R.S. Saha
@rssaha.bsky.social
(They/Them/Mx.) Writer and Tamil-English Translator. Associate Managing Editor for The Maine Review.
You can find my work at: iamsaha.com
You can find my work at: iamsaha.com
We're thrilled to have them! "Caleb" made me audibly gasp with the line '...my father, lost to a syringe dangling from his arm like an ellipsis...' and I sat with it for a while.
Thrilled to share two poems in the newest issue of The Maine Review! First one is a new offering from the poems I think will make up book three, and the second is an older persona poem I wrote trying to connect with a poet character from my novel manuscript. I hope you enjoy!
November 22, 2025 at 3:16 AM
We're thrilled to have them! "Caleb" made me audibly gasp with the line '...my father, lost to a syringe dangling from his arm like an ellipsis...' and I sat with it for a while.
Pause whatever you're doing and fall into this poem.
Today on Glass!
"Event Horizon" by Rachel Bunting (@rebunting.bsky.social)!
www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
"Event Horizon" by Rachel Bunting (@rebunting.bsky.social)!
www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
August 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Pause whatever you're doing and fall into this poem.
"...Yet I take affirmation / where I find it. Sister, they hate me / like they hate you."
This work of art is a must read.
This work of art is a must read.
I'm so pleased to share that I have a poem(!) out in @strangehorizons.bsky.social! "Come Back Wrong" is about bog bodies, transitioning, and what it means to face a future you can't imagine.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
Come Back Wrong
Let my body / be a puzzle they’ll never solve.
strangehorizons.com
May 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
"...Yet I take affirmation / where I find it. Sister, they hate me / like they hate you."
This work of art is a must read.
This work of art is a must read.
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Whole Foods workers in Philadelphia just accomplished something huge: they overcame Amazon's union-busting tactics and voted to form the store's first union in over four decades.
Remember that we can always find hope in the labor movement.
Remember that we can always find hope in the labor movement.
Whole Foods Workers Win First-Ever Union, Defying Amazon (Updated)
Workers in Philadelphia say they’re tired of being treated like robots.
inthesetimes.com
January 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Whole Foods workers in Philadelphia just accomplished something huge: they overcame Amazon's union-busting tactics and voted to form the store's first union in over four decades.
Remember that we can always find hope in the labor movement.
Remember that we can always find hope in the labor movement.
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Today on Glass!
"Water Divination for Beginners" by Jude Marr (@judemarr.bsky.social)!
www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
"Water Divination for Beginners" by Jude Marr (@judemarr.bsky.social)!
www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
January 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Today on Glass!
"Water Divination for Beginners" by Jude Marr (@judemarr.bsky.social)!
www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
"Water Divination for Beginners" by Jude Marr (@judemarr.bsky.social)!
www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
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Remember folks, what we do to fascists here is BLOCK BLOCK BLOCK
No quote dunking, no debates. Starve them of the attention they thrive on & make it impossible for them to gain traction here
No quote dunking, no debates. Starve them of the attention they thrive on & make it impossible for them to gain traction here
Rachel Maddow, at the end of her broadcast tonight, promoted her Bluesky account and Lawrence O'Donnell's Bluesky account too. She told people to get Bluesky.
Expect Incoming.
Expect Incoming.
January 21, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Remember folks, what we do to fascists here is BLOCK BLOCK BLOCK
No quote dunking, no debates. Starve them of the attention they thrive on & make it impossible for them to gain traction here
No quote dunking, no debates. Starve them of the attention they thrive on & make it impossible for them to gain traction here
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If you're talking to an award-winning translator, and you say, won't it be good when an A.I. does it all, do us all a favour, and 滚开。
a woman in a black sweater is making a funny face with her hands
ALT: a woman in a black sweater is making a funny face with her hands
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January 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
If you're talking to an award-winning translator, and you say, won't it be good when an A.I. does it all, do us all a favour, and 滚开。
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Happy Friday!
