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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

log on, get bodied by a transphobic 'leftist' take, talk up trans creators, get bodied by SA discourse by ableism by fatphobia, check on your people, get bodied, repeat

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i, the girl turned mockingbird. opening my beak and spilling untruths— - mouth & throat Vivid and drenched in the language of longing, this collection will be familiar to anyone whose sense of settled in their own skin came on fitful and slow. www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/bodyd...

Body, Dissected
Ivi Hua
cover: Cyanotype image of what looks to be flowers under a gathered gauzy fabric. The colours are white for the flowers, green for the leaves, a grey-pink for other flowers, and the background and overall wash of blue.
The tile and author's name appear in a white serif font.

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light

after philip metres
dusk, night emptying
& pouring. horizon aflame
punctured. blazing, set alight.
my head, heart, swelling,
cresting & folding in waves
ephemeral. skin pulled
taut stretched scarred. oceans
boiled & pure down my
openmouthed
esophagus. the sky made sweeter
in clouded eyes.
all i wanted all i craved
was light.
could i recapture snag &
trap that justice, the perception?
only something tangible,
thorned, scarring my throat
could have held me
down.

Body, Dissected
Ivi Hua

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Date idea: choose any local stagnant fountain and I'll take us to the bottom, skate your fingers through the sludge (my mouth on your wrist)" - Pond Bitch, Jenna Jaco @jennajaco.bsky.social kithbooks.com/shop/p/mallwater

A pale blue washed photo taken from the Queen Street entrance of the Eaton Centre in Toronto is slashed at a diagonal by a red band with pink and yellow accents that reads "MALL WATER" in white. A smaller rectangle of red lies near the bottom right reading "Jenna Jaco"

Huge For Me

Mostly asleep I catch my wrist
flipping itself out again into the
space between blanket and
pillow, leading with my thumb,
the first two fingers extended.
A Seinfeldian gesture, complaining?
Pleading? Or Adam, reaching for
the DILFy hand of God? I undo it

but there it goes again. We
spar like this until the curtain
edges glow. When I wake up
this time I don’t scramble for
the thread. I don’t try to remember
who I was making my case to
and whether or not they bought it.
I no longer explain myself,

but if you wanted to do it for me:
Tell them I’m doing fine. Tell them
the museum docents know me,
that the end of the month holds
me close, that I like cucumbers now.
Tell them I'm not the man they
think I am at home, I'm hotter.
And you do, and they buy it.

Mall Water
Jenna Jaco

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So honored that Pirooz Kalayeh made a short film inspired by my poem “Race to the Tree.” You can read the poem here: tinyurl.com/mphr844n Professor Kalayeh’s short will be premiering tomorrow (10/10) at Rochester’s ImageOut Film Festival. Tickets: tinyurl.com/ye7c6bcs

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New interview all about the writing life.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 09/10/2026

Killing people doesn't unkill other people. It just causes even more dead people. In fact once you realize that, you end up being opposed to *gestures generally at everything going on right now*.

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"¹THERE IS SOMETHING IN MY HOUSE. I KNOW THAT’S INCREDIBLY VAGUE & NOT VERY HELPFUL. I WILL NOT ELABORATE." —Eleanor Eli Moss beestungmag.com/issue01/one-...

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One Poem by Eleanor Eli Moss

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Bloodroom is a plea to identity, to the process of searching for purpose and of seeking certainty in a broken world. sundress-publications.square.site/product/bloo...

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Janakiraman launches the reader into a trance of raw devotion" - Jaiden Geolingo (How to Migrate Ghosts) Bodies In Phototaxis R. Janakiraman kithbooks.com/shop/p/phototaxis

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bodies in Phototaxis wants and wants, and in wanting, Janakiraman recognizes a core disappointment: the quiet sadness of a life imagined as another. Bodies in Phototaxis mines past and present, unveiling a sun-soaked and grieving trans Tamil now. kithbooks.com/shop/p/phototaxis

Bodies in Phototaxis
R. Janakiraman
A face emerges from a chaos of choppy black lines on white.

Pre-orders are OPEN
OUT October 27th

lipstick
—after Ryhanna Mbakop

I’m sorry mother of my mother martyr in your mirror
gold tube clicking open somewhere in g.b. road a prostitute
swipes herself red in a red-light district
in a sex-stained country with sex-stained saris
and I laugh her same laugh, round teeth and mouth munching on secondhand silk
I press the bullet of color against
my mouth, drag it slow a blade over ripe fruit
my brown body split clean open and
pomegranate seeds I mean hundreds spill out of me my wrists spilling bangles
wet clatter on hardwood floors a boy and I wet clatter on hardwood floors
behind the ration shop clove gum cheap soap
and I wiped his mouth clean with my shirt
lipstick blooming shame across the hem
six years ago, amma nurses my split lip after it was dragged across the pavement
I bled the color from my mouth and kept running
I looked back up at her and her mouth
was the color of every war we could not win
six years later
I hold a conch up to my ear and she is singing
with her red lips

