Jarrett Moseley
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Gratitude List (Bull City Press, 2024) //Poems: @Pshares , @AGNImagazine , @POETSorg @BaltimoreEditor , @WaxwingMag , etc.| Tin House ‘23
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I’m so excited to reveal the cover for my
@BullCityPress
chapbook Gratitude List, and the release date: June 25th!
It’s a series of interconnected prose poems about recovery; if that sounds like your thing, you can preorder now at the link below—
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One reason I love Mary Oliver: she makes simplicity complex. This poem has been shared 1,000 times, yet on every single read, I'm hit by a different line—today, it's the final one. "The family of things." What does it mean to end a poem that rejects the human idea (1/2)
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This happened Monday & I still feel like it’s not real
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Something I love about this poem—after hearing her read once, I asked Taneum Bambrick about the second line here—about the matchbox—and told her it was my favorite line in the poem, and I was wondering how she thought about it in the context (1/3)
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of perfection for our shared animalness, which connects us all, by telling us that in the end, we're all neither (and both) just humans or animals, but the simplest category of all: "things"? That in understanding ourselves as such, we become part of something much (2/3)
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The first time I read this Molly Brodak poem, I didn’t get it. But, as a great poem does, it chipped away at me over years until one day I read it and it hit me. I couldn’t stop thinking about those last lines, so I wrote my own version to try to understand what shifted (1/3)
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larger, the family every-thing. I don't know the answer—but it feels true. (3/3)
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Whenever I feel lost in poetry, like I have recently, I go back to the collections that made me the poet that I am, the poets who shaped how I understand poetry (and in many ways, the world). Here’s what my bookstack of inspiration looks like, what would yours?
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All that time I spent avoiding writing poetry by learning chess theory officially paid off—excited to have this poem come out next year :)
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CW: Overdose
About a year ago, the title poem from my manuscript was published by
@POETSorg
as the winner of my MFA's prize. It's a really special poem to me, but it didn't get much reach then—so I'm reposting now, if anyone is interesting in reading :)
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@adefillo
Y’all there’s even a refusal of the call to action in ACT I 😭 (our government refusing to prepare for COVID)
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a poetry acceptance? from a mag I really wanted to be published in? for one of my favorite poems I've ever written? perhaps i am not a failure after all...
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@spinubzilla
@AireaRenae
“We beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past"
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Super excited to finally share—my chapbook of interconnected prose poems, “Gratitude List”, is being published by
@BullCityPress
!!!! Coming early 2024 :)
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brought the poem into a workshop and people had criticized that line!!! AKA don’t let workshops suck the soul, the intuition, out of your poetry!! Be yourself!! Trust your poetic instinct! (3/3)
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I’m so excited to share that
@KellyWeberPoet
chose my poem “A Possible Exit” as the winner of the Baltimore Review prose poem contest!!! It’s up now on their website
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of the poem bc I just know in a workshop someone would say “oh, what does this mean” or “why is this image here” (which is feedback I got all of the time from…certain people). And she said: she just loved the image and it felt right in the poem!! and that, in fact, she had(2/3)
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Grateful that my poem, “A Theory of Milkweed”, is in the spring issue of
@SixthFinch
!
Our spring issue is now live:
Featuring
@MaryByrnski
@thebluepitcher
@robcolgate
@satya043
@bexklaver
@aredamnhoj
@DishwasherCafe
@rajivmohabir
@darkwebtofu
@grasoceng
@jksweeneypoet
@alex_tretbar
@JeffWhitney2
@artlcd
@matthewklane
@yurtingaround
and more
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For poets submitting their first book to prizes (or poets who’ve published a book) how do/did you think about which prizes / presses to submit to? Do/did you think about reach, author catalog, size of press? Feel like no one really talks about this
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New poem about donuts, sex, and loneliness up at
@TheFLReview
Aquifer!
Honestly one of my favorite poems I’ve ever written.
Check out the rest of the poem here:
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New poem dropping w/
@havehadhavehad
tomorrow, the first I wrote in a series of prose poems that are going to be in my manuscript :) very excited to share
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Hey hey!
Here’s a prose poem that was published today with
@havehadhavehad
! This one’s special to me & I hope y’all will like:
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.
@minerallitmag
just published a poem of mine!
This is an old one that I wrote in my first ever poetry workshop & it’s cool to see it out in the world :)
…
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PoFo's idea of neutrality is one in which they can profit off of people's work whose lives are being destroyed without using any of that money to potentially stop (or at least advocate against!) their lives being destroyed. A perfect example was in November, when they said
A boycott of the Poetry Foundation that began last November was recently lifted.
