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doing my thing in the background

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4 months
glad to have two poems in the new @angelfoodmag …one’s after Sexton-after-Neruda (and also Q Lazzarus’s “Goodbye Horses” and, sort of, Irma Vep); the other’s after a gay guy
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one of my maybe crazier beliefs is that I think advertising should be illegal
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1 year
long live interview magazine
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5 years
Fiona Apple at 12:00am EST
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4 years
there’s no way to ~ironically~ be at your parents’ vacation home (sorry)
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6 months
one morning during my freshman orientation for nyu I got up early to smoke a cigarette outside the dorm where they put us up and an elderly woman across the street on washington square west locked eyes with me and called out "it doesn't get better, you know"
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Next time I see a crying teenager I’m going to hug them and tell them it only gets worse.
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4 years
the way Therese is framed with the words MOMMY'S BABY when she meets Carol
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4 years
"in a year we all will be together, if the fates allow / until then we'll have to muddle through somehow" rlly hits different this year huh
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11 months
been thinking a lot about Susan Sontag publishing this five days after 9/11
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6 months
comrade!
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The solar eclipse will cost America almost $700 million in lost productivity
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1 year
if I've learned anything it's that you can't rush poetry and you can't wait for prose
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2 months
Chappell so obviously has a more talent than taste problem and I’m sorry but that’s just not a sympathetic category of problem to have
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2 years
it's crazy that Elena Ferrante is such good writer that no one will be able to write a story about two women who are best friends – but it's complicated – for the next hundred years without inviting the comparison
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3 months
I guess this feeling is sort of specific to the context of social media but it just seems soooo wrong to get a population addicted to devices that, like the enchanted mirrors of fairytales, recognize their deepest desires and insecurities, and promise solutions that don't work
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what we’re reading over the next few weeks 🤓
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5 years
I love Bernie and I don't listen to chappy's treehouse...we exist
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2 years
a poem I wrote two summers ago when I was Very Sad :( in this week's New Yorker :)
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2 years
glad to have a poem in this week's @NewYorker 🌅
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Sally Rooney is a solidly good and principled writer whose work can't seem to be discussed outside of her commercial success and critical status as a voice of a generation
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6 years
Bertolt Brecht
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1 year
why was I listening to "Send in the Clowns" at twelve being like "this is SO me"
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8 years
it's not even 9am and I've been called "Carol" today
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5 years
what if the Starbucks cup is a clue and Game of Thrones takes place in the Westworld universe
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4 years
Toni Morrison, from her 1988 Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address
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2 years
Linda Gregg // how I’m trying to be
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8 years
the quality I find most attractive in a man? general ambivalence or pronounced lack of interest w occasional glimmer of counterevidence
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rip Andy Warhol you would have loved the horrible future
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1 year
that billionaire thinking he wants to be young forever when really he wants to be a woman is actually very relatable to me personally
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3 months
the nyt style section piece on Cole Escola going out of its way to never use their pronouns is so hateful
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7 years
why does Zac Efron look like a guy on Fire Island trying to convince me to do g in this photo
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11 months
we are seeing—from college campuses to magazines and newsrooms, all the way to Congress—an attempt to push support for Palestine outside the bounds of acceptable speech
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3 years
Lucille Clifton
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6 months
one thing I’ve noticed about functionally unprincipled people is that they tend to experience the principled as scary—irrespective of the principles at hand; it is the forced encounter with what is lacking within oneself which poses an existential threat
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3 years
“looking for a third”
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4 years
"What am I here for—if not to be used by good people, for good things?"
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2 years
my QUEENS
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3 years
happy MOMMY’S BABY season
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the way Therese is framed with the words MOMMY'S BABY when she meets Carol
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5 years
I’m “wife” —Emily Dickinson
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poem that made me love poetry (Sexton)
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2 months
as a proud member of the more taste than talent community,
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4 years
“Landslide” is a Christmas song if you cry to it right
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4 years
the last two pages of FAGGOTS...rest in power, Larry Kramer
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4 years
they put a bunch of glass panes around the Fearless Girl statue with a plaque that reads: "Today's broken glass ceilings are tomorrow's stepping stones" sdfasdfsssfdjjss
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8 years
Because I could not top for Death – He kindly topped for me –
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2 months
probably the teaching advice I think about most is this, from Anne Boyer: “conduct yourself in such a way that your students can eventually forget that you exist”—what I think of as the anti-heroic model, opposite Dead Poets Society-style delusions of significance
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7 years
I've very (!!!!!) grateful to have a poem in this week's issue of The New Yorker
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3 years
same energy
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4 years
I’m gonna throw up
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3 years
breaking my own heart </3
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5 years
when I wrote this poem...maybe she snapped??
