Memorabilia from a day that never happened.

Next year I’m gonna try to see the northern lights. I feel like I’m running out of time to see them, like global warming is gonna ruin my chances, somehow? I don’t exactly know how, climate change is just sorta ruining everything.

behind every hot girl there is a deep history with wanting their English teacher's approval

I LOVE BOOKS so much…

I remember taking a creative writing class and analyzing the heck out of the first words of this poem “Sundays too…”.

This has been one of the worst years in history for book banning, but they can’t ban us or our stories. Which is why I’m so excited to announce that IM OPENING A FREAKING BOOKSTORE!!!! Loudmouth Books will Indy’s only banned bookstore and I’m so excited to bring it to life 😭😭😭

Freeze Pops, and I got dibs on a pink one!

romanticise your life by wearing deep green sweaters and writing beautiful prose in elegant moleskine notebooks and stacking incredible amounts of books all through your house like you are an eccentric wizard

I feel like instead of me submitting to mags, they should fight to the death for my writing. Just wrote (another) one about the fragility of domestic bliss. Ready your brass knuckles and daggers!! Who wants it bad enough to BLEED FOR IT! ⚔️🗡️🩸

Our Summer issue (#15) is now live! variantlit.com/issue-fifteen/

If I asked any of you my favorite book, you’d say “Beloved” And you’d be right. So imagine my dismay when I’m reading a book and the author credits The Bluest Eye for my favorite line in Beloved. The next line in Beloved literally names the main character!

i’ve published 2 books and 5 chapbooks; i’ve published many poems and essays in magazines; i teach poetry for a living—and i do not write every day. i would be miserable if i did. you do not need to write every day to be a writer

Me at work…

This!!! Mine would say “I can tell you’re cute by the books in your hand” and I would only use it at bookstores but!!!!