jan-march reading
things i read and loved in 2019 (in approximate chronological order)
comics:
- Moonstruck Ellis/Beagle (+++)
- Dream Daddy Trujillo/Kirkland/Herms (+++)
- Runaways (2018) Rowell/Anka/Wilson (+++!!!)
- Young Avengers (2005) Heinburg/Cheung/Dell (+++!!!)
- Captain America (2005) Brubaker/Epting (+++)
novels:
- china rich girlfriend (++)
- windwitch (+++ (borderline transphobia in parts))
- once bitten (+++ cheesy but i love it)
- Wicked Lovely Series (++)
- trash dorothy allison (+++!!! (tws sex and violence tho))
YA novels
- Secret Circle Series LJ Smith (+++ a fave)
- Rebellion Kass Morgan (+++ my fave)
- gg (ugh but i love it lol)
- wayward son (++)
- it’s not me, it’s you (+++)
- tumbling (+++!)
- Protector of the Small series (+++)
poetry collection
- i remember nightfall di giorgio (+++)
chapbooks:
- turning to hear the last leaves of starGazer fall, micropoems tc tolbert (+++)
- belladonna* 104 thirty one words: prose poems evie shockly (+++)
- belladonna* 66 matter harmonious still maneuvering nicole broussard trans lise weil (+++!!!)
fiction
- Issue Twenty-Seven: Cat Ingrid Leeches | The Adroit Journal (+++!! (tws))
- What football will look like in the future (+++ (rly long tho))
- Chase Burke (+++!!! vv good)
- https://www.therupturemag.com/rupture/lookout-sound?fbclid=IwAR2oTYTqN6kU-ZRZGd1RBjQIp3y-16aS7_L7UTgwmauBN9qXOlrRSVpSfqI (+)
poetry
- “why won’t you celebrate with me” Lucille Clifton (+++)
- “acknowledgments” by Danez Smith | Poetry Magazine (+++!!! (wtf, this is so good))
- “All the Boys on the East Side” Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib (+++!!! (a fave))
- “Expressing My Feelings to My Future Husband-Wife (Or, Ritual in Which Gender)” by Kayleb Rae Candrilli - Poems | poets.org (+++!!! (tws))
- Four Sonnets About Food by Adrienne Su - Poems (+++)
- “Are All the Break-Ups in Your Poems Real?” by… (+++!!)
- “American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin” [“I… | Poetry Magazine (+++)
- David Wright on Terrance Hayes’s “When the Neighbors Fight” (+++!!! (tws))
- “Delores Epps” (+++ (problematic fave lol))
- “Orchids are Sprouting From the Floorboards” (+++!!! (a fave))
- Carrie Lorig (+++)
- Washington College Poetry Prize, 2016 | Academy of American Poets (+++!!! (second read, love it so much))
- “Glitter in My Wounds” by CAConrad | Poetry Magazine (+++ (a fave))
- “not an elegy for Mike Brown” by Danez Smith - Poems (+++ tws, a fave)
- “There Are Birds Here” by Jamaal May | Poetry Magazine (+++)
- Terrence Abrahams (+++!)
- Danez Smith (+++)
- Delany Lemke (+++!!!)
- http://electric-cereal.tumblr.com/post/96579207143/today-i-am-coming-out-as-a-person-that-is-capable (+++!!! a fave)
- Andrew Hahn: “A Faggot Tries to Be Christ-Like” (+++!)
- “Against Elegance” (+++!)
- “The Body as Chorus, the Chorus as One” (+++!!)
- Noor Hindi (+++!! DAMN)
- https://www.blush-lit.com/journal#/zoe-blair-schlagenhauf/ (+++!!)
- beyza on Twitter: "i have a poem about being in love & it feeling like stardust in my blood even on the hardest days in the september issue of POETRY 🌻 https://t.co/2GJm5jZiAi… https://t.co/QYgnUeCcUG" (+++)
- Reilly Duncan Cox / Brennan Emmett Cox (+++!!)
- “Four Kinds of Emptiness “(++)
- Ryan Bollenbach (/ tw sui)
- Nick Sturm (+++!!!)
