poet, libra, cult classic • so, stranger (2022) & portrait of my body as a crime i’m still committing (2019 / 2024) @buttonpoetry.bsky.social • new york x singaporehttps://bsky.app/profile/topazwinters.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/topazwinters.bsky.social/post/3mvby6blc6k2amy new favourite rejection response just dropped… oh to have the unearned confidence of a mediocre white man12 Sep 2026 01:58 +0000at://did:plc:2xp7f7fg6bbbzvfnokhaipld/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvby6blc6k2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/topazwinters.bsky.social/post/3mu43rjmyl223i’ve been reading tarot for a decade, treating the cards less as prophecy than permission, play, pleasure, possibility. next month, i’m bringing them into the classroom in my new generative workshop, ‘the fool, the magician, the poet: tarot as poetic practise’: https://buttonpoetry.com/product/button-university-topaz-winters-workshop/28 Aug 2026 00:21 +0000at://did:plc:2xp7f7fg6bbbzvfnokhaipld/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu43rjmyl223https://bsky.app/profile/topazwinters.bsky.social/post/3mtf6nr2czk25can’t wait to spend a long weekend talking about my two favourite things, my friends & half mystic! i’ll be on two #awp27 panels, including my first time ever moderating, for a conversation about editorial identity in subject-focused literary magazines. see you in chicago 🌹18 Aug 2026 21:41 +0000at://did:plc:2xp7f7fg6bbbzvfnokhaipld/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtf6nr2czk25https://bsky.app/profile/topazwinters.bsky.social/post/3mrwgwmkvy22pmy dearest @aribcofer.com asked me to write a love letter for their readers about what kept me alive in july—this strange achey glimmer of a month, cough drop sweet, possible as a piano. here it is, with part of a poem from ‘portrait of my body as a crime i’m still committing’ ☀️31 Jul 2026 07:34 +0000at://did:plc:2xp7f7fg6bbbzvfnokhaipld/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrwgwmkvy22phttps://bsky.app/profile/topazwinters.bsky.social/post/3mnf67qms3e2ca life in service of language 🫀03 Jun 2026 13:02 +0000at://did:plc:2xp7f7fg6bbbzvfnokhaipld/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnf67qms3e2chttps://bsky.app/profile/topazwinters.bsky.social/post/3mmrngcxkv22rno babe i think your unfinished novel draft is so chic. the way you dream about your characters at night but the minute you sit down to write your mind goes blank & you get up to vacuum instead? it’s very avant garde. cutting-edge performance art. you should get a book deal on vibes, actually26 May 2026 18:41 +0000at://did:plc:2xp7f7fg6bbbzvfnokhaipld/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmrngcxkv22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/topazwinters.bsky.social/post/3mmi4cajoqk2xpoetry in unexpected places: my video editing app22 May 2026 23:41 +0000at://did:plc:2xp7f7fg6bbbzvfnokhaipld/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmi4cajoqk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/topazwinters.bsky.social/post/3mi5ugtvbkc2zi spent six hours teaching today & it was one of the best saturdays i’ve had in a long time. forever astounded by my brilliant students & their curiosity & care for every poem we touch together. forever grateful i get to spend my life in service of the art that has endlessly changed & saved me 🤍29 Mar 2026 00:13 +0000at://did:plc:2xp7f7fg6bbbzvfnokhaipld/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi5ugtvbkc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/topazwinters.bsky.social/post/3mh77u47cxc2zsome news! i am forever @sundresspub.bsky.social’s biggest fan, & it’s a true honour to be selected for the writers of colour residency fellowship — the first time i’ve been funded for fiction (!!!) but my third time at firefly farms. let’s make some magick on this novel ✨ [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Mar 2026 19:44 +0000at://did:plc:2xp7f7fg6bbbzvfnokhaipld/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh77u47cxc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/topazwinters.bsky.social/post/3mfudkj7i6s2edelighted to reemerge at the joyful noise of #awp26 after many moons in my cocoon! find me signing books at the button poetry booth, reading at an impossibly cool offsite venue, & speaking on a panel on humour in queer poetics. i’ll be the ghost in red lipstick; say hello while i’m still corporeal 🌹27 Feb 2026 18:26 +0000at://did:plc:2xp7f7fg6bbbzvfnokhaipld/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfudkj7i6s2e