Jael Montellano
@gathcreator.bsky.social
🏳️🌈(she/they) | Mexican ESL writer | Interview Editor at Hypertext Mag | Words at Psaltery & Lyre, POET LORE, La Piccioletta Barca, ANMLY Lit, Tint Journal, Beyond Queer Words, The Selkie. Upcoming at Hayden’s Ferry Review. www.jaelmontellano.com
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Jael Montellano
@gathcreator.bsky.social
· Jan 12
Literary crush means when I read @alinaetc.bsky.social’s “My Father Explains Why They Left Me Behind When Defecting” last year I had to try its form out for myself! The results are my poem “My mother dreams of whiteness” which pubs today at Psaltery & Lyre: psalteryandlyre.org/2026/01/12/m...
And now my day feels like a dandelion seed…
January 14, 2026 at 8:42 PM
And now my day feels like a dandelion seed…
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"European men, who loved me for my curves, my / ice-water eyes."
"My mother dreams of whiteness" by @gathcreator.bsky.social
psalteryandlyre.org/2026/01/12/m...
"My mother dreams of whiteness" by @gathcreator.bsky.social
psalteryandlyre.org/2026/01/12/m...
My mother dreams of whiteness
by Jael Montellano
psalteryandlyre.org
January 13, 2026 at 3:00 AM
"European men, who loved me for my curves, my / ice-water eyes."
"My mother dreams of whiteness" by @gathcreator.bsky.social
psalteryandlyre.org/2026/01/12/m...
"My mother dreams of whiteness" by @gathcreator.bsky.social
psalteryandlyre.org/2026/01/12/m...
Literary crush means when I read @alinaetc.bsky.social’s “My Father Explains Why They Left Me Behind When Defecting” last year I had to try its form out for myself! The results are my poem “My mother dreams of whiteness” which pubs today at Psaltery & Lyre: psalteryandlyre.org/2026/01/12/m...
January 12, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Literary crush means when I read @alinaetc.bsky.social’s “My Father Explains Why They Left Me Behind When Defecting” last year I had to try its form out for myself! The results are my poem “My mother dreams of whiteness” which pubs today at Psaltery & Lyre: psalteryandlyre.org/2026/01/12/m...
IT’S HERE!!!! POET LORE Volume 120, Summer/Fall 2025. The company I’m in, y’all!!!! Award-winning poets, a foreword by Hanif Abdurraqib, PABLO NERUDA, are you kidding me?? And on page 39, little old me with a poem I wrote the summer of 2024, “Aranya (Rêverie).”
January 10, 2026 at 4:03 PM
IT’S HERE!!!! POET LORE Volume 120, Summer/Fall 2025. The company I’m in, y’all!!!! Award-winning poets, a foreword by Hanif Abdurraqib, PABLO NERUDA, are you kidding me?? And on page 39, little old me with a poem I wrote the summer of 2024, “Aranya (Rêverie).”
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“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
lithub.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Upcoming publications! I wanted to note that I’ll have two poems out soon, so please keep watching this space! 🖋️
November 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Upcoming publications! I wanted to note that I’ll have two poems out soon, so please keep watching this space! 🖋️
Book mail from Insight Editions, @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social and Cardboard House Press!
November 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Book mail from Insight Editions, @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social and Cardboard House Press!
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Morning walk
September 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Morning walk
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so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
September 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
Zhao Dexun
Cr: 【澄怀咫尺】赵德勋
Cr: 【澄怀咫尺】赵德勋
September 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Zhao Dexun
Cr: 【澄怀咫尺】赵德勋
Cr: 【澄怀咫尺】赵德勋
I’ve been taking a workshop this summer with @jsalowe.com and it’s been such joyful work! I’m coming out of this class with so many new poems and I’m thankful for every minute. I’m proud of myself, of this summer, of the work I put in.
Here are the full moons that occurred these weeks 🌕
Here are the full moons that occurred these weeks 🌕
August 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I’ve been taking a workshop this summer with @jsalowe.com and it’s been such joyful work! I’m coming out of this class with so many new poems and I’m thankful for every minute. I’m proud of myself, of this summer, of the work I put in.
Here are the full moons that occurred these weeks 🌕
Here are the full moons that occurred these weeks 🌕
I look at myself
and see myself
a distance
and see myself
a distance
and rapture
and pleasure
everything
is love
- Gabrielle Tinti, “The Boxer II”
and pleasure
everything
is love
- Gabrielle Tinti, “The Boxer II”
July 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I look at myself
and see myself
a distance
and see myself
a distance
When the muse wakes you at 4am, you listen.
July 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
When the muse wakes you at 4am, you listen.
Fantastic, @scribblermiller.bsky.social ! Congratulations 🍾
New Flash by @scribblermiller.bsky.social
“A cottonmouth swallows me when I am seven. It waits for me just outside my front door, stretched out along the walkway. When I step into the concrete space, it opens its mouth wide.”
fracturedlit.com/cotton-mouth/
“A cottonmouth swallows me when I am seven. It waits for me just outside my front door, stretched out along the walkway. When I step into the concrete space, it opens its mouth wide.”
fracturedlit.com/cotton-mouth/
Cotton Mouth - Fractured
I A cottonmouth swallows me when I am seven. It waits for me just outside my front door, stretched out along the walkway. When I step into the concrete space, it opens its mouth wide. Hemmed in by coq...
fracturedlit.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Fantastic, @scribblermiller.bsky.social ! Congratulations 🍾
May 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Nothing is
the way you think it is
going to be.
Take this little flower
from me, and let it go
into the way you think of it.