R. Janakiraman
Bodies in Phototaxis
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ADVANCE PRAISE

"Janakiraman’s debut collection, Bodies in Phototaxis, immediately activates ideas of light (as the titular phenomenon, ‘phototaxis,’ implies), through self-clarifications and revelations. Janakiraman’s poetic obsessions span grammatical structures and functions, gender, romance, race, religion, and the body. The light graces all of these things—not just through mere existence, but also through stubborn insistence: “he crushes a slant of light into my lap,” Janakiraman writes, showing how occurrences of light come from the intimacy of the viscera because we make it, we absorb it, and we release it. One line begins, “There is a sin in wanting.” Through this expression of want, Janakiraman has proven to be an incredibly thoughtful poet: this debut demands the light to shine on it, showcasing the rawest form of desire and (un-)fulfillment one can encounter."
— Aldrin Badiola, Editor-in-Chief of Artists from Maryland

R. Janakiraman
Bodies in Phototaxis
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

get bodied by depictions of state sanctioned murder was not in my first draft and you know what, that's on me capital punishment is torture in our name. abolishment is the only human choice

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dead deeri @deerea.rs · 08/10/2026

poetry people! Poïsons is booking for 2027! if u wanna read at one of my fave poetry showcases, u have two days to email them!

POÏSONS
A TRANS READING SERIES & OPEN MIC
(black and white photo of two bodies wrapped in gauze, one with their mouth open)
BÖÖKING FOR 2027
First Fridays, January-December, Chicago, IL
Email months available, a bio, and a selection of work to poisonsreadingseries @gmail.com by Oct 10th

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Again and always, I want to know: why are YOU the person to write this book and why now?

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Esther Alter @esther-alter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

log on, get bodied by a transphobic 'leftist' take, talk up trans creators, get bodied by SA discourse by ableism by fatphobia, check on your people, get bodied, repeat

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New story day. Near future even-more-dystopia in which trans people are legally permitted to exist as long as they immediately do this one action that a lot of us already do. FEDERAL FACILITY FOR TRANSGENDER INDIVIDUALS, ALLSTON MASSACHUSETTS www.menace-mag.com/federal-faci...

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Federal Facility for Transgender Individuals, Allston, Massachusetts — M E N A C E

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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

a million thanks to @sadeebee.bsky.social and all of our submitters and contributors to issue 6 of GARLAND 🐍 go check it out now in print or digital fifthwheelpress.com/garland

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GARLAND — fifth wheel press

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Mac Crane (I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself, A Sharp Endless Need, & Perverts) on queer/trans parenting and being willing to burn the world for your child.

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"The symptoms titled madness are so often strategies for survival. Our bodies clarify our ancestors' lifetimes. Pour water into an empty container; theory fills every space." Madness Belongs to the People Jody Chan www.brickbooks.ca/shop/madness...

Madness Belongs to the People
poems
Jody Chan
cover: a linocut or block style print depicting a fish, and the inner working of a cell in bands of black, yellow, and blue

Madness Is a Strategy

Before madness meant rage, it meant insanity. Gemædde: to be out of one's mind. Sharing a linguistic root with the Latin verb mutare: to change, to go, to move.

Anger derives from Old Norse angr, or: grief, sorrow, dis-tress, affliction. My life grew around what, within me, needed protection. Later, my life's vocabulary-to wing, to wild-grew incongruent with the script of normalcy-to work the clock, to write the cheques, post-dated, for rent.

Madness disturbs the book. Anger bubbles the page, blooms a gathering. A red breach. I tend to boil over. The place my madness knows as home: a low-pressure front, a reservoir of panic. A muscular humidity, threatening heat.

To the state, mass murder is a matter of economy. Years into a pandemic, masking becomes an uncommon accom-modation. Words interrupt, but they cannot solve. Nor an-ger alone, translated into bodies in the street. A call-and-

response of strategy and pragmatism is not sufficient. Language cannot replace movement, only approximate it.

I learned about anger in my father's house. Belts un-looped, blurred doorways in my dreams. He raised us to be obedient, not happy. I couldn't tell the difference. Doubt condenses into a myth about the self. Only time revised my understanding. Thermal shadow of a mother long dead. Her wayward frequencies.

Preverbal, as in: before language or memory. A contraction in the eyes. A hardening of the chest.

The symptoms titled madness are so often strategies for survival. Our bodies clarify our ancestors' lifetimes. Pour water into an empty container; theory fills every space.

My instinct is to nod, make small, tame breath. To scream on the inside only, wield a smile, optimize for labour, to leave the frame. In Chinese, the characters for happiness depict an open heart; sadness, a heart that's hurt. Energy, or passion: a hot heart, a heart on fire.

Many lineages connect power to one's core. Martial arts and qigong, taiko drumming. Silence spills with movement. Breath tells a story of what matters. What loosens it; what grinds it down. Madness is my structure of possibility. I don't mean this as a metaphor. I trust the people who have sat with me there, outside the world. Every day, I've handed them my life.

