Steven Sanchez
@icarus-flies.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 Poet
• Author of PHANTOM TONGUE (Sundress Publications, 2018)
• Lambda Literary & CantoMundo Fellow
• poems in APR, Agni, Glass, Rhino, & elsewhere
https://stevensanchezpoetry.com
• Author of PHANTOM TONGUE (Sundress Publications, 2018)
• Lambda Literary & CantoMundo Fellow
• poems in APR, Agni, Glass, Rhino, & elsewhere
https://stevensanchezpoetry.com
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Announcing our 2025 Monarch Queer Literary Awards nominations!!
@icarus-flies.bsky.social "Grief Is the Raven"
Olivia Lehman "Winter Solstice"
@gardnerdorton.bsky.social "Love Poem Featuring Ton 618"
Malik Thompson "*"
Keenan Teddy "Sonnet Unrequited"
CB Wilson "We Harvested, We Harvested"
@icarus-flies.bsky.social "Grief Is the Raven"
Olivia Lehman "Winter Solstice"
@gardnerdorton.bsky.social "Love Poem Featuring Ton 618"
Malik Thompson "*"
Keenan Teddy "Sonnet Unrequited"
CB Wilson "We Harvested, We Harvested"
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Announcing our 2025 Monarch Queer Literary Awards nominations!!
@icarus-flies.bsky.social "Grief Is the Raven"
Olivia Lehman "Winter Solstice"
@gardnerdorton.bsky.social "Love Poem Featuring Ton 618"
Malik Thompson "*"
Keenan Teddy "Sonnet Unrequited"
CB Wilson "We Harvested, We Harvested"
@icarus-flies.bsky.social "Grief Is the Raven"
Olivia Lehman "Winter Solstice"
@gardnerdorton.bsky.social "Love Poem Featuring Ton 618"
Malik Thompson "*"
Keenan Teddy "Sonnet Unrequited"
CB Wilson "We Harvested, We Harvested"
Honored to have a new poem published by @glasspoetry.bsky.social today.
It’s about my Queerness, my grandma, and being glamorous af. I also didn’t realize it would be coming out a couple of days after her birthday.
Happy birthday, grandma.
It’s about my Queerness, my grandma, and being glamorous af. I also didn’t realize it would be coming out a couple of days after her birthday.
Happy birthday, grandma.
Today on Glass!
"Grief Is the Raven" by Steven Sanchez (@icarus-flies.bsky.social)!
www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
"Grief Is the Raven" by Steven Sanchez (@icarus-flies.bsky.social)!
www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
June 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Honored to have a new poem published by @glasspoetry.bsky.social today.
It’s about my Queerness, my grandma, and being glamorous af. I also didn’t realize it would be coming out a couple of days after her birthday.
Happy birthday, grandma.
It’s about my Queerness, my grandma, and being glamorous af. I also didn’t realize it would be coming out a couple of days after her birthday.
Happy birthday, grandma.
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It shouldn't matter if Trump’s victims have criminal records. If we only defend the “innocent,” the fascists will argue that their victim “was no angel.” An anti-fascist rhetoric that carves out exceptions for imperfect victims is a gift to our opponents.
New from me for @us.theguardian.com:
New from me for @us.theguardian.com:
What is a ‘criminal’ immigrant? The word is an American rhetorical trap | Jonathan Ben-Menachem
Labels like ‘gang members’ and ‘terrorist supporters’ are an easy way to make humans disposable
www.theguardian.com
April 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
It shouldn't matter if Trump’s victims have criminal records. If we only defend the “innocent,” the fascists will argue that their victim “was no angel.” An anti-fascist rhetoric that carves out exceptions for imperfect victims is a gift to our opponents.
New from me for @us.theguardian.com:
New from me for @us.theguardian.com:
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TOMORROW IS THE FINAL DAY for summer writing residencies in all genres at the Sundress Academy for the Arts. Fellowships available for writers of color and travel grants are available for Black and/or Indigenous writers! www.sundresspublications.com/news/2024/12...
January 31, 2025 at 6:08 PM
TOMORROW IS THE FINAL DAY for summer writing residencies in all genres at the Sundress Academy for the Arts. Fellowships available for writers of color and travel grants are available for Black and/or Indigenous writers! www.sundresspublications.com/news/2024/12...
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It didn’t harm the anti-abortionists when someone got an abortion.
It didn’t harm cis people when someone changed their gender marker.
It didn’t harm anyone when a teenager used hormone blockers.
Fake outrage causes real damage.
It’s about control, not about preventing harm.
It didn’t harm cis people when someone changed their gender marker.
It didn’t harm anyone when a teenager used hormone blockers.
Fake outrage causes real damage.
It’s about control, not about preventing harm.
January 25, 2025 at 6:28 AM
It didn’t harm the anti-abortionists when someone got an abortion.
It didn’t harm cis people when someone changed their gender marker.
It didn’t harm anyone when a teenager used hormone blockers.
Fake outrage causes real damage.
