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cass garison @cassgarison.bsky.social · May 2
will be sending out the first installment of my monthly art book series next week, not 2 late to sign up (physical/mail copy or digital edition options).

Preview of first book installment in the series, currently amidst-assemblage, semi-monochrome "Red Domestic"

forms.gle/qAk6oBz78BEx...
three pieces of art, partially visible, all red monochrome with white and black. one face and a table in pen, one with the word "wait" printed on it, but obstructed scene, and one obstructed queen modeled after the queen of hearts with ink hearts printed on top. black paint marker on top
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beestung.bsky.social
"Not queer like a rainbow slapped onto a Wells Fargo debit card, gay as in let's hurl a Molotov cocktail thru the window of the bank at nightfall and kiss while we watch the glass shatter like a supernova."

—Ally Ang

beestungmag.com/issue21/two-...
Two Poems by Ally Ang – beestung
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May 31, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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shopoetryjournal.bsky.social
We are officially open for submissions!

We are reading for Shō No. 8, our winter issue (launch in January 2026).

Details threaded below.

Cover art: Close-up of “In Gilded Walls” by Tanya Rastogi from Shō No. 6 (Winter 2024/25).
Close-up of devi and dove from Tanya Rastogi painting “In Gilded Walls” • Yellow text on red background reads “Shō Poetry Journal • An Arizona-based print journal” • White text reads: Open for Submissions • Send us 3-5 poems • We respond within 30 days • Shō No. 8 (Winter 2025/26)” • shopoetryjournal.submittable.com
June 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
cassgarison.bsky.social
little art drop
watercolor and liquid black acrylic paint of a bull with two human figures on either side, bull is in motion with big black eyes. scrathcy style, a tan/brown tone to it with a slightly yellow septum ring. indecipherable language in the back watercolor and liquid black acrylic painting, abstract. bottom half is pink/purple with a blue wave patter, and black lip shapes. top is the inverse, blue background with pink/purple waves and a cirlce on the right side with an eye in it watercolor painting of a lizard with a backward facing red tongue out under a wheel. green lizard with red dots on back, brown ground, and silver camper and grey wheel. scribbles in the back an abstract piece with brown, green, grey, tan earth-tone slashes in the background. in the foreground, a minimalist face and some indecipherable words
May 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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t4t-art.bsky.social
T4T | Burning Petals | Mixed media

#t4t
#transart
#transman
#transkink
#transmasc
May 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
cassgarison.bsky.social
grateful to @splitthisrock.bsky.social for featuring my poem "On Reverence," as their Poem of the Week this week in "The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database" 🦤🌺
On Reverence I adore the carnations & I adore the trains, specifically the boxcars with endings & beginnings I can’t keep track of, who drag their stretched torsos like absolute creatures around what seems like earth’s clearest curve. I adore the harshness of the wind, the bite of the metal railing on my hand as the two almost freeze together. I adore the rose that casts a long shadow & the other roses whose silhouettes become obstructed on their way to the ground, lose all tethering to their former geometries. Adore the cedars & pines at their most finicky, the windows that fog with dew or steam depending on the occasion, the crow who, as I have my morning coffee, presses & presses with its repetitious, piercing caw. I adore the ritual of Sunday mass, of incense & kneeling to the point of pain, the point of splinter, as any true reverence, any true devotion, I have learned, requires. I adore the lover I asked to hit me with their thickest Italian leather belt until I sweltered, then held me as the bruises bloomed. Adore the stranger outside the bar who blew smoke into my face, the bees humming yesterday’s desire, the cloud of sparrows that tangle away from recognition. I adore all the animals I’ve ever mercy killed without knowing fully what I was doing: the vole whose head contorted almost completely backward, a single bird on the streets of New York, a rat snake run into the summer-hot pavement to the point of irreversible suture. Adoration, complete adoration to the daffodils, the hyacinths, the lack of prayer that this life requires. Adoration, at last, for the way a paintbrush, even with its finest bristles, can slice through any shape I have decided on prior, but even in its making anew, even in its revision, the indents of the old form still noticeable, still raised & rough to a perceptive hand.
May 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
cassgarison.bsky.social
Thanks so much to @splitthisrock.bsky.social for featuring my poem, glad to have this one in the world & with a home that does such good work 🦜🦤🦉

Full below:

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May 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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cassgarison.bsky.social
will be sending out the first installment of my monthly art book series next week, not 2 late to sign up (physical/mail copy or digital edition options).

