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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 14h

Biased reporting

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Alex Carrigan @carriganak.bsky.social · 19h

My poem "Fed Herself" is in the new issue of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social! Check it and the rest of the new issue out here:

the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 20h

@chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social, @talkinghyphae.bsky.social, @carriganak.bsky.social, @whole-human.bsky.social, @oxgarnet.bsky.social, @cursetheground.bsky.social, Yuna Kang, Megan O'Patry, Lilly Purdy, @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, Jacqueline Rosado, Em Roth, @pleomorphic2.bsky.social, Brennan Thomas, ⬇️

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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 17h

Your collages are so gorgeous pls lmk if you sell prints 👀

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Julia @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social · 19h

Thrilled to have 2 collage pieces (unapologetically indebted to Angela Carter) featured in the latest issue of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social devoted to ‘The Urge’! Huge thanks to EIC @dehm000.bsky.social for curating this celebration of feminine appetites & desires. 🤩

the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 20h

🚨e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE!🚨

💯% Free to read, download & share! buff.ly/RViXupP

Appetite! Impulse! Desire!

🖤 Featuring @angelaarnold777.bsky.social, Jihoo Bae, Annika Bey, ⬇️

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o.x.garnet @oxgarnet.bsky.social · 20h

find me @the-engine-idling.bsky.social issue 7: the urge 🥀 and check out some neat poems and art!

the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 20h

🚨e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE!🚨

💯% Free to read, download & share! buff.ly/RViXupP

Appetite! Impulse! Desire!

🖤 Featuring @angelaarnold777.bsky.social, Jihoo Bae, Annika Bey, ⬇️

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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 20h

Go read it I beg of you

the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 20h

🚨e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE!🚨

💯% Free to read, download & share! buff.ly/RViXupP

Appetite! Impulse! Desire!

🖤 Featuring @angelaarnold777.bsky.social, Jihoo Bae, Annika Bey, ⬇️

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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 20h

! POEMS ! IN @the-engine-idling.bsky.social !

Here's one, but you gotta click the link to read 'em all!

(& Also the rest of the issue please look at it it's gorgeous)

www.engineidling.net/current

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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 21d

no yOU are (and your issues too)

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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 21d

Rare publication news! You can find me (maybe more than once 👀) in the forthcoming issue of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social , The Urge

An honor to be back in one of my favorite publications. This theme is guaranteed to be a banger. Do tune in.

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 24d

"Jannotti's poems know well how
excruciating is waiting—waiting to be seen, to be held, to be loved."
- Lilia Marie Ellis

Angels & Insects are Creatures With Wings
Amy Jannotti

@cursetheground.bsky.social
Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/jannotti
eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/jannotti

Angels & Insects are Creatures With Wings
Amy Jannotti

cover:
a fine line drawing of a moth with folded wings in black on a background of pale grey and olive green

text:
"Jannotti's poems know well how
excruciating is waiting—waiting to be seen, to be held, to be loved."
- Lilia Marie Ellis

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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 29d

You may have forgotten about us, but we didn't forget about you

A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · 29d

Feeling a lot of grace for mags that don't accept sim subs at the moment! Please, please, please tell all the little indie darlings you submit to when your piece is accepted somewhere else!!! I'm begging

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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · Aug 26

Behold, what I write in lieu of a blog.

www.patreon.com/posts/20-ani...

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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · Aug 17

🌹🦋

kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · Aug 15

The Artistry of Natural Selection
Amy Jannotti
@cursetheground.bsky.social

31 of wim's favourite poems from kith books
#SealeyChallenge
15/31

from Angels & Insects are Creatures With Wings
by Amy Jannotti

text:
THE ARTISTRY OF NATURAL SELECTION
it begins in a borderline state. indiscernible extraction
of shared element. jumble of non-organic
subversion. less, imitation, more
becoming. less evolution, more reverse. it begins
with the evocation of wings
in flightless, molding creatures:
quasi post-presence. hybrid manifest.
it begins when you leave
thermal footprints in the sand. dissection electric.
it begins when you cut women up & then sew them
together: a design that happens,
scissors in hand. understand
anatomy &, with confidence,
splice the gene.
a surgical violence. in the cosmic
question of species conception: it begins
as it always begins: with an open, stylized wound
to the abdomen. it could be
a beginning: you could grow human
hair in your viscid lining. instead, you peel
your surface to reveal it’s flayed. to reveal your probing
interior, trapped inside with living worms.

