I know this website is a cesspool at this point, but I also know there's lots of cool poets still here. My poetry group is putting together a small, limited run zine called Cat Ladies Against Fascism. Accepting poetry, prose & art. If you're of a mind to submit, DM for details.

Ok what are the planets doing because I CANNOT SLEEP.

I'm going for my first wedding dress fitting today and I'm stressing. I've only ever had alterations done by my aunt whom I love and trust not to tell me to not eat before the wedding lol

A note for tomorrow: ANYONE WHO IS TRICK-OR-TREATING AT FIFTEEN IS PRESUMPTIVELY CLINGING TO THE RITUALS OF CHILDHOOD AT THE MOST DISCOMBOBULATING MOMENT OF THEIR LIVES. THROW CANDY AND KINDNESS AT THEM

Clear eyes, full hearts, fuck nazis

This is how I’ve been feeling recently

Anybody else having panic attacks in the grocery store? Just me? Cool, very good.

Throwing a Don’t Kill Yourself Dinner Party where everyone brings a dish so delicious that we remember why life is worth living

Fix your hearts or die.

This is so, so important, from Mona Eltahawy

I was mad when he said it, but I'm glad my News & Politics professor told me I should reconsider going into journalism back in 2014. If I hadn't already killed myself by now, the new White House press secretary would be it for me.

Harriet the Spy forever 😭 A legend to all baby millennial-future writers.

― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

“I have never known the police of any country to show an interest in lyric poetry...But when poems stop talking about the moon & begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color lines, & colonies, somebody tells the police.” —Langston Hughes, “My Adventures as a Social Poet” (1947)

Uhhhm. I just accepted poems from an 80-yr-old, well-decorated poet. It didn’t click til I read his signature. My tummy hurts.

Out of all the ways I've imagined It happening, falling off the roof wasn't on my list. I hope he weasels his way up there again soon.

have not been able to stop laughing at the level of disdain on display here