are still open for the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize! Get your manuscript in by Wednesday October 15th!

Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 13h

👀 3 DAYS LEFT! Deadline for entries: end of this Wednesday 15 October 👀

$2000
US publication with @noemipress.bsky.social
UK publication with Out-Spoken Press

Full info & entries >> noemipress.submittable.com

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 5h

"if you came to hunt
i havent seen a deer —

still its not quite so dark
as to quit me looking"
- sterling-elizabeth arcadia, no mad land (2020)

@selizabeth.bsky.social
Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/arcadia
eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/arcadia

Heaven, Ekphrasis
sterling-elizabeth arcadia

cover:
a white tattoo flash style eagle flies, wings up, with a mass of red flesh in its claws on a background of black

text:
if you came to hunt
i havent seen a deer —

still its not quite so dark
as to quit me looking

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 3h

Several works from Sundress Publications were honored on CLMP's reading list for Filipino American History Month 2025! Check out the full list at the link below. www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

A Reading List for Filipino American History Month 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

For Filipino American History Month, observed annually during the month of October, we asked our member presses and literary magazines to share some of the literature by Filipino American writers they...

www.clmp.org

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 1h

Excited to announce the guests for our LGBTQ+ History Month reading event, writers [sarah] Cavar, Jasmine Flowers, and Ran Brady. Join us October 22nd at Pretentious Beer Co. from 7:00-9:00 PM for a reading followed by an open mic for queer writers! www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/10...

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 3h

if you want to support a nanticoke who makes little magazines this indigenous peoples day, here are the little magazines i make

www.ANMLY.org — intl art & lit that's never boring
www.beestungmag.com — non-binary, two-spirit, & genderqueer writing
www.ALOCASIA.org — a journal of queer planty writing

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 7h

"Later tonight there will be a vigil/fundraiser
For families of those who happened to witness The Body
Lying there in the street
Who may have been affected by the open eyes
No one thought to close"

—Jay Délise

beestungmag.com/issue24/one-...

One Poem by Jay Délise – beestung

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 7h

"Later tonight there will be a vigil/fundraiser
For families of those who happened to witness The Body
Lying there in the street
Who may have been affected by the open eyes
No one thought to close"

—Jay Délise

beestungmag.com/issue24/one-...

One Poem by Jay Délise – beestung

beestungmag.com

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Addie Tsai (any/all) 🏳️‍🌈 @addieisunwieldy.bsky.social · 12d

Delighted to be in @loverseyepress.bsky.social's David Lynch tribute! The folio includes my video collage On Lone, which explores my relationship to solitude since early 2020, when I found myself solitary due to divorce & COVID.

www.loverseyepress.com/post/video-b...

Video by Addie Tsai

On LoneTsai_Addie_on loneAddie Tsai (any/all) is the author of Dear Twin (2019), included in American Library Association’s Rainbow List in 2021, Unwieldy Creatures (2022), a Shirley Jackson finalist ...

www.loverseyepress.com

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 1d

Pre-order one of these lovelies ❤️

www.ethelzine.com/shop

@nlriversss.bsky.social @ghoststructural.bsky.social @tommywyattblake.bsky.social @alextretbar.bsky.social

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ᎤᏣᎳ Lichen @lichenritual.bsky.social · 1d

hella comix for the people at gravityloop.org

NEW - GRAVITY LOOP

∴NEW RELEASES∴ GRAVITY LOOP #005 CARVED JESUS, AFLAME

gravityloop.org

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Scare-a Werewolfthing @never.horse · 2d

That link is broken, go here: bookshop.org/p/books/sara...

Sara, or, I lived my life as a cloud that followed overhead

Check out Sara, or, I lived my life as a cloud that followed overhead - <p>A new novel from Inside the Castle by Never Angeline North, cult author of SEA-WITCH, with accompanying drawings and a charac...

bookshop.org

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 2d

Bebías Into Ohndaa Ke, a new anthology on queer Indigenous land relations that includes my story in Michif about a transmasc Metis lesbian buffalo hunter, is now available for purchase, and I’m dyinggg bc it got blurbed by so many of my favorite scholars!!!

Bebías Into Ohndaa Ke: Queer Indigenous Knowledge for Land and Community, edited by Sydney Rae Krill & Kleo P Skavinski

Lii Deu Faan Kaa-Wiikihtochik | The Two Women Wed by Kai Pyle

Back cover featuring blurbs by Billy Ray Belcourt, Dian Million, Daniel Voth, Joseph M Pierce, Gina Starblanket, and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark

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Trans+ History Week @transhistoryweek.com · 6d

Help shape Trans+ History Week!

Please complete our annual story survey and have your say on what kinds of stories we tell next year with @wearequeeraf.com

Shape Trans+ History Week - Have Your Say

What kinds of stories, history and communities should we focus on next year?

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en•gendered @en-gendered.bsky.social · Jul 21

Happy Monday!

