poet-artist-fool. aging, trans, queer, sick/disabled, autistic. he/they. jet is the cat in this movie. i knew it was a trap as soon as i walked into it. http://www.jaybesemer.net
i am glad i got this from @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social while they are still available! it’s been a whole invertebrate experience around here. (warning: contains recipes).
surprise! spotted at kinokuniya in chicago suburbs: WE WANT IT ALL: AN ANTHOLOGY OF RADICAL TRANS POETICS eds andrea abi-karam & kay gabriel.
(i’m actually not in this one; i deliberately wanted to open space for younger/newer trans poets so i didn’t send any work. it’s a great anth!!)
i’ve been on (in?) a bit of a rabbithole about antarctica lately, so i added it to my weather app saved-places. it’s midwinter there, & i took this screenshot of the weather details last night. i find it comforting in ways i can’t describe.
here’s mine, only a couple years older than yours in the pic. mother’s on the right—this was on their first trip hitching through europe, three years before my birth.