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FEMMEDOM GANGBANG EROTICA
Esmeralda Quick

Happy Release Day to the book so epic that Twitter DMs us wherever anyone mentions it.
everyone's excited about trans poetics!

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FEMMEDOM GANGBANG EROTICA Esmeralda Quick cover: a colourized xray of jumble of paperclips. the aftereffect leaves them glowing in teal, blue, red, orange, and pink text: "Why should it be a secret that there can be pleasure in life" topographic map of my thumb topographic map of my thumb, save me. we were never bisexual. we just said we liked back shots and lounged around playing with our nipple tattoos. we just read rimjob poems at the work christmas party then after fucked nasty in the boss’s wife’s walk in closet. but nasty in a safe, non-bisexual way. nasty in a quick and sensible liberal-faggots-fucking- in-their-boss’s-wife’s-closet way, with prep but also with condoms, no peri-libidinal naked frotting between our pack’n’play penises. squirt and blood and cum dried in the ridges of our fingerprints.
November 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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"If apathy and despair are getting the better of you in these times with gasoline is the fuel you need to rebirth your phoenix."
- Sarah Klein, author of Mast Cell Mathematics: A Chronic Illness Calculus

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the cover of nat raum's with gasoline overlaps the corner of an old paper library book slip. on the cover is a pink and black Molotov cocktail on a background of blue the text on the book slip reads: If apathy and despair are getting the better of you in these times with gasoline is the fuel you need to rebirth your phoenix. Sarah Klein, author of Mast Cell Mathematics: A Chronic Illness Calculus
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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“Stas, what did you do?”
“I told you,” Stas said, looking
up at his sister with a
perfectly calm expression.
“I chose myself this time.”

You Are Not Your Bones & Lesser Misfortunes
by Alice Scott
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the cover of You Are Not Your Bones & Lesser Misfortunes by Alice Scott overlaps an old paper library book slip. on the cover a person stands in front of a moonlit window, their skeleton projected in moonlight down their front. the text on the book slip reads: “Stas, what did you do?” “I told you,” Stas said, looking up at his sister with a perfectly calm expression. “I chose myself this time.”
November 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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“This collection cracked me open—
I found myself recognizing my own wildness and wounds”

- Megan Kaminski, author of Gentlewomen, Deep City, and Desiring Map!

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the cover of WOLFCANNON by CJ Selwyn overlaps an old paper library book slip a wolf and woman sit across a blue slat table from one another. Both hold their bodies and faces as if we've caught them mid argument, both hurt and defeated. Behind them the white plaster and lathe wall is ruined and ragged. Through the remains of the window a giant wolf form howls from the water, its head blocking the sun. the text on the book slip reads: “This collection cracked me open— I found myself recognizing my own wildness and wounds” - Megan Kaminski, author of Gentlewomen, Deep City, and Desiring Map!
November 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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"This collection is a monsoon, flooding our expectations of gender."
- Jason B. Crawford

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the cover image of luna rey hall's space neon neon space overlaps an old paper library book slip the cover shows a nebula colourized in magenta and lavender. the title appears in block caps divided so that the first half is right side up and the second upside down on the book slip is the following text: "This collection is a monsoon, flooding our expectations of gender." - Jason B. Crawford
November 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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"This is a strong, insightful, and self-assured collection. Not a jump scare in sight"
- upfromsumdirt, author of Deifying a Total Darkness + The Second Stop is Jupiter

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the cover of Elizabeth R. McClellan's Is My Chainsaw a Heart: 13 Centos overlays an old paper library book slip on the cover is a canoe tied up at the far end of a dock out into a tree surrounded lake the text on the book slip reads: "This is a strong, insightful, and self-assured collection. Not a jump scare in sight" - upfromsumdirt, author of Deifying a Total Darkness + The Second Stop is Jupiter
November 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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"No line of Jump Cut will disappoint–instead, each will open up the parts of your heart you did not know existed."
- ivi Hua, author of Body, Dissected
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the cover of Jump Cut by Helen Gu overlaps an old paper library book slip on the cover three orange fish hang from their tails by string that comes out of an orange smoke. on the surface below, a table is set. the text on the book slip reads: No line of Jump Cut will disappoint–instead, each will open up the parts of your heart you did not know existed. - ivi Hua, author of Body, Dissected
November 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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FEMMEDOM GANGBANG EROTICA
by Esmeralda Quick

Dirty and funny and furious, these poems are viscerally feminine—blood wetted and hungry—in search of a promise they’ll ever be full.

