Isaiah Gardner

poet, pisces, procrastinator, Monarch Queer Literary Awards Finalist, BOTN & Best New Poets Nominee; ✍🏾 @VariantLit @penn_review @3ElementsReview @Aura_Review

[Isaiah Gardner @IsaiahGard04]

Thank you so much @VariantLit for featuring my little poem🫶🏾❤️🥹

[ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag]

Our Poet of the Week, Victoria Chang 💙

"I used to think that grief was heavy."

[Dustin Brookshire @DBrookshire]

I’m stoked to have a poem shortlisted for The 2026 @VariantLit Poetry Prize!

Congrats to my fellow shortlisted peeps!!

[ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag]

W. S. Merwin 💙

[HAD @havehadhavehad]

Isabelle Correa has a beautiful new poem at HAD today!
https://t.co/HOLb86vHWo

[Variant Literature @VariantLit]

Congratulations Ben Kline! It Was Never Supposed To Be is the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Poetry!! @BenKlinePoet

[Variant Literature @VariantLit]

We are so excited to share Issue 23 of Variant Lit! https://t.co/PO9t0fSClG

[Monarch Queer Literary Awards @MonarchQLA]

MONARCH 2026 is out now! 🦋

Buy a print copy of the anthology: https://t.co/6lVz2li2V1
Read it online: https://t.co/5xxE4iD6lV

[Variant Literature @VariantLit]

New! @SuzyEynon, Variant Lit’s Managing Long Form Fiction Editor, reviews The Divide by Evan Morgan Williams, out with Cornerstone Press this February.

[Variant Literature @VariantLit]

Congratulations to Variant contributor, Michael Agunbiade, for being an awardee! And to Isaiah Gardner and Parker Logan for being finalists!

[Isaiah Gardner @IsaiahGard04]

@MonarchQLA @ESichr I’m a finalist!😊🥳 Can’t wait to read everyone’s work!

[Dishsoap Quarterly @dishsoapquart]

Congratulations to @esmepromise, @taralabovich, J. J. Carey, and Eli V. Rahm!!!

[Monarch Queer Literary Awards @MonarchQLA]

We are elated to announce the awardees and finalists for MONARCH 2026. Thank you to all of the organizations who nominated work for making our first anthology so stunning 🦋 and a special shoutout to @ESichr and Bleating Thing for the beautiful cover photograph!

[The Penn Review @penn_review]

Issue 75: Winter of The Penn Review is now live! Check it out on our website.

[Isaiah Gardner @IsaiahGard04]

@RiekkiRon @VariantLit @emilyrinkema @mgnchols @medpie1 @victoriaceann @SuzyEynon congrats Ron!! and likewise! 🙏🏾

[𝕽on Riekki 〽️ @RiekkiRon]

Very happy to find out my short story "The Opposite of Dusk" was nominated for Best of the Net by @VariantLit, https://t.co/l2Zc8IvNny
Honored to be nominated with @emilyrinkema
and @IsaiahGard04
And a huge thank you to editors @mgnchols
@medpie1
@victoriaceann
and @SuzyEynon

[Troy Onyango @TroyOnyango]

every new year’s eve, i read this poem

[Troy Onyango @TroyOnyango]

i return to this poem so often

[Tom Snarsky @TomSnarsky]

Paul Morand, tr. Ron Padgett

[Variant Literature @VariantLit]

We’re thrilled to announce our Pushcart Prize nominations for 2026:

“On Craft” by Erica Dawson
“Clutch” by Stephanie Frazee
“Holes” by Nicole Desjardins Gowdy
“Cooking Lesson” by Shira Haus
“Five O’Clock Shadow in Philly” by Allen Means
“The Opposite of Dusk” by Ron Riekki