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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

"Not queer like a rainbow slapped onto a Wells Fargo debit card, gay as in let's hurl a Molotov cocktail thru the window of the bank at nightfall and kiss while we watch the glass shatter like a supernova." —Ally Ang beestungmag.com/issue21/two-...

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Two Poems by Ally Ang – beestung

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Shō Poetry Journal @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

We are officially open for submissions! We are reading for Shō No. 8, our winter issue (launch in January 2026). Details threaded below. Cover art: Close-up of “In Gilded Walls” by Tanya Rastogi from Shō No. 6 (Winter 2024/25).

Close-up of devi and dove from Tanya Rastogi painting “In Gilded Walls” • Yellow text on red background reads “Shō Poetry Journal • An Arizona-based print journal” • White text reads: Open for Submissions • Send us 3-5 poems • We respond within 30 days • Shō No. 8 (Winter 2025/26)” • shopoetryjournal.submittable.com

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w.aurele @t4t-art.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

T4T | Burning Petals | Mixed media #t4t #transart #transman #transkink #transmasc

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cass garison @cassgarison.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

grateful to @splitthisrock.bsky.social for featuring my poem "On Reverence," as their Poem of the Week this week in "The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database" 🦤🌺

On Reverence

I adore the carnations & I adore
the trains, specifically the boxcars
with endings & beginnings I can’t

keep track of, who drag their stretched
torsos like absolute creatures around
what seems like earth’s clearest curve.

I adore the harshness of the wind, the bite
of the metal railing on my hand as the two
almost freeze together. I adore the rose

that casts a long shadow & the other roses
whose silhouettes become obstructed
on their way to the ground, lose

all tethering to their former geometries.
Adore the cedars & pines at their most
finicky, the windows that fog

with dew or steam depending
on the occasion, the crow who,
as I have my morning coffee, presses

& presses with its repetitious, piercing caw.
I adore the ritual of Sunday mass, of incense
& kneeling to the point of pain, the point

of splinter, as any true reverence, any true
devotion, I have learned, requires. I adore
the lover I asked to hit me with their thickest

Italian leather belt until I sweltered, then held me
as the bruises bloomed. Adore the stranger
outside the bar who blew smoke into my face,

the bees humming yesterday’s desire, the cloud
of sparrows that tangle away from recognition.
I adore all the animals I’ve ever mercy killed

without knowing fully what I was doing: the vole
whose head contorted almost completely
backward, a single bird on the streets of New York,

a rat snake run into the summer-hot
pavement to the point of irreversible
suture. Adoration, complete adoration

to the daffodils, the hyacinths, the lack
of prayer that this life requires. Adoration,
at last, for the way a paintbrush, even

with its finest bristles, can slice
through any shape I have decided on
prior, but even in its making anew,

even in its revision, the indents
of the old form still noticeable, still
raised & rough to a perceptive hand.

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cass garison @cassgarison.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Thanks so much to @splitthisrock.bsky.social for featuring my poem, glad to have this one in the world & with a home that does such good work 🦜🦤🦉 Full below: bit.ly/4kcoouX

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On Reverence | Poetry Database | Split This Rock

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cass garison @cassgarison.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

will be sending out the first installment of my monthly art book series next week, not 2 late to sign up (physical/mail copy or digital edition options). Preview of first book installment in the series, currently amidst-assemblage, semi-monochrome "Red Domestic" forms.gle/qAk6oBz78BEx...

three pieces of art, partially visible, all red monochrome with white and black. one face and a table in pen, one with the word "wait" printed on it, but obstructed scene, and one obstructed queen modeled after the queen of hearts with ink hearts printed on top. black paint marker on top

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Fahmidan Group @fahmidangroup.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Explore the poetry of holes—thresholds, orifices, and portals into the self. Join Ally Ang @theoceanisgay.bsky.social & Cass Garison @cassgarison.bsky.social for a generative poetry workshop! 💜 Sign up: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...

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Fahmidan Group @fahmidangroup.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This workshop will have you discover new holes, deep within and beyond any crevasse you could ever imagine. Join Ally Ang @theoceanisgay.bsky.social & Cass Garison @cassgarison.bsky.social in just under two weeks! Sign up here: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...

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Fahmidan Group @fahmidangroup.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Cass' April 5th workshop is 50% off until Thursday! Join us for this stellar workshop🧡 Sign up here (discount already applied): t.co/cl4gUf9bmo t.co/KeNP2NQfG0

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cass garison @cassgarison.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

poems letters letters poems eros psyche etc. etc.

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Fahmidan Group @fahmidangroup.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

From holes we came and into holes we shall return. The hole is the ultimate abject, the transgressable boundary between the self and itself, other selves, the world, the divine. Join us for a workshop exploring holes literary & wondrous. Sign up: buff.ly/4hBKWUX

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cass garison @cassgarison.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I'll be making a monthly handmade art book from April-Sept. Ethos: dispatch as connection, invitational perception, and conversation, & the book form as a way to suture together what often feels disparate into a contextual "whole." Also, books are objects & I am a Taurus. More info & subscription:

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Hello all. From April until September I'll be making a handmade art book each month, integrating image & poetics/language as stylistically expected, & also of course exploring & playing. Each book wi...

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cass garison @cassgarison.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

poetry workshops on recursion/obsession, desire/destruction, and/or holes?

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Fahmidan Group @fahmidangroup.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Fahmidan Education Spotlight Cass Garison @cassgarison.bsky.social ! Sign up to Cass' workshop here: buff.ly/4hBKWUX

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

OMG, Frank Bidart:

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Ally Ang @theoceanisgay.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Seattle: come to @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social next weekend for a love/anti-love-poem-themed Other People’s Poems ft. @cassgarison.bsky.social @constancehansen.bsky.social & @nanya.bsky.social! hosted by @bearable.bsky.social & moi! 💕💞💓💘💝💔❤️‍🔥❤️‍🩹🖤

Other People’s Poems
poetry open mic and reading series

featuring
Cass Garison
Constance Hansen
nanya jhingran

hosted by Ally Ang & Cody Stetzel

February 15, 2025
7pm

Open Books: A Poem Emporium
108 Cherry St.

*masks required*

IG: @seattlepoetry

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Ally Ang @theoceanisgay.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Forgive me but I’m so touched that @electriclit.bsky.social included Let the Moon Wobble (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social) in this list of most anticipated poetry debuts! electricliterature.com/the-most-ant...

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The Most Anticipated Debut Poetry Collections of 2025

These rising stars are making waves with urgent and daring works

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Let the Moon Wobble by Ally Ang

Ally Ang’s poems are made of houseplants and melatonin, leather and bloodstains, fresh fruit and rumpled bedsheets. They assert queer self-creation on the page in a poetic voice that is at once expansive and precise. Let the Moon Wobble is a striking, impressive first collection.

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cass garison @cassgarison.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

come write some poems at @fahmidanjournal.bsky.social Amsterdam Retreat this summer? I'll be teaching workshops "On Desire & Destruction" & "Where Lyric & Image Meet"

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Ally Ang @theoceanisgay.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I CRAVE RAPTURE

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cass garison @cassgarison.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Will be a facilitator at the Fahmidan Amsterdam Retreat, alongside the wonderful A.R. Arthur, Rashna Wadia, & Yasmine Dashti. Come join? Fahmidan has prioritized offering accessible options for attendance, & it will undoubtedly be a lovely & connective time all-around!

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 05/11/2023

sorry i missed your text. i was in the middle of easily deciphering Linear A

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