It's here! IMPLODE EXPLODE is now published, and you can buy it and get tickets to the launch using the link below. Can't wait for you to read it!

It's #WorldSuicidePreventionDay !
As a suicidologist and someone who has experienced chronic suicidality since age 9, I want to offer some insights that mainstream prevention orgs don't often share. 🧵

'In the sky, a cloud shaped like a rabbit drops to the ground. The principal asks When you grow up, what do you want to be? Outside, the cloud’s breath steams the window.'
--Gianni Gaudino
'Attention Deficit'
in Serotonin

My poem 'When' is in the current issue of Serotonin: poetry and prose on mental illness and suicide prevention at serotoninpoetry.org/2022/09/05/whe…

'I was ‘only’ suicidal, so that makes me a bother for them...'

If you've ever been wronged as a patient or restrained by authorities, you will relate to the frustration felt in this powerful poem by Ron Riekki.

serotoninpoetry.org/2022/09/05/whe…

'The girl carries her body as a steed carries a rider'

New, intense and beautifully crafted poem, 'First Purge' up by Anna Wilkes about eating disorders. This is a must read.

serotoninpoetry.org/2022/08/22/fir…

Submissions for Serotonin will be back open soon, hopefully in a week. In the meantime combing through old submissions to make sure no one is missed. If you submitted in the last year and we didn't respond, please send an email. Thanks so much for your patience.

'I will hold it all inside my head, where I finally understand only I can see.'

Hey friends, we're back from hiatus with a powerful piece of poetic prose on OCD by Suzy Eynon. Please read and share!

serotoninpoetry.org/2022/08/14/goo…

@lexhartcreative yasmine bolden (they/them) I would check out Dis'Zine Publications kalonopia | #disabilitypride anthology out now! SICK I-CREATE YOUTH | #DISABILITYRIGHTS Serotonin the hearth magazine! They’re all wonderful litmags dedicated to disabled voices. Some focus on specific disabilities so I would research each one before submitting. Hope this helps! 💗

If you or someone you know is a teacher for grades 7-12 then please spread the word on our annual haiku competition with HSA Haiku that awards six scholarships to winning students!

honeys! beestung #10 is here!🐝

w/ Joan Angel Estrada, R/B Mertz, Coyote Shook, Soon Jones, Leon Barros, James O'Leary & Marlanda Dekine

'disremember all the tonguesick paradigms / paradise
a walled lotus-garden / utopia / which means nothing
of heaven'

beestungmag.com

'while I make my way to the vacant chair
where I sit uncomfortably
in someone else’s warmth.'

New poem by Gary Bloom about depression and waiting is now on the site.

serotoninpoetry.org/2022/02/20/my-…

🐝new beestung coming later today!!🐝

catch up with beestung #9 before we pour out issue #10!

beestungmag.com

“...recovery is hard but dying is harder.”

New book review up by Kavita Khajuria!

serotoninpoetry.org/2022/02/19/6-d…

All My Relations, Volume 2 is ready and features work from 16 BIPOC creatives on the themes of colonization and decolonization!

Please be aware that most of the pieces contained here have a content warning of colonization.

Read the issue: talbot-heindl.com/relations-issu…

My interview at WOW! WomenOnWriting with Shout-outs to some of the hermit crab masters: @fabulistpappas, jilltalbot, Kathy Fish, @kbcarle, Marilyn Duarte

muffin.wow-womenonwriting.com/2022/02/susan-…

Trigger/content warning: allusions to rape/sexual assault.

'there is a tenderness in the carrying
and a fear in the letting go'

New poem up about survival by Sophie Kamryn.

serotoninpoetry.org/2022/02/15/com…

'....I can’t speak
through the appropriation
of my disorder...'

New OCD poem up by Carson Wolfe on the site. Their insightful poetry deserves a read and a share.

serotoninpoetry.org/2022/02/08/my-…

'I will do it tomorrow,' said Toad. 'Today I will take life easy.'

'We study ourselves
we check each other out in the mirror
We are the beauty standard.
We didn’t end.
Our wild minds make the future' —Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha

anmly.org/ap25/leah-laks…