1 25 40 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Logan is a community organizer and social worker based in Seattle WA. They write about the liminality of queer existence and those little sparks of joy found in the murk. Their work has appeared in the University of Washington's Black Student Journal. More poetry can be found on their Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/wilsonsolomonlogan" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@wilsonsolomonlogan</a>. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/697">Delta</a></li> <li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/698">An Ode to the Train Reflection</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. North Puget Sound Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Logan Wilson Author Tag: activist Author Tag: agender Author Tag: atheist Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: Black or African American Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document It’s a long ride to love, I’m not sure it ever ends, The stations blur by, disappearing as fast they came, Each one separate, and desperate, in their aims, And they are desolate, all the same. Some stations glow a bright stoplight red, Others are as black as an oil train, Others radiate a dazzling lilac light, that completely commands my pain, But they are desolate, all the same. I’ve gotten off at all these stations, Some more than I should, I’ve stood at the crack, With bated breath, Shivering, Itching, As the iron doors scream open, A gateway to futures I cannot tame, And they are desolate, all the same. The light dances through the double-paned window, Projecting evidence of life onto a callous concrete landscape, And I look for it. But the future sprouts out of the Earth it maims, And it is desolate, all the same. As the train slows down I hear it, Deep down, I know I fear it, That lonesome, loathsome, mournful song, drifting through my soul, The warmth I seek, lies with the singer or so I hope, There’s no going faster than fate’s lazy lope. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/699" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Logan Wilson</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource An Ode to the Train Reflection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Logan Wilson Author Tag: activist Author Tag: agender Author Tag: atheist Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: Black or African American Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document All I want is another moment, of us breaking bread under the retiring sun our laughs vaulting us above the clouds letting us think of nothing but the warmth of an amber sunset and the whistling winds All I want is another moment, where I can annoy you and laugh knowing your love for me is stronger than my flaws All I want is another moment, where I bask in the gleam of your eye as your passion overflows in your words I miss you. I want you back. Racism robbed me of your love and for what? for what? —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/699" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Logan Wilson</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. grief Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Delta Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Logan Wilson Author Tag: activist Author Tag: agender Author Tag: atheist Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: Black or African American Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: Jewish Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: white Content Notice: grief Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document i want my joy a bouncy-bottomed young thing, with more energy than i can comprehend for that which will bring me pleasure. i want debaucherous joy, sweet, slippery joy, a joy that can come again and again and again unceasing. i want to hit joy's freak button. to get all the way down & nasty with joy, walk around smelling like joy just came all over my face and i couldn't get drunk on joy fast enough to catch it all. i want joy to stain my clothes, i want joy so delicious i mourn what spills onto the floor, so i serve myself another helping. i want joy to want me. to ask for me in the middle of the night; to choose me as the best cuddle buddy. i want joy to be fucking real. for joy to show up with a whole self. teach me something about how to mend. show me the best way to shine. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/450" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Amber Flame</a> Listen to the author read p.y.t. here: <a href="https://youtu.be/Mjh5hYn8doo">https://youtu.be/Mjh5hYn8doo</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. erotic (explicit) swearing Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource p.y.t. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Amber Flame Author Tag: activist Author Tag: agender Author Tag: Black or African American Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: genderfluid Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: parent Author Tag: polyamorous Author Tag: queer Content Notice: erotic (explicit) Content Notice: swearing Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document I love you in whispers, in a secret kept beneath the sidewalk where all the beauty I can muster carves channels under dark cover In forgotten, unlit corners, rooting at spider’s webs, catching debris. I love you in narrow moments, loud and fierce as I break cracks in the concrete where we are growing Knowing only that so far it has not been gentle This warmth among us I turn my soft belly to the sun Stretch out, curl down into the earth, and open. It’s important that I do this. I am hungry and the sun will nourish. I am cold and the sun will warm. We meet here, in this sun Roots tangled far, far below It is sweet, being seen, stretching out towards the coming Rain. There is nothing narrow about this new together. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/568" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Teal Gemar</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource so far it has not been gentle Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Teal Gemar Author Tag: agender Author Tag: Aromantic Author Tag: Asexual Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: genderfluid Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: queer Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document Is it worth this pain in my sides To pretend that I am flying? You hold me up by my torso Palms digging just below Where my breasts would be If I were a little bigger Bigger, when I could say / don’t hold me this way —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/568" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Teal Gemar</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource If I were a little bigger Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Teal Gemar Author Tag: agender Author Tag: Aromantic Author Tag: Asexual Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: genderfluid Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: queer Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Mollie writes and studies poetry and sci-fi/fantasy as a way to connect with their community, friends, and family. An aspiring author with a degree in poetry and queer studies, they're currently working on several projects exploring isolation, relationships, self-discovery, sickness, and grief. They hope that sharing writing will help foster empathy, curiosity, and critical thinking in our communities. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/569" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">If I were a little bigger</a></li> <li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/570" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">so far it has not been gentle</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. Peninsula/Coastal Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Teal Gemar Author Tag: agender Author Tag: Aromantic Author Tag: Asexual Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: genderfluid Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: Queer Youth Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document I made my home in the mountain’s breast Where the stars lord distant and Faint as the wind-blown courtesy Of a summer breeze Tonight, the blood moon’s lonely marrow Glooming over the low-hung stratus While the valley below, dead as mercury Having bore the autumn droughts And conflagrations Nightjars pen the night air Then castle themselves in the pine copses To baron over that silence which Slaloms the dead wicks of a forest Where the fires marched The ground, now immolated Gray and gone as wasp paper Stows the waiting seeds Among the embers who burrowed After the death of their god The seed hoping to be The fire refusing to die What grows must burn What burns must grow And as I made my home in the mountain’s breast I have burned those parts of me Which have ceased I am seeded by the waiting dreams That shall come when The fire goes —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/536" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Travis Wellman</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When the Fire Goes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Travis Wellman Author Tag: agender Author Tag: atheist Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: polyamorous Author Tag: Rural community member Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Travis Wellman directs a non-profit paleontology site in northeastern Washington. They've been published in the print anthologies ‘Ike Pāpālua - Science Fiction & Fantasy from the Hawaiian Islands by Mutual Publishing and Bigfoot Country by Celticfrog Publishing. They had a poem published in the 2024 Washington Book Award winner I Sing the Salmon Home by Washington State Poet Laureate Rena Priest. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/537" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">When the Fire Goes</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. Northeast Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Travis Wellman Author Tag: agender Author Tag: atheist Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: polyamorous Author Tag: Rural community member Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document you open the front door invite us in under the presumption we'll feed & pet the kitties, take care of the place. a boyish girl and a girly boy you presume, nobody leaves the keys to the mansion, the rolls royce, the wine cellar to a couple trans folks, after all. as soon as you're out the door we're already jumping on the bed eating your ice cream, sheer shrieking joy. (we leave the bed exactly how we found it). if you find yourself underwater in the pitch black, and out of breath, follow the bubbles from your screams to the surface. of course we feed & pet the cats cuddle them amid piles of champagne glasses dom perignon they see this life for what it is, a shiny cage. if you find yourself underwater in the pitch black calmly make your way to the nearest exit and take a deep breath. orange flecks glimmer crystal chandelier up all night talking about queer utopia listening to the radio in your car/ feet up on the dash the stars aren't brighter here inside this crystal cage, just more fluorescent glow. leave us the keys to the crystal cage & the kitties please leave us one night in the champagne palace please leave us. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/520" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Olivia Violet</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. alcohol Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource house sitting/as date night Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Olivia Violet Author Tag: activist Author Tag: agender Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: nonbinary Author Tag: queer Author Tag: transfemme Author Tag: transgender Author Tag: white Content Notice: alcohol Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Olivia Violet is a poet, community supporter, artist, change maker, and sometimes creative writing teacher. They live in the south puget sound region with their cat Miss Monkey and their rosy boa Mr. Amy Squiggle. They were awarded "Cutest Butt Wiggle" while on the cast of Punk Shrek (Gay) the Play in 2022. They enjoy writing narrative, experimental, and free form poetry, as well as flash fiction. They have a deep passion for authentically representing trans themes in their writing. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/521" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">house sitting/as date night</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. South Puget Sound Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Olivia Violet Author Tag: activist Author Tag: agender Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: nonbinary Author Tag: queer Author Tag: transfemme Author Tag: transgender Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document says take it to work & eat it for lunch & I take it three days in a row, because I get busy and forget to eat & the plum ripens. by day three, almost too much; by day three I do not want to disappoint my girlfriend by bringing home the plum again & so on my way home I decide to eat it - I am hungry and I am guilty; it is almost wasted & what a shame it would be when my girlfriend, who loves plums, has set this one aside for me. because it is day three and almost too late, when I bite into the plum it bursts, an explosion, thick sluice down my palms across my glasses, bursts juice up my nose sticky bits onto eyelashes & mouth full of sweet sweet almost too ripe plum, mouth spilling with the wet coming apart, I laugh at the disaster it has become on my face, at how there are no napkins in the car & here I am, fists full of fruit flesh barely clinging to pit nothing but my tongue to lap it up. I laugh because this plum seems to know me in my secret better than I could know myself: knows of jealous need to be the special desired thing set aside for my lover’s mouth, knows better than me what it is to be both wanted and freely given away because what else is it to be in love? the truth is I want to be a plum in her mouth. I want a bursting so ready I come out my skin, I want to be desired down to the pit, to end tangy fibered between her teeth, sucked in sweet satisfaction; when she says she loves, no really really really loves plums, I want her to mean me. & maybe that plum knew I needed three days to truly understand the mess I am willing to make to be consumed. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/450" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Amber Flame</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. sensuality Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource my girlfriend saves me a plum Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Amber Flame Author Tag: activist Author Tag: agender Author Tag: Black or African American Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: genderfluid Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: parent Author Tag: polyamorous Author Tag: queer Content Notice: sensuality Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document A herd of bees died when I ate all the honey Shoveled pollinator plants into my mouth & sneezed lavender Tongued aromatic herbs & feigned pleasure at the melange; Nothing less than an assault against hummingbirds and butterflies Who, after all, are admired for their sleek greed & excess falling from gullets I crunched their husks underfoot while nibbling the insides of hives Jealous their heavy bodies allowed flight despite laws of physics Envious the hearts they beat to death with gossamer wings How we never mourn the sacrifice they'll make of themselves For a sweetness, what they'll do for a sip —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/450" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Amber Flame</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Thirst Trap Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Amber Flame Author Tag: activist Author Tag: agender Author Tag: Black or African American Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: genderfluid Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: parent Author Tag: polyamorous Author Tag: queer Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Amber Flame is an interdisciplinary artist garnering residencies with Hedgebrook, Baldwin for the Arts, Millay Arts, and more. A former church kid from the Southwest, Flame’s first collection of poetry, Ordinary Cruelty, published in 2017 through Write Bloody Press. Flame’s second book, apocrifa, a love story told in verse, launched May 2023 from Red Hen Press. Flame is Deputy Publisher at Generous Press, a new romance venture publishing inclusive love stories, and Program Director for Hedgebrook, a literary organization serving women. Amber Flame is a queer Black dandy mama who falls hard for a jumpsuit and some fresh kicks. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/689">p.y.t.</a></li> <li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/451" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Thirst Trap</a></li> <li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/452" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">my girlfriend saves me a plum</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. South Puget Sound Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Amber Flame Author Tag: activist Author Tag: agender Author Tag: Black or African American Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: genderfluid Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: low-income Author Tag: parent Author Tag: polyamorous Author Tag: queer Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document Lines are suggestions my crayons ignore. Down deep, I slap legs on Ariel free of charge. In Wonderland, I slip leather-studded lads around tea party tables. Smooth pressed inks meet my smeared psychedelic wax, and Copyright won’t keep Dick Grayson from tonguing Peter Parker’s ear. Like fanfic, she wrote, Killing the author with her own two pens: Electric pink and bubblegum blue. With #cross-hatched lavender, I draw a world where even goo-tentacled monsters get their ships, And under-the-spotlight enemies become behind-the-curtain lovers, Scribbling speeches they’ll share under showers of roses and rice. I papercraft tsundere space samurai in tutus stitched With secrets to faster-than-light speed and sequins Reflecting worlds richer than this – What’s warped over allegedly Indelible funhouse frameworks Held apart by hard science and harder hearts. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/436" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Em Arata-Berkel (they/them)</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. sensuality Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coloring Books are Boring Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Em Arata-Berkel Author Tag: agender Author Tag: Asexual Author Tag: atheist Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: genderfluid Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: queer Author Tag: white Content Notice: sensuality Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document In June, me and you Snuck out the back door, Stole between buttery street lamps, then Wound down a suburban dead end, Where we put ourselves to bed On a cul-de-sac’s asphalt bulb. Yesterday’s heat rose through Bodies sun-scorched and mosquito-stung. Hands brushed, but Even under midnight’s sheet, It was too hot to do anything other Than burn. Another August, we Pour from a theater lobby, Gush over candied neon streets, Leave glitter like breadcrumbs There to here, a now Spent stargazing on crisp grass – work-sore, sure – But we breathe dew Rejuvenating like watermelon Ice breakers under the tongue. We knot fingers to keep warm, Walk home with arms chain-linked, Cackling without shame. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/436" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Em Arata-Berkel (they/them)</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Summer Folklore Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Em Arata-Berkel Author Tag: agender Author Tag: Asexual Author Tag: atheist Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: genderfluid Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: queer Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Born in Texas, Em Arata-Berkel is an emerging poet who's taken root in the Pacific Northwest. Their poetry can be found in the award-winning anthology I Sing the Salmon Home: Poems from Washington State. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/437" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Summer Folklore</a></li> <li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/438" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Coloring Books are Boring</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. North Puget Sound Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Em Arata-Berkel (they/them) Author Tag: agender Author Tag: Asexual Author Tag: atheist Author Tag: demisexual Author Tag: genderfluid Author Tag: genderqueer Author Tag: impacted by poverty Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: queer Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document Today I am making breakfast with my headphones on and listening to sad music. As I move through the kitchen, I feel the music move through me, The mild sorrow, the melancholic drag. I am lamenting in the hurt that the sounds conjure from within me. It is summer and I have air conditioning but I feel the heat in the background. I feel it in the weight that lingers in the kitchen. Sad songs have a lot of silence. They move slowly, wandering from one pain to the next. They take dramatic pauses, they drag themselves through the despair as I drag my body through the ceaseless summer days. The songs move slowly with me. Today, between the sounds of sorrow, in the silent beat before the decline, my friend has arrived and I can hear the laughter from the other room. The laughter leaks like sunlight, into the silent beats between the sadness. Have you ever been at the midpoint? The precipice of joy and sorrow. Do you know what it feels like, to cup both of these things in your hands and become acquainted? Right now, this is something I know. Whatever is equidistant to longing and having I am there. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/393">Solace Sinclair (it/its/he/him)</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sunlight in the Kitchen Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Solace Sinclair (it/its/he/him) Author Tag: activist Author Tag: agender Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: immigrant Author Tag: queer Author Tag: Transsexual Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document This poem was inspired by, and borrows its title from a poem by Sarah Kay. If you grow up to be the type of boy that people want to touch you can tell them to look away when they do it. If you grow up to be a type of body that people tell you is supposed to be basked in shame you are allowed to shed it. If you grow up to be the type of boy who is searching for his body in someone else's you can pick up a mirror and look until you find yourself. You can move your arms freely and you can call your body divine no matter what they say. I will hear you, and I will listen. If you grow up to be the type of boy who wants to be touched you can let him touch you. And you can love him back with both hands. You can love without losing yourself. Your feet can still be firmly rooted in the ground, planted in your own heart. You do not need to leave the earth in order to be swept off your feet. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/393">Solace Sinclair (it/its/he/him)</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. sensuality Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Type Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Solace Sinclair (it/its/he/him) Author Tag: activist Author Tag: agender Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: immigrant Author Tag: queer Author Tag: Transsexual Author Tag: white Content Notice: sensuality Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Solace Sinclair is a queer transsexual writer and multi-media artist. He grew up in the area known as Seattle, and spent much of his adolescence enamored with the queer and music scenes of the big city. He is the founder and current editor in chief of The Lilac Journal, a multi-media publication dedicated to only publishing the works of transgender individuals. His work centers queerness, transness, deconstruction of gender, disability and chronic pain, the magic of joy and intimacy, nature, grief, time, and the unknowing expanses of the universe. When he’s not creating, you can find him reading, birdwatching, cooking, or hanging out with his parrot. You can support his work by visiting <a href="https://lilacjournal.