"focus on quitting this job..."
- nat raum, poem for the woman who says including transmasc people in "women's" issues isn't relatable to her personally
@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social

engenderedlitmag.com/summer2025

this is a focus group. focus on identifying five things
i can see, four i can touch. focus on the cursor as it slides
over the camera button, switches it off. focus on the way
she says i hope you don’t take this as offensive, but after i say
the menopause website we’re all looking at doesn’t feel
trans-friendly. recalibrate; losing focus. don’t focus on
the way i feel, the way she doesn’t realize she swatted
me down like an attack helicopter would fall if struck
by such a blow. don’t focus on all twenty people who said
nothing and kept talking about the hot pink web design.
focus on the talking-to your boss says is coming for her.
focus on the email from your other queer coworker
sending love from her gay little corner of the world.
focus on quitting this job in a few months, anyway.
this is a focus group—focus on collecting my gift card
compensation. focus on a future without cis nonsense.

nat raum,
poem for the cishet woman who says including transmasc people in “women’s” issues isn’t relatable to her personally

engenderedlitmag.com

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 3d

It was so lovely to talk to Griffin Rockwell about LISTEN. This chapbook is so rooted in subverting the SFF canon. 🖤

Interstellar Flight Press @interstellarflight.bsky.social · 5d

Our latest book launch is live on YouTube if you didn't catch it via Zoom. Listen to "Listen" by Griffin Rockwell, a book-length Cento poem drawing from classic science fiction literature: youtu.be/uZjoVoEkA10

Griffin Rockwell Book Launch

listen—a poetic creatureby Griffin RockwellAll this happened,more or lessNow, listen to me- / - / - / - / - / -I have, doubtless,excited your curiosityShall ...

youtu.be

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 3d

"Arthur Rimbaud is splayed across the backseat listening to music on cheap Skullcandys."

Read "Death within Color Revolution" by Jonce Marshall Palmer in beestung 8

beestungmag.com/issue08/one-...

One Hybrid by Jonce Marshall Palmer – beestung

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 3d

"Arthur Rimbaud is splayed across the backseat listening to music on cheap Skullcandys."

Read "Death within Color Revolution" by Jonce Marshall Palmer in beestung 8

beestungmag.com/issue08/one-...

One Hybrid by Jonce Marshall Palmer – beestung

beestungmag.com

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mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social · 3d

hi folks, i'm here to plug my workshops again. even if you have no experience doing any of these things, they will be very fun and you should sign up for one or maybe all of them.

mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social · 6d

icymi, i lost my job and am running some workshops to make money to uh, live?

tickets for the first run of THE RANDOMIZER are up now at natraum.com/links. the rest are coming soon!

2025 workshops

It's Lit: Literary Magazine Submissions. October 29 @ 7PM EST.

THE RANDOMIZER #1. November 6 @ 7pm EST.

No Choice But to Stan: Writing Pop Culture in Poetry. November 15 @ 12pm EST

Writing to Grieve: Poetry as Processing. November 22 @ 12pm EST

THE RANDOMIZER #2. TBD late November.

About your instructor

nat raum is a queer, disabled, and recently unemployed artist and writer based on unceded Piscataway and Susquehannock land in Baltimore. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing with a focus in Poetry, and have served as an adjunct faculty member at the Maryland Institute College of Art and The University of Baltimore. They’re the author of 22 books of poetry, all of which were proudly published independently.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · Dec 22

Happy shortlist day! First up, we’ve got seven fantastic poetry collections by transfeminine authors up for the Best Transfeminine Poetry of 2024 award 💖

The trans poetry community is mostly on Instagram (where I am not), so if folks want to go shout people out over there that would rock.

The Shortlist for Best Transfeminine Poetry of 2024 TFR Reader’s Choice Award

Seven of the best poetry collections by transfeminine poets published this year. Voting is open until Dec. 27th, 2024 at 11:59pm EST!

thetransfemininereview.com

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you so much to Grist and Dr. Kelsey L. Smoot for this beautiful review of Bess Cooley's Florence! gristjournal.com/2025/10/flor...

Florence by Bess Cooley - Grist

What Remains: Memory and Erasure in Bess Cooley’s Florence Reviewed by Dr. Kelsey L. SmootSundress Publications, October 15th, 2024Paperback, 78 pages, $16 Everything in Bess Cooley’s Florence is borr...

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 4d

"Alternative title: You become a queer elder by accident, not because you are good at living but because you are slow at dying."

—Loren Maria Guay

beestungmag.com/issue24/one-...

One Poem by Loren Maria Guay – beestung

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 4d

In this installment of #SundressReads, Catie Macauley reads and reviews Emilia Phillips’ collection Nonbinary Bird of Paradise, available now from the University of Akron Press! sundressblog.com/2025/09/30/s...

Sundress Reads: Review of Nonbinary Bird of Paradise - The Sundress Blog

In Emilia Phillips’ Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (The University of Akron Press, 2024), God is many things: they are “a knot / that knows how to untie itself,” “the first/war,” a “voyeur, who gave / [t...

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 4d

"Alternative title: You become a queer elder by accident, not because you are good at living but because you are slow at dying."

—Loren Maria Guay

beestungmag.com/issue24/one-...

One Poem by Loren Maria Guay – beestung

beestungmag.com

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Ally Ang @theoceanisgay.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thanks for sharing this poem from my forthcoming book Let the Moon Wobble (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social) 🌝

Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · Sep 7

Today's Featured Poem:

"Owed to My Father's Accent" by Ally Ang from Let the Moon Wobble published by @theoceanisgay.bsky.social

Read here:
spare.poems.com/poem/owed-to...

Owed to My Father's Accent

The way I train my tongue to imitate his, words clumsy and labored in my imposter mouth.

spare.poems.com

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