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Please Stop Saying Nice Things About Me (But Also, Don’t Stop…?)
Something strange has been happening over on Bluesky. A phenomenon, if you will. Each week, as The Broken Spine grows, as #PoemsAbout lights up timelines and #LiftToTheSky spreads its joy, something else quietly unfolds: People. Keep. Saying. Nice. Things. About. Me. Now, let me be clear, this is very kind. Lovely, even. I’m deeply grateful…
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Submit Your New Poetry Collection for Interview and Critique – Submissions Now Open
I’m now accepting submissions for In Conversation, In Critique, a new series here on my personal author site, and part of PIL: Promoting Indie Lit. This feature offers something often missing from today’s literary coverage: a meaningful space where poets and their work are taken seriously, not solemnly, and where being read matters more than…
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Rainbows in the Rough – Shaun Ponsonby: Queer Pop Culture Criticism That Cuts Deep
In a landscape drowning in clickbait and corporate rainbow-washing, Shaun Ponsonby‘s Rainbows in the Rough: The Unlikely Queer Icons That Shaped a Closeted Queen lands like a gut-punch: sharp, funny, and unapologetically queer. This isn’t just an anthology of LGBTQIA+ essays. It’s a cultural force, a joyous riot of lived experience, unlikely love, and critical…
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Previewing out.skirts: The LGBTQIA+ Anthology You Should Be Reading
Let’s be clear from the off, this isn’t a soft-focus puff piece. I don’t do reverence for reverence’s sake. But I do care deeply about the kind of work that tries to say something real, even when it falters. out.skirts is a brave and necessary anthology. It’s not perfect, what is? But it pulses with…
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Introducing In Conversation, In Critique
I’m developing a new interview and review series. I’ve long believed that poets deserve more than empty praise. They deserve to be read carefully, responded to honestly, and spoken to with respect, whether the work lands or not. That’s where In Conversation, In Critique comes in. This new series on my personal author site is…