Preview of first book installment in the series, currently amidst-assemblage, semi-monochrome "Red Domestic"

forms.gle/qAk6oBz78BEx...
three pieces of art, partially visible, all red monochrome with white and black. one face and a table in pen, one with the word "wait" printed on it, but obstructed scene, and one obstructed queen modeled after the queen of hearts with ink hearts printed on top. black paint marker on top
May 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
cassgarison.bsky.social
will be sending out the first installment of my monthly art book series next week, not 2 late to sign up (physical/mail copy or digital edition options).

Preview of first book installment in the series, currently amidst-assemblage, semi-monochrome "Red Domestic"

forms.gle/qAk6oBz78BEx...
three pieces of art, partially visible, all red monochrome with white and black. one face and a table in pen, one with the word "wait" printed on it, but obstructed scene, and one obstructed queen modeled after the queen of hearts with ink hearts printed on top. black paint marker on top
May 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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fahmidangroup.bsky.social
Explore the poetry of holes—thresholds, orifices, and portals into the self. Join Ally Ang @theoceanisgay.bsky.social & Cass Garison @cassgarison.bsky.social for a generative poetry workshop! 💜

Sign up:
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April 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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fahmidangroup.bsky.social
This workshop will have you discover new holes, deep within and beyond any crevasse you could ever imagine. Join Ally Ang @theoceanisgay.bsky.social & Cass Garison @cassgarison.bsky.social in just under two weeks!
Sign up here: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...
April 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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fahmidangroup.bsky.social
Cass' April 5th workshop is 50% off until Thursday! Join us for this stellar workshop🧡

Sign up here (discount already applied): t.co/cl4gUf9bmo t.co/KeNP2NQfG0
April 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
cassgarison.bsky.social
poems letters letters poems eros psyche etc. etc.
fahmidangroup.bsky.social Fahmidan Group @fahmidangroup.bsky.social · Mar 31
@cassgarison.bsky.social Cass' April 5th workshop is 50% off until Thursday! Join us for this stellar workshop🧡

Sign up here (discount already applied): fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...
April 1, 2025 at 3:36 AM
cassgarison.bsky.social
get this chapbook!!!
nanya.bsky.social nanya jhingran @nanya.bsky.social · Mar 7
⛈️ It feels like such a gift, honor, & fever dream to share that my debut chapbook, INTO OUR PERSONAL WEATHER, will be published this July (🌊🐣 a cancer baby!🐣🌊) with Winter Texts ⛈️

The title is taken from Adrienne Rich’s poem “In Those Days” (pic 4)—one among many companion texts for the chapbook.
March 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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fahmidangroup.bsky.social
From holes we came and into holes we shall return. The hole is the ultimate abject, the transgressable boundary between the self and itself, other selves, the world, the divine.

Join us for a workshop exploring holes literary & wondrous.
Sign up: buff.ly/4hBKWUX
March 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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cassgarison.bsky.social
I'll be making a monthly handmade art book from April-Sept.

Ethos: dispatch as connection, invitational perception, and conversation, & the book form as a way to suture together what often feels disparate into a contextual "whole." Also, books are objects & I am a Taurus.

More info & subscription:
Art Book Subscription
Hello all. From April until September I'll be making a handmade art book each month, integrating image & poetics/language as stylistically expected, & also of course exploring & playing. Each book wi...
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March 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
cassgarison.bsky.social
poetry workshops on recursion/obsession, desire/destruction, and/or holes?
fahmidangroup.bsky.social Fahmidan Group @fahmidangroup.bsky.social · Mar 1
Fahmidan Education Spotlight Cass Garison @cassgarison.bsky.social !

