Kim Addonizio
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available for preorder (Naked White People not included).
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The New York Times Magazine announced today that it is ending its poetry column after nine years. One more of the 1000-plus cuts trying to kill the poetic imagination. Shame on you.
@nytimes
@nytimesbooks
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Starting to feel this woman.
Thank you to everyone who passed me a note in the selfie line in New York City—they mean the world to me.
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Touched that this little poem brought some love to a stranger. Check out my books here:
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Thanks to
@Cheltpoetfest
&
@AnnaSaund1
for the opportunity to read to a lovely audience & then give a workshop. & big thanks to
@BloodaxeBooks
for your tireless work to support poetry and poets. Very proud to have Wild Nights out in the UK. Can't wait to visit...someday...
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Dead Poets Respond to the Current Pandemic (1)
Edna Millay
I shall infect you presently, my dear,
Walt Whitman
Do I isolate myself? Very well then, I isolate myself.
I am large. I quarantine multitudes.
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Thanks to
@TheAtlantic
for publishing this one.
"Rain returns / to the river and goes / wherever souls go, thronging / forward and falling back."
Read a new poem by
@kim_addonizio
:
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#boycottjuly4
Does anyone need to show up for this sh*t? This is not an America or a president to celebrate.
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@agnesfrim
Thanks for this lovely gesture. That's why I wrote it. (I actually made cards & am waiting for the chance to slip one under the stall like a bit of toilet paper...)
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Stoked about a shoutout from Phoebe Waller-Bridge of
@fleabag
in the NYTimes "By the Book" today--I f-ing LOVE HER! Retromingent fangirling here.
@phoebewallerbr1
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@tellmemorenpr
Here goes poem 1:
There are things that can't be said while sober.
I have whiskey. Come over.
#TMMPoetry
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My poem in the new BLUE New Yorker.
“Sometimes you flame into a scary flower. / An eruption of coherence in the postmodern seminar.” A poem by
@kim_addonizio
.
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#DenisJohnson
farewell to an amazing talent. I wrote my second novel under the influence of his beautiful first novel ANGELS
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POETRY OF ADDICTION SF Center for Book Arts Friday Oct 12 7pm with Owen Lewis
@Lynn_Emanuel
&
@samsax1
--join us!
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Dead Poets Respond to the Current Pandemic (4)
Emily Dickinson
“Coronavirus” is the thing with spikes-
That enters through your face-
And hijacks the cells without all the kill-the-infidel stuff-
Then does your life displace-
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Dead Poets Respond to the Current Pandemic (3)
T.S. Eliot
Let us go then, you and I, six feet apart,
While the evening is spread out against the sky
Like an ICU patient wheezing upon a ventilator;
Let us go, through certain deserted-except-for-young-people streets,
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No time to read the Mueller Report? Watch it here (part 2: 10 counts of possible obstruction), presented by actors including the amazing John Lithgow as The Angry Creamsicle himself.
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In a way, writing maps a path out of the self. Instead of sobbing, you write sentences.Charles D'Ambrosio
@lsjamison
http://t.co/Qlt0er9D8u
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So I was asked to do a poetry playlist for a web site, and I put up the poems I recited for the recent
@BBCRadio4
show I presented on The Lightning Field. Poems by
@JoyHarjo
and others.Check out the poems & show:
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Dead Poets Respond to the Current Pandemic (5)
Theodore Roethke
In a dark time, the Dow begins to sink;
I call my broker in the deepening shade
ahead of everyone else thanks to my inside knowledge acquired as a Senator.
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Dead Poets Respond to the Current Pandemic (2)
Wallace Stevens
Among twenty stocked items,
The only moving thing
Was the toilet paper.
William Butler Yeats
I sought a test for COVID-19, and searched for it in vain,
I sought it daily for six weeks or so.
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I'm proud of my daughter standing up for the rights of everyone who is vulnerable now.
