"Forget roses. Forget forget-me-nots. Forget bulbs that wait forever
to finally shoot into recognition months later. Plant rows and rows
of dead mom, because it will seed like crazy, and you will never be able to kill it."
-Dead Mom Reprise, Thin Noon
July’s poetry has been published in a good number of literary journals and magazines. Here are a select few.
The Concept Library, Sinister Wisdom (forthcoming)
the gods are generous in this way, Voices Amidst the Virus, forthcoming
For Times They Think You Hang the Moon, The American Journal of Poetry
Aubade for Dreamland, CALYX
How to Ride a Bicycle, and Via Negativa, Western Humanities Review (forthcoming)
Love Poem, Hayden's Ferry Review (print)
Milk Glass Serenade, The Florida Review
Eclogue for Santa Isabel, Open Arts Forum
On Desire, Fourteen Hills (print)
Aubade for Bad Girls Who Rub Noses Together, and Via Negativa, Coal Hill Review
Dear John Cheever, The Indianapolis Review (nominated for Best of the Net)
Via Negativa and The Secret Title of Every Good Poem Might be ‘Tenderness’, The Lily Poetry Review
The Great American Novel, Vinyl
+ and –, Lambda Literary Foundation Poetry Spotlight
Teresa of Avila, Patron Saint of Via Negativa and On Friendship, Your Impossible Voice
A thing that is bigger than 140 characters, Rappahannock Review
The Laughter Age and Electrical Fire at 3AM (as Mercury Stations Direct), Zocalo Public Square
Online Dating, and Untold Pact, Prairie Schooner
Forgiving the Body, RHINO
Home, The National Poetry Review
Orchard Burning, Lunch Ticket
Wake, Trailer Trash, and Epilogue, Tupelo Quarterly
Existential Crisis at 3 AM, and Conversation Among Dirt Before Rain, COG
TRAILER TRASH is a book about the cotton-country of Riverside County, Southern California, in the 1980s/90s. A book about poverty, ravaged landscape, and gender, it touches on a fuller, dustier California than Hollywood would have you believe.
"But just as I was uniquely positioned to lean on Reading Rainbow in times of duress, we are now uniquely positioned to fight with our words, our songs, our convictions. And, of course, our hope and joy. The world right now is dank and dim — it needs the curiosity and suspension of disbelief that literature and art give. It needs good men, for god’s sake it needs healing masculinity. It needs holiness, in all of its manifestations."
–All I Want for Christmas is LeVar Burton, The Establishment
Co-founding Editor, PULP
On Imposter Syndrome, McSweeney’s
A Terrible, Far Away Place (Editor’s Choice Award), Inscape
Hello, Typewriter, Litseen
Staff writer at Autostraddle
Staff writer at The Establishment
My Sweet, Wounded Queers, The Huffington Post
Money Diaries of a Gay Male Escort, Wealthsimple
Tynomi Banks' Big Break Was Probably Getting Fired From a Corporate Job, Wealthsimple
PULP is a multimedia sex, sexuality, and reproductive rights publication celebrating this human coil hurtling through time and space.
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