Your hold is ready! (4.11.22.)

Hello all! I’ve been busy promoting my new chapbook (order here) and guesting at Fifth Wheel Press and beestung magazine –– in addition to all the other little projects I pick up along the way! This month, I’m feeling especially jazzed about the nexus –– or, I guess, the obliteration –– of this space “between” the academic and the creative. Since chairing my first NeMLA panel in mid-March and speaking to others who aren’t fond of binaries in life / writing (writing / life ?) I’m re-enthused to propose more workshops, more papers, more amazing events to be in community with people whose work doesn’t fit anywhere neatly. This spring, I’m looking forward to making even more connections with neuro/queercrip/transMad creators –– if that’s you, feel free to reach out!

Also: 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:

• Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt.

• Sam Sax, sad boy / detective.

• Katie Kitamura, Intimacies.

• Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where are You 

Podcasts and Media:

• What a ‘Grief Camp’ for Kids Can Show Us About Healing.

• In “Stickworld", Sticks Grow on Trees.

Albums:

• Pure Wrath, Hymn to the Woeful Hearts (2022).

• Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou, May Our Chambers be Full (2020).

• R L Hughes, Lolina: Origins (2017).

Poetry & Prose & In-Between:

• Dolan Morgan, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (2022).

• Andrea Harper, Close to Divine (2022).

• Shannon Quinn, Sunchild (2001).

• Hatteras Mange, Crown of Gore (2021).

Essays and Articles:

• Nancy Powaga, The Ladies Room (2022).

• Rebecca Romney, Resisting the Monolith: Collecting as Counternarrative (2022).

• Amal El-Mohtar, On Coming to Ursula K LeGuin on my Own Time (2022).

• José Vadi, More Joy and Less Cool: What it means to be a skater (2022).

• Connor Yeck, On Walking and Writing (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]

• UPON HEARING YOU WISH ME DECONSTRUCTED in A Velvet Giant.

• 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.

• Late Summer Dispatch (winner of the 2021 Princemere Poetry Prize)

• 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.

• Narrow Flights in Superstition Review.

• Review: The Kissing of Kissing by Hannah Emerson in Barrelhouse.

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!