There’s only one day left in April, and April is National Poetry Month, and poetry is absolutely one hundred percent my jam, and that jam is rhubarb. Tangy, sweet, and delightful on the tongue. So for this blog post, I’m going to share the jam feast with you so you don’t have to be jelly. This is a list all of my poetry that you can currently find online for free, as well as some recommendations of poetry I absolutely love. I hope you get inspired to read some poetry, or try writing a poem yourself.

Orion’s Beau “rime of the pit beast” – a speculative fiction poem about a king and a trans man

Eye to the Telescope “lil’ meaties™ memo re: why the mice need to be headless” – a satire

Eye to the Telescope “billboards on the fungal highway” – a speculative fiction poem combining my love for classic billboard Burma Shave advertisements and mushrooms

New Words Press Citizen Trans Project “I’m trans, so” – a poem written in reaction to the current political administration

meatthoughts.com “fake trailer” – a piece inspired by the world created by Gemma Files in her novel Experimental Film

Recommendations:

Field Guide to the Haunted Forest by Jarod K. Anderson – a collection of poetry that resonates with the magic and wonder of the natural world

We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics collected by Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel – a collection of poetry by a variety of trans poets so vital and rich I believe it should be taught in schools

Requiem for a Siren: Women Poets of the Pulps edited by Jaclyn Youhana Garver and Michael W. Phillips Jr. – a recent addition to my poetry collection, this is a collection of speculative fiction, horror, and weird poetry by women poets from weird pulp’s heyday of the 1930s-50s that I’ve been enjoying lately