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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · Aug 6

Joke's on the contemporary all-lowercase poetry haters; it is becoming a signifier that a piece was written by a human

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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · Jul 16

Huge thank yous to those who've purchased physical & digital copies of ANGELS & INSECTS this year. It's turned 2 this month & has admittedly been limping along in terms of sales, so the resurgence of interest this year has really put wind back in my sails.

Also, Kith is wonderful.

kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · Jun 1

"[Jannotti's] poems are haunting works of beauty, reminding us, across all kinds of loneliness and hurt, that 'nothing remains but to become'."
- Lilia Marie Ellis, author of Love and Endless Love
@cursetheground.bsky.social

Angels & Insects Are Creatures With Wings
Amy Jannotti

cover:
black line drawing of a closed winged moth on a background of pale grey and olive green

text:
KILL THE FLY/SAVE THE CHILD

fly in theater is the space over the stage: the sensation of being debrided, of settling on the eyes or the skin to seek fluid from wounds. without the fly, who will tell the dead tissue it's dead? who will fish? who will bait? to be a model organism requires some capability of spreading disease; some willingness to harm the cattle or the economy or both. i'm done growing. I've shed my wings & become secondary. i can detect taste & smell & respond to touch. this is theater: how i flock to light in darkness even when it shocks me. how i occupy space on the stage. how i taught myself to levitate. in many flies, the larva stage is long & adults live short lives. i am increasingly inclined to rest my gelatin head, we've only just begun.

kithbooks.com/shop

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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · Jul 16

To be a bit of a hater, it's disheartening to see that the Canva fonts have made it to film posters

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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · Jun 29

New eZine of art 'n poetry up over @ thee Patreon, themed around the concept of reversed Cathedrals

If you have the means & the interest, you can find it here:

www.patreon.com

Otherwise, enjoy this short poem

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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · Jun 25

One thing I want all the "I finish hours of work in seconds" AI bros to know is, you are raising the threshold for yourself & your coworkers. This level of output will become expected, but your pay will stay the same or decrease. It's already happening.

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · Jun 14

Hell-bent and determined, atlas st. cloud comes to the page unbothered by doctrine and defiant of form
Twice saved and come through the desert, St. Cloud is risen, rebirthing. he’s paid his penance. he’s earned this time.
@drdissociation.bsky.social

SEDIMENT
Atlas St. Cloud

cover:
a marble white forearm reaches up from the bottom of a gloss black cover and hooks its fingers into a gash. the opened wound reveals blue and pink fiber weeping in gold.

text:
HE/HIM

when i say i'm a man i mean my shoulders are broad yet
i cannot
carry the weight.
when i say i'm a man i mean
but like, not really
when i say i'm a man i mean if I had to choose

shatter my nebula
let the stars grind against one another
hope they form new constellations
the milky way we never meant to be all that there is
so i'm begging for an exploration of the sky

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · Jun 1

"The rarest animal is the one that survives."
- Amy Jannotti, TO BE LOVED & CARRIED BY THE NECK
@cursetheground.bsky.social

Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/jannotti
eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/jannotti

kith in print

The rarest animal is the one that survives. from TO BE LOVED & CARRIED BY THE NECK * * * ANGELS & INSECTS ARE CREATURES WITH WINGS is a 27-poem exploration of the feminine body: h...

kithbooks.com

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · Jun 1

"[Jannotti's] poems are haunting works of beauty, reminding us, across all kinds of loneliness and hurt, that 'nothing remains but to become'."
- Lilia Marie Ellis, author of Love and Endless Love
@cursetheground.bsky.social

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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · May 30

New zine up on Patreon blah

www.patreon.com/cursetheground

A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · May 25

You ever finish a poem & know it's the opening poem of your manuscript

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A N G E L 𐀔 B U G @cursetheground.bsky.social · May 21

The urge to reply "swag, thanks" when my coworkers answer my questions is strong today

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