Cass Donish 🐞 they/them

It's been 3 years today since she left this world by suicide. I'm so grateful these books are coming out. This is the last picture of her/us, a few days before.

Joshua Clover proteanmag.com/2024/07/06/poe…

"Both poets resist the temptation of catharsis, of insulting their readers—and their dead—with the idea that writing itself can somehow bring them peace." @Reckless_Edit looks at Virginia Konchan's "Requiem," and Cass Donish's "Your Dazzling Death." lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-po…

I’m a crier. And I cried when I read these words from @DianeSeuss about my grief book—Diane, thank you so much for seeing this work, in this way ✨💜✨

sad to report that workshop signups have been way down since the start of the new year. please don't forget about the small, regular amounts of aid to mutual aid groups which need thousands a day to provide for their people! upcoming workshops here: workshops4gaza.com/workshops

Dear ones, if you can, please donate to this urgent fundraiser. I’m matching the first $1, 000 dollars. Support The Sameer Project's South Gaza: Tents, Cash Aid & Medical fundraiser! Help us raise $1,000 --> which will mean $2,000 for this urgent campaign!

@LKTuffaha @CoriBush absolutely

We have an obligation to unlearn Zionism and then refute its lies at every opportunity. Here’s a great place to start:

Lue’s Poetry Hour is out! It features @CassDonish @sabzi_k @JimSeoni @CarlyJoyMiller @sunummm @LKTuffaha @zeinabeck @Austin_Araujo @PaulHlava @tuckner_matthew @AngelNafis @GabrielleBates @NatashaOladokun @laypay & more! Get into it: lutherxhughes.substack.com

@lutherxhughes @sabzi_k @JimSeoni @CarlyJoyMiller @sunummm @LKTuffaha @zeinabeck @Austin_Araujo @PaulHlava @tuckner_matthew @AngelNafis @GabrielleBates @NatashaOladokun @laypay Thank you for including my poem, Luther! 💜 What an amazing list!

Saluting this exquisite untitled creature that Leonora Carrington brought into the world in 1959.

I spent half of this year intensely reading through Asian American fiction for my PhD. Still have more to read but here are 4 books that stood out the most. Books that disrupt the AA canon, that push what writing can do in innovative and challenging ways. Titles in next post.

@randallmannpoet 🔥

Excited to be the August 2025 Guest Editor for Poem-a-Day! And share some wonderful poems. ❤️

Z, a lodestar, your sound stays ringing in my ear

at the point in my grief memoir where i'm realizing that *not everything can go in it.* huge revelation lol. like, that i'll be continuing to write abt this experience beyond this manuscript. took me years of writing it to figure this out!

Since the early hours of morning, 47 people got murdered in Gaza.

Meanwhile blue hour