This update is intended to foster better communication, connection, and understanding following the conversations and learning that came from this time.
Read in full here:
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Please read this incredible short poem from
@susanlleary
’s forthcoming collection Dressing The Bear (which you’ll want to preorder now!)
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@HeavyFeatherRev
@TBQuarterly
What an unprofessional, undignified response to something that makes people happy. Aside from the ridiculousness of raging at another literary magazine bc they got a spread on VOX, to degrade a poet’s work from a branded account is disgusting. Editors, be better than this
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17th rejection on my full length collection just rolled in 🤪
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Got a personalized rejection from Poetry Magazine :) definitely helps brighten the day
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Very grateful for our amazing workshop (
@__xuli
@carolenekurien
@_iloveyoudaniel
@spaghettiutopia
@ishatheartist
@earthtokb
@imsomepresha
) & our fearless leader
@mfernandespoet
🥹
#THSW
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Does anyone have suggestions for books about joy / that circle the idea of Joy? I’ve read pretty much every book Ross Gay has written in the past month, which has been carrying me through a difficult time, and I’m wondering what else is out there
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One of my all time favorite poems by one of my all time favorite poets
@susanlleary
— and you can pre-order her book now!
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A short poem for the beginning of Fall (PSL being back at Starbucks)
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Sitting outside today, enjoying the nice late-Spring weather (October in Miami) and thinking about this amazing
@carolenekurien
poem
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An excerpt from Almadhoun’s poem, “Black Milk” in his collection Adrenalin, Trans. Catherine Cobham
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CW: Overdose / addiction
I’m happy to have two new poems up in
@DiodeEditions
latest issue, including this one about recovery, navigating loss, and friendship
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Do u ever feel like you’ve just forgotten how to write a poem
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I have four new poems coming out in various mags in November 😈 stay tuned
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nothing about Mosab Abu Toha's abduction by the IDF, all the while featuring a poem of his on their web app at the same time. There's nothing neutral about that, and there's nothing neutral about this statement—it's all on the side of profit
The title poem from
@MosabAbuToha
’s collection is currently featured on the
@poetrymagazine
app. Do you have any comment on the abduction of this poet whose work you’ve decided to highlight?
@PoetryFound
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Very happy today because (after 5 different doctors) I think I may have finally found a diagnosis and treatment plan for a medical problem that has been plaguing me for 5 years :)
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The title poem of my manuscript was chosen for a AAP University Prize this year :) Here's a link:
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one time after I hooked up w/ a guy he said "I'm actually straight, I just like having sex with dudes sometimes" then fist-bumped me on the way out
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Listening to gay poetry podcasts while watching college football is my bisexual brand
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Me after writing exactly one sonnet for the first time in my life:
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This is very cool—my poem "A Possible Exit" from
@BaltimoreEditor
is written about here!
Thank you so much
@CavarSarah
and
@FrontierPoetry
for including me in the roundup :)
We’re so grateful to have our wonderful associate ed
@CavarSarah
jumping in to take on our Exceptional Poetry feature! 💫✨
Read about poems they love by
@darkwebtofu
, Felicia Zamora,
Gretchen Legler, and
@system_wires
here:
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Ok sex is cool but have you ever had someone call your poetry “innovative & moving?”
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Waited till the last minute and now trying to edit a poem that is crucial to my manuscript before like 5 prize deadlines tomorrow—wouldn't suggest it!
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Reading this poem by
@alexdimitrov
reminded me how important it is to let tenderness exist in my poems & not to let irony become a defense system against earnestness
Check it out and also follow
@apoemcalledlove
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Got my first skull w/ this prose poem, thanks
@emilylauracosta
for believing in it :)
“I tell Mary, a boy I played football with died yesterday. I tell her how jealous I used to be of his pretty blue eyes. She wipes away my tears. Everything feels different for a while after that...”
@darkwebtofu
!! 💞💞
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More than terrible. Every poet, writer, journalist, and artist should be condemning this
Mosab Abu Toha - essayist, poet - has been kidnapped by Israeli army in Gaza as he was fleeing with his family.
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Poets—I have this consistent insecurity about my work where I feel like I’m constantly writing in different tones and voices. I think this is because I often don’t know what I’m going to say when I sit down to write, so my poems go in many different directions, but the (1/3)
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@mattyglesias
One of the weirdest things over the past year is watching some of the adamant NR-type Never-Trumpers become...more pro-trump? Especiallly Rich Lowry 🙄 How could this year push someone in that direction??
