Your hold is ready! (5.20.21)

Long time, no newsletter! As we head into the summer (though there’s still a month left of the quarter for me) I’m delighted to bring you some more recommendations, including some more of my own work. A big thank-you to all who have sent feedback to me so far; if you have any, please feel free to send me an email or comment here.

If you follow me on Tumblr, you know that I’m doing quarterly “favorite books” posts, the second of which for 2021 will be out next month. I’ll also list all of those books in my next newsletter post.

Okay, now to the recommendations!

Today’s Recs:

Books:

• Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

• Lauren Groff, What’s the Time, Mr. Wolf? (novella)

• Torrey Peters, Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones (novella)

• Adam Dickenson, Anatomic.

• Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies.

Podcasts:

• Black Autonomy Podcast

• Counterjam

• Radio Diaries

Albums:

• Kunika, Shiny Little Corners (2021).

• Rob Mazurek and Exploding Star Orchestra, Dimensional Stardust (2020).

• Palehound, Dry Food (2015).

• Lady Lamb, Tender Warriors Club (2016). 

Poetry & Prose & In-Between:

• Kimmy Walters, this year (2018).

• Lydia Montgomery, Whomp (2021).

• Tory Huff, The Quaker Oats Quaker Gets Really Sad (2021).

• Akjemal Toshieva, Ol (2021).

• Gwen Hart, Your Anxiety (2021).

• Jessica Johns, Mycelium Ghost (2021).

• Thera Almontaser, Ode to Bodega Cats (2021).

Essays and Articles:

• John Reed, My Grandma the Poisoner (2014)

• Craig Mod, Looking Closely is Everything (2021)

• Jason Ferguson, “Nomadland” Helped Me Realize That I’d Grown Up Homeless (2021).

My Recent Work:

• Chapbooks! Buy The Dream Journals and A Hole Walked In and add them on Goodreads! [x] [x]

• THIS IS NOT A MEAL. in New Delta Review.

• Narrow Flights in Superstition Review.

• DIRECTOR’S CUT in Lammergeier Magazine.

• “Downtown: Night falls,” in Kissing Dynamite.

• Four Poems in Heavy Feather Review.

• Two Poems in Electric Literature’s “The Commuter.”

• Read WRITING OURSELVES / MAD folio, part 2, at ANMLY Lit.

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!