It’s about control, not about preventing harm.
It didn’t harm cis people when someone changed their gender marker.
It didn’t harm anyone when a teenager used hormone blockers.
Fake outrage causes real damage.
It’s about control, not about preventing harm.
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Just because you can't control every terrible thing doesn't mean you're powerless. Find a way to DO something. Think small, think local.
Here's today's suggestion: train to become a practical support volunteer and support people traveling to access abortion care. apiaryps.org/pollination-...
Here's today's suggestion: train to become a practical support volunteer and support people traveling to access abortion care. apiaryps.org/pollination-...
The Pollination Station — Apiary for Practical Support
Through our Pollination Station, we vet and train potential volunteers for Practical Support Organizations.
apiaryps.org
January 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Just because you can't control every terrible thing doesn't mean you're powerless. Find a way to DO something. Think small, think local.
Here's today's suggestion: train to become a practical support volunteer and support people traveling to access abortion care. apiaryps.org/pollination-...
Here's today's suggestion: train to become a practical support volunteer and support people traveling to access abortion care. apiaryps.org/pollination-...
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The National Archives is looking for volunteers with an increasingly rare skill: Reading cursive.
Can you read cursive? It's a superpower the National Archives is looking for.
The National Archives is looking for volunteers with an increasingly rare skill: Reading cursive.
www.usatoday.com
January 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The National Archives is looking for volunteers with an increasingly rare skill: Reading cursive.
Make sure it explodes into glitter shrapnel that lodges into heteronormativity forever.
Make it gayer. You can't go wrong
January 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Make sure it explodes into glitter shrapnel that lodges into heteronormativity forever.
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video games are an invaluable tool in teaching children to find and kill god
January 9, 2025 at 1:35 AM
video games are an invaluable tool in teaching children to find and kill god
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For @newrepublic.com I wrote about Black southerner gun culture, the rifle in the closet. So check that out because I'd be pleased to share with you.
newrepublic.com/article/1893...
newrepublic.com/article/1893...
My Gun Culture Is Not Your Gun Culture
In Black Southern life, guns have been a sign of readiness against constant threats.
newrepublic.com
December 29, 2024 at 5:49 PM
For @newrepublic.com I wrote about Black southerner gun culture, the rifle in the closet. So check that out because I'd be pleased to share with you.
newrepublic.com/article/1893...
newrepublic.com/article/1893...
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I had the chance to work with Poet Lore to pick some amazing poems! I really hope y’all enjoy my selections
www.poetlore.com/2024/12/17/v...
www.poetlore.com/2024/12/17/v...
Volume 119 Summer/Fall 2024 Guest Editor’s Note - Poet Lore
www.poetlore.com
December 20, 2024 at 11:53 PM
I had the chance to work with Poet Lore to pick some amazing poems! I really hope y’all enjoy my selections
www.poetlore.com/2024/12/17/v...
www.poetlore.com/2024/12/17/v...
Let’s see you at 21.
This was in a K-Mart fitting room. It was the last time I’d go to a Black Friday with my grandma, the only person in my family who was nothing but happy for me when she found out I was gay and in love.
This was in a K-Mart fitting room. It was the last time I’d go to a Black Friday with my grandma, the only person in my family who was nothing but happy for me when she found out I was gay and in love.
December 17, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Let’s see you at 21.
This was in a K-Mart fitting room. It was the last time I’d go to a Black Friday with my grandma, the only person in my family who was nothing but happy for me when she found out I was gay and in love.
This was in a K-Mart fitting room. It was the last time I’d go to a Black Friday with my grandma, the only person in my family who was nothing but happy for me when she found out I was gay and in love.
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Struck by how quick and insightful this poem by Perry Levitch in the new @newenglandreview.bsky.social is—
“fishbowl / of unparticular malaise. like everywhere.”
#poetry #amreading #poets #poem
“fishbowl / of unparticular malaise. like everywhere.”
#poetry #amreading #poets #poem
December 17, 2024 at 1:56 AM
Struck by how quick and insightful this poem by Perry Levitch in the new @newenglandreview.bsky.social is—
“fishbowl / of unparticular malaise. like everywhere.”
#poetry #amreading #poets #poem
“fishbowl / of unparticular malaise. like everywhere.”
#poetry #amreading #poets #poem
My biggest accomplishment at work:
People skip their breaks less and respond with some variation of “I will right now, no free labor!” when I ask if they’ve gone yet.
People skip their breaks less and respond with some variation of “I will right now, no free labor!” when I ask if they’ve gone yet.
December 17, 2024 at 3:44 AM
My biggest accomplishment at work:
People skip their breaks less and respond with some variation of “I will right now, no free labor!” when I ask if they’ve gone yet.
People skip their breaks less and respond with some variation of “I will right now, no free labor!” when I ask if they’ve gone yet.
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BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row.
“Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.
“Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.
November 28, 2024 at 3:07 PM
BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row.
“Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.
“Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.
