my dearest @aribcofer.com asked me to write a love letter for their readers about what kept me alive in july—this strange achey glimmer of a month, cough drop sweet, possible as a piano. here it is, with part of a poem from ‘portrait of my body as a crime i’m still committing’ ☀️

a life in service of language 🫀

I know you want to come to this. Me and @topazwinters.bsky.social are gonna fete @cavar.bsky.social . Just celebrate the hell out of them. Really do it up. Come on through to discuss Madness and poetry! Bushwick! 1 week!

AUTHOR EVENT – Cavar on Madness and DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS | Hive Mind Books

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no babe i think your unfinished novel draft is so chic. the way you dream about your characters at night but the minute you sit down to write your mind goes blank & you get up to vacuum instead? it’s very avant garde. cutting-edge performance art. you should get a book deal on vibes, actually

poetry in unexpected places: my video editing app

i spent six hours teaching today & it was one of the best saturdays i’ve had in a long time. forever astounded by my brilliant students & their curiosity & care for every poem we touch together. forever grateful i get to spend my life in service of the art that has endlessly changed & saved me 🤍

some news! i am forever @sundresspub.bsky.social’s biggest fan, & it’s a true honour to be selected for the writers of colour residency fellowship — the first time i’ve been funded for fiction (!!!) but my third time at firefly farms. let’s make some magick on this novel ✨

Sundress Publications@sundresspub.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The Sundress Academy for the Arts is pleased to announce writers Brianna Yancey, Diya Abbas, Topaz Winters, Bianca Alyssa Pérez, and Meghan Malachi as the recipients of our Summer 2026 Residency Fellowships. For more information, visit our website. https://ow.ly/TguV50YsmrE

delighted to reemerge at the joyful noise of #awp26 after many moons in my cocoon! find me signing books at the button poetry booth, reading at an impossibly cool offsite venue, & speaking on a panel on humour in queer poetics. i’ll be the ghost in red lipstick; say hello while i’m still corporeal 🌹