What shined

Rebecca Loudon has a brainful of 15 Queer-Winged poems posted over at PEEP/SHOW– they are amazing. Shattering. Necessary. Go.

Chinchillas

Chinchilla is one of the most costly and fragile of furs, and is best suited to a brunette with a good complexion.

It’s upsetting.

Follow, follow, follow

Destino, a Salvador Dali/Walt Disney production.

Heart like a hot potato

Ramona Falls, I Say Fever

Patches on my pants

I wrote Niccolò Machiavelli Answers Questions Online Literary Magazines Ask Other Authors for for every year.

I hope to finish 3 very short stories by 5PM (EST) on the 17th for this Harvard Book Store thing.

I want to write something to submit to Titular. I like their concept, but I’m kind of intimidated by Krammer Abrahams.

I really love the blues.

I just guess

I am so fucking disgustingly bummed today I can’t stand it. I will die.

Pours like a fountain

I was so busy procrastinating on things today, that now I have to phone my blog post in at the last minute, but in a nice way, with Shelby Lynne.

No, nobody

Ann Cole

Love this like a blanket.

Wop bam boom

Song of Solomon 2:5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love.

A few things

• Laura Ellen Scott‘s Bog Redaction at Wigleaf is sublime, like a teeny tiny Herzog film or something
• Crispin Best‘s for every year project is one of the most overlooked literary sites on the internet– a dynamic collection of amazing stories and poems in honor of every year in history since the year Chaucer died (1400).  Writers get to pick a year, write something inspired by that year, however loosely, and send it in– the timeline is up to 1525 now, offering over a century’s worth of  reading by authors such as Nicolle Elizabeth, Jimmy Chen, Krammer Abrahams, Molly Gaudry, Benjamin King, Ravi Mangla, Paula Bomer, J. A. Tyler, and xTx. It’s a great place to browse– one of my personal favorites is Margret Tells Us About the Important Wet Dead Man by Aiden Clarkson, but there’s so much more, favorites are impossible, really– and a cool thing to write for. So, check it outtttttttttt.
• Ana Carrete‘s poems about expiring are accumulating. They are diverse, worth reading, and not long for this world. There’s still some time, though, if you’d like your work to fade into oblivion on Feb. 18th along with the work of others such as Rebecca Loudon, Angela Simione, Ben Brooks, Kat Dixon, and Adam Moorad.
• The Beat is offering a copy of  The Bird Room by Chris Killen as a contest prize. Write a story under 1K words on the them of “Birds or Room” for your chance to win. 5 chances.

Happy birthday, Mozart