The Monthly Crunch

June 2026 Issue

Happy Pride! It's pretty fucking scary right now in many places around the world, so I hope you keep that spirit inside you, whatever it means for you and your community. Sometimes all you need is just a little magic and a reminder that the rainbow is IN YOU, even if you can't show it outside for whatever reason.

Read my 2026 pride webzine!

Here is a list of poetry that I compiled last year from the book Love is For All of Us which I also included in a webzine. I'm rereading it this year and pulling out my favorites and thinking of making art with them!

• ⭐⭐💝Jarod K. Anderson: Woodland You 💝⭐⭐
• ⭐⭐ James Crews: The World Loves You Back ⭐⭐
• Emilie Lygren: How I Wanted to be Beautiful
• ⭐⭐ Kayleb Rae Candrilli: Summering in Wildwood, NJ ⭐⭐
• ⭐⭐🌺 Rudy Francisco: The Peace Lily 🌺⭐⭐
• ⭐⭐ Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart is Not Breaking ⭐⭐
• ⭐⭐ Stephanie Burt: Prayer for Werewolves ⭐⭐
• James Crews: Telling My Father
• ⭐⭐ Joshua Jennifer Espinoza: There Should Be Flowers ⭐⭐
• Dorianne Laux: Enough Music
• Maya Stein: what to love when you're running out of things to love
• ⭐⭐ Kyla Jamieson: My Sexual Orientation is Spring ⭐⭐
• ⭐⭐ Pádraig Ó Tuama: The Facts of Life ⭐⭐
• Andrea Gibson: Instead of Depression

I hope you're staying cool and creative whatever's going on around you and enjoying your late spring/early summer transition (or whatever seasons you're in).