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8 days
in a shocking twist, Tár was as good as you all pretended to think it was
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5 years
excited to share the cover of my forthcoming book, out this June from @Birdsllc !! and very grateful to Paul Thek's estate for permission to use this painting I love with my whole blue heart 💙
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11 months
for which she received a ton of flack! though mostly for its opening paragraph:
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5 years
imagine having as much compassion for your present self as you do for your past selves
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6 years
some *personal* news: @Birdsllc will be publishing my first book, PRICKS IN THE TAPESTRY, in 2020!!! I couldn't be happier (or feeling any more like Lisa Rinna rn)
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3 years
instagram saw it first
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2 years
someone should do something about the fact that there are no industries that aren’t extremely dysfunctional, low-paying, and/or in the service of evil…
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3 years
today this woman is 32
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3 years
the feminine urge to go off-grid for a few years then reemerge with a new face, two completed manuscripts, and imperturbable mental health
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7 years
Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
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1 year
need a punctuation mark that isn't a comma or a colon or a semicolon or an em dash but a secret fifth thing
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8 years
when everyone looks cute in the group photo but you
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2 years
monkeypox…
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sincerity post but I started hrt a year ago today 🥲 10/10 recommend changing your sex
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3 years
tsa told me I look beautiful
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7 years
apropos of nothing, here is a recent paparazzi photo of Yolanda Hadid where Michael Musto just happens to be in the background
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7 months
wow I was so right for this…
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2 years
people not realizing the popularity of creative writing classes is a symptom of the humanities’ decline rather than proof of their health…
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3 years
the rumors are true... I'm writing a book-length-poem-with-a-novella-in-the-middle about being a thirty-two-year-old woman and today you can read a small piece of it in Poem-a-Day :) with thanks to @brendashaughnes and @POETSorg
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5 years
there are only four types of shows now -millennials trying to Figure It Out -fancy ladies with secrets -bad men but *twist* they have feelings -people with good haircuts helping people with bad haircuts
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1 year
mood courtesy this perfect poem by @rocketfantastic
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7 years
when I asked my students this semester what they knew about Beat Poetry several of them said "it's in a Lana Del Rey song"
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6 months
I’m out of jail and home safe for those following along
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right of way is a dangerous thing for a pedestrian like me to have - but I have it
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8 years
when I said I was a ride or die bitch I thought you understood that meant I'm unwilling to drive
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7 years
this gay couple w groceries on the train is so cute idk if I want to be their child or their third
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2 years
thank you @NEAarts
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4 years
at what point does acknowledging complicity in white supremacy function primarily as a substitute for action against it
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2 years
thinking about my great aunt who went to Italy to do research for her dissertation in the 1960s, took up with a countess there, and never returned
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6 years
Wisława Szymborska
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how you treat people in service professions is how you'll be treated in the next life
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several genders ago but this was cute
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6 years
!!!
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2 years
I kind of snapped...
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i have been looking for this poem for the last fking two years…have not been able to get the ending out of my head since i first saw it
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4 years
I wish there were something that wasn't smoking that felt like smoking
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6 years
submitting anything but a PDF is putting your formatting in God's hands...and I don't believe in God
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8 years
& then it hit me: if I was content in a relationship, how could I create good *content* for my readership?
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6 years
Suzanne Somers
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9 months
I don't think it makes society better (:/) but really do believe reading, esp. fiction, is THE most powerful antidote to the algorithm's campaign against attention and sustained thought
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4 years
😭💙🌸
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I think about her
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6 years
here’s my “Poem in Which Nothing Bad Ever Happens to Me,” inspired by the movie Sliding Doors and the cultural imperative to reveal our traumas for the sake of Art!! it’s the most unpleasant thing I’ve ever written (cw: all kinds of things)
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7 years
it's back-to-therapy season
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7 years
I couldn't sleep last night so I made this (partial & by no means complete) list of poetry collections from which I learned something this year (& what I learned):
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3 years
it's a Louise Bogan morning
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5 years
imagine not realizing the narrative Queer Eye peddles is toxic until Karamo called Sean Spicer a good guy...
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6 years
"so are you still writing?" is the meanest thing you can say to a writer from your past
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