Hello from Mikeystrong

My husband and I have launched a new project: Mikeystrong!

Mikeystrong is going to look at bodybuilding, which Michael—sorry, Mikey—has always been interested in, and which he's been talking more seriously lately. It's particularly interested in bodybuilding as a form of radical body transformation—as something that is particularly queer, rather than something that sticks close to toxically masculinist norms. I'm not particularly interested in bodybuilding per se, but I can get behind that idea. I'll be directing the videos and doing a lot of behind-the-scenes work. Exciting!

(Oh, also stick around for the very end of the video.)

fray

And today I created a thing,
and that thing is called fray.

Pwoermds

April is International Pwoermd Writing Month,
and I spent the month writing

pwoermds over on Twitter—in Latin.
What’s a pwoermd? It’s a one-

word poem, a poem aggressively edited,
language torqued and tickled: diced, spliced,

& awfully nice. As Geof Huth,
who coined the word, has noted,

pwoermds seem more native to English
or French, languages with unintuitive orthographies

that encourage unlikely spellings. Even Chaucer
got in on the hacktion. So

my Latin pwoermds, which I’m calling
Carmnomina, may come off as blatantly

English—especially with their love of
consonant clusters and unlikely compounds—or

maybe German? I’m thinking of working
them over awhile, into something worthy

of a chapbook. Or translating them,
or asking others to translate them?

We’ll see. Meanwhile, some of my
InterNaPwoWriMo pwoermds from 2013 were published

in the wisdoms of the universes
in a single string of letters,

just released by Xexoxial. It includes
lots of great pwoermdists: Grab it!