Since January 2021, I’ve been keeping a list of my writing activity for each month (here’s last month’s). I do so partly as a form of encouragement for myself to show that I am still able to do some writing despite the energy-sucking terrors of our times, and partly as an archive that I can look back on in the future. As such, I include negative happenings (e.g., receiving rejections), not just positive ones.
I think that it is important for me to share my list publicly as a genderqueer bisexual disabled Latinx writer because mainstream discourse tries to either pretend voices such as mine do not exist or actively tries to suppress them. Whether one is part of an oppressed group or not, writing is an essential act of resistance in these terrible times (WHICH ARE ESPECIALLY TERRIBLE IN THE U.S.A. RIGHT NOW–make no mistake, the current “presidential” administration is a fascist one), so I hope that my list offers encouragement to others.
The list is basically in chronological order.
1. Submitted five poems to Trash Panda.
2. Had a poem, “cardigan shopping all the sheep I could be,” published in Acorn 57 (Fall 2026).
3. Had a poem, “heatwave / taking out my hearing aids / to cool off,” published in Modern Haiku 57, no. 3 (Autumn 2026).
4. Had a poem, “morels remembering I live near a nuclear target,” published in Kingfisher 14 (October 2026).
5. Had my fifth book, Morning Subway, published by Cuttlefish Books.
6. Attended Haiku Social Club.
7. Updated the Mennonite/s Writing Bibliographies.
8. Submitted fifteen poems to Sundog.
