11/6: round-up

Hi & happy November!

Here’s what I have for you today:

• Housekeeping

• What I read this week

• Where I submitted work this week

• Quotations I encountered/loved

• Tweets

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Housekeeping:

Friendly reminder that I sell things on my website. Please buy them.

And here are some other things I’ve gabbed about lately!

on boundaries

the art of imagery

on reading (& articulating your poetics)

poems as puzzles (& not in the way you think)

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What I read this week:

• “If you are to be an owl,” T. Fleischmann

• “Queering Language,” Trace Peterson

• “‘Split it Open and Count the Seeds’: Trans Identity, Trans Poetics, and Oliver Bendorf’s The Spectral Wilderness,” Joy Ladin

• “Becoming a Trans Poet: Samuel Ace, Max Wolf Valerio, and kari edwards,” Trace Peterson (Side note: according to Trace, these three were the first trans poets to publish books in the US!)

• “Same Difference,” Ana Božičević

• “25 Tiny Essays on the Value of Forgetfulness and Sleepiness,” Dawn Lundy Martin

• “re American Hybrid,” Cole Swenson

• “To fail and to trust: Writing into queer :: eco :: poetics,” Tamiko Beyer

• “Body as a Juncture of Almost,” CM Burroughs

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Where I submitted my writing this week:

• Split Lip Magazine

• Denver Quarterly

• Bodega Magazine

• Fourteen Hills

• Folio

• Sundog Lit

• Bluestem

• Baltimore Review

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Quotations:

In the broadest sense, trans poetics refers to all poetic efforts to represent any forms of self or identity for which there are no conventional means of expression.

-Joy Ladin

We see the costs of limiting articulation of trans identity to gender-binary terms. No human being, trans or not, is always and only one thing, one characteristic, one identity.

-Joy Ladin

To be free / is often to be lonely.

-W. H. Auden

I write for the still-fragmented parts in me, trying to bring them together.

-Adrienne Rich

As if the point of survival / Is human survival.

-Amie Zimmerman

Her voice, our tongues, our cheeks, her wings, / the sweat of everything, sex.

-Amy King

There is no politically neutral art.

-bell hooks

Even my body / does not belong to me, but I whisper in it / and think in it and hope it stays / beautiful. God, the way summer is made, thawed into golden branches and / red magnolias and sand dunes, the way the clouds / spin lazily on their orbit, the way the sun / breathes onto the trees that have already bloomed—

-Ayesha Asad

I want / This body to buoy me / Forever.

-Katharine Coles

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Tweets:

Mia Moore 💀 @StopTweetingMia

I would like more films that assure me, a queer trans woman, that my life is worth living. I desperately need them, actually.

sweatpants cher🔸 @House_Feminist

during my divorce I saw an itemized bill from my ex’s attorney that had been left out in the open and it included a charge of $165 for “researching plaintiff’s Twitter”

The West Review @The_West_Review

All, quick reminder that we're not ~super fussy~ about submission guidelines, *but* we do have one rule, and that is that your submission needs to include a cover letter to be considered. At least say hi! ❤️

irene @writtenbyirene

it’s so amusing when actors leave a show to “do other projects” and then they’re never seen again

jourdain searles @judysquirrels

dating people who are nice to me is wild. I could have been doing this the whole time???

Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

also it feels worth saying that even the poems i "reject" as an editor i appreciate as a reader & get lost in & always learn something new

𝕤𝕦𝕟𝕗𝕝𝕠𝕨𝕖𝕣 @spinubzilla

fuck being nonchalant i love being a chalant bitch. i have never been chill not once in my life, even when i am asleep i am clenching my teeth

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein

lmao

Lucas @realPhoenixFire

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That’s all for today. Thanks for being here.

-DB
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