In madness, I am more porous-the task is to need others without consuming them. Sentences collapse into sound. Sound glows without meaning. My mind lights up, no longer self-contained. The world transpires, then continues to transpire. The doctors give up their jobs so they can take care of the people. The state administers language, but it doesn't know how to dance.

To build bonds that outlast periods of crisis, political parties, the constrictions of work and rent. Certain modes of relating can crack us open, write Clémence x. Clémentine. We are learning how to unleash our desires

to the point that they rupture with capital.

Madness cutting the noise, unwinding a signal for elsewhere.

If a riot is a feeling and a sound. I offer my language to my madness. My madness takes whatever it wants. My mouth, my memory, my movement, my breath. My body finds freedom in the places where semantics fall short. Squares the chest, stacks the shoulders. Arms linked against an oncoming police line. Vertebra by vertebra, bearing up, unfurling my spine into the sky.

A sound can become a feeling of power. Silence, the space for my breath to synchronize with yours. Madness is not contagious. When the music plays, my body moves of its own accord.

To live beside madness has required me to follow my body through my own cruelties. The silences I wielded at myself, my ex-lover. The knife I dragged through suicidal hours. A dissonance not forgotten, but knotted around me like a scarf. I am necessary, I am not special. Can I imagine growing old? Can I imagine being satisfied by my own life?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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we do not have to live this way.

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ianstein's monster @it-i4n.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

got my author copies today!!! gf finished reading and concluded that "these are poems about not killing yourself" otherspaces.bandcamp.com/merch/ian-la...

Ian Lark Miller – Walking Palm from Other Spaces

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Crow's Nest Comics @crowsnest.quest · 05/10/2026

We've been working with Books to Prisoners Seattle to help get graphic novels into prisons for years and a generous donor has committed to matching all book donations this week in honor of banned book week!!! Go to shop.crowsnest.quest/a/listify/re... to get them some comics and double your impact.

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Mac Crane (I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself, A Sharp Endless Need, & Perverts) on queer/trans parenting and being willing to burn the world for your child.

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new from kith! Bodies in Phototaxis R. Janakiraman October 27, 2026 Is It Chaos Or Not Mac Crane December 17, 2006 preorders are OPEN kithbooks.com

new from kith

Bodies in Phototaxis
R. Janakiraman
October 27, 2026
cover: a sketch of a face emerging from a chaos of sharp, short, black lines on a background of white

Is It Chaos Or Not
Mac Crane
December 17, 2006
cover: a parent's eye view looking down at the feet of the parent and child side by side on a skateboard

preorders are open
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

new from kith! Bodies in Phototaxis R. Janakiraman October 27, 2026 Is It Chaos Or Not Mac Crane December 17, 2006 preorders are OPEN kithbooks.com

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Libreture - your personal ebook & comic storage @libreture.com · 07/10/2026

If you'd like to support independent bookshops instead of Amazon, try buying as directly as possible. For digital books, here's my growing list of over 500 DRM-free ebook, digital comic, magazine, and RPG shops. 💜

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The Ultimate List of DRM-free Bookshops

A regularly updated list of online shops that sell DRM-free ebooks, digital comics, magazines, and RPGs. Helping hundreds of readers a month discover over 400 DRM-free bookshops.

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

FYI signups are going live soon for my workshop: "So Your Poetry Manuscript Is The Exact Length You Want It But Submission Guidelines Need Ten More Pages: How to Write Poems That Enjamb Across Page Breaks"

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Conyer Clayton @conyerclayton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It is release day for the lake-shaped excuse!! 💛 Thank you so much for reading, if you do. Thank you for holding this grief, this love, this anger, this regret, this laughter, this silence, towards yours. For my mom, Sharon Conyer. Every day. @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social

Several copies of the lake-shaped excuse displayed on a dock.

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our third zine was Rosalind Shoopmann's "Dramatic and Dubious" Histories of Meeker County, Minnesota. an experimental narrative excavated from wikipedia records. nobody else is doing stuff like Rosalind. otherspaces.bandcamp.com/merch/rosali...

Rosalind Shoopmann – "Dramatic and Dubious" Histories of Meeker County, Minnesota from Other Spaces

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second zine was a collaboration with Ishtar Sr. on the release of her album wifef*cker ultraDELUXE. it's a tour map and lyrics book for a really sick record. i would love to do more collabs like this. otherspaces.bandcamp.com/merch/ishtar...

Ishtar Sr. – wifef*cker ultraDELUXE (tour + lyrics zine) from Other Spaces

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our first zine was my own project, Distance Montage—a collection of interrelated poems and processed digital photographs inspired by the work of Soviet Armenian filmmaker Artavazd Peleshian otherspaces.bandcamp.com/merch/isobel...

Isobel Bess – Distance Montage from Other Spaces

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this fridee'll be one year since other spaces published our first zine. we've published four zines so far, which feels pretty sustainable. trans people are doing a lot of cool and varied work on space/place/time/moment right now. otherspaces.bandcamp.com