In January, I made a video overture for Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts, which collects material I thought about while writing the book. The video screened before Bonjour Tristesse & Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me at The Roxy Cinema (NYC), and is now online: youtube.com/watch?v=QRPR-6…

pre-orders now 🆙 for my debut collection, Vague Predictions and Prophecies.

thank you 🐠 J O E L 🐠 for the beautiful cover and the CLASH Books team 🦋

Send me idiosyncratic manuscripts with dark emotional logic, serious not self serious. Rapturous and dense with thought; no ha-ha card trick proficiency, plotting or posturing. Cf. an American RW Fassbinder or Krasznahorkai

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Applications for my class this summer are due 4/15! It's remote so you can attend from anywhere! Consider applying if you love files or maybe want to make something ugly together <3

last October, I was reviewing Robert Glück’s About Ed, a book about death. then it became a fall defined by death—in Palestine, my classroom, and my family. here is the essay that review became, on mourning, militancy, witnessing, and politicizing death. thebaffler.com/latest/voices-…

Looking forward to this ❤️

Today is a good day to pre-order Anna Moschovakis (a/m)'s new novel, An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757090/a…

Purchased a stranger's Cuyana Travel Case Set in Blush Pink on Poshmark. In the item comments, the stranger disclosed that she 'bought one too many sets for [her] bridesmaids.' Today, as I apply makeup from the case, I think about how I too am now her bridesmaid.

If we want small presses to survive, we need more than distribution—we also need magazines to quit assuming a book is only worth covering if it's supported by a staff that assembles and distributes a press kit 6 months in advance of a carefully planned book release

Speakeasies of the 1920s live in my mind with a veneer of mystery, glamour, and charm. Weed dispensaries in the 2020s across Brooklyn are abject, grotesquely designed, and everywhere. I just passed one called “P.U.” with a cartoon skunk mascot smoking a blunt.

On today’s Lives of Writers, Jeff Alessandrelli of Fonograf Editions interviews Claire Donato about writing desks, publishing young, music, writing & not writing, KIND MIRRORS, UGLY GHOSTS (@ArchwayEditions), MFK Fisher, friendships in literature & adulthood, psychoanalysis, & more ⬇️

Happy 20th anniversary to Joanna Newsom's stunning and inimitable debut album of all time The Milk-Eyed Mender!!!

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I have a new poem, 'The Truth,' up at 𝖂𝖔𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖗 🎟🎡. Thank you Annie, Nico & 𝓑𝓮𝓷 𝓕𝓪𝓶𝓪! Look out for my chapbook Woebegone, from which this poem is excerpted, forthcoming from Theaphora with an accompanying video game this summer: wonder-publishing.com/shitwonder/the…

I like this poem by Claire Donato.

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I have a new poem, 'The Truth,' up at 𝖂𝖔𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖗 🎟🎡. Thank you Annie, Nico & 𝓑𝓮𝓷 𝓕𝓪𝓶𝓪! Look out for my chapbook Woebegone, from which this poem is excerpted, forthcoming from Theaphora with an accompanying video game this summer: wonder-publishing.com/shitwonder/the…

Just returned the 100% polyester “Modern Soft Plush Round Pet Bed for Cats” my cat Woebegone rejected. For two years, she has slept on my ivory silk pillowcase like a queen. Why did I think she would prefer this gaping maw of polyester? Disappointed in myself; proud of Woebegone.

Claire and Woebegone ❤️

Pratt Institute, NYC: She Who Has No Masters will share work from their Yellow Echoes series in Pratt's beautiful Memorial Hall on March 26

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Happy International Women’s Day—I’ve started wearing a single red barrette on each day of my period.