pre-orders are OPEN
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FEMMEDOM GANGBANG EROTICA poems by Esmeralda Quick cover image: A black and white x-ray of paperclips colourized so that the paperclips are pink, green, orange, black, and blue on a background of static pure violence it’s kind of a fuckass move to put a word like “solipsistic” or “anathema” in a poem then talk about “accessibility,” but i keep doing it. one of the biggest arguments i’m always having with myself is: are people generally intelligent and easily tricked, or are they idiots who do things on purpose. on one hand i think people should trust each other and, on the other hand, i never let my laptop leave my sight. sometimes it sleeps in my bed. watching instagram softcore porn in the back of the captain america screening inspired me to write a poem calling bullshit on how sex has different moral rules. i fucking hate how easily people seem to support whatever way the wind is blowing. the poem says that criminalizing queerness and sex work only concentrates violence, is just another way to condemn sex as inappropriate and sinful. to simplify my argument i’ll say i’m a trans woman, which makes me extra-scared to put my neck out like this, but god knows cis people won’t. topographic map of my thumb topographic map of my thumb, save me. we were never bisexual. we just said we liked back shots and lounged around playing with our nipple tattoos. we just read rimjob poems at the work christmas party then after fucked nasty in the boss’s wife’s walk in closet. but nasty in a safe, non-bisexual way. nasty in a quick and sensible liberal-faggots-fucking- in-their-boss’s-wife’s-closet way, with prep but also with condoms, no peri-libidinal naked frotting between our pack’n’play penises. squirt and blood and cum dried in the ridges of our fingerprints.
November 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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David Berry's (@pleasuremotors.bsky.social) How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists is funny & awful. the money talk in particular is incredibly useful. talking about money–what we make & what we've done to earn it–is one of the ways we begin to get free.

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So, again, I'm a successful author, which means that as long as I can create books that do not lose money, the industry will probably keep letting me do it. Well, actually, I'm in a success superposition where if this one doesn't sell I'm no longer an author, I bet. (In the interest of full disclosure, I will say my editor made this note: 'Totally not true! We publish books by writers whose earlier books have TANKED all the time !! ' Which is heartening, but I'll also note that she didn't say they'd publish my next book if this one TANKS.) My first book, On Nostalgia, was published in 2020. In its first year, it sold 1,400 copies; according to BookScan, that's better than at least 66 percent of authors do, especially during the pandemic. At the same time, I was in the 98 percent of books that did not sell more than 5,000 copies in the United States in 2020. I made a $2,500 advance on my first book, which was not paid off by the first year's sales. It took me two years to earn any royalty; as of 2025, I have made $2,982.37 total from that book. The drop-off in sales numbers is tightly correlated to the drop in pay, for good - or at least explicable -reason: almost all of the revenue that keeps publishers in business comes from either the top 10 percent of new books or the backlist (that is to say, not-new books). Backlist typically makes up about 70 to 80 percent of overall sales, so that's a very thin slice of a thin slice to be dividing for all those new books that don't immediately burst out of the gate or start making it up on the back end. And usually a book has to burst out of the gate to have a chance at even making, let alone selling on, the backlist; much of the money subsidizing the rest of us exists because those books keep selling well after they are made. Nothing is better for a balance sheet than a line item with substantially lower expenses.
November 9, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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"Lysander wasn't surprised that heaven would look to him like a library"
- Alice Scott, The Practical Man's Guide to Cheating Death

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The Practical Man's Guide to Cheating Death Alice Scott cover: a figure dangles a book from their hand in an arm chair in front of a lit fireplace text: Lysander wasn't surprised that heaven would look to him like a library
October 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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"I adore these poems.
Read this book if you're alive."
- Doug Paul Case, author of Americanitis

Mall Water
Jenna Jaco

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Mall Water Lema Jaco cover: a teal washed photo looking into the Toronto Rain. Eaton Centre from inside the South entrance. slashed across the image is a red banner edged in pink and yellow that bears the title. text: I adore these poems. Read this book if you're alive. - Doug Paul Case, author of Americanitis
October 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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"there is a thrill
in feeling the
rigid shatter
against the
soft"
- Allison Thung

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Molar Allison Thung cover: a glossy almond flecked with nori on a background of pale grey text: there is a thrill in feeling the rigid shatter against the soft
October 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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A divulgemce of secrets. Enchanting, lovely, and, most accurately in essence: amorous.

Amorously in situ
Jessica Swanson

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Amorously in situ Jessica Swanson cover: A gauzy fantasy rendering of a winged and horned woman dancing in front of a lush darkened forest text: A divulgemce of secrets. Enchanting, lovely, and, most accurately in essence: amorous.
October 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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"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)

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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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"I take my buckets to
whatever water is clean
& drench my skin"
- NDR, Transformative Bark

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Mutable Forests NDR cover: a white sketch on dark green of a body hauling a boulder up onto its shoulder at the base of a tree text: I take my buckets to whatever water is clean & drench my skin
October 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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"There is a grittiness in the words raum presents—an earthiness that lingers in the mind"
- Saturn Browne, author of BLOODPATHS

salt box
nat raum
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salt box nat raum cover: a yellow salt box of heavy welded steel sits on grey concrete against a pale blue wall text: There is a grittiness in the words raum presents—an earthiness that lingers in the mind Saturn Browne, author of BLOODPATHS
October 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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"Sobriety becomes an incantation, a summoning spell. I gather bird feathers and selenite. I keep my pocketknife close."
- Christy Tending, Sobriety Through the Major Arcana

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Sobriety Through the Major Arcana Christy Tending cover: a chunk of amethyst weighing down a tarot deck seen through an arched opening in the palest of pinks text: Sobriety becomes an incantation, a summoning spell. I gather bird feathers and selenite. I keep my pocketknife close.
October 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM