Events preceeding the launch of our website
Haiku Open Camera 1 (February, hosted on Northeast Ecstatic Poetry Reserve by Fish)
February 2025:
B.H.L.M experiments with Venmo, a 21+ platform, and e-commerce before settling on a website, all ages, and Interfaith approach with an emphasis on recovery, sobriety, and creative non-fiction versus prose fiction.
These genres include lyric poetry, epic poetry, the travelogue, memoir, self-help, food review, and aquarium maintenance, if you have a particularly good interesting aquarium.
Manuscript Rodeo #1
(February, 2025, with Dead Man’s Press Ink, hosted on Northeast Ecstatic Poetry Reserve by Fish, pre-official launch)
“Haiku Advance Against Mass Incarceration”, spotlighting Etheridge Knight and Issa, held at the Foundry on January 3, 2025.
This marks the artistic, non-legal founding of B.H.L.M and was a one woman show put on by Yeyduh with help from her local community.
Despite photo I.D woes on Instagram, B.H.L.M achieved a rarely seen “Double Algorithm Whack” after six months of private algorithm testing. Yeyduh retired the “North American Ecstatic Poetry Reserve” Instagram in April, 2025. It also launched the Slam moniker “New Lesbos Slam.”