- Ron Padgett, “American Cowslip”
the way you think it is
going to be.
Take this little flower
from me, and let it go
into the way you think of it.
- Ron Padgett, “American Cowslip”
May 22, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Nothing is
the way you think it is
going to be.
Take this little flower
from me, and let it go
into the way you think of it.
- Ron Padgett, “American Cowslip”
the way you think it is
going to be.
Take this little flower
from me, and let it go
into the way you think of it.
- Ron Padgett, “American Cowslip”
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all i want is more time to read
May 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM
all i want is more time to read
I wish I could be in two places at once 😭 Please record!
NEXT THURSDAY! Register now for the next in our FREE Writers on Writing series at Newberry Library (and on Zoom). Writer Carmen Maria Machado will be in conversation with @meganstielstra.bsky.social.
Register here: buff.ly/GQOm9I4
#writingcommunity
Register here: buff.ly/GQOm9I4
#writingcommunity
Writers on Writing: Carmen Maria Machado and Megan Stielstra
Award-winning authors Carmen Maria Machado and Megan Stielstra will reflect on the work and craft of writing.
buff.ly
May 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I wish I could be in two places at once 😭 Please record!
“What if the poem refuses to satiate our expectation of conclusiveness?”
Your summer #poetry course is ready! Drop into my #interview with @alinaetc.bsky.social on her latest collection MY HERESIES, replete with syllabus: hypertextmag.com/nothing-less-t…#newbooksk#WritingCommmunityt#amreadingng
Your summer #poetry course is ready! Drop into my #interview with @alinaetc.bsky.social on her latest collection MY HERESIES, replete with syllabus: hypertextmag.com/nothing-less-t…#newbooksk#WritingCommmunityt#amreadingng
https://hypertextmag.com/nothing-less-t…
May 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“What if the poem refuses to satiate our expectation of conclusiveness?”
Your summer #poetry course is ready! Drop into my #interview with @alinaetc.bsky.social on her latest collection MY HERESIES, replete with syllabus: hypertextmag.com/nothing-less-t…#newbooksk#WritingCommmunityt#amreadingng
Your summer #poetry course is ready! Drop into my #interview with @alinaetc.bsky.social on her latest collection MY HERESIES, replete with syllabus: hypertextmag.com/nothing-less-t…#newbooksk#WritingCommmunityt#amreadingng
“There is no secret to longevity so long as one’s mentality is good.”
110-year old painting by Yan Jiyuan
Cr: 中国书画诗词院
110-year old painting by Yan Jiyuan
Cr: 中国书画诗词院
May 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
“There is no secret to longevity so long as one’s mentality is good.”
110-year old painting by Yan Jiyuan
Cr: 中国书画诗词院
110-year old painting by Yan Jiyuan
Cr: 中国书画诗词院
The grief. How far-reaching like the desert sun. Writers and editors in the literary landscape have long spun gold from straw and we shall persist. Nevertheless, I want to name the loss of NEA funds that have supported publishers, programs, & writers I work with and benefit from. I’m sorry, friends.
May 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The grief. How far-reaching like the desert sun. Writers and editors in the literary landscape have long spun gold from straw and we shall persist. Nevertheless, I want to name the loss of NEA funds that have supported publishers, programs, & writers I work with and benefit from. I’m sorry, friends.
‘I entered into motion because …I was not put here to prove I could endure the terrifying, brutal things humans do to each other. Because there are flowers in bloom that need my attention… Because “one wild and precious life.”’
“There are moments when a place you live stops being livable. Sometimes that arrives slowly, like a leak. Sometimes all at once.” A dispatch from @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social, poet in exile.
After the Rooster Crows: Dispatch from a Poet in Exile
There is no other way to say this: I write you now from exile, having (if you are reading this) fled political persecution in my home country, the United (for now) States of America. I say this pla…
buff.ly
May 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
‘I entered into motion because …I was not put here to prove I could endure the terrifying, brutal things humans do to each other. Because there are flowers in bloom that need my attention… Because “one wild and precious life.”’
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Be sure to support a fine writer and a fine cause.
April 27, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Be sure to support a fine writer and a fine cause.
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& so what––if my feathers
are burning. I
never asked for flight.
Only to feel
this fully, this
entire, the way snow
touches bare skin––& is,
suddenly, snow
no longer.
Ocean Vuong #booksky #poetry
Xiyao Wang #art #contemporart #oilpainting
are burning. I
never asked for flight.
Only to feel
this fully, this
entire, the way snow
touches bare skin––& is,
suddenly, snow
no longer.
Ocean Vuong #booksky #poetry
Xiyao Wang #art #contemporart #oilpainting
March 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
& so what––if my feathers
are burning. I
never asked for flight.
Only to feel
this fully, this
entire, the way snow
touches bare skin––& is,
suddenly, snow
no longer.
Ocean Vuong #booksky #poetry
Xiyao Wang #art #contemporart #oilpainting
are burning. I
never asked for flight.
Only to feel
this fully, this
entire, the way snow
touches bare skin––& is,
suddenly, snow
no longer.
Ocean Vuong #booksky #poetry
Xiyao Wang #art #contemporart #oilpainting
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Happening TOMORROW night, Wednesday March 26th! Email me at [email protected] for the Zoom link!
This will be an unmissable event of brilliant multilingual writers!
This will be an unmissable event of brilliant multilingual writers!
March 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Happening TOMORROW night, Wednesday March 26th! Email me at [email protected] for the Zoom link!
This will be an unmissable event of brilliant multilingual writers!
This will be an unmissable event of brilliant multilingual writers!