Ben Shahon

Mostly lingering cough, and some minor associated symptoms (snot, sneezing, dry throat, fatigue). Basic head cold stuff. Hopefully you're doing alright!

I kept doing that until this morning when I finally took some DayQuil and went "ohhhhhh"

It took me until Wednesday to admit it, but I think I got the post-AWP bug 🫤

Eat me(at) your earliest convenience L.M. Cole Cover: An unsettling washed out and sepia toned photograph of a woman in a 1950s style evening dress staring open faced and dead eyed as she offers up a platter of uncooked meat. Through erasure, vispo, and poetry L.M. Cole breaks gaze down like breastbone, asks ‘What of this body so full of offal? What happens to those of us not fit to eat?’ kith books literary home of the trans, Crip, queer, & sick

Through erasure, vispo, and poetry L.M. Cole breaks gaze down like breastbone, asks ‘What of this body so full of offal? What happens to those of us not fit to eat?’

Eat Me(at) Your Earliest Convenience
L.M. Cole
kithbooks.com/shop/p/cole

Three Cowboy Jamboree books: Blue Bob, TWWNROOS, and Red Headed Writing

if you order a copy of TWWNROOS directly from me now through the end of March ($15, includes shipping and handling), I’ll throw in an extra copy of @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social’s Bob Dylan and/or Willie Nelson anthologies at no extra charge! DM if interested!

The Barrelhouse Conference: Conversations and Connections, Practical Advice on Writing — Barrelhouse Conversations and Connections is a one-day conference organized by Barrelhouse in person at American University in Washington, DC on April 18, 2026.

If you're sad AWP is over (or that you missed it) and you can get to DC on 4/18/26, join us at the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference for a *not overwhelming* but practical and fun day talking writing and publishing with lots of your fave litmags and small presses! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

Can't lie, that does have its days sometimes 😅

Going straight back to work at the day job immediately after AWP: not recommended.

important writers attend the JAKE reading at AWP 2026 in Baltimore

Thank you Terri Linn for capturing me and Ben's souls @terrilinndavis.bsky.social @beansbaker5.bsky.social

Soon!

Huzzah! Ghost bus arrived. Only 30 mins after I started waiting for it

Thanks! It's mostly because I cheaped out for the ultra ultra ultra budget parking haha. But I should be home soon if Google maps' traffic is to be believed

Waiting for a bus that when I asked the LAX info desk where to pick it up, he said "I've never heard of that one" 💀

Love Poem I love you enough to overthrow the government. To wheel out the ole guillotine and let the heads roll. To give the land back. To plant seeds in the community garden. I love you enough to free Palestine. I love you like a guerilla movement. Like Molotov cocktails flying at a cop's head. I love you like a folk song, celebrating the martyrs and praying we live to see the other side of history.

Hey. I love you.

Stuck on the tarmac with a broken AC oh no

The Taco Bell quarterly booth at awp 2026 in Baltimore

THANK YOU AWP! We sold the ENTIRE print run of our first physical copy of TBQ! (A sampler issue we slapped together!) Your support and kind words mean everything to us! Take note Taco Bell Overlords, I am now making cash hand over fist. Give me 50 million dollars for Literature!

It's hot as balls in BWI, but I've got my "Fucking Poets, Man" shirt on under my hoodie and I'm afraid that might be too controversial for the number of kids around lmao

What a fucking beautiful night. Thank you everyone for coming to Death to @publishedbyjake.bsky.social ! I couldn't have asked for a better send off.

Thank you for coming and reading! It was great to hang out in person again!

Dude, it was so much fun! Looking forward to the next lit event I see you at!

Con tabling always makes me feel like I used to be an adventurer like you, and then I took an arrow to the knee

Booth 318. All random question were free. They are now 50-60 percent off.

Like good old-fashioned pirates me and @beansbaker5.bsky.social have commandeered Roi Faineant Press’s empty table and we’re slinging books. Come by and buy one! Please, I have a child! #awp26

Me and @chrisstevenson.bsky.social will be manning down the fort. Come for the literary tarot, stay for the JAKE!

Tonight at Club Charles, 7 p.m.

It is the last day of the book fair and I hope everyone had/is having a great time and bought a lot of books, not just ours, but hopefully some of ours.

My favorite picture from last night. These guys aren't just wonderful writers, they're also just so warm and so encouraging and super endearing. A lot of fun to hang out with.

Thank you Malarkey crew for letting me crash the function!

AWP Day 2!

I wonder if kristi noem got fired because of the godawful commercials