Your hold is ready! (03.07.22)

Hello all! As the winter quarter here at Davis closes, I’ve been…I’ve been sitting here trying to find the right word. Busy? Tired? But in a generally-good way? I guess that sums it up! Between promoting my new chapbook (order here) and taking on guest editor spots at the gamut mag and Delicate Friend (not to mention my ongoing slog through my own TBR!) I’ve been overwhelmed by the number of awesome work I’ve gotten to engage with, and the literary community members I’ve had the honor of learning from. I’m so excited for what comes next.

One of those coming-next things is SMOLFair! be sure to check out swallow::tale press, a Mad press for Mad manuscripts, co-run by myself and my co-conspirator and fellow Mad creator, Feyxuan. Browse our bookstore and be in touch with questions and suggestions!

Okay, now to the (other) recommendations.

Today’s Recs:

Books:

• Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red.

• Sue Lynn Tan, Daughter of the Moon Goddess.

• Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon.

Podcasts and Media:

• Rachel Nuwer, Meet the Fantastically Bejeweled Skeletons of Catholicism’s Forgotten Martyrs (2013)

• #CripRitual

Albums:

• James T Green, Naive (2022).

• katie dey, forever music (2022).

• Cult of Luna, THE RAGING RIVER (2021).

• Maki Yamazaki, Take a Moment (2021).

Poetry & Prose & In-Between:

• Nina MacLaughlin, Wolf Moon (2022).

• Amit Majmudar, American Upanishad (III) (2022).

• Karen Russell, The Ghost Birds (2021).

• Rachel Lachmansingh, Fig (2022).

• Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, Dyke Litany (2022).

• S. Qiuoyi Lu, Anything Resembling Love (2020).

Essays and Articles:

• Safy Hallan-Farah, The grand unified theory of aesthetic vlogging (2021).

• Julia May Jonas, How to read a play as a manual for novel writing (2022).

• Eliza Strickland, Their bionic eyes are now obsolete and unsupported (2022).

My Recent Work:

• New book alert! My third chapbook, Out of Mind & Into Body, is available from Ethel Press and up on Goodreads.

• My Published chapbooks: Buy The Dream Journals and A Hole Walked In.And add them on Goodreads! [x] [x]

• to a specified fate) in The Institutionalized Review.

• in response to the viral r/AskReddit thread titled “what’s classy if you’re rich, but trashy if you’re poor?” which received second place in Invisible City’s flash CNF contest.

• Tulip Monologue in Foglifter.

• t four terrior in Epoch Press.

• Two Flash Fictions [1] [2] in Bodega Magazine.

• Xenogenders, Neopronouns, and the transMad Toolbox in the Queer Disability Studies Network.

• Salvation in Santa Fe Writer’s Workshop.

• Again Soon in Flypaper Lit.

• Review: Minerva A Miscarriage of the Brain by Johanna Hedva in Carousel.

• Narrow Flights in Superstition Review.

That’s all for now! Again, feel free to let me know what you think, what you’d like to see more of, and if you have any recommendations of your own!