Today, I’m over on the PEN podcast (from PEN America) talking about Lakewood, healthcare, and growing up in rural Michigan: anchor.fm/penamerica/epi…

“be a mechanism / of longing // windup / water moccasin. // my dead name / makes trouble / & i get the burn // my brain / prints its own / currency // & my skull / is a shoe.” —Jay Besemer, “Shell” @THEORIES_PER letteredstreetspress facebook.com/629882237/post…

“i am a hat without / a hook, a hawk / without a hand” -Jay Besemer, Theories of Performance (letteredstreetspress) bit.ly/2Cl6mH4

What a fucking gut-punch of a twist at the end of this stanza!!!!!!: “MY, HOW PREDATORY / YOU LOOK TODAY, MY SWEET / FUCK-ALL, MY USUAL SUSPECT, MY REFLECTION.”-@divinetailor

Sarah Townsend, author of Setting the Wire, is teaching a virtual writing class on "Finding Your Story" through memoir. Get guidance in zeroing in on themes, exploring memories, and generating material. Learn more at pce.uw.edu/courses/memoir…

Sara Goodman has a new poem up in issue 2 of The Virtual Haus, a print zine for the morbid, the curious, and the morbidly curious. Check it out at thevirtual.haus

“my, how predatory // you look today, my sweet / fuck-all, my usual / suspect, my reflection.” —Jay Besemer, “May I Just Say” @THEORIES_PER letteredstreetspress facebook.com/629882237/post…

Our favorite book sale Brew & Forge is open through Friday w/ many signed copies of delightful indie books for sale - including Theories of Performance from Lettered Streets/@THEORIES_PER! Proceeds go to support Communities Over Cages: Close the Jail ATL: brewandforge.com/bookstore

Tomorrow isn’t the last day you can support the amazing #CloseTheJailATL campaign, but it IS the last day to do so by simply buying a great book! Maybe even a signed and personalized one! Let’s push through to the end and help turn the Atlanta city jail into a community center!!

If you haven't gotten a copy of Theories of Performance yet, order yours from the Brew & Forge book sale today and support the Communities Over Cages: Close the Jail ATL initiative!

"If I could tell my young self (& all newer poets) something, it'd be that we have the right & permission to be poets, according to our own needs & the needs that we & our work discover together." @THEORIES_PER on writing without fear via Kenyon Review kenyonreview.org/2020/08/poetry…

Happy Monday, folks! We're thrilled to bring you "Mart Crowley," the first excerpt from @dtrinidadpoet's new memoir, DIGGING TO WONDERLAND: airlightmagazine.org/airlight/winte…

So thrilled to see @THEORIES_PER on this list!! We love this book so much. Congrats, Jay!!

Peer through the window today at Queer Poem-a-day on The Deerfield Public Library Podcast. Day 16 is "The Window" by Jay Besemer @divinetailor (finalist for a Lambda Literary is on Bluesky Award this very #PrideMonth!) Listen to and read the poem: deerfieldlibrary.org/queerpoemaday/… Deerfield Public Library

24 hours into the Book Fair, and we've just passed the $2000 mark! That means we are halfway to our goal of raising $4k for BQIC! Browse brewandforge.com/bookstore now through Dec 8, and make sure to snap up the ones you want before they're gone!

Our favorite bookfair Brew & Forge is back, which means you can shop great books--including THEORIES OF PERFORMANCE by @divinetailor Jay Besemer--with all proceeds going to the Black Queer and Intersectional Collective in Ohio! Start browsing now! brewandforge.com/product-page/t…

Snag your books by this Wednesday - and don't forget to grab a copy of Theories of Performance by Jay Besemer! @THEORIES_PER Brew & Forge

Nice to see Theories of Performance by Jay Besemer on @EntropyMag's best of 2020-2021 poetry books! It's certainly our favorite! entropymag.org/best-of-2020-2… We're also grateful for all of Entropy's work over the years promoting small presses, books, and authors. Thank you!