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Today I walked into a bookshop I frequent and saw one of my former students doing a reading...for an anthology she placed a poem in!!! And when I went up to her she told me my class was why she switched to poetry 🥺🥺🥺 that will carry me until at least the end of the semester
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Writing and publishing a self-titled poem was all fun and games until I had to start applying to fellowships and prizes that allow no self-identifying information
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“Dispossession / gives you a new way to see yourself”
Finally got my hands on
@smnthfn
’s amazing collection Are You There. If you haven’t already— BUY THIS BOOK, it’s that good
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What is poetry if not trading cold, shrunken hands for fruit?
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last night was in a crisis and thinking of quitting poetry altogether (😕)
this morning I woke to a personal rejection from a dream journal (😮!!)
being a poet is exhausting but knowing your work can affect others is fulfilling (😌)
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I was longlisted for the National Poetry Competition this year :)
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in me. The best I could figure out is the poem spoke to something that only becomes more true the longer I live —what it is to love many people and continue loving them even as life keeps moving forward, the block of ice always melting but never melted, (2/3)
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Having been in the November Issue, I feel the need to say how disappointing this nonresponse is. It is antithetical to even this last issue—which includes important work from so many poets, including a folio of June Jordan’s work, and an intro by Solmaz Sharif saying (1/3)
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If y’all get a chance, check out this review I wrote of
@GabrielleBates
’s amazing debut collection for
@ANMLY_LIT
!!
I knew when I read
@GabrielleBates
's JUDAS GOAT it deserved a special review. When I received a LOI from
@darkwebtofu
, I knew he was the one to do this book justice. It's exactly what I hoped for. Check out the stunning review over at
@ANMLY_LIT
.
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If you are my friend you are signing up to eventually be in one of my poems
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Just got the news I’ll be teaching my first collegiate creative writing course over the summer :)
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I have a set of poems for which I have received 8 personalized rejections magazines that are basically all my top mags I’d love to see my poems in. Not really sure what to think at this point, the poems feel done to me, but it seems I keep getting signs they’re not quite there
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I got sad yesterday thinking about all the important Queer spaces that are being closed permanently bc of COVID, then woke up this morning & wrote a little poem about one of my favorites
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Briefly going off private to share this poem of mine that was just published — very grateful for the team over at
@poetryonl
for taking this one, it’s special to me :)
This weeks' new poem is "After Surviving" by Jarrett Moseley! Read + listen at the link:
"To keep it short and sweet, someone shoved a coffee mug
into my hand, the click of a tongue in the dark..."
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The title poem from
@MosabAbuToha
’s collection is currently featured on the
@poetrymagazine
app. Do you have any comment on the abduction of this poet whose work you’ve decided to highlight?
@PoetryFound
Poet
@MosabAbuToha
was taken away from his family by the Israeli Defense Forces at a checkpoint in Gaza.
Please join us in calling for the international community to demand the release of Mosab, and all hostages and prisoners in Gaza and Israel.
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Susan helped edit my manuscript and it was hands down the most helpful / fruitful feedback I’ve received!
Friends! I’m so excited to share that I recently joined the Editorial Critique Team at Iron Oak Editions (
@IronOakEditions
)! This is such a big-hearted & word-loving group & I’m so happy to be on board! If you’re in need of feedback on your manuscript, I’d love to work w/ you! ⬇️
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A good friend, Onyedikachi, needs help paying tuition fees to afford school!
They are an amazing poet and person who has given so much to the poetry community, and to
@nonpluslit
Please help out if you can!! Any donation / retweet / share helps
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Pretty sure I was literally the last one to submit before time ran out, but I got a piece accepted by the awesome mag
@havehadhavehad
!! Thanks so much
@emilylauracosta
for reading over my weird prose poem and giving it a home!
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Thinking about how if my students google me they will find my Twitter bio which says “poet laureate of half-gay rednecks.” No I will not change it
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Submitting to the AAP first book prize again because I am a fool / masochist
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Me in workshop when someone asks why I put a pool filled with milk & crabs in the poem
Yes, the poems are excessive but I'm an excessive person.
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Go read!!!! (Pls)
ISSUE ONE IS NOW LIVE!!!
Pls share with all your friends and support the amazing poets in this issue!
#litmag
#WritingCommunity
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#poems
#poets
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Thinking about the girl who, on our first date to a museum, made me take 15-20 pictures of her in front of every piece of art—and who also at one point very calmly said “this is not interesting” when I was talking to her
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Bill De Blasio just said he knows more than all the other candidates about gun violence because he is raising a black son... as Cory Booker stood 20 feet away from him
#DemocraticDebate
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