Ren Wilding
renwilding.bsky.social
Ren Wilding
@renwilding.bsky.social
they/them. nonbinary. queer. neurodivergent. poet. Co-curator of Words Like Blades reading series. Trans Artifacts: Bones Between My Teeth forthcoming from Porkbelly Press. Trans Archeology forthcoming from Lily Poetry Review, January 2027.
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I’m really excited to announce my first chapbook, “Trans Artifacts: Bones Between My Teeth,” will be published by Porkbelly Press in 2026/7!
forthcoming in 2026/7 to Porkbelly Press. ✨ Chapbooks by Hilda Downer, Debbie Feit, Audrey Gidman, Fay L. Loomis, Trinity Tibe, Sasha Weiss, Ren Wilding, and Juliette Zhu.
November 20th is Trans Day of Remembrance. Another year, another accounting of our dead. I hope for a future where we celebrate how many of us are alive. Love us and fight for us while we are still here.
November 21, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Register for the next Words Like Blades reading!
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Words Like Blades: Shangyang Fang, Jane Miller, & Lisa Olstein - November 23, 2025 at . Find event and ticket information on Ticketbud.
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November 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
My First full-length manuscript “Trans Archeology“ will be published by Lily Poetry Review in January 2027! I’m ecstatic!
October 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Sealy Challenge Day 20 and 21: Water I Won’t Touch by Kayleb Rae Candrilli.

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August 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Sealy Challenge Day 18 and 19: Dead Dad Jokes by Ollie Schminkey.

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August 20, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Poets, consider submitting to this amazing anthology!
August 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Join us tomorrow night!
The next Words Like Blades reading is next Wednesday 8/20 at 7PM EST. Please join us for a moment of light in dark times.

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August 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Sealy Challenge Day 16 and 17: I Don’t Want To Be Understood by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza.

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August 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Sealy Challenge Day 15: Slip by Nicole Callihan.

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August 16, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Sealy Challenge Day 13-14 Public Abstract by Jane Huffman.

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August 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The next Words Like Blades reading is next Wednesday 8/20 at 7PM EST. Please join us for a moment of light in dark times.

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August 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Sealy Challenge Day 12: All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran.

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August 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Sealy Challenge Day 11: Transitory by @subhaga.bsky.social — a beautiful and heart shattering honoring of trans lives lost to violence on 2020.

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August 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Sealy Challenge Day 10: The Boy in the Labyrinth by Oliver de la Paz.

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August 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Sealy Challenge Day 8 and 9: four-legged Girl by Diane Seuss
August 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Thanks to Lit Mag News for reviewing my poems that recently came out in Does It Have Pockets!
Who Reads Lit Mags? Spotlight on Joyland, Short Story, Long, Does It Have Pockets, and Mag Gently
"part reunion, part discovery..."
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August 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Sealy Challenge Day 7: All Things Gone by Patricia Hemminger. If you want nature poetry with heart, this chapbook is for you.

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August 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Sealy Challenge Day 6: Nothing Is Okay by Rachel Wiley.

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August 7, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Sealy Challenge Day 5: Mom in Space by Lisa Ampleman. The body as celestial, the celestial as body.

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August 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Reposted by Ren Wilding
1. State AGs have sued Trump for intimidating providers from providing trans care.

Meanwhile, institutions are dropping trans people left and right out of fear of Trump.

Suing Trump isn't enough. State AGs MUST enforce equality laws against cowardly orgs.

Subscribe to support my journalism.
Suing Trump Isn't Enough: Blue State AGs Must Enforce State Laws Protecting Trans People
Private entities overcomplying with Trump executive orders and targeting transgender people must not be given free passes to do so by blue states.
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August 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Sealy Challenge Day 4: Yellow Rain by Mai Der Vang. A really excellent example of deeply researched poetry.

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August 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Reposted by Ren Wilding
"But if I die because
of government violence,
I want a fucking grave."

Two unflinching, deft, & timely poems from @renwilding.bsky.social | #poetry #augustissue
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August 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The Sealy Challenge Day 3: If Some God Shakes Your House by @jfranklinpoet.bsky.social. She uses the persona of Antigone and refrain of memento mori to come to terms with a world unraveling. Also full of love for what is still beautiful and good in the world.

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August 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The Sealy Challenge Day 2: Willow Hammer by @patrickdonnelly.bsky.social

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August 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
August 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM