All in Writing
Always a poet or twenty to celebrate in December. Their work, as sentinel, watching weaving wearing the frayed grief and pulsing creativities of a whole year. Imagine! Twelve months worth of words queerly catalogued- ready to reference in this next project we call 2026.
Poetry. Before, after, during, always, Yes, there’s a deep and interesting kind of troubling poems do. Troubling as in stirring up- and- creating space for expressions of troubles. Art asks for both.
- Tracy K. Smith
Summer inspired, I share work by brilliant enthusiasts (aka poets, scholars, activists, and writers) all focused in their own way on queering relationship configurations. "As artists, [we] strive to make pieces that inspire lasting change in how we love, act, practice intimacy, and organize our society."
Lucille’s poetry is a ‘shimmer of influence, a kind of glimmering evidence of something beyond oneself’.
I think of such Shimmers and Glimmers as Risky Creativity and often, all letter-writing-love like, put pen to paper and stamp to envelope to explore such honeycombing, queer magic.
Jordan’s Passion points us not to romantic love or sexual fury but to the tools she uses to make her work memorable, modern, experimental: urgency, time, music, pain, white space, marked silences, hushed pauses, earned wisdom, the language of the female psyche.
After an arduous 2020, I’m taking stock early this year of what still works in my life (inspired by deLicious Kate McKinnon led cold open on Saturday Night Live last weekend). Here I’ve shared the SNL video and my working list.
During turkeyFest month, I devour books. This year I’ve noticed how especially delicious queer-ed bodies and pleasures taste on the page. Here are a few titles with BIPOC + gender expansive folx + queer stories front and center. May more of us queers write- taking up space and talking loudly with our pens about what feels good.