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Thank you to everyone for your support and patience. This was a difficult decision. 🏳️‍⚧️

My #poem "First Shave" has become a part of the citizen trans* {project} by @newwordspress.bsky.social

You can read it and the other pieces in the archive at the link below or at my website in my bio

www.citizentrans.com/first-shave/

#trans #poetry #writingcommunity #rebellion #protest #queer

Hurry up and submit.

https://newwordspress.submittable.com/submit

Leave comments and cuteness to show the community love. And thanks to Rafael Santiago for the beautiful cover art.

Today is release day for Jodi Lin’s The Tenderness of Glass. I sent out dozens and dozens of preorders this morning! Get your copy on the website and support trans* poets and new words {press}. Can’t say enough good things about this book and neither could Eileen Myles. 🩷 Help me congratulate Jodi!

Help you mystical beauties.

I also have a recent piece out on new words {press} @newwordspress.bsky.social

www.newwordspress.com/issue-six-a-...

This is the most various of poetry books I’ve ever read.Jodi Lin has done it all and this book of theirs, The Tenderness of Glass, is such a gift.”

~ Eileen Myles

Jodi identifies as a gender-expansive poet, filmmaker and a person who hears voices. Taiwanese of the Seediq Tribe, they are currently based in Manhattan.

“Rapturous, ornate, straight-shooting, dirty and fun, contemporary AND ancient.

Part memoir and part manifesto, Jodi Lin’s debut collection, The Tenderness of Glass, is a non-traditional book of narrative verse and prose poetry. Each of the book’s six parts are named after a Tibetan Buddhist Bardo.

Issue 7 is officially open for submissions! newwordspress.submittable.com

Birch trusts his readers, pushing them to settle into places of honest discomfort and transgression despite ancient source material. The poems range from deeply funny, like with a complicated “God bless [...] picket fence queers joining PTA

"Wiley’s erotic lyricism wields the metaphor of myth to ground queer and trans lives among gods and folklore, offering readers a satisfying journey through a wide scope of Greco-Roman allusions.

Greco-roman mythology like you’ve never experienced it. Spoiler. It’s queer af!

Get your copy now. Support a brilliant trans poet who will, no doubt, have an impact on the poetry landscape.

Birch Wiley’s debut collection, Mythweaver is officially here. Those who attended the New York City Poetry Festival this past weekend were fortunate enough to purchase an advanced copy (we sold out), and the feedback has been exactly what I thought– this book is fire.

At last, issue 7 submissions open 7.21. Our guest readers are griffin epstein, Jory Mickelson, and Birch Wiley! We can’t wait to read your work! You can submit through Submittable next Monday (newwordspress.submittable.com)

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Birch trusts his readers, pushing them to settle into places of honest discomfort and transgression…” - Mya / Ma

“Wiley’s erotic lyricism wields the metaphor of myth to ground queer and trans lives among gods and folklore, offering readers a satisfying journey through a wide scope of Greco-Roman allusions.

Reconsidering the stories of Greco-Roman mythological figures, these poems don’t just retell these stories in a contemporary queer context, but consider how, reimagined and renewed over millennia, they resonate with our lives now.

How do we make sense of the way violence, transformation, and passion impact queer selves and lives?

It is here! What better way to round out Pride month than the preorder of Birch Wiley’s masterful debut collection Mythweaver. Support trans artists! Get your copy!

These poems are an act of mythweaving, meant to blend stories ancient and new.

TONIGHT! We’re a finalist for the @clmporg.bsky.social Firecracker Award for Best Debut Magazine. Would love to see familiar faces there. (zoom ceremony). Register: www.clmp.org/event/2025-f... Honored to be nominated alongside wonderful company like @revelliterary.bsky.social @short-reads.org

new words (@newwordspress.bsky.social) is a finalist for the Firecracker Award in Magazines/Best Debut. We’ll be celebrating the finalists and announcing the winner on June 26! www.clmp.org/event/2025-f...

We can’t wait to celebrate the finalists—and winner!—of the 2025 Firecracker Award in Magazines/Best Debut! @newwordspress.bsky.social @revelliterary.bsky.social @short-reads.org