If you have GGTG in your #sealeychallenge stack I’d love to see! And not too late to ask your library for a copy. Here are a couple poems from the book 🥸🙃 bookshop.org/a/92150/978195…

I am so thrilled and honored to have won the Lambda Literary is on Bluesky award in Bisexual Poetry!

Academy of American Poets has a folio of Lambda Literary is on Bluesky award finalists out today, & my love poem to allergy szn in New Jersey, the state I’ve found myself living in for some time now, is in it. LOLed when I saw the tags (spring. sex.) poets.org/poem/garden-st…

Paradise on Earth…fading. Every picture many details. How long the walk. Whose shirt? And the photographer who insists that they smile.

✨PUB DAY FOR COACHELLA ELEGY! Thank you to everyone at Trio House Press and to family and friends who supported me. This book is for Michael and my brother Jeremy.

Our featured #mentors this week are Margaret Ray Margaret Ray (mostly offline/ m_rrray elsewhere) & KB Brookins @earthtokb! Get critiqued: poetsbridge.org/critiques

putting out into the void that one of my dreams is to teach in a low-res MFA program...if you have any leads like that, lmk! 🥸💙

And it's on the cover! (Photo by Heather Walrath | Historical Fiction Author)

I’m grateful to have a poem in this issue of Waxwing Magazine - check out the whole issue!

Lue’s Poetry Hour is back after summer break! This Hour features Latif Askia Ba Camonghne Temperance Margaret Ray (mostly offline/ m_rrray elsewhere) Joy 🐎 Priest jaijailed franny choi Ajanaé Dawkins Jayson P. Smith Matt Broaddus and more! Get wavy: open.substack.com/pub/lutherxhug…

I'll be at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sept 29th with Megan Pinto 🌘🌗🌖 @FredTJoseph and Kay Gabriel ✨ brooklynbookfestival.org/event/new-work…

COVER REVEAL! Late to the Search Party is out 5/6/25 Scribner. not to be dramatic but writing this book almost killed me, then saved my life. if you’ve ever read, shared, taught these poems, you’ve echoed the proof of my surviving. thank you so much🫀❤️‍🔥🔦

on a perhaps larger philosophical note, having been an educator since 2009, i have found that focusing on literally anything other than trying to root out the rare student “gaming the system” brings great inner peace and better teaching. design to include.

I can't wait for this book

Diana Cao, Perry Janes and Margaret Ray are reading at the shop on Thursday, November 21st, 2024 at 7 pm. Arielle Kaplan is giving the introductions. Please join us in person or virtually. Sign up via our website.

“I could go home, then, // having played my part convincingly, / my face in the dark: screen, projector, dust.” —Margaret Ray (Margaret Ray (mostly offline/ m_rrray elsewhere)), “Making Out at the Movies” Southeast Review BOA Editions southeastreview.org/single-post/40…

Anyone out there in NJ know what’s going on w our water? American Water NJ doesn’t say don’t drink it, but ours smells like gasoline or solvents🥴 American Water New Jersey American Water Governor Phil Murphy #njwater #newjersey #newjerseywater #americanwaternj #americanwater