Casual reminder that we'll be reopening for submissions to Glass: A Journal of Poetry in a few weeks! And because we really really want to start paying our authors, we've got a new feedback submission option 🤩
Get those poems ready, fam!
www.glass-poetry.com/journal/subm...
Casual reminder that we'll be reopening for submissions to Glass: A Journal of Poetry in a few weeks! And because we really really want to start paying our authors, we've got a new feedback submission option 🤩
Get those poems ready, fam!
www.glass-poetry.com/journal/subm...
January 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Happy Friday!
Casual reminder that we'll be reopening for submissions to Glass: A Journal of Poetry in a few weeks! And because we really really want to start paying our authors, we've got a new feedback submission option 🤩
Get those poems ready, fam!
www.glass-poetry.com/journal/subm...
Casual reminder that we'll be reopening for submissions to Glass: A Journal of Poetry in a few weeks! And because we really really want to start paying our authors, we've got a new feedback submission option 🤩
Get those poems ready, fam!
www.glass-poetry.com/journal/subm...
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Worlds of Possibility is OPEN for submissions! worldsofpossibility.moksha.io/publication/...
Moksha
worldsofpossibility.moksha.io
January 17, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Worlds of Possibility is OPEN for submissions! worldsofpossibility.moksha.io/publication/...
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I promise you, once you free yourself from the notion that other writers are your competition and start viewing them as your fellow weirdos who share similar special interests as you, your life in publishing will become so much easier.
January 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I promise you, once you free yourself from the notion that other writers are your competition and start viewing them as your fellow weirdos who share similar special interests as you, your life in publishing will become so much easier.
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Announcement:
Psychopomp is relaunching Fantasy Magazine
WELCOME BACK, FANTASY!
full details here:
psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...
Psychopomp is relaunching Fantasy Magazine
WELCOME BACK, FANTASY!
full details here:
psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...
January 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Announcement:
Psychopomp is relaunching Fantasy Magazine
WELCOME BACK, FANTASY!
full details here:
psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...
Psychopomp is relaunching Fantasy Magazine
WELCOME BACK, FANTASY!
full details here:
psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...
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I knew this piece about Neil Gaiman was in the works, and still, I felt sick reading it.
TW: rape, abuse, coercion, and child sex abuse.
TW: rape, abuse, coercion, and child sex abuse.
There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
www.vulture.com
January 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I knew this piece about Neil Gaiman was in the works, and still, I felt sick reading it.
TW: rape, abuse, coercion, and child sex abuse.
TW: rape, abuse, coercion, and child sex abuse.
I was going through @glasspoetry.bsky.social's archives and clicking random poems. Found "Prayer To Deep Time" by Shiyang Su that way.
The final lines completely took my breath away. It is such a beautiful perspective to have.
Please read it here: www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2024...
The final lines completely took my breath away. It is such a beautiful perspective to have.
Please read it here: www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2024...
Shiyang Su | Prayer to Deep Time | Glass: A Journal of Poetry
www.glass-poetry.com
January 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I was going through @glasspoetry.bsky.social's archives and clicking random poems. Found "Prayer To Deep Time" by Shiyang Su that way.
The final lines completely took my breath away. It is such a beautiful perspective to have.
Please read it here: www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2024...
The final lines completely took my breath away. It is such a beautiful perspective to have.
Please read it here: www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2024...
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Space Unicorns! There are many ways to support Uncanny Magazine! Patreon! Subscriptions from Weightless Books! Late Pledges to Kickstarter! SPREADING THE WORD FAR AND WIDE!!! https://buff.ly/3BIbIeL
January 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Space Unicorns! There are many ways to support Uncanny Magazine! Patreon! Subscriptions from Weightless Books! Late Pledges to Kickstarter! SPREADING THE WORD FAR AND WIDE!!! https://buff.ly/3BIbIeL
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Day 19
#booksky
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Day 19
#booksky
January 1, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Day 19
#booksky
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Day 19
#booksky
My contributor copy of @bafflingmag.bsky.social's Year 3 anthology came in the mail! So excited to finally have it in my hands 😁😁
December 28, 2024 at 10:36 PM
My contributor copy of @bafflingmag.bsky.social's Year 3 anthology came in the mail! So excited to finally have it in my hands 😁😁
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I've downloaded & re-uploaded (in a trimmed fashion to fit in the 1 minute limit) the video from X to ensure that it will continue to be available (& ensure that people have an easier time experiencing how awful this truly is).
