Use the space as I need / so I breathe / so I call to the sky and hope that there's a god / that's the first time I admitted that out loud / I think of who I was: angry and unyielding / I am still unyielding / to the sky, I hope, even if there is no god / that there is the energy of those we love.

To be born daughter is to be born wind torn / from arms, from the air that shaped them / to be born daughter is to be leader / is to be fraught / is to be alone but always pressed against the next body that opens its mouth to the shape of need / to be born daughter is to wonder / is to know.

#poets what’s your plan for #napowrimo this year?😋

hiiiiiiii i'm co-judging issue 2 of @artfrommaryland.bsky.social 👀 i'd love to read work that evokes a vivid sense of place—show me your corner of the state in all its details. make me feel something!

oh, and did i mention this is a paid opportunity?

We're going to pay $150 for prose, poems, art, and beyond, for TBQ8, which will also be in print and released in the fall. We open 4/20. Official call and guidelines coming soon! Follow us, read all of our back issues online for free, and live más!

Extremely rare opportunity that hasn't come up in YEARS: we're open for applications to join the Split/Lip Press editorial team as our new Short Story/Flash Fiction Book Editor!

Details can be found at the link in our bio/linktree (splitlippress.submittable.com/submit/31437...) and threaded: [1/3]

We did it! We're finally on Bluesky! Can y'all signal boost this so we can find our friends from Twitter? We've missed you so much!