Casey Plett

Baltimore/AWP it's time, it's free, you can just show up and have a GREAT FUCKING TIME, tomorrow night

I'll be there hard at work, naturally

Ok. Off to the races.

Evergreen skeet

"hurts" my soul you might even say

First time going through LittlePuss hurts I requested back from Ingram. Certainly is instructive.

Do you want to be a person or a walking record of grievances

NYC Launch Event missed connections with tall girls Readings from: Gwen Aube Stephen Ira / Good Judy 563 5th Ave Brooklyn 11215 March 10 8:00 PM

❗BROOKLYN ❗

👯‍♀️ Mar 10 book party at Good Judy 👯‍♀️
🥵 for Missed Connections With Tall Girls 🥵

GWEN AUBE
w/ Stephen Ira and some TBA friends...

🫵 B THERE 🫵

🎉 Doors 7 🎉
🎉 Readings 8 🎉

We will have raucousness and books and maybe some beer

RSVP here www.eventbrite.com/e/missed-con... or just come 😊

"Business taxes don't have to be stressful" DON'T TELL ME HOW TO FEEL

TIS THE SEASON come out babes see you there

My Heart Is a Piece of Garbage. Fight Seagulls! Fight! YouTube video by Rae Spoon - Topic

Every now and then I remember there is a song I love about Calgary, Alberta and it feels like it too

Seconding this one. ("OH SHIT IT'S THE COPS!")

kinda crazy how microblogging drove literally everybody insane

Oh man strap in, this is a thread about how we published something we never thought LittlePuss would ever publish and it is fucking beautiful

(Lorrie Moore)

"I don't care if I'm a fish, I still want a bicycle."

Yer giving me the howling fantods

bluesky clippy: hey there! you seem to be mad at something but not the person you’re yelling at. would you like some help self-regulating?

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🎩 Ma'am

I AM NOT BI, I AM STRAIGHT AND GAY, AND YOU ALL ARE GETTING "DOUBLE-FISTING" WRONG

Really feeling my most Gemini having nodded slack-jawed to this skeet after my usual four cups of coffee plus a Celsius before noon

Book-friends, if you trust my taste at all: do NOT skip this one, holy cow.

Oh buddy!!! I love hearing this 💜

Drive by to say, I loved it--I've really struggled to connect with poetry the last four years, but your enthusiasm and Gwen's poems in it helped the signal come in a little clearer tonight 💚💜

SORRY THREAD IS TOO LONG I GOT OVER-EXCITED

time ripples inwards from without: from all horizons of a tangerine sky women-wailing coalesces to a seed. bones masculinize, skin coarsens tidal contingencies parch & pause then atrophy— let no woman be without sister, let no woman see herself a dry tree. let rains bless the women which have made themselves women for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. she that is able to receive it, let her receive it.

And THEN look at this section right afterwards that takes this rooted reality and turns it towards prayer

in 2017, a tranny hooker with crowbar brain damage found me in a dive bar on the side of the highway and took me home, and clothed me, and fed me, and taught me all she knows— how to kiss while drunk—how to use cherry lipstick as eyeshadow— how to use anything as a gun—how to use anything as anything at all— yet fate still weighs like lead in the centre of my soul. so if the gun must bang, let the gun bang into my festering estrogenated testes—made in her image, i go the distance while my nuts drag like prisoner’s irons which wither before herma in the gallery— becoming aesthete as an angel. if beauty is violence, let us be beautiful. if God suffers with us, let us suffer. if we be the collapse, may we collapse in a heap. she says when you turn 40 you stop wanting new things and settle for wanting the shit you always wanted but never got. it is then i will find some boy in some alley and groom him to be my daughter, as she has done to me. my daughter shall know she is the result of her mother’s failure, as so many before her. she shall know the score on this wretched earth and praise it, as so many before her. she shall be loved the way i have been loved—like an attack on the stupid immutable flesh of the world. brutally, relentlessly, without condition or mercy or pause, she shall be loved by me.

Look at this section about her trans mother, and about what it means to try to look after younger trans people

"For Herma" is an ekphrastic sequence about becoming obsessed with a Klimt painting of a pregnant woman even though you hate Klimt.

It's also a meditation on what motherhood means for trans women, what it means to grow up, on what it takes to look after each other

and it's religious poetry!

it had poems like this one

The manuscript I read had titles like “Little Caesars Sponsors Shemale Youth Workshops” and “We Are in an Airbnb in North Carolina” and like, yes, these are unmistakably TOPICS