topaz winters 🏹

poet, libra, cult classic • migrated to bluesky: @topazwinters.bsky.social

[topaz winters 🏹 @topazwinters]

i’m leaving the 🐦 app for the 🦋 app! catch you on the other side, beloveds: https://t.co/Vd0eJ4P2RO

[topaz winters 🏹 @topazwinters]

thank you, friends, for joining us last week to honour @halfmysticpress��� histories & futures in our tenth year. thank you for finding us, & for bringing music to a project borne of its lack. a decade of dancing & we’re just getting started 🎶���

[Madi 🌻 @decalcomania93]

Andrea Gibson died today and i am very sad. here’s one of their works about grief.

[topaz winters 🏹 @topazwinters]

@SaraFarag @kenyonreview this poem & you! what light!

[topaz winters 🏹 @topazwinters]

TOMORROW, my loves! my brilliant, indefatigable team has been planning this show for you for six months (& ten years, but who’s counting 😉) — if you’re in nyc, come dance with us! only ten tickets are left until we’re sold out 🌟🌟 https://t.co/k0M0VFQELp

[Half Mystic @halfmysticpress]

Tomorrow at 7 PM, join us for #TheLongCrescendo: Half Mystic's ten year anniversary celebration, where our symphony hits its peak! Tickets are almost sold out, but there's still time to grab the last few spots: https://t.co/Ht6HVhYI9n

See you tomorrow in Brooklyn 🎶

[topaz winters 🏹 @topazwinters]

making burying my face in my cat’s fur to smother her in kisses while she scowls at me because i woke her from her nap part of my twelve step skincare routine

[topaz winters 🏹 @topazwinters]

@haolun1 happy birthday baby!! you look stunning ☀️

[Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga]

"That night you opened your mouth to sing & only dust
came out. So you improvised. Instead of singing
you coughed & out came quarters."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Arrival by @TopazWinters (2021 Diode Poetry) https://t.co/BsXTNEj7Jh

[topaz winters 🏹 @topazwinters]

@bookgaga thank you so much for reading!

[topaz winters 🏹 @topazwinters]

been dreaming & scheming about this one for months ~ such joy to unveil half mystic’s ten year anniversary show in brooklyn next month, hosted by yours truly 🕊️

[Half Mystic @halfmysticpress]

For a decade, Half Mystic has been a home for music in all its forms. In honour of the symphony we’ve built together, join us for The Long Crescendo on July 11 in Brooklyn. It’s time for the dream to resurrect its vocal cords and begin again, again, again: https://t.co/AcxNItnnyB

[topaz winters 🏹 @topazwinters]

this is a community where poem is a verb & love is not a static emotion but a transformative force for tenderness, violence, liberation. one full & two partial scholarships are available—queer, trans, bipoc writers with financial need, dm or email me to get in on this!

[topaz winters 🏹 @topazwinters]

i’m teaching a brand new virtual, four-week workshop with @buttonpoetry starting june 29th! let’s write love poetry that feels urgent, embodied, tangible—dwell together in the bewildering dimensions, step across the unmarked borders of desire ☀️ https://t.co/dMeTbyJfyw

[topaz winters 🏹 @topazwinters]

clipped swan’s wings & heroic crowns & redamancy & zinnias right at the edge of wilting are @halfmysticpress issue xii’s lighthouses & birthmarks ~ so damn excited to share it with you on july 8th 🦢✨ https://t.co/GIy5isHLv0

[Half Mystic @halfmysticpress]

In the mythic yawn between absence & presence, Half Mystic Journal Opus II, Issue II: Sevdah is open for preorder. Out July 8, with new work by @RitaMookerjee @asucich @goblinpuck & more. Wander with us through an empty airport terminal like centre stage: https://t.co/HgMNwkL9Pq

[Erin Little @little__erin]

Alice Notley

[soli @solisolsoli]

The Anatomy of Melancholy by Laura Makabresku

[topaz winters 🏹 @topazwinters]

i was definitely not born in the wrong century i love getting paid to write borderline erotic poems about women & violence

[topaz winters 🏹 @topazwinters]

my first new essay in three years is in @PitheadChapel 🌹

yesterday marked a year without anandi. i miss her wider than language, beyond the body. i could write about her forever & it would never be enough. wherever she is, i hope she’s singing.

https://t.co/Hw8SRxa1Rg

[Pithead Chapel @PitheadChapel]

Our May issue is live! Read here: https://t.co/U5I79XCAMf

Words
@lumchanmfa
LAUREN WOODS
SAGE TYRTLE
ANNABELLE TAGHINIA
SARA SCHIFF
@topazwinters
BRIDGET HAYES

Cover Art
COURTNEY BURTON

[topaz winters 🏹 @topazwinters]

@lucyhannahryan @4artistsupdate adore you ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 thank you beautiful

[topaz winters 🏹 @topazwinters]

honoured to be part of the luscious 2025 mass moca & @4artistsupdate fellowship cohort 💫 my first writer’s residency, a fortnight’s worth of holy quiet to write & wonder & shed old skins. thankful for this generous life. for poems & the worlds they make of us.

[Half Mystic @halfmysticpress]

Half Mystic began ten years ago as an independent publishing project and has blossomed into a constellation of voices, a home woven from wild devotion and quiet grace. Our contributors sing every door open. Come as you are. Stay as long as you want. #TheLongCrescendo