Sign up to Cass' workshop here: buff.ly/4hBKWUX
March 4, 2025 at 12:11 AM
cassgarison.bsky.social
I'll be making a monthly handmade art book from April-Sept.

Ethos: dispatch as connection, invitational perception, and conversation, & the book form as a way to suture together what often feels disparate into a contextual "whole." Also, books are objects & I am a Taurus.

More info & subscription:
Art Book Subscription
Hello all. From April until September I'll be making a handmade art book each month, integrating image & poetics/language as stylistically expected, & also of course exploring & playing. Each book wi...
docs.google.com
March 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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fahmidangroup.bsky.social
Fahmidan Education Spotlight Cass Garison @cassgarison.bsky.social !

Sign up to Cass' workshop here: buff.ly/4hBKWUX
March 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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mayacpopa.bsky.social
OMG, Frank Bidart:
February 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
cassgarison.bsky.social
holes with @theoceanisgay.bsky.social & I?
theoceanisgay.bsky.social Ally Ang @theoceanisgay.bsky.social · Feb 19
@cassgarison.bsky.social and I are leading a virtual pay-what-you-can workshop on 🕳️ HOLE POEMS 🕳️ thru @fahmidanjournal.bsky.social on April 13th at 12pm PST. www.fahmidan.net/fahmidan-edu... Come make some holes with us!
February 20, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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theoceanisgay.bsky.social
Seattle: come to @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social next weekend for a love/anti-love-poem-themed Other People’s Poems ft. @cassgarison.bsky.social @constancehansen.bsky.social & @nanya.bsky.social! hosted by @bearable.bsky.social & moi! 💕💞💓💘💝💔❤️‍🔥❤️‍🩹🖤
Other People’s Poems poetry open mic and reading series featuring Cass Garison Constance Hansen nanya jhingran hosted by Ally Ang & Cody Stetzel February 15, 2025 7pm Open Books: A Poem Emporium 108 Cherry St. *masks required* IG: @seattlepoetry
February 5, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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theoceanisgay.bsky.social
Forgive me but I’m so touched that @electriclit.bsky.social included Let the Moon Wobble (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social) in this list of most anticipated poetry debuts! electricliterature.com/the-most-ant...
ELECTRIC LIT The Most Anticipated Debut Poetry Collections of 2025 These rising stars are making waves with urgent and daring works Image of book with flowers laid on the pages Let the Moon Wobble by Ally Ang Ally Ang’s poems are made of houseplants and melatonin, leather and bloodstains, fresh fruit and rumpled bedsheets. They assert queer self-creation on the page in a poetic voice that is at once expansive and precise. Let the Moon Wobble is a striking, impressive first collection.
January 31, 2025 at 9:42 PM
cassgarison.bsky.social
come write some poems at @fahmidanjournal.bsky.social Amsterdam Retreat this summer? I'll be teaching workshops "On Desire & Destruction" & "Where Lyric & Image Meet"
fahmidangroup.bsky.social Fahmidan Group @fahmidangroup.bsky.social · Jan 23
Are you looking to check out a new city this summer?
Then, consider signing up for the Fahmidan Amsterdam Retreat. More details on our site & Submittable page! 🧡 https://buff.ly/3OD5E9S
January 24, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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theoceanisgay.bsky.social
I CRAVE RAPTURE
January 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
cassgarison.bsky.social
Will be a facilitator at the Fahmidan Amsterdam Retreat, alongside the wonderful A.R. Arthur, Rashna Wadia, & Yasmine Dashti.

Come join? Fahmidan has prioritized offering accessible options for attendance, & it will undoubtedly be a lovely & connective time all-around!
fahmidangroup.bsky.social Fahmidan Group @fahmidangroup.bsky.social · Dec 1
Team Fahmidan is pleased to announce the Fahmidan Amsterdam Retreat with facilitators A.R. Arthur, Cass Garison Yasmine Dashti & Rashna Wadia

Learn more: https://buff.ly/3OD5E9S
December 5, 2024 at 7:00 PM