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Jael Montellano @gathcreator

(she/they) | đŸłïžâ€đŸŒˆ Mexican ESL writer | Interview Editor at @HypertextMag | @haydensferryrev @PsalteryLyre @PoetLoreMag @LPBMagazine @ANMLY_Lit @TheSelkieUK

Joined January 2011
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Leonora Carrington@LCarrington_Art
May 15
The Lovers #artbots #carrington
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Isn’t the cover by Olivia Rombak divine?? So honored to be included in this issue
Hayden's Ferry Review@haydensferryrev
Apr 28
Today, we’re revealing the cover of our newest issue and opening the door to its web preview now on our homepage. Inside, you’ll find a gathering of new writing and art from this issue’s contributors that invites attention, return, and conversation! Link in comments!
Front cover of Hayden’s Ferry Review Issue 78, featuring abstract, water-like artwork with layered brushstrokes in blue, green, yellow, and pale pink. The text “Hayden’s Ferry Review” appears at the top, with “HFR” in yellow at the lower right.

ALT Front cover of Hayden’s Ferry Review Issue 78, featuring abstract, water-like artwork with layered brushstrokes in blue, green, yellow, and pale pink. The text “Hayden’s Ferry Review” appears at the top, with “HFR” in yellow at the lower right.

Back cover of Hayden’s Ferry Review Issue 78, featuring darker teal and blue abstract water imagery with rippling forms and bright white highlights. The text “spring/summer 2026” and “seventy-eight” appears over the artwork, with a barcode at the bottom left.

ALT Back cover of Hayden’s Ferry Review Issue 78, featuring darker teal and blue abstract water imagery with rippling forms and bright white highlights. The text “spring/summer 2026” and “seventy-eight” appears over the artwork, with a barcode at the bottom left.
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Friends! I’ve been busy moving, but I’d love it if you would join me in celebrating this issue, which also features a poem by yours truly!
Hayden's Ferry Review@haydensferryrev
Apr 23
✹ Hey, writers! You’re invited to celebrate the launch of Hayden’s Ferry Review Issue 78! Join us for a special virtual evening honoring the incredible writers and artists featured in this issue! Link in comments! 📅 May 7, 6 PM MST!
Promotional flyer for the Hayden’s Ferry Review Issue 78 Virtual Launch Party with a pink and purple gradient background, white serif text, and a collage of contributor portraits with neon borders. Featured names include SaĂșl HernĂĄndez, KB Brookins, Olivia Rombak, Elica Sue, and Yan Ban. Text at bottom reads, “Join us to celebrate! May 7 @ 6 pm MST.”

ALT Promotional flyer for the Hayden’s Ferry Review Issue 78 Virtual Launch Party with a pink and purple gradient background, white serif text, and a collage of contributor portraits with neon borders. Featured names include SaĂșl HernĂĄndez, KB Brookins, Olivia Rombak, Elica Sue, and Yan Ban. Text at bottom reads, “Join us to celebrate! May 7 @ 6 pm MST.”
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While I am not at #AWP26, the @PoetLoreMag team is!! Go find them at booth 937 and pick up a copy of the newest issue, which features poets Patricia Lockwood, jason b. crawford, Jenny Molberg, Dorothy Chan, DeeSoul Carson, and little old me 😎
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Leonora Carrington@LCarrington_Art
Jan 15
Green Tea #artbots #carrington
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And now my day feels like a dandelion seed

Alina Stefanescu@aliner
Jan 13
Poems that are home for me. alinastefanescuwriter.com/bl

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"European men, who loved me for my curves, my / ice-water eyes." "My mother dreams of whiteness" by @gathcreator psalteryandlyre.org/2026/01/


My mother dreams of whiteness

by Jael Montellano

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Literary crush means when I read @aliner’s “My Father Explains Why They Left Me Behind When Defecting” last year I had to try its form out for myself! The results are my poem “My mother dreams of whiteness” which pubs today at @PsalteryLyre: psalteryandlyre.org/2026/01/


My mother dreams of whiteness

by Jael Montellano

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Repeated thank yous to Alina for the inspo and editor Millie Tullis at Psaltery for giving it a home ♄
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IT’S HERE!!!! @PoetLoreMag Volume 120, Summer/Fall 2025. The company I’m in, y’all!!!! Award-winning poets, a foreword by Hanif Abdurraqib, PABLO NERUDA, are you kidding me?? And on page 39, little old me with a poem I wrote the summer of 2024, “Aranya (RĂȘverie).”
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Thanks where thanks are due—thank you to Executive Editor @eaholla, the entire @PoetLoreMag editorial team, and my friend, teacher and first reader extraordinaire JSA Lowe! The purchase link 🔗 poetlore.com/buy-single-issu


Buy Single Issues - Poet Lore

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Upcoming publications! I wanted to note that I’ll have two poems out soon, so please keep watching this space! đŸ–‹ïž
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Book mail from @insighteditions @CopperCanyonPrs and Cardboard House Press! #amreading #newbooks
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Alina Stefanescu@aliner
16 May 2025
A conversation with Jael Montellano in @HypertextMag on May 16th, which is also the day on which Derrida delivered his lecture on the blindness of the author in the year 1991 at Les Havres amen etc đŸ–€ hypertextmag.com/nothing-les

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Truly this collection is lush for study, a prismic array of the sacred and profane. I’ve long fan-girled over @aliner, so it was a dream to read and a dream to chat! Now for cloudscapes ☁
Hypertext Magazine@HypertextMag
16 May 2025
“What if the poem refuses to satiate our expectation of conclusiveness?” Your summer #poetry course is ready! Drop into our #interview with @aliner on her latest collection MY HERESIES, replete with syllabus: hypertextmag.com/nothing-les
 #newbooks #WritingCommmunity #amreading
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The grief. How far-reaching like the desert sun. Writers in the literary landscape have long spun gold from straw and we shall persist. Nevertheless, I want to name the loss of NEA funds that have supported publishers & writers I work with and benefit from. I’m sorry, friends đŸ„ș
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‘I entered into motion because 
I was not put here to prove I could endure the terrifying, brutal things humans do to each other. Because there are flowers in bloom that need my attention
 Because “one wild and precious life.”’ lithub.com/after-the-rooster


After the Rooster Crows: Dispatch from a Poet in Exile

There is no other way to say this: I write you now from exile, having (if you are reading this) fled political persecution in my home country, the United (for now) States of America. I say this pla


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Jael Montellano retweeted
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28 Apr 2025
and mary oliver is there to save my life over and over again
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Hypertext Magazine@HypertextMag
29 Apr 2025
Happy Pub Day to our own poetry editor extraordinaire @aliner ! Run, don’t walk, for your own copy of MY HERESIES: sarabandebooks.org/all-title


My Heresies, Alina Stefanescu — SARABANDE BOOKS

Behold My Heresies : the latest and highly anticipated poetry collection from Alina Stefanescu. Riven by the tension between hagiographies, utopias, belief, longing, and grief, the poems of My...

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Jael Montellano retweeted
Garth Greenwell@GarthGreenwell
28 Mar 2025
I wrote about memorizing poems as a kind of soul-making—an antidote for social media zombification. Link in profile.
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