I can’t get over how good Queer Nature is. I learned about this poetry collection shortly before its release while searching for June Jordan’s work. Then serendipitously, I saw it posted on Chen Chen’s Instagram a few days later. Here are a few of my fav poems
CW: This fucken pandemic Bitter, plain routine: Five swab rotations around each nostril Fifteen stirs in a plastic sample tube Fifteen minutes of waiting to worry about the measure of disruption, the potential aftershocks on days, months or years
Calculate how long until your tail turns white by subtracting your age from 500 years. Did you know that fleece can be used as a filter to strain gold from stream water? Note: "Horoscope Advice Reworked" might become a series of poems. It'll be a bit
I highly recommend this blog update Allison Parrish wrote about poetry generated by bots. Full of delightful gadgetry, public domain poetic corpus considerations, and tragedy: Solar powered dawn poems: progress reportMy lab notes, plus thoughts on solar powered poeticsAllison PostsAllison Parrish I got to see Allison present at Strange Loop
Dearest peach loaf, what have you observed from windows you've rolled in front of, claws outstretched, face reaching toward the sun, like part-mo'o, part-popoki? Are these bird calls and plant smells startling? How many different names have you gone by? How many names do you still