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Thanks
@CityLIghtsBooks
for making Bukowski in a Sundress a staff pick this week.
You're the best.
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Looking forward to visiting Ireland for the first time for the
#CorkPoetryFest19
!
#KimAddonizio
@kim_addonizio
will be travelling from the USA to read
@MunLitCentre
's
#CorkPoetryFest19
on 23 March
@Corkartstheatre
, alongside fellow American
#KathrynMaris
, who's based in London.
70% of the tickets already sold:
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At signing bookfair 201-- look at this awesome fan girl!
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Tonight 6pm
@bookpassage
SF reading from 2 new books & talking abt writing & yes giving away shot glasses
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I love watching my daughter on tv when I miss her too much. What a lucky mama I am.
Will they? Won’t they? Watch the official trailer for the final season of You’re The Worst, premiering Jan. 9 on FXX.
#YoureTheWorst
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Once again writing/tweeting a poem a day for
#nationalpoetrymonth
. Not sure I'll make it…Mind already freezing over.
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Thanks to
@adroitjournal
for publishing this.
“I don’t care what you’re wearing right now
as you don’t think of me at all…I’ve already disappeared
like a dead girl in a police procedural
but you’re not the detective…& I’m not dead…”
@kim_addonizio
in
@adroitjournal
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Thanks to
@racquetmagazine
for reissuing this piece about my mom, tennis champion Pauline Betz, for Mother's Day.
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I find myself agreeing with a lot of what these poets say...
“What matters in your work, ultimately, is not how much it pleases an editor, but whether it has integrity — integrity of vision as much as language.”
@doriannelaux
@kim_addonizio
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Looking forward to launching my new book with the iconic & amazing
@CityLightsBooks
with my talented friend! Embarrassing stories may be told...
Next on
#CityLightsLIVE
-
@kim_addonizio
!
Celebrating her new book, Now We're Getting Somewhere (published by
@wwnorton
).
With Brittany Perham, Peter Kline, and Tracey Knapp. One week from today.
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Nothing like being on top of the world in the giant sequoia forest to talk about fires--beautiful & sad to see what's happening to these amazing trees.
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Yes, we actually have to tell men this over and over again.
It is a woman's right to choose what happens with her body. It's between her and her doctor—not her, her doctor and the GOP.
#NoAbortionBan
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LIGHTNING IN THE MIND...I presented this radio show about Walter de Maria's amazing land art with my lovely producer
@Sara_Jane_Hall
on
@BBCRadio4
-- poems by
@JoyHarjo
, Simon Ortiz, and others--catch it live today or anytime online next 30 days.
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘A Dishonest, Possibly-Cheating-on-Me Boyfriend’
NY TIMES MODERN LOVE
My tiny love story for my brother in
@nytimes
--"Trusting the Edge."
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Nice review of just-released Oakland Noir anthology as diverse as Oakland. Happy to have a story in it.
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Follow me on twitter!
@kim_addonizio
tweeting an original micropoem a day for National Poetry Month in April.
#TMMPoetry
@TellMeMoreNPR
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In the end we couldn't solve the problem
of evil, so it was just another dinner
while elsewhere some grew richer
and some grew thinner.
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One more group of people doing the work of keeping us human, for shit pay. Poets, musicians, teachers, &&&. I salute you.
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(It's not about the boyfriend.)A Christmas gift from my beautiful brother.
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#npm15
#PoetweetNYC
The Body of the World
There are rivers under the skin
and horses come to them.
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Funny how people follow you just to see if you'll follow them, and then, when you don't, disappear. Is that what this is about? WTF?
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Easter
Woke up this morning, blues all around
Fox in the henhouse, father in the ground
Elevator in the penthouse won't come back down
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Reading for SUMMER ITALY POETRY RETREAT
@kim_addonizio
@flower_conroy
@traceyknappsf
Join us for memories, poems & info about the upcoming retreat at
@laromitaItaly
June 10-20, 2022
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Thanks
@strandbookstore
for including Bukowski in a Sundress in yr 6 recommended books for summer weekend reading!