October 26, 2024 at 3:16 AM
I've downloaded & re-uploaded (in a trimmed fashion to fit in the 1 minute limit) the video from X to ensure that it will continue to be available (& ensure that people have an easier time experiencing how awful this truly is).
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Help me and my husband buy each other Christmas gifts by buying one for yourself!
Signed copies of IIWGIWASWL for $17 including shipping 🧡
Claim in the comment!
Signed copies of IIWGIWASWL for $17 including shipping 🧡
Claim in the comment!
December 21, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Help me and my husband buy each other Christmas gifts by buying one for yourself!
Signed copies of IIWGIWASWL for $17 including shipping 🧡
Claim in the comment!
Signed copies of IIWGIWASWL for $17 including shipping 🧡
Claim in the comment!
A haunted house, but it's just people saying you don't look androgynous enough to be nonbinary.
A haunted house, but it's just people saying you would look better without your glasses.
A haunted house, but it's just copy edits
December 17, 2024 at 8:51 PM
A haunted house, but it's just people saying you don't look androgynous enough to be nonbinary.
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A.I. and corporate lingo are trapping language yn the drugged realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Language sholde have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake and leave honest dirtye footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Wielde them.
December 16, 2024 at 8:53 PM
A.I. and corporate lingo are trapping language yn the drugged realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Language sholde have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake and leave honest dirtye footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Wielde them.
Please follow the submission guidelines when submitting your writing! There's no harm in double-checking before hitting submit.
It's a small thing that makes a huge difference. Many magazines will outright reject your piece if it doesn't follow guidelines. Your work deserves to at least be read!
It's a small thing that makes a huge difference. Many magazines will outright reject your piece if it doesn't follow guidelines. Your work deserves to at least be read!
December 16, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Please follow the submission guidelines when submitting your writing! There's no harm in double-checking before hitting submit.
It's a small thing that makes a huge difference. Many magazines will outright reject your piece if it doesn't follow guidelines. Your work deserves to at least be read!
It's a small thing that makes a huge difference. Many magazines will outright reject your piece if it doesn't follow guidelines. Your work deserves to at least be read!
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What's an opinion you have that would make a bunch of people angry?
Write it down in a notebook called, "Why would I want to make a bunch of people angry right now?" and then close that notebook and have some tea.
Write it down in a notebook called, "Why would I want to make a bunch of people angry right now?" and then close that notebook and have some tea.
December 15, 2024 at 7:29 PM
What's an opinion you have that would make a bunch of people angry?
Write it down in a notebook called, "Why would I want to make a bunch of people angry right now?" and then close that notebook and have some tea.
Write it down in a notebook called, "Why would I want to make a bunch of people angry right now?" and then close that notebook and have some tea.
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Yes AI art is ugly, but that isn't the problem with AI art. AI art will get better and it will still be unacceptable.
AI art is built on stolen art. AI music is built on stolen music. AI videos are built on stolen videos. AI text is built on stolen text.
Across all mediums, fuck AI.
AI art is built on stolen art. AI music is built on stolen music. AI videos are built on stolen videos. AI text is built on stolen text.
Across all mediums, fuck AI.
December 3, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Yes AI art is ugly, but that isn't the problem with AI art. AI art will get better and it will still be unacceptable.
AI art is built on stolen art. AI music is built on stolen music. AI videos are built on stolen videos. AI text is built on stolen text.
Across all mediums, fuck AI.
AI art is built on stolen art. AI music is built on stolen music. AI videos are built on stolen videos. AI text is built on stolen text.
Across all mediums, fuck AI.