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Steven Sanchez @icarus-flies.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

My husband’s response to a poem I wrote about my ex and I watching sea lions give birth + me realizing I never want to have kids: “that is definitely a Steven poem” I adore being read by this man—in every sense of the word 😂❤️

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

We're thrilled to announce our 2025 Pushcart Prize Nominations! Congrats and good luck to Ashley Cline, Derek Chan, Aekta K, Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey, and Cleo Qian!

Glass: A Journal of Poetry

Pushcart Prize Nominations

Ashley Cline "on Mexico's Caribbean cost, mountains of seaweed grow"

Derek Chan "Inheritance"

Rachel Bunting "Event Horizon"

Aekta K. "A Sky of Scattered Stars"

Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey "with my back to the city"

Cleo Qian "Grief Theory"

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Announcing our 2025 Monarch Queer Literary Awards nominations!! @icarus-flies.bsky.social "Grief Is the Raven" Olivia Lehman "Winter Solstice" @gardnerdorton.bsky.social "Love Poem Featuring Ton 618" Malik Thompson "*" Keenan Teddy "Sonnet Unrequited" CB Wilson "We Harvested, We Harvested"

2025 Monarch Queer Literary Awards

Steven Sanchez "Grief Is the Raven"

Olivia Lehman "Winter Solstice"

Gardner Dorton "Love Poem Featuring Ton 618"

Malik Thompson "*"

Keenan Teddy "Sonnet Unrequited"

CB Wilson "We Harvested, We Harvested"

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Steven Sanchez @icarus-flies.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Honored to have a new poem published by @glasspoetry.bsky.social today. It’s about my Queerness, my grandma, and being glamorous af. I also didn’t realize it would be coming out a couple of days after her birthday. Happy birthday, grandma.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 17/04/2025

It shouldn't matter if Trump’s victims have criminal records. If we only defend the “innocent,” the fascists will argue that their victim “was no angel.” An anti-fascist rhetoric that carves out exceptions for imperfect victims is a gift to our opponents. New from me for @us.theguardian.com:

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What is a ‘criminal’ immigrant? The word is an American rhetorical trap | Jonathan Ben-Menachem

Labels like ‘gang members’ and ‘terrorist supporters’ are an easy way to make humans disposable

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

TOMORROW IS THE FINAL DAY for summer writing residencies in all genres at the Sundress Academy for the Arts. Fellowships available for writers of color and travel grants are available for Black and/or Indigenous writers! www.sundresspublications.com/news/2024/12...

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Everett Maroon, MPH @evmaroon.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

It didn’t harm the anti-abortionists when someone got an abortion. It didn’t harm cis people when someone changed their gender marker. It didn’t harm anyone when a teenager used hormone blockers. Fake outrage causes real damage. It’s about control, not about preventing harm.

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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Just because you can't control every terrible thing doesn't mean you're powerless. Find a way to DO something. Think small, think local. Here's today's suggestion: train to become a practical support volunteer and support people traveling to access abortion care. apiaryps.org/pollination-...

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The Pollination Station — Apiary for Practical Support

Through our Pollination Station, we vet and train potential volunteers for Practical Support Organizations.

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Steven Sanchez @icarus-flies.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Make sure it explodes into glitter shrapnel that lodges into heteronormativity forever.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

video games are an invaluable tool in teaching children to find and kill god

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 29/12/2024

For @newrepublic.com I wrote about Black southerner gun culture, the rifle in the closet. So check that out because I'd be pleased to share with you. newrepublic.com/article/1893...

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My Gun Culture Is Not Your Gun Culture

In Black Southern life, guns have been a sign of readiness against constant threats.

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Former poet:jason b crawford @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I had the chance to work with Poet Lore to pick some amazing poems! I really hope y’all enjoy my selections www.poetlore.com/2024/12/17/v...

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Volume 119 Summer/Fall 2024 Guest Editor’s Note - Poet Lore

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Steven Sanchez @icarus-flies.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Let’s see you at 21. This was in a K-Mart fitting room. It was the last time I’d go to a Black Friday with my grandma, the only person in my family who was nothing but happy for me when she found out I was gay and in love.

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Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Struck by how quick and insightful this poem by Perry Levitch in the new @newenglandreview.bsky.social is— “fishbowl / of unparticular malaise. like everywhere.” #poetry #amreading #poets #poem

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Steven Sanchez @icarus-flies.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

My biggest accomplishment at work: People skip their breaks less and respond with some variation of “I will right now, no free labor!” when I ask if they’ve gone yet.

