Author: shel

I’m so pleased to announce that my first full-length poetry book is now completed and published online for free for you to read. You can learn more over at https://workingdog.itch.io/dankbriv or at https://shelraphen.com/dankbriv I put a lot of labor and love into this book and it’s finally finished. It compiles the poems I wrote for … Continue reading “Dankbriv: My New Book is Now Out!”

There’s a new poem up on my patreon about gay yearning for my long distance beloved on our anniversary https://www.patreon.com/posts/36700428

New poem up on Patreon “Nails” is about how it’s said that humans didn’t have skin until they left the Garden of Eden. It’s about imperfections. https://www.patreon.com/posts/36173953

New poem up on Patreon for my patrons! “Tactile Memories” is a particularly long poem about being an autistic child and the heightened sensory experience of noticing small shapes, textures, and details in your environment. https://www.patreon.com/posts/35692035

https://itch.io/jam/poetry-jam-february-2020/rate/579129 My new Chapbook for @hologramvin’s February Poetry Jam 2020 is PUBLISHED! WOO!It’s a 40-page book of mostly haiku about trains and trolleys and lotsa stuff but mostly about family, memory, and moving on.I will be recording an audiobook version to be released as a patreon-exclusive very soon. https://itch.io/jam/poetry-jam-february-2020/rate/579129

I’ll be doing Vin Evergeen’s Poetry Jam so expect a new mini-chapbook by the end of the month. I’ve got a bit of writer’s block with (E)stranged Earth so I’m hoping this will unjog my head.

I got published in a zine called “Snake Post Office” about snakes that took over a post office. My story is called “Hospitality” Read it here

Hi all, there is now an audiobook of Alef el-Tav available. Also I got published in Paintbucket again, “Some say time was invented in 1847” which is a horny poem.

I got published in Paintbucket for a third time. Someday is a poem about cooking and eating your landlord.