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HELLO FRIENDS! I HAVE A REALLY BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!! My debut poetry collection /a chronology of blood/ has been picked up for publication Fall 2025 by The University of New Mexico Press. I am so, SO excited for you to read these poems, which began once upon a time as my MFA thesis. ❤
November 14, 2024 at 10:43 PM
HELLO FRIENDS! I HAVE A REALLY BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!! My debut poetry collection /a chronology of blood/ has been picked up for publication Fall 2025 by The University of New Mexico Press. I am so, SO excited for you to read these poems, which began once upon a time as my MFA thesis. ❤
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#GivingTuesday is coming soon...
To all of the wealthy liberals and progressive foundations that will soon be panic donating to the "resistance"—below are nonprofit organizations that monitor, research, and produce in-depth analysis on the far right, violent extremists, and authoritarian movements👇
To all of the wealthy liberals and progressive foundations that will soon be panic donating to the "resistance"—below are nonprofit organizations that monitor, research, and produce in-depth analysis on the far right, violent extremists, and authoritarian movements👇
November 26, 2024 at 4:31 PM
#GivingTuesday is coming soon...
To all of the wealthy liberals and progressive foundations that will soon be panic donating to the "resistance"—below are nonprofit organizations that monitor, research, and produce in-depth analysis on the far right, violent extremists, and authoritarian movements👇
To all of the wealthy liberals and progressive foundations that will soon be panic donating to the "resistance"—below are nonprofit organizations that monitor, research, and produce in-depth analysis on the far right, violent extremists, and authoritarian movements👇
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When The Cincinnati Review asked if wanted to write anything for their sex issue, I was like uhh really?? Then I remembered I am *thee* Carrie Bradshaw of Queens and wrote a craft essay on why funny sex scenes are GOOD and even “LITERARY”? Hope you enjoy these tips on writing hehe and haha sex. 🥵🤡
November 23, 2024 at 1:56 PM
When The Cincinnati Review asked if wanted to write anything for their sex issue, I was like uhh really?? Then I remembered I am *thee* Carrie Bradshaw of Queens and wrote a craft essay on why funny sex scenes are GOOD and even “LITERARY”? Hope you enjoy these tips on writing hehe and haha sex. 🥵🤡
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Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
—C.D. Wright
—C.D. Wright
November 23, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
—C.D. Wright
—C.D. Wright
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Oral historian Rae Garringer looks back on the ten year journey to publishing their book “Country Queers: A Love Letter.”
Making a Way Out of No Way - Sixty Inches From Center
Oral historian Rae Garringer looks back on the ten year journey to publishing their book “Country Queers: A Love Letter.”
sixtyinchesfromcenter.org
November 22, 2024 at 11:48 PM
Oral historian Rae Garringer looks back on the ten year journey to publishing their book “Country Queers: A Love Letter.”
When I fall asleep watching tv, I always know my husband noticed—he sets the tv to wind chimes and rain sounds before he goes to another room to play video games.
November 23, 2024 at 7:08 AM
When I fall asleep watching tv, I always know my husband noticed—he sets the tv to wind chimes and rain sounds before he goes to another room to play video games.
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We should care about what’s going on in Gaza for MANY reasons. But if you need a selfish one, look up “imperial boomerang.”
Weapons and practices being used out in the colonies are eventually used on citizens as well.
Black people BEEN trying to warn y’all.
Weapons and practices being used out in the colonies are eventually used on citizens as well.
Black people BEEN trying to warn y’all.
“Israel is reportedly using a new kind of weapon in Gaza: small drones that carry guns and fire at targets like snipers. Eyewitnesses in Gaza say these drones have killed many civilians.”
www.npr.org/2024/11/20/n...
www.npr.org/2024/11/20/n...
November 20, 2024 at 7:05 PM
We should care about what’s going on in Gaza for MANY reasons. But if you need a selfish one, look up “imperial boomerang.”
Weapons and practices being used out in the colonies are eventually used on citizens as well.
Black people BEEN trying to warn y’all.
Weapons and practices being used out in the colonies are eventually used on citizens as well.
Black people BEEN trying to warn y’all.
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Dear Editors — If you’re considering publishing an article about issues related to transgender people, then perhaps you should consider assigning that article to a transgender journalist. Don’t have any transgender journalists in your newsroom?
@transjournalists.org has several valuable resources:
@transjournalists.org has several valuable resources:
Trans Journalists Association
Promoting more accurate, nuanced coverage of trans issues and communities in the media. Supporting gender-expansive journalists in their careers.
www.transjournalists.org
November 21, 2024 at 2:58 AM
Dear Editors — If you’re considering publishing an article about issues related to transgender people, then perhaps you should consider assigning that article to a transgender journalist. Don’t have any transgender journalists in your newsroom?
@transjournalists.org has several valuable resources:
@transjournalists.org has several valuable resources:
Heard her grumbling on the ground while I edited poems. I guess she wanted to help.
November 21, 2024 at 2:10 AM
Heard her grumbling on the ground while I edited poems. I guess she wanted to help.