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"I confess: I want to make more,
give every one your name,
your crooked grin, your ears,
make a version of you stable
enough to last"

Grief Is Not Shelf Stable
Jamez Terry

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i identify as pain in the ass, jump scare,
the only person not aligned with “family values.”
i identify as your worst fucking nightmare.
- nat raum, poem in which i terrify boomer

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TAKE IT OUTSIDE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF QUERY & TRANS DESIRE

"You set the final
bag on the chair and sink next to me,
thighs touching.

The closeness is electric."
- Ryder West, The Shower

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We'll be part of 18+ night at The Big Gay Market
in Madison, WI!!!

Our most daring authors are cooking up merch
Keep your eyes on this space if you feel some kind of way about... uhh... yeah... let's go with:books.

Come out and say hi if you're in the Midwest!!!

The Big Gay Market
1919 Allient Energy Center Way
Madison, WI 53713

June 19-21, 2026
Friday 5pm-10pm (18+ only)
Saturday 10am-5pm
Sunday 10am-5pm (MASKS REQUIRED ALL DAY)

it is within us all to leave each spring (trans)formed

Multimorbid
by Rebecca Wood

The Holy Ghost Lives In Her Laugh
by Darius Phelps

Grief Is Not Shelf Stable
by Jamez Terry

The Death of the Cult Classic
by K. Blair

Another Double Text
by K Angel

36 Views of My Breasts
by Billie Sainwood

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Two weeks! Join me for the virtual book launch of Multimorbid. Saturday May 30 at 8pm ET. There will some guest readers, some readings from me, and lots of appreciation for everyone who has supported this book! Fill out the Google form in my bio to receive the zoom link.

first (trans) orbit around the sun for SPACE NEON NEON SPACE (super gay edition) — bless @kithbooks for bringing this baby back into the world (and always thanks to @variant.lit for publishing originally) #happybirthday

first (trans) orbit around the sun for SPACE NEON NEON SPACE (super gay edition) — bless @kithbooks for bringing this baby back into the world (and always thanks to @variant.lit for publishing originally) #happybirthday

first (trans) orbit around the sun for SPACE NEON NEON SPACE (super gay edition) — bless @kithbooks for bringing this baby back into the world (and always thanks to @variant.lit for publishing originally) #happybirthday

Grief Is Not Shelf Stable offers mundane minutia stacked moment by moment till one day it tips. Becomes love. Becomes memory. Apple dolls & zucchini, snow squalls & shut roads & hard earned shared laughs. Stores laid up against winter, against debt, against death.

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Grief Is Not Shelf Stable offers mundane minutia stacked moment by moment till one day it tips. Becomes love. Becomes memory. Apple dolls & zucchini, snow squalls & shut roads & hard earned shared laughs. Stores laid up against winter, against debt, against death.

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HAPPY PUB DAY CULT CLASSIC!!

easy to build an altar if you’re never thinking about follow through / spin the bottle / take the turn a little too fast / CCTV IS IN OPERATION / put on a show if you’re going to crash
‍ ‍- Details from the Burning Petrol Station

In the sticky floored sanctum of the movie theatre, Blair finds solace and selfhood where some seek escape. Steeped in reverence for horror and analogue cinema, The Death of The Cult Classic celebrates the transgression of performance that genre allows. In Blair’s deft hands, nostalgia and longing fuel exploration; every monster a possible alt(a/e)r, every queered (head)canon a closely held grace. Anyone and everyone belongs at the movies. In the anonymised darkness, we’re loosed to our dreaming. Lights off, curtains up, and our bodies go with.

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Release Date: May 14, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-964932-28-6
32 pages

Praise for The Death Of The Cult Classic:

‘Blair is one of the most intelligent and contemplative poets I have had the pleasure of reading. As witty as it is nostalgic, this vivid study of cinema as seen through a Queer and quirky lens bucks the mainstream without pretension, reaching through the pages as if leaning across the theatre seat to giggle with you. Heartfelt yet cynical, both warm and gritty, not a word is wasted in this gorgeous debut, with a top rating on Rotten Tomatoes surely deserved.’
- Kayla Martell Feldman, author of Same Story

HAPPY PUB DAY CULT CLASSIC!!

easy to build an altar if you’re never thinking about follow through / spin the bottle / take the turn a little too fast / CCTV IS IN OPERATION / put on a show if you’re going to crash
‍ ‍- Details from the Burning Petrol Station

In the sticky floored sanctum of the movie theatre, Blair finds solace and selfhood where some seek escape. Steeped in reverence for horror and analogue cinema, The Death of The Cult Classic celebrates the transgression of performance that genre allows. In Blair’s deft hands, nostalgia and longing fuel exploration; every monster a possible alt(a/e)r, every queered (head)canon a closely held grace. Anyone and everyone belongs at the movies. In the anonymised darkness, we’re loosed to our dreaming. Lights off, curtains up, and our bodies go with.

kithbooks.com/shop/p/cultclassic


Release Date: May 14, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-964932-28-6
32 pages

Praise for The Death Of The Cult Classic:

‘Blair is one of the most intelligent and contemplative poets I have had the pleasure of reading. As witty as it is nostalgic, this vivid study of cinema as seen through a Queer and quirky lens bucks the mainstream without pretension, reaching through the pages as if leaning across the theatre seat to giggle with you. Heartfelt yet cynical, both warm and gritty, not a word is wasted in this gorgeous debut, with a top rating on Rotten Tomatoes surely deserved.’
- Kayla Martell Feldman, author of Same Story

"I’m not positive at all
about the science                     but I know that we’re still testing
bombs                   on people we’re supposed to love"
- K Angel, After Ithaka

There exists no linear transition, no clear path to becoming, amidst the feedback of familiar carnival mirrors. Instead we stumble after sparks and flashes that beckon hotly from beyond our worn reflections. Transposing page for body, Another double text serves as schematic for this seduction of exits and thresholds: how to try on, then shed, strange shapes and old forms? how to yearn toward an impossible omniscience until a new self falls (with some small grief) into place?

kithbooks.com/shop/p/doubletext
preorders are OPEN

Advance praise for Another double text:

“Another double text leaves no doubt we are our bodies of text / shivers / and caught breath. Angel tells a tender story of a you & I searching for selves through formal play in sex and language. A sharp examination and a homecoming, Another double text longs to reconcile with an ache that might be love, maybe god.”
         —Crystal Odelle, author of Trans Studies

Release Date: June 21th, 2026
ISBN:  978-1-964932-32-6
100 pages

"I’m not positive at all
about the science                     but I know that we’re still testing
bombs                   on people we’re supposed to love"
- K Angel, After Ithaka

There exists no linear transition, no clear path to becoming, amidst the feedback of familiar carnival mirrors. Instead we stumble after sparks and flashes that beckon hotly from beyond our worn reflections. Transposing page for body, Another double text serves as schematic for this seduction of exits and thresholds: how to try on, then shed, strange shapes and old forms? how to yearn toward an impossible omniscience until a new self falls (with some small grief) into place?

kithbooks.com/shop/p/doubletext
preorders are OPEN

Advance praise for Another double text:

“Another double text leaves no doubt we are our bodies of text / shivers / and caught breath. Angel tells a tender story of a you & I searching for selves through formal play in sex and language. A sharp examination and a homecoming, Another double text longs to reconcile with an ache that might be love, maybe god.”
         —Crystal Odelle, author of Trans Studies

Release Date: June 21th, 2026
ISBN:  978-1-964932-32-6
100 pages

"I’m not positive at all
about the science                     but I know that we’re still testing
bombs                   on people we’re supposed to love"
- K Angel, After Ithaka

There exists no linear transition, no clear path to becoming, amidst the feedback of familiar carnival mirrors. Instead we stumble after sparks and flashes that beckon hotly from beyond our worn reflections. Transposing page for body, Another double text serves as schematic for this seduction of exits and thresholds: how to try on, then shed, strange shapes and old forms? how to yearn toward an impossible omniscience until a new self falls (with some small grief) into place?

kithbooks.com/shop/p/doubletext
preorders are OPEN

Advance praise for Another double text:

“Another double text leaves no doubt we are our bodies of text / shivers / and caught breath. Angel tells a tender story of a you & I searching for selves through formal play in sex and language. A sharp examination and a homecoming, Another double text longs to reconcile with an ache that might be love, maybe god.”
         —Crystal Odelle, author of Trans Studies

Release Date: June 21th, 2026
ISBN:  978-1-964932-32-6
100 pages

Join us next Tuesday for The Shape of What Remains, an intimate evening of poetry that brings together Darius Phelps (@dr.dphelps , Andrew Chi Keong Yim (@bootcutkhakis ), and Kyle Carrero Lopez (@kylecarrerolopez ).

At the center of the evening is the debut of The Holy Ghost Lives In Her Laugh, Phelps’s latest collection via @kithbooks that traces the sacred echoes of family, faith, and loss. Here, laughter becomes more than joy—it becomes presence, a way of naming what remains when absence refuses to be silent. Together, these voices create a space that is both tender and unflinching—where silence is honored, memory is given breath, and reading becomes an act of witnessing. RSVP using the link in bio!

new from kith!

Grief iIs Not Shelf Stable
Jamez Terry

Terry’s skill lies in calling the vast tundra homeward. Mundane minutia stacked moment by moment till one day it tips. Becomes love. Becomes memory. Apple dolls and zucchini, snow squalls and shut roads and hard earned shared laughs. Stores laid up against winter, against debt, against death. Unfailingly intimate and domestic, Grief Is Not Shelf Stable, maps loss as internal, eternal; binding floorboard to footstep, loved one to landscape—a topography of grief.

The Death of The Cult Classic
K. Blair

In the sticky floored sanctum of the movie theatre, Blair finds solace and selfhood where some seek escape. Steeped in reverence for horror and analogue cinema, The Death of The Cult Classic celebrates the transgression of performance that genre allows. In Blair’s deft hands, nostalgia and longing fuel exploration; every monster a possible alt(a/e)r, every queered (head)canon a closely held grace. Anyone and everyone belongs at the movies. In the anonymised darkness, we’re loosed to our dreaming. Lights off, curtains up, and our bodies go with.

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