Danielle Pafunda

@Dharma_Books will publish @criveragarza’s Spanish translation of THE DEAD GIRLS SPEAK IN UNISON (@BloofBooks ). It’s been a total honor to have so prismatically brilliant, uniquely poetic a writer carry LAS CHICAS MUERTAS and their denunciations of femicide into Spanish 🙏

Thoroughly enjoyed Michiah Bay Gault’s fairytale-inflected mystery GOODNIGHT STRANGER. Hansel & Gretel, Rumplestiltskin, Snow White & Rose Red, The Little Mermaid, and Murder She Wrote, with the existential querying one expects from so lovely and great a tide mind as Gault’s!

We've got a full-time Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies lecturer position at RIT, with a long list of possible specializations. Check it out or pass it along to the MS/MA/PhDs you know? 🙏 tinyurl.com/32urfwvr

The yew tree points up. It has a Gothic shape.
The eyes lift after it and find the moon.
The moon is my mother. She is not sweet like Mary.
Her blue garments unloose small bats and owls.
How I would like to believe in tenderness – 
 Plath

Thoroughly delighted to have two new (psychedelic unicorn, cosmic slurry) poems in the current issue of Apartment. Big thanks to @mk_wlsh and to the amazing company at this block party:

They laugh ‘cause they know they’re untouchable, not because what I said was wrong

Brilliant, glorious Hoa Nguyen chose Along the Road for the 2023 @SaturnaliaBooks Poetry Prize. Big congrats to Nicole and Jonathan, who won the Alma. I’m over the moon (and under the dirt cuz this is my desert underworld book) 🌙 Mega thanks to Saturnalia and Hoa

If we’re tempted to read these poems in neat, bifurcated columns, the poems will soon teach us otherwise. What’s curative, what’s insult to injury. What’s wise, what’s foolish. It’s a muddle. What mordant will it take to stick your color to the cloth? All you can do is experiment

A total pleasure, a total honor to write for this chapbook on @thedaybooks Above/ground press is doing something really special with these $7 folios on writers whose poems are those vital sites of commune and exchange we’re seeking 🌳

among cold stoves and beneath a snowy sun

Speculative writers, join us at RIT 🖤 🐅 🖤 We're aiming to begin interviews in early-mid February!

PS: no paywall, nothing between you and the piggies of the astral plane

Strangeness and joy, sweet summer children, wise winter babbies

Tupelo Quarterly 27 @QuarterlyTupelo includes a fifty-two page Disability Poetry folio @chrissalerno50 spent two years curating. I’ve got two poems there, an honor to my crip-time heart 🥰 Petra Kuppers, @npspoon, @stephanie_heit, and more! Read the entire thing for free!

This is going to be such a sweet, strange, wonder of a panel