New poem in Passages North..??!?
lmao??!?!?!?!??
As you might have seen me screeching about on Instagram, I got a poem, “What Needs Doing,” published in Passages North last week. This is ridiculous.
Passages North is high up on my LOL list. A LOL list is a list of places you have no business submitting to, but you do anyway from time to time, because LOL.
It includes publications that:
Are like… prestigious
Have a large reach
Publish people who are literally famous
Publish people who aren’t literally famous, but their bios are like “She is a Brownshouse-Barnes Literature Fellow, Toodleoo Collective Poet-in-Residence, Bluebottle Genius Grant recipient, hot lecturer at Cambridge, and hotelier.”
Basically, the places you submit to with a level of masochistic fervor found only in First Reformed or that emo redhead on Degrassi: The Next Generation. The big reaches you don’t tell your workshop groups about because, again, LOL. I’m sure many of you have LOL lists, whether it’s for publications or jobs or beekeeping guilds.
So that’s how I almost got hit by a car in the Central Market parking lot. I had only taken out my phone to get this picture of Troye Sivan in a GAP ad:
And ended up choking on the acceptance email from Passages North.
I don’t have a lot to say about this one, but I’m really proud of it. It’s about difficult conversations, and trust, and the love I’ve seen from people showing up for each other in real, tangible ways over the past few years. And the hypocrisy of even talking about love like this while living in the imperial core, especially during another election season where there is no button that doesn’t kill people.
In conclusion, here are 4 easy steps to get into your LOL list publications:
Use couplets
Include horse
Sprinkle some dread
Ensure the subject matter will cause problems in your personal life
Dorodangos and who would play them
Since the poem mentions these, here are some of my favorite dorodangos I found online and who I would cast in their biopic.
Dakota Johnson.
LaKeith Stanfield.
Toni Collette.
Michelle Yeoh.
Ariana Grande.