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row. “Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.

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Dr. Teo Shannon @teoshannon.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

HELLO FRIENDS! I HAVE A REALLY BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!! My debut poetry collection /a chronology of blood/ has been picked up for publication Fall 2025 by The University of New Mexico Press. I am so, SO excited for you to read these poems, which began once upon a time as my MFA thesis. ❤

a screenshot of a publishing agreement between Teo Shannon and The University of New Mexico Press for Teo's debut poetry collection titled "a chronology of blood"

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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

#GivingTuesday is coming soon... To all of the wealthy liberals and progressive foundations that will soon be panic donating to the "resistance"—below are nonprofit organizations that monitor, research, and produce in-depth analysis on the far right, violent extremists, and authoritarian movements👇

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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

When The Cincinnati Review asked if wanted to write anything for their sex issue, I was like uhh really?? Then I remembered I am *thee* Carrie Bradshaw of Queens and wrote a craft essay on why funny sex scenes are GOOD and even “LITERARY”? Hope you enjoy these tips on writing hehe and haha sex. 🥵🤡

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified. —C.D. Wright

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Steven Sanchez @icarus-flies.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

When I fall asleep watching tv, I always know my husband noticed—he sets the tv to wind chimes and rain sounds before he goes to another room to play video games.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

We should care about what’s going on in Gaza for MANY reasons. But if you need a selfish one, look up “imperial boomerang.” Weapons and practices being used out in the colonies are eventually used on citizens as well. Black people BEEN trying to warn y’all.

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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Dear Editors — If you’re considering publishing an article about issues related to transgender people, then perhaps you should consider assigning that article to a transgender journalist. Don’t have any transgender journalists in your newsroom? @transjournalists.org has several valuable resources:

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Trans Journalists Association

Promoting more accurate, nuanced coverage of trans issues and communities in the media. Supporting gender-expansive journalists in their careers.

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Steven Sanchez @icarus-flies.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Heard her grumbling on the ground while I edited poems. I guess she wanted to help.

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Kelli Russell Agodon @kelliagodon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This is such a powerful poem by Hieu Minh Nguyen (@hieuminh.bsky.social). If you ever felt "not enough" for your parents or where raised in a "thin is good!" / diet culture home, this one if for you. It's one of my all-time favorite poems.

Changeling

By Hieu Minh Nguyen

Standing in front of a mirror, my mother tells me she is ugly
says the medication is making her fat. I laugh & walk her
back to the bed. My mother tells me she is ugly in the same voice
she used to say no woman could love you & I watch her
pull at her body & it is mine. My heavy breast.
My disappointing shape. She asks for a bowl of plain broth
& it becomes the cup of vinegar she would pour down my throat.
Everyday after school, I would kneel before her.
I would remove my clothes & ask her to mark the progress.
It’s important that I mention, I truly wanted to be beautiful
for her. In my dreams I am thin & if not thin, something better.
I tell my mother she is still beautiful & she laughs. The room fills
with flies. They gather in the shape of a small boy. They lead her
back to the mirror, but my reflection is still there.

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Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hey friends— Over the past few years I’ve done a roundup of trans/nonbinary/gender non-conforming *debut* authors. I’m building my 2024 list now! Send me your favorites (or yours if you debuted this year)! Last year’s here for reference: chireviewofbooks.com/2023/12/22/6...

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61 Notable Debuts by Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Non-conforming Authors - Chicago Review of Books

Every year this list gets longer and my heart grows right along with it. I’m ending 2023 filled to the brim with gratitude for the books that made me feel seen; for who I’ve been, who I am, and who I ...

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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

A lot of people have shared this poem over the past week. It’s a sentiment I think about a lot, especially now. I hope everyone is doing what they need to take care of themselves. One step at a time. One day at a time.

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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Because maybe you need this poem as much as I do.

The Thing Is
BY ELLEN BASS

to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you’ve held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you down like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.

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Steven Sanchez @icarus-flies.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Watched Netflix’s HOT FROSTY, expecting a cheesy, spicy, Christmas Rom-Com. (It is) But it made me realize how, when I’m around people I love, I often think about how one of us will die first (and how that drastically shapes my relationships with people). I just wanted a sexy snowman.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

For my newsletter I wrote about some things I learned as a young activist that have just stayed true over the last 35 years. I’ve thought of a few more, will put those in the next one.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 16/11/2024

This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.

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