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PhD English @UMassAmherst | writing poem-prose things, thinking race, empire, architextures
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so thrilled to announce that I am now associate poetry editor at
@GuernicaMag
/ I'm working on a space I have long dreamt of: a space for the poems akin to bonded kittens, wanting to enter the world together, sharing the soft light of the sun / more this summer x
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15 contractors have been on strike from
@PoetryFound
in solidarity with this boycott for 40 days, with no response to our staff letter yet. to profit from poets and staff while neglecting them is, at the *very* least, the antithesis of any “open door" worth imagining.
A reminder there is an ongoing call to boycott Poetry. I co-wrote this letter with
@MyNrhindi
@summabis
and
@IntifadaBatata
that over 2000 poets and writers have signed.
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i resigned from
@GuernicaMag
yesterday after the publication of a horrific settler normalization essay, and am deeply sorry to the Palestinian writers whose trust in our editorial ethics was violated. there is no time for distractions, disrupt and organize for a free palestine.
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I first heard Fady Joudah at
@JaipurLitFest
. his uncanny generous ability to name a brutality as it bears down upon his very self shaped me. i had grown up hearing the word صَبَرَ and i think of how he embodies the absolute endurance elemental to faith. i am his student always.
Dr. Fady Joudah, who just lost 49 members of his family due to Israel's bombs, graciously offers a reminder of the rampant dehumanization of Palestinian life.
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apologies to everyone that the most beautiful rug in the world is no longer available /
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I am jittery that Anthologia
@GuernicaMag
is out in the world; this space has been my dream for so long, to travel across and stay with a poet’s needling questions and seam-stressing / open until Aug 15, response time is two months / please send me your sprawl and largesse 🌸
@GuernicaMag
is excited to invite submissions to a new quarterly section, Anthologia: a gathering of several poems by the same poet, poems that are critically plural, that cohere — or that fragment — a shared project.
For details:
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Anthologia
@GuernicaMag
open for submissions until tomorrow! send us your inseparably kindred poems /
I have been reeling from the genius in the queue and am so grateful for the gatherings you send our way 💐
@GuernicaMag
is excited to invite submissions to a new quarterly section, Anthologia: a gathering of several poems by the same poet, poems that are critically plural, that cohere — or that fragment — a shared project.
For details:
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institutions will “welcome conversation”, knowing the demeaning concessions one makes to participate with hope with anger with exhaustion, their entirely concocted risks. no more. grateful to
@rashaabdulhadi
@summabis
amongst others for their conviction, work, and solidarity.
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debuting Anthologia
@GuernicaMag
with Hajjar Baban’s
@hajjar222
LOW FLYING PLANES; journey across these poems through the vehicular rocks, birds, knowledge that traverse them; an offering of family, self, and language in the face of persistent and watchful landscapes /
“A mirrorless story. My father’s mother’s name.”
LOW FLYING PLANES by Hajjar Baban
@hajjar222
, a gathering of ten poems circling the self alongside family, surveillance, and landscape, is our first anthologia
@GuernicaMag
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I'm excited to announce the 2024
@UMassEnglish
Graduate Conference on "Rogue Mobilities". We affirm this to be a space firmly grounded in the belief for freedom and self-determination of occupied peoples in Palestine and across the world.
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“Who bombs hospitals and inherits the earth?” | it is impossible to excerpt
@FadyJoudah
, who distills so generously with every thought, in every word, a practice of solidarity, love, and liberation for us to move towards; read his interview with
@BorisDralyuk
in
@newinquiry
.
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is it the magic of Laylat al-Qadr that the domino moebler desk I have coveted for YEARS finally appeared on craigslist?