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Bringing Bukowski in a Sundress to Diesel Books in Oakland, 7pm. Back home at last.
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#npm15
Today
I feel like a book
fallen open to a page
scribbled with intelligent
& slightly deranged marginalia.
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All my friends are finding love again.
One says, put a fork in me; I’m done.
I think, put a knife in me, someone.
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Cointreau in my coffee & getting back in bed seemed like a really good idea today.
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Rejection Slip
Thank you for your kidney donation. We are sorry it does not meet our current needs & wish you luck placing it elsewhere.
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When I knew her
she was a poet.
She fell asleep
and woke up as a gadget.
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This is going to be more fun than any of us deserves.
On Mar. 8, hear
@kim_addonizio
, Gary Copeland Lilley,
@kristenmillares
,
@mizkatelebo
, and
@samuel_ligon
blur the lines between poetry, prose, and blues in LIT JAM: A NIGHT OF WORDS AND MUSIC. Learn more at
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#nytimes
retitled my piece on depression, "Reasons to Live," as "Why I Don't Kill Myself." Still laughing.
http://t.co/pioGvAt6dL
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I'm once again teaching an intensive ONLINE SONNET WORKSHOP for
@24PearlStreet
--4 weeks in October. Discount for early signups!
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Galleys for The Palace of Illusions, my new story collection. AND I got carded.
http://t.co/uGRbjKq0SD
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If you're not doing something every day you're asleep. The wheel has already been taken from you.
Why I'm part of THE RESISTANCE CALENDAR, a free, daily listing of actions 2 stop Trump near u
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14 new books you can't wait to get your hands on. via
@lithub
My daughter Aya Cash (essay in Notes from the Bathroom Line, ed. by
@amybethsol
)
and I have nailed down TWO of these spots!
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& mama's so proud. when she came onscreen I didn't recognize her at first.
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That's my girl. Mama's proud.
What the fuck? The newest member of The Seven just posted this. Any clue what's going on, mates?
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#npm15
Hello, pig.
Here is your afterlife:
8 people with cell phones
tweeting your roasted carcass
in the amber light of a restaurant.
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April also Natnll Math Awareness Month (thx
@Don_Share
) so here's a math poem
Threesome
1 + 2 = 1 + (1 + 1) = (1 + 1) + 1 = (1) + (1) + (1)
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To A Goldfish Trapped in a Carnival
If you were ugly you’d be elsewhere.
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It’s hard to love you
when you keep marrying other people.
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#npm15
Little Elegy for April
Hours after the rain has stopped,
its damp love still darkens
the splintering boards of the deck.
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In honor of the official pub date for the paperback of NOW WE'RE GETTING SOMEWHERE...A soundtrack for the book.
@wwnorton
@largeheartedboy
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UK here I come...
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And F the people who don't get that. "Be the change you want to see in the world."
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Just encountered a poem that's in the voice of a strap-on.
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#TMMPoetry
Archaic Torso of My Computer
For here there is no place
That does not see you.You must change your life.
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Down with the Electoral College: Easier than you think. Sign this.
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Official pub date for The Palace of Illusions. Pink champagne on the East River to celebrate.
http://t.co/ikfhZizBpJ
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Thanks of
@PoetrySociety
and
#APF15
for making me welcome at the launch of Wild Nights this past weekend!
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Any WRITERS who've been STIFFED OUT OF PAYMENT FOR WORKSHOPS for Jordan Hartt/Kahini Writers? I'll start: me. Plus, so far, 3 other writers I know.
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You’d like to burn the house down
but all you do is blacken
your last piece of toast.
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Spread the word, not the virus...`1
Teachers, check out this thread of people reading poems (their own and their favorites) on
@TaraSkurtu
's
#internationalpoetrycircle
. Not all poems are by living poets, by many are , so
#teachlivingpoets
friends, take note!
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