round-up: 4/11

news, tweets, a sale, etc.

Happy Monday, all!

I hope everyone had a restful weekend.

Here’s what I have for you today:

• Housekeeping

• Re: rejection letters

• Quotations

• Tweets

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Housekeeping:

I have a new zine out.

dbouts

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& you can buy a copy for $6 here:

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As always,

I am selling books to fundraise for The West Review.

Your purchases allow me to pay writers for their work—plus it’s a pretty good deal: 5 books for $30.

If you’re in the US, you might consider a Mystery Box of Books!

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& final plug:

I talked about the distinctions between a hyphen, en dash, and em dash on Twitter this morning.

Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

do we need a lesson on em dashes. i think we do

If you want to learn a few more ~hacks~ to help your poetry get published, you can snag my e-book for 50% off today ($5) with code SUBSTACK.

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We had a great conversation on Twitter about our worst rejection letters.

Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

ok fun game. which journal has sent u the most dismissive form rejection

To read some of my personal least-favorite rejection letters, check out this post:

being a good literary citizen

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Quotations:

We still have the light. We know how to dance in the dark. We know how to support each other. We know how to go into those dark places with each other and then walk out unscathed.

-Z Walsh

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Tweets:

jon drake @DrakeGatsby

It really is insane that every single person with a cell phone deals with several attempted scams every day and we’ve just accepted that it’s part of our lives forever

SparkNotes @SparkNotes

if you work online all day, avoid eye strain with the 20-20-20 rule! after 20 minutes of work, look at something 20 feet away, then leave ithaca to fight in the trojan war and return 20 years later a broken man

Eli🇿abeth @CrazyCatComrade

The nonprofit industrial complex is the most effective way to crush any progressive movement. Making activists dependent on funds from "generous corporate donors" ensures that all their actions will fundamentally serve capital.

Devon Price @drdevonprice

There is no ethical way to wield a power that should not exist.

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘢 Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ @MlSERABLEBRAT

girlfriend who dies without attention like a tamagotchi

joyci @nicolerichle

sorry i can’t come out tonight i have to yearn

pigeon @pigeonspit

im not ‘ liking ‘ your tweets . im tapping on the glass of Ur enclosure to rile you up

zee @worIdwarzee

The girls who hate men but love dick.. u can get dick from anybody sister. Break them chains today

kayla @nickmullensgf

(flirting) can you lay on top of me and crush me with your entire body weight

Jake Flores @feraljokes

this "groomer" thing conservatives are trying to push is inconveniently silent on the fact that the majority of child sexual abuse happens within the cultural pillars of the right wing: the church and the family

groupon lobotomy @colleen_daves

No one "groomed" me into being queer. I had a codependent homoerotic friendship in my youth just like everyone else.

Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

wanna write a book that's just the names of all my nemeses. whomst would publish that

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Have a great week—

-Despy Boutris

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