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so grateful to the editors of
@MinnesotaReview
for making space for my sprawl; as a (sort of) academic/poet, what a dream to be able to say I was published (sort of) by dream press
@DukePress
🤭; here is one of my suppose poems, and a moment of shadowed green /
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beginning this ramadan week with incredible (!) new (!) poems by Tamer Mostafa, Edil Hassan, and
@caesarah_
on
@GuernicaMag
, each poet framing desire, constraint, faith within a new magnitude, asking what ones does with wanting / + wondrous art by Pedro Gomes and Anne Le Guern❤️
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a new
@sreshthasen
poem, who somehow manages to write each poem with the heft of a manifesto, reminds me how a spoonful of dark matter weighs a billion tons / read at
@ShadeLitArts
:
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snippets from three poems in dream journal
@Gulf_Coast
, written 2017-2019 at my poem-a-year stewing pace, recording an older self tugging so hard at the question of why one loves the way one loves; so grateful to home these poems alongside incredible writers i so deeply admire /
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utterly obsessed with this photo of mamma-baba from 1996, when I was around two years old, attending their first wedding (my youngest aunt’s) as a couple 🥺 / my 20-year old brother is hard to impress but even he said “very nice picture” on the family group when mamma shared it /
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love my beautiful mamma, who ends every phone call reminding me to brush my teeth and write my book ♥️ / pictures from when I was a baby, and college graduation in 2015)
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some fall basking through the creature who knows how to bask best /
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psa: top your hummus with lao gan ma chili crisp + yes, get the second cat
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no words will do except hers / “I go always faster than I go” / now to feel her in every light, every moon / etel adnan, thank you /
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@GuernicaMag
debuts in a monthly-issue format! In the April issue, we are so thrilled to have poems by
@kwamedawes
, Myronn Hardy, and
@DanielaCatrileo
translated by
@edithjadams
, each crafting its own singular response to how to know and be known /
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alongside others in the
@UMassEnglish
dept, we’ve written a statement in solidarity with Palestine, demanding
@UMassAmherst
do better + thinking of our roles and lineage as students of text at this moment. please read, sign, share as resonates.
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gazing at windows and greens in enchanting cdmx; send recommendations or your favourite poema about or with a window /
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at my nana’s house / i grew up with billo, the orange cat sleeping next to me on the couch / billo was actually several orange cats, strays nana befriended to make sure i had a feline friend awaiting / orange cats continue to swarm the house now, years and losses apart /
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a new long poem by Tarik Dobbs
@mxrlevant
in
@GuernicaMag
, that I love for its intelligent propulsion, where lines and objects turn, transform, verb, one to return to and to let reconfigure /
“I watched some professors write from East / Villaged, a Vermont Somewhere’d / West of Hollywood, in a Martha’d / Vineyard.”
A new poem by Tarik Dobbs (
@mxrlevant
) in
@GuernicaMag
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such gems / new translations of masaoki shiki by Abby Ryder-Huth, "woman eaten by cats" by Julia Wong Kcomt translated piercingly by
@jshyue
, the incantatory "Bats" by
@Hussyainy
, Giannina Braschi pulling Antigone apart / feb
@poetrymagazine
, assembled under the care of
@SuziG
/
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"Theory - the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees - theory can be a dew that rises from the earth and collects in the rain cloud and returns to earth over and over.
But if it doesn't smell of the earth, it isn't good for the earth." | Adrienne Rich
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@GabrielleBates
thinking of Li-Young Lee, Ai, Marge Piercy, alongside the others mentioned on this thread! Mahmoud Darwish as well, in a slower, more hued sort of image-making.
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my sibling, my family, the goofiest firecracker, a trampoline for every weight in the world, a true poet of the heart, fab himbo (is that what you’d like me to say?), DOCTOR of our people
@sreshthasen
♥️
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@GuernicaMag
colleague and comrade in all things ridiculous and reverent, Cindy Juyoung Ok has gorgeous translations of the ever-piercing
@PoetKimHyesoon
in
@asymptotejrnl
today /
Kim Hyesoon is one of Korea’s most important contemporary poets, pairing experimental lyricism with startling imagery.
These early poems, tr. Cindy Juyoung Ok, uncover the violent and absurd intersections of girlhood and 1980s imperialism.
@PoetKimHyesoon
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it is so clear to me what I should do with my day - people to email, lesson plan for my students, calls for papers to respond to, journals open for subs, critical ideas, titles for new poems, the solution to every feeling - when I am in a hot shower, then gone with the steam /
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!!!!!
SPACE CRONE
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Edited and introduced by So Mayer (
@Such_Mayer
) and Sarah Shin
Afterword by Arwen Curry
Le Guin’s writings on feminism and gender collected for the first time.
Publishing 4 March 2023 – pre-order:
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since reading the blue clerk, I call these the dionne brand flowers and here is the first one from my little porch garden endeavor /
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bought v discounted Wi-Fi for the last three hours of my fourteen-hour flight and I’m now on petfinder + messaging friends “hello I’m writing this from the literal SKY” /
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“There’s a story you know: it begins with your right hand over mine,
as I practice my handwriting…” / this poem, a chant, a delicate song by
@DeemaShehabi
in
@POETSorg
♥️
"Why am I speaking at all when what's unsaid
between us is a rosette of moth wings, beating in the sky's eardrum."
Grateful to and Naomi Shihab Nye for this!
#poemaday
Vista
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today in
@GuernicaMag
, a poem by the tremendous
@prempehIII
, that I will say nothing about except confess that I have spent endless times moving from the last line back to the first and then again and back again, being made gentler with each reading /
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what a thrilling list!! all the bells and whistles for the incredible poets on here, and to poet-friend and
@GuernicaMag
colleague Cindy Ok whose precision across her work, thinking, and humour I’m lucky to have in my world ♥️♥️♥️
🎊 The Poetry Foundation is thrilled to announce the 12 finalists for the 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships! Thank you to all of those who shared their work with us! 🎊
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"Today I am empty, fasting till sundown"
six lavish poems by
@dure_ahmed
in this second gathering of poems for anthologia in
@GuernicaMag
, where distortion is sensual and transformative, a game with the extravagance and refusal of desire /
“I want, still. Fingers in the back of my throat / the smell of latex to manifest on my tongue”
From the second installment of
#Anthologia
,
@dure_ahmed
's bouquet of sensual poems.
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my 20-page schengen app was approved so I'm going to be bopping around, gazing at old buildings, in europe in june (!) and would love recs for stockholm, paris, prague, copenhagen + if anyone in berlin has a couch or a corner for a broke grad student, I'll be ever grateful🙈
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I have a small poem "while my lover travels, I take notice" out in dream-publication The Margins today in the company now of so many poets I love and admire, with gratitude to
@EmilyYoon
for her noticing and to
@aaww
for lending these travels some necessary domestic light /
Love letters spill
down the narrow stairs as I leave. I think I would like nothing
to miss her like I do, hence this tenderness, hence my hands smudging
myself. Each time a key turns somewhere in the world, our house turns
towards the door
@_sarah_ahmad_
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in Harriet
@poetrymagazine
: reeling from the fact that I got to speak with
@GianninaBraschi
about new york, theater, and being loved by and being in love with objects / (this interview comes with a tiny spoiler alert for the bachelor courtesy of my brain) /
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strategy
#563
to finish this paper: write for as long as all too well (10 minutes); break for as long as all too well (taylor's version); repeat.
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“a murmur in the trees to note” | first snow dust, thinking of emily dickinson on her birthday /
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very thrilled to be part of the juniper young writers online program this summer, where I’ll be teaching a lab on lists and a workshop on the beloved writing voice and talking about so many writers I so so deeply love and admire with high-school students /
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“i am one of those folks you see standing in front of a building somewhere staring at it with such a look of longing” | working last night, I found this '94 essay by bell hooks on dreaming and dwelling, this morning, learning she is everywhere she already was / thank you so so so
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@pswordwoman
this poem by
@prempehIII
in
@GuernicaMag
today is sublime and fits the bill: ; I have a poem “ghazal in Brooklyn” in Plume 9 that I think responds to some of those themes 🙈 /
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it's the third week of Ramadan, that time when the month's rhythms of hunger have settled into the clock of "our faint bodies", and here is the gorgeous poem I needed to name it;
"Third Week of Ramadan" by
@saharromani
/
"Mornings no longer found us in the kitchen, / turning on the kettle. Breakfast was something people did on billboards / or TV."
New poetry by
@saharromani
.
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"once again I am pretending to have been to this place of my dreams" /
"(De)Composition" by
@thebigluborsky
in
@GuernicaMag
today, gently bringing together the formal capacities of a dense disintegration /
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in diaspora notes: every jummah, baba shares his dua on our family group after prayers / as this year begins, I haven’t seen my parents in three years / (ofc the “omission” being referred to here is my perpetual disinterest in marriage but even that is endearing in this missing)
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what are your most fickle writing whims? mine: if I change a shirt, the writing leaves; if the light falling on my desk changes, the writing leaves; if I’m not wearing eyeliner, it leaves; if something crops up in my inbox, or if I spot a wire or a cable, writing leaves /
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becoming more like my dad in that each time I eat out I mutter about how "this can be cooked at home", and more like my mom in that I can *actually* cook it at home /
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this bedstuy building is irreplaceable, the secret tents society are an incredible org founded and run by Black women since 1867 / I’ve spent hours in front of this magical old building / please support and share, save Brooklyn from developers ♥️
Bed Stuy's Secret Tents Society Launches Fundraiser to Restore Its Grand But Crumbling HQ
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ranunculus, a favourite spring flower, collects sunlight in the center of its blooms and in cold months, insects crawl into the center of the flowers for warmth /
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poem pinned on an ex-beloved's narrow new york closet door six years ago to primary text for my dissertation pipeline /
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@hystericalblkns
Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers by Lois-Ann Yamanaka, it seared through me and made me alive to words again. The Blue Clerk by Dionne Brand, such float and fierceness. Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto, on a plane ride blue and strange. These surface for now amidst so many.
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new poetry: love this swiftly sensational poem by
@sophieklahr
on
@GuernicaMag
/
"In the days after he’s struck her / She was like another thing / The apple’s star"
New poetry by
@sophieklahr
.
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during grooming: disgruntled, snappy, affronted, sulking / after: GLOSSY PURR MACHINE ♥️
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reading (+ joon-ho’s parasite) for the first lit class i’ve taught “thinking architexturally: gender and space in literature” / what tremendous students i co-adventured with; other reading included henry urbach, bell hooks, jennifer bloomer,
@Lucas__Crawford
, mabel o. wilson +++
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@ShainaPhenix
the only one I can think of is “A Woman is Talking to Death” by Judy Grahn; which is just an entire miracle of a poem in how it upends writing “about” anything.
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advice on note-taking while reading for area lists / generally? I begin with aspirations of writing notes long hand in "organized" notebooks, quickly get v overwhelmed, and end up having random documents with copied chunks of quotes that I found helpful - what do you do?
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August 1-6: we're only reading work by emerging writers
@GuernicaMag
! Send us your poems, long and little, lyric and playful, hefty and strange; we're also always keen to read poems in translation. Submissions open on the 1st on Submittable /
In the first week of August we're *only* reading work from those who have been published fewer than 5 times.
This submission period runs from August 1st-6th. Emerging writers, send us your work!
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extraordinary artist and friend Bhavya Kumar made this magical thing, polka on and around some beloved textures and colours at home / more of her wonder at
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I'm just a grad student, standing in front of an ever-looming summer, asking you to employ me.
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!!!!!!!!