- “Something About the Pink Sky” (+++!!)
creative nonfiction
- “Forever family: Lesbian foster parents on a journey to adopt in the Bible Belt” (JUST CRYING ITS FINE)
- https://thebaffler.com/latest/a-gender-study-rothfeld (+++!!! (tws tho))
- “Men Paid Me To Eat” (+++!!! DAMN!!! (tws: food + sex tho))
- “Snowbound” (+)
2019 reading stats
315 total (-121 from 2018)
173 poems (+93); 7 short stories (-70); 6 nonfiction essays (-45); 16 chapbooks (-20); 65 comics (-95)
49 books: 47 novels (+27); 1 poetry collections (-7); 1 nonfiction books (+2)
jan: 39 total (+1); 2 short fictions; 22 poems; 3 nonfiction essays; 1 ya novel; 4 chapbooks; 7 comics
feb: 62 total (+8); 62 poems
march: 56 total (-4); 56 poems
april: 23 total (-2); 17 poems; 4 chapbooks; 2 comics
may: 19 total (-17); 1 novel; 18 comics
june: 20 total (-3); 5 poem; 1 nonfiction essay; 1 novel; 3 chapbooks; 9 comics
july: 17 total (+1); 1 short fiction; 3 poems; 2 nonfiction essays; 1 chapbook; 10 comics
aug: 22 total (-26); 1 poem; 10 novels; 11 comics
sept: 17 total (-5); 6 poems; 2 nonfiction essays; 1 nonfiction book; 8 novels
oct: 9 (-8); 2 poems; 7 novels
nov: 14 total (-24); 1 poem; 9 novels; 4 comics
dec: 16 total (-43); 2 poems; 1 poetry collection; 2 chapbooks; 1 novel; 8 comics
dec 2019 reading
notamountain reblogged
I want to be soft and what
is softer than the sky before it breaks?
— Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from “When I Transition Will I Lose My Taste for the Storm?” All the Gay Saints
nov reading
oct reading
notamountain reblogged
i’m emblossomed still i see no thing that dark i beat so hard i splinter i burn so brightly burn myself away
— Leia Penina Wilson, from “We Carve a Spell Gurl,” Splinters Are Children of Wood
notamountain reblogged
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tbh only still on this site for when october 3rd rolls around
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Happy anniversary me.
cheers
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950 more notes and I can retire
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ok done with tumblr now bye.
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LET FLY THE MEMES OF WAR
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Is this dead yet?
sept reading
july reading
notamountain reblogged
“You don’t know how to feel about us trotting around your mown lawn ravaging sweet wet apples off your tree. We lock antlers, raise a clatter in the wood, agitate your family dog to fits of barking, gnaw on your juniper bushes, garden violets. We see your chicken wire fences, your garden coated in hot sauce and sick fermented yolks. We’re the kind of beautiful that gets shot down. You forgot that we have been here since the eocene. Clothing you, feeding you. We’re in your myths, shadows in the trees, and after this long dead winter, our hunger will not be kept hidden in birch and pine.”
— Delany Lemke, “A poem in which I try to talk about being queer in the rural midwest and I just end up talking about deer again,” published in Homology Lit
HOLY SHIT I WROTE THIS HI THERE IM CRYING
My twitter is @delovelylany and I have poems in JuxtaProse, Homology, and somewhere on the Academy of American Poets website!! Im working on more thanks!
june reading list
notamountain reblogged
My partner asks
me to keep my blood inside my body
and I always struggle to honor
this basic love.
— Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from “Transgender Heroic: All This Ridiculous Flesh,” published in The Normal School
Source: thenormalschool.com
notamountain reblogged
Casablanca: “Here’s looking at you, kid”
Star Wars: “I know.”
The Princess Bride: “As you wish”
Good Omens: “To the world”
“…what he really meant was ‘I love you.’”
notamountain reblogged
I learned
to exhale without fogging the glass
placed in front of my face—crystalline
in control. My voice a kettle of hawks,
circling what twitched below.
Brett Shaw, “The Body as Chorus,” published in BOAAT (via bostonpoetryslam)