Your hold is ready! (9. 30. 21)

Happy September…again! Yup, I’ve got another recommendation roundup for September, much-needed amidst a hectic start for the term.

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Okay, now to the recommendations.

Today’s Recs:

Books:

• Becky Chambers, To be Taught, if Fortunate.

• Hannah Baer, Trans Girl Suicide Museum.

• Tae Keller, When You Trap a Tiger.

• Renee Gladman, Event Factory.

Art/Media

• Joey De Jesus, Hoax.

• “This Is Class War”: Protesters Storm MoMA with Palestinian Flags and Spoons.

Albums

• Lil Nas X, MONTERO (2021).

• Sparklehorse, Maria’s Little Elbows (2010).

• King Woman, Celestial Blues (2021).

Poetry & Prose & In-Between:

• Garielle Lutz, Do You Work Here? (2021).

• Brandon Taylor, Colonial Conditions (2021).

• Joshua Martin, An inquisitive adaptation of earthquakes (2021).

• Maya Owen, How Straight White Men Write Space Operas (2021).

• Michelle Winters, The Dam (2021).

• Meredith Alling, Other Babies (2015).

• Kien Lam, “Almost” and Two Poems (2021).

Essays and Articles:

• Brittney Cooper, Critical Race Theory Might Actually Save Us (2021).

• Rebecca May Johnson, Qualities of Earth (2020).

• Marie-Helene Bertino, A Master Class in Disrupting Realism and Making Magic (2021).

My Recent Work:

• Chapbooks! Buy The Dream Journals and A Hole Walked In( link is to my PayPal –– pay what you can, $3-6 recommended, and include your email for a PDF copy. Yes, you are “friends and family.”) And add them on Goodreads! [x] [x]

• Two poems in Delicate Friend.

• Set Shit Diapers On Fire / Call That Nightmare Fuel! in Pink Plastic House.

• The wrong body in Whale Road Review.

• Salvation in Santa Fe Writer’s Workshop.

• On Loving Red in Blue Marble Review.

• Again Soon in Flypaper Lit.

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

• Making a madwoman in Lavender Review.

• affective turn and Mealtime Scene in Hooligan Magazine.

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

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

• Narrow Flights in Superstition Review.

• DIRECTOR’S CUT in Lammergeier Magazine.

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!