It’s here! Our cluster on
@jstheater
can be found at . Edited by
@jussjokes
, the cluster features work by:
Phillip Brian Harper
@BlackPostBlack
@kqandrews
@bamenke
@pocothought
Matt Brim
Tyrone Palmer
and
Fred Moten
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I was going to be a twitter lurker until
@sreshthasen
changed the world this evening when she wrote "with analogies I, as usual, carry too far." in Summer with or without, the last of these stunners where no matter how far she goes, I am held alongside.
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I love this / “to frame (certain things) as questions was to already admit harm into the room.”
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“Be strong Bernadette
Nobody will ever know
I came here for a reason
Perhaps there is a life here
Of not being afraid of your own heart beating
Do not be afraid of your own heart beating
Look at very small things with your eyes
& stay warm” /
♥️ bernadette mayer, thank you
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dispatch from cat-sitting, where clearly my absence had no impact on contentment for muezza/
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“Weak from eating only cabbage, I wonder if this has been the hunting, the state of being hunted.” | such a precise, crystalline piece by magnificent
@GuernicaMag
colleague + past
@_conjunctions
contributor + all-around gentle interrogator Cindy Ok /
In today's miCRo feature, "Haunting Season" by Cindy Juyoung Ok, a strange hunt takes place: "I feel young when I admit to my friends that I have only been hunted once before. Not by someone so obsessed with binary Western morality . . ."
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plucking the first ripe red robins from my porch and endlessly and desperately reciting the ayatal kursi, the all-hands-on-deck verse from the Quran, on a very on-brand start to the pride weekend /
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me proclaiming! the submission! of my last! project of the semester! to my creatures creature: what’s….labour
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excited to get the new “crip temporalities” and internally sing “can’t take my eyes off you” to every book in
@DukePress
catalogue this Wednesday morning /
Our Spring Sale starts today! Save 50% on all in-stock books & journal issues through May 7 with coupon SPRING21.
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my awp roster = this reading that i’m *very* excited for + traipsing alongside my beloved
@sreshthasen
/ say hi this is my first time awp-ing!
Heading to AWP? Join us on Friday March 10th for an offsite reading at The Lab at Ada's Technical Books!
We are delighted to be working with
@blackwarriorrev
and
@theoffingmag
to host this amazing lineup. Seating is limited so get there early.
See you in Seattle! ✈
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so glad to have this poem, "full of hurt" and moving with such tenderness by
@boneless_koi
, new on
@GuernicaMag
/ read "Ordnance" by Steven Duong:
"The world is a list of things / I keep from my father. Before I leave, I run / my hands over the shell of another / sleeping bomb."
New in poetry by
@boneless_koi
.
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happy birthday to wondrous queer poet Judy Grahn / I learnt of her through a taped-up excerpt of “A Woman is Talking to Death” on a particular beloved’s wall and it is a long poem that has forever changed me / “my lovers teeth are white geese flying above me” /
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@stevenespadaw
I loved this poem and felt it so keenly; we are so so thrilled to be able to publish it!
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“One possible corrollary: that what it takes — all it takes — to make the description “queer” a true one is the impulsion to use it in the first person.” | Sedgwick in Tendencies, this morning’s prose obsession /
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"Close the book, they disappear. Open it, and they’re upright again. A stone turned over, red. Beneath it, what we must speak for. Growing lather sloughed off the dead." | some necessary moments spent re-looking at the world with Jenny Xie's "Red Puncta" in
@_conjunctions
/
Negative space, forgetting’s lining. The background is where things seethe. Where tung trees tease open the seams of voices. In the far off, shame lifts from ear lobes and cools. See how the background leaks . . .
—Jenny Xie, "Red Puncta"
New poetry!
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"elegy with beta fish" by
@ShainaPhenix
swam across my morning; what I thought was a gentle ripple in a small tank transforms into thundering ocean waves in the midst of a storm, who else could write a poem making me trust in choosing that turbulence?
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an utterly distraught day because what is to me a six-letter word is to wordle a five-letter word and for the life of me I just couldn’t
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just realized the communist manifesto is pisces, astrology *is* real
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