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">lilacjournal.com</a>, or finding him on Patreon. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/394" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Type</a></li> <li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/395" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sunlight in the Kitchen</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. Northwest Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Solace Sinclair (it/its/he/him) Author Tag: activist Author Tag: agender Author Tag: bisexual Author Tag: disabled Author Tag: immigrant Author Tag: queer Author Tag: Transsexual Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document We lay in the grass under the orchard branches, hand in hand. The sadness is gone from my bones. The dappled light across her sweet face shifts my gloomy soul. The smell of the sun-warmed earth and ripening fruit tangled in my lungs pulls threads of wistful remorse. For were it known who owns my heart, I would be alone. But this moment is mine, in the sun and honeyed warmth. Her ebony hair upon clover and plum blossom. Beneath the branches that raised me. Away from the darkening sky. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/384">Mossy Shrubbins (they/them)</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. lack of acceptance Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Warmth Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mossy Shrubbins Author Tag: agender Author Tag: lesbian Content Notice: lack of acceptance Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Mossy Shrubbins, a twenty-one year old student of environmental sciences at Olympic college, grew up in seabeck Washington with their two siblings. Picking up poetry at a fairly young age, influenced by their mother who often wrote poetry along with her paintings. Mossy is also fond of using ink, watercolor, and metal-smithing in their art. Currently they are working on writing and illustrating a mystery novel series. They can typically be found in the woods out in seabeck, looking for shiny rocks in the creek, writing poems on tree stumps, and looking for salamanders in the leaf mulch. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/385" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Warmth</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. North Puget Sound Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mossy Shrubbins (they/them) Author Tag: agender Author Tag: lesbian Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Stevie (they/them) is a queer author that focuses on the stories that helped create them. They were born and raised in small town Wisconsin, drawing much of their inspiration from their experiences there. Their writing is an extension of themselves, their poems are a first-hand account of what it means to be them. It is a way of processing their gender, sexuality, experiences, emotions, and the way all of these things encapsulate the essence of who they are and who they want to be. They want to share their own humanity with those who struggle to see that in themselves. Regardless of what people in this community, or any community that feels outcasted, everyone has that humanity in them and it is beautiful. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/255">Insatiable Rage</a> </li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. North Puget Sound Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stevie Author Tag: activist Author Tag: agender Author Tag: Homeless or formerly homeless Author Tag: queer Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document disregard the fear in my eyes for i refuse to stand down symphonies of rage sing in my ears demanding redemption for the murder of the kid i was supposed to be head my warning: i am not scared of you, i am scared that my hands may hold the capabilities of violence i was once subjected to a reign of terror i’m not confident i can stop destroy or be destroyed is a lesson you taught i chose the deconstruction of my identity over your accountability you bought my loyalty with manipulation a false sense of security and a lack of bodily autonomy my truth was your biggest fear ripped out of my throat with the brutality of every abuser before you infecting bloodlines with an insatiable hunger to inflict the damage inflicted upon them wounds with the potential of healing, paired with the denial to wrap your bloodied heart in bandages nurturing an avoidable infection leading to the inevitable death of the kindness i used to see in you we grew up in the same brittle home, yet the cruelty seemed to have embedded itself in your bones and you carved your initials into mine, claiming ownership over a person you saw as a means to your end years later and i’m still trapped in the memory if honesty is a virtue then i must be the biggest sinner of all lies corrode my vocal chords making it impossible to speak sincerely automatically protecting the blood tie i once held above all others <div style="text-align:right;"> — <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/256">Stevie</a></div> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. abuse or trauma violence family trauma or domestic violence mental health Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Insatiable Rage Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stevie Author Tag: activist Author Tag: agender Author Tag: Homeless or formerly homeless Author Tag: queer Content Notice: family trauma or domestic violence Content Notice: mental health Content Notice: trauma or abuse Content Notice: violence Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document The week starts with nothing more than a thought. The sun broke the sky in pieces leaving room- for darkness, light, and the in between. In this morning, there was a peace They spoke so briefly in the between. Where poets meet. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/184">Anais K.R.</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poets Meet When? Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Anais K.R. Author Tag: activist Author Tag: agender Author Tag: Christian Author Tag: queer Author Tag: white