i’m leaving the 🐦 app for the 🦋 app! catch you on the other side, beloveds:

thank you, friends, for joining us last week to honour @halfmysticpress’ histories & futures in our tenth year. thank you for finding us, & for bringing music to a project borne of its lack. a decade of dancing & we’re just getting started 🎶🫀

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Andrea Gibson died today and i am very sad. here’s one of their works about grief.

TOMORROW, my loves! my brilliant, indefatigable team has been planning this show for you for six months (& ten years, but who’s counting 😉) — if you’re in nyc, come dance with us! only ten tickets are left until we’re sold out 🌟🌟

making burying my face in my cat’s fur to smother her in kisses while she scowls at me because i woke her from her nap part of my twelve step skincare routine

"That night you opened your mouth to sing & only dust came out. So you improvised. Instead of singing you coughed & out came quarters." #TodaysPoem #poetry Arrival by @TopazWinters (2021 Diode Poetry)

been dreaming & scheming about this one for months ~ such joy to unveil half mystic’s ten year anniversary show in brooklyn next month, hosted by yours truly 🕊️

this is a community where poem is a verb & love is not a static emotion but a transformative force for tenderness, violence, liberation. one full & two partial scholarships are available—queer, trans, bipoc writers with financial need, dm or email me to get in on this!

i’m teaching a brand new virtual, four-week workshop with @buttonpoetry starting june 29th! let’s write love poetry that feels urgent, embodied, tangible—dwell together in the bewildering dimensions, step across the unmarked borders of desire ☀️ https://t.co/dMeTbyJfyw

clipped swan’s wings & heroic crowns & redamancy & zinnias right at the edge of wilting are @halfmysticpress issue xii’s lighthouses & birthmarks ~ so damn excited to share it with you on july 8th 🦢✨

Alice Notley

The Anatomy of Melancholy by Laura Makabresku

i was definitely not born in the wrong century i love getting paid to write borderline erotic poems about women & violence

my first new essay in three years is in @PitheadChapel 🌹 yesterday marked a year without anandi. i miss her wider than language, beyond the body. i could write about her forever & it would never be enough. wherever she is, i hope she’s singing. https://t.co/Hw8SRxa1Rg

honoured to be part of the luscious 2025 mass moca & @4artistsupdate fellowship cohort 💫 my first writer’s residency, a fortnight’s worth of holy quiet to write & wonder & shed old skins. thankful for this generous life. for poems & the worlds they make of us.

Half Mystic began ten years ago as an independent publishing project and has blossomed into a constellation of voices, a home woven from wild devotion and quiet grace. Our contributors sing every door open. Come as you are. Stay as long as you want. #TheLongCrescendo

the moon belongs to everyone but especially to poets

long distance is a scam invented by Big Yearning to sell more plane tickets!!! wake up sheeple!!!

on a humid, gauzy afternoon in summer 2015, i pressed “publish” on a website i’d spent months designing & coding—& the rest is history. thank you for these past ten years of echoing back half mystic’s strange desires & untamed joys, & for opening a new score with us today 🤍

every poem is a love poem or a grief poem & the best poems are both