Your hold is ready! (1.30.22)

Hello all! As the calendar New Year recedes and Lunar New Year fast approaches, 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 (preorder 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 Stone of Madness’s 5k follower competition, open through 2/28! Also, 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 consider submitting to our anthology, LIMN/LUNE, open through 2/14.

Okay, now to the (other) recommendations.

Today’s Recs:

Books:

• Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars.

• Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties.

• Nnedi Okorafor, Noor.

• Porpentine Charity Heartscape, Low Kill Shelter.

• Eve Harms, Transmuted.

• Neal Shusterman, Dry.

Podcasts and Media:

• Yvette Maygorga, Surveillance Locket Series (2021).

• Simply PodLogical

Albums:

• Ichiko Aoba, 0 (2013).

• Afro Celt Sound System, Flight (2018).

• Claire Chase, Density 2036 (2020).

Poetry & Prose & In-Between:

• Rajiv Mohabir, From “Swaggerman, Flymouth” A Deviant Translation (2021).

• Mari Ness, Good People (2021).

• Mike Andrelczyk, Three Poems with Bullets in Them (2021).

• Rachel Lee, Two Poems (2021).

• Kim Kyoung Ju, Three Poems (2017).

• Xan Phillips, Two Poems (2022).

• T R Hummer, My Mother in Bardo (2022).

Essays and Articles:

• Meg Elison, All the King’s Women: The Fats (2021).

• Mika Benesh, A Blessing for the Twilight (2020).

• Summer Brennan, Day 23: Write like a Savings Account (2022).

My Recent Work:

• New book alert! My third chapbook, Out of Mind & Into Body, is available for preorder 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]

• 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.

• Two poems in Delicate Friend.

• The wrong body in Whale Road Review.

• Salvation in Santa Fe Writer’s Workshop.

• Again Soon in Flypaper Lit.

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

• Butch flight in you are here: the journal of creative geography.

• 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!