Happy release day to Blake Hackler!! Blake’s collection WHEN I WAS A GIRL, THERE WERE MOUNTAINS... is now available as part of the 2020 Summer Series! Download your copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2020-summer-se…

Empty Mirror is accepting submissions of poetry, essays, reviews, and art for the June 26 PRIDE issue guest-edited by Danielle Rose and for all summer issues. emptymirror.submittable.com/submit (Thanks to JUAN DORAME for kindly increasing our free submissions limit this month!)

#TPQ5 IS ENDING... Unless you submit your list! Already done it once? Time for round 2! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

The poet, the one you’d expect to have faith in language, knows that naming alone does nothing to dispell mystery. For [them] a word is a gesture in the direction of reality, and does not limit or circumscribe; the poet knows that nothing at all is settled by the word. Mark Doty

My third poem of the Ghost City Press summer series. Inspired by Blake Hackler WHEN I WAS A GIRL, THERE WERE MOUNTAINS... I was working on the poem when I found out about Larry Kramer & the poem turned into an elegy. Check out the micro-chap & RIP Larry Kramer

Sending love and solidarity to our friends in Minneapolis ❤️ we stand with you.

Relevant words from Ady Barkan in VOICES FOR THE CURE: AN ANTHOLOGY BY PEOPLE LIVING WITH ALS AND THEIR CAREGIVERS. Coming June 2020. Preorder now: rhythmnbone.com/voices-for-the…

I was arrested on June 2nd, 2020 with around 100 other protesters in Los Angeles. While I was ziptied and facing the wall, two male officers joked behind me about my gender presentation: "Do you think it's a female? Are you sure?"

Black-owned local bookstores you can purchase books from right now: lithub.com/you-can-order-…