Been offline except for Insta, so I'm unfathomably late for this. I've had two of my poems nominated for Best of the Net this year!! Thank you so much to @sillygoosepress and @publishedbyJAKE for nominating my work 😭 (and for motivating me to keep the Berkeley grind going 💪)

Anyway that's just my two cents 🤪

"What defines a poem?" If a poem calls itself a poem, then it's a poem. My question to that question is: when we ask "What defines a poem?" or "What makes a real poem?", what is that language euphemistic for? What and who is that methodology stifling?

Drained Lake Tahoe for a worse poem 💀 This is the Aram Saroyan "lighght" debate all over again; Carson's poem isn't about denim, the poem *is* denim and what we associate it with (i.e. labor, sexual violence, Americana, etc)

I fucking hate you

Imagine taking dating advice from David Foster Wallace

https://t.co/Jjj0xqat1o

Update: I got accepted 🖤

Penta did an arm breaker on El Grande Americano and then teamed up with El Generico you love to see it

2022 vs 2025 I call this healing 💚

Astronomy class, and I remember my professor admitting to the class that he'd rather be watching Wrestlemania 💀

How it feels to write essays without Chat GPT and read books that don't include fanfic tropes in their description blurbs in 2025:

City Escape was inspired by how Berkeley students commute to campus

English Lit is more fun once you realize 90% of its poets are petty little freaks

"Male manipulator music," "femcel music" and it's literally one of the best albums ever

S/O to the frat house window that had a lesbian pride flag and said "fuck ICE"

https://t.co/ZPM7u91eEo

No Kings in Berkeley 🇲🇽

I don't think a single soul has ever said, "Damn, I could for a Clif Bar rn"

Men would be more fun to be around if they had Pinterest