Alannah Hensley

In honor of lesbian visibility day I will be going visibly insane

A direct link to my piece "Hogzayden" in CJ. A shoutout goes to @SmokeLong and @helenrye for looking over my piece before I sent it to Adam for his consideration. cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/hogzayden.html

There should also be a MacArthur Dumbass Grant where they give you $800 to do something interesting but fundamentally very stupid.

It snode

Shannan combed through some recent issues of The Paris Review and traced where the writers were publishing before they landed there 👀 
Read the full list here: bit.ly/m/ChillSubs FULL DISCLOSURE THOUGH - it is one of our paid pieces.

We're so excited to welcome Jon Repetti to Deep Vellum as our new Marketing Director! Jon is a book marketer and literary critic whose work has appeared in LARB, Cleveland Review of Books, Review31, and elsewhere. He holds a PhD in English from Princeton and grew up in NYC.

it is Valentines Day I want to bring back one of my favourite tumblr posts

Me watching Bugonia

Scoop: DOGE allegedly used ChatGPT to identify approx 1,400 National Endowment for the Humanities grants the AI tool deemed as related to DEI, which were then terminated in April of last year, according to a new court filing released today. Among the terminated grants were a film analyzing how baseball helped heal frictions between the U.S. and Japan caused by World War I; a documentary titled "The Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust;" a film focused on the Colfax massacre of 1873, where dozens of Black men were murdered by a mob of Confederate soldiers and KKK members; and a film about the first female pilots to fly for the U.S. military during World War II. politico.com/newsletters/we…

Making the whispering earring required reading

@ewenglass If through submittable, withdraw the whole submission. If not through submittable, let them know you do not grant them the copyright to the work. That will be sufficient on your end as the submitter. Sorry they are being unprofessional.

Wow, have just had the worst experience with a lit mag who suggest I can not withdraw work that has since been accepted elsewhere as their submission period has ended (??!)

You are speaking to me as if I am a horse you own instead of a horse you are lucky to have stumbled across in a meadow.

Today in ONE ART, we feature poems by Shonté Daniels & Niamh Cahill oneartpoetry.com

I've got three poems out today. Read the rest here! oneartpoetry.com @OneArtPoetry1

i'm not smart but i can put together painful, pretty words (against my will)

realizing i may have been pondering myself into stagnation

well, of course i've tried lavender. and pulling my memory out, ribbonlike and dripping. and shrieking into my pillow. and writing the poems. and intimacy. and writing more poems. and digging a grave. and digging a grave. of course, i've tried it. of course i have.

i actually hate all of you who are posting jokes about the epstein files. rape is so devastating and soul destroying and im sorry but the urge to so belittle it comes from the same swamp as the crime

wake up chat, let's get these 8 cups of coffee (all at once, ofc) ☕️☕️☕️🗣️

They fucking killed this little girl. They denied medical care to her and killed her. Abolish ICE and lock every guard in that concentration camp up in a cell UNDER the fucking prison.

I am building a small poetry library at the University where I am the poet-in-residence this semester. If you are part of a literary journal and/or a poet and want your book to be present in this project, please send me a DM!