PRIDE 2023 / DON'T LET THE BASTARDS KEEP YOU DOWN
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I read somewhere that love only gets old if you let it.
I can’t remember why we stopped writing love letters and started crying drunkenly into the phone.
I can’t remember when we stopped watering our roots. I can’t remember when we started competing for the sun. I tell everyone who asks about you that we outgrew each other.
I still don’t know if that’s the truth.
Maybe we just got tired.
excerpt from “19 Days” by Trista Mateer (via tristamateer)
Anonymous asked:
If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one quality or ability, what would it be?
to fucking let things go oh my god
A stunning Hellenistic glass vase shaped like a pomegranate. A symbol of life, fertility, abundance and good luck for the year ahead!
Dated 2nd century BC - 1st century AD.
Anonymous asked:
your poem “Robin” lives rent free in my head.
Thank you so much for it.
Hope you’re doing awesome💓.
Thank you for reading!!!!!!!!
do you have a poetry book?
Hi! Yes!! I've put out a few over the years. Still available:
- Honeybee. Sapphic breakup memoir basically.
- The Dogs I Have Kissed. Bad dates with bad people. Messy intimacy. Won Goodreads Choice the year of its release.
- Small Ghost. A very short chapbook, still available on Kindle. Depression and feeling like a ghost in your own life.
- girl, isolated. Written between March 2020 & March 2021. Loneliness. Pandemic poems. Mental health.
- When the Stars Wrote Back. Technically young adult but it's all about the same. Random House picked the name don't @ me. Notes from the universe kind of?
- is it okay to say this? A collection of excerpts and brief quotes for those who prefer short punchy poetry.
- Aphrodite Made Me Do It. Feminist exploration of goddess mythology, alternating from the POV of the poet and the POV of the goddess. Relating myths to modern issues.
- Artemis Made Me Do It. (see above)
- Persephone Made Me Do It. (see above) Persephone is actually available for preorder now wherever you get your books. The rest can be found in store and online. Amazon has everything. Stock of specific things at bookstores is always a toss up but of course I suggest checking your local bookstore or library.
chen chen, nature poem in ‘when i grow up i want to be a list of further possibilities’
from the flesh by paul guest, published in the resurrection of the body and the ruin of the world
[Text ID: And for this world the flesh is not good for much at all, except to love and then to mourn. /End ID]
What would you recommend for self publishing?
There are definitely alternative answers out there but I find working directly with KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) to be the easiest! It’s free upfront, the royalties are good, they have templates for everything, and it has a big community of users so you can usually troubleshoot issues pretty easily.
Anonymous asked:
I saw your poem, the one that goes, “I promised no more poetry” in a web weave, and I’ve just spent the past 30 minutes looking at as much of your writing that’s online. You’re the first person who writes poetry the way I do. Idk how to explain it, but thank you for that.
If you’re ever looking for something sort of similar, try Clementine von Radics or Caitlyn Siehl!
