Cass Donish 🐞 they/them
@cassdonish.bsky.social
Queer Poet & Writer. 🏳️🌈🪬🍉 Widow/Suicide Loss Survivor. YOUR DAZZLING DEATH (Knopf, 2024).
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New to ouronline bookstore. All proceeds donated to the Sameer Project’s medical campaign:
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[W4G] Berger, Dan: Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
University of North Carolina Press, paperback Publication Date: March 15, 2016 Publisher Marketing:In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activi...
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September 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
New to ouronline bookstore. All proceeds donated to the Sameer Project’s medical campaign:
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need a writing residency in an enchanted diner with magical coffee & cigarettes that aren’t bad for you
July 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
need a writing residency in an enchanted diner with magical coffee & cigarettes that aren’t bad for you
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Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action".
This is real police state behaviour.
This is real police state behaviour.
July 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action".
This is real police state behaviour.
This is real police state behaviour.
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Lots of good work in the new Diode, including new poems by Andrew Robin, Aaron Caycedo-Kimura. Mellissa Fite Johnson, Cass Donish and Ephraim Scott Summers and much more.
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volume 18 number 2
diode poetry journal : volume 18 number 2
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June 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Lots of good work in the new Diode, including new poems by Andrew Robin, Aaron Caycedo-Kimura. Mellissa Fite Johnson, Cass Donish and Ephraim Scott Summers and much more.
diodepoetry.com
diodepoetry.com
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You, Emblazoned by Cass Donish
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You, Emblazoned by Cass Donish
You, Emblazoned for Kelly Caldwell (1988–2020) Yet your voice was here — just there-here in our house, shining ...
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April 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
You, Emblazoned by Cass Donish
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The evil that men do lives after them
July 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The evil that men do lives after them
I need to start coming here more often! Hello! Some big news today—I’m so so honored to be named a finalist for the Audre Lorde Award 💜💜💜 & in such good company of present & past finalists & winners 🌈🕯️✨
March 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I need to start coming here more often! Hello! Some big news today—I’m so so honored to be named a finalist for the Audre Lorde Award 💜💜💜 & in such good company of present & past finalists & winners 🌈🕯️✨
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Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
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January 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.
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I may need mutual aid soon because I gave others mutual aid, but I don’t regret that because their needs were going unmet & I had the capacity to contribute at that time, & if resources need to be redistributed to me because I redistributed resources, that’s the point of mutual aid.
November 17, 2024 at 10:59 PM
I may need mutual aid soon because I gave others mutual aid, but I don’t regret that because their needs were going unmet & I had the capacity to contribute at that time, & if resources need to be redistributed to me because I redistributed resources, that’s the point of mutual aid.
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Support your local academic libraries, which are already being targeted for reduction or removal by campus administrators. truthout.org/articles/fac...
Facing Cuts Likely to Worsen Under Trump, Academic Librarians Urgently Organize
As the war on higher education looks to heat up, academic libraries will likely be the first on the chopping block.
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November 17, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Support your local academic libraries, which are already being targeted for reduction or removal by campus administrators. truthout.org/articles/fac...
Reading in Kansas City on September 23 with the lovely Ruth Williams!
September 6, 2023 at 9:34 PM
Reading in Kansas City on September 23 with the lovely Ruth Williams!
Could "carecore" be a genre? I want it to be.
September 5, 2023 at 12:36 AM
Could "carecore" be a genre? I want it to be.
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Reminder that we are currently open for submissions for a new online issue on LATINX MONSTERS, guest edited by our friend Ofelia Montelongo. Fiction, poetry, nonfiction. We pay $50, no sub fee. We'd like this to run in late Oct. so we're moving quickly on it. Full details:
Barrelhouse - Latine Monsters Issue
Thanks for submitting your work to Barrelhouse! Before you proceed, a note about open and closed categories. If you don't see the category that fits your work, we're not open for that thing. We keep...
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August 31, 2023 at 7:04 PM
Reminder that we are currently open for submissions for a new online issue on LATINX MONSTERS, guest edited by our friend Ofelia Montelongo. Fiction, poetry, nonfiction. We pay $50, no sub fee. We'd like this to run in late Oct. so we're moving quickly on it. Full details:
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the bar is so low that whenever a cis man is actually really lovely i'm delighted, as if i've found a rare gem
August 11, 2023 at 4:09 PM
the bar is so low that whenever a cis man is actually really lovely i'm delighted, as if i've found a rare gem
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Our talk yesterday at the Universidad de Chile Austral about Flores raras, our anthology of 55 Uruguayan women poets born between 1783 and 1939!
August 8, 2023 at 3:09 PM
Our talk yesterday at the Universidad de Chile Austral about Flores raras, our anthology of 55 Uruguayan women poets born between 1783 and 1939!
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“…we all overflow; we all feel in abundance of something, but sometimes it’s just the emptiness: vacant page, busy signal, radio static, implacable repeat rut where the tone arm reaches across a spinning vinyl record to play it again…”
—Erika Meitner, from Useful Junk (BOA, 2022)
#poetry
—Erika Meitner, from Useful Junk (BOA, 2022)
#poetry
August 7, 2023 at 1:42 PM
“…we all overflow; we all feel in abundance of something, but sometimes it’s just the emptiness: vacant page, busy signal, radio static, implacable repeat rut where the tone arm reaches across a spinning vinyl record to play it again…”
—Erika Meitner, from Useful Junk (BOA, 2022)
#poetry
—Erika Meitner, from Useful Junk (BOA, 2022)
#poetry
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“Are you surprised” political discourse makes it seem like the point of politics is whether one is sufficiently cynical and not whether one is defending the rights or policies in danger—a stance which only supports the status quo.
August 7, 2023 at 3:54 PM
“Are you surprised” political discourse makes it seem like the point of politics is whether one is sufficiently cynical and not whether one is defending the rights or policies in danger—a stance which only supports the status quo.
Surprise lilies, Lycoris squamigera, popping up all over town after the storms. Also known as resurrection lilies or naked ladies. #FlowerReport from Columbia, Missouri 🌷
August 7, 2023 at 12:49 AM
Surprise lilies, Lycoris squamigera, popping up all over town after the storms. Also known as resurrection lilies or naked ladies. #FlowerReport from Columbia, Missouri 🌷