Leslie Sainz
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For almost a decade now, I’ve been writing the book I most desperately wanted to read. Today, on my 30th bday, I couldn’t be more elated to share that that book—my debut poetry collection—will be published by my dream press,
@Tin_House
, in fall 2023!
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I’m a 2021
@NEAarts
Fellow in Poetry. To say this is a dream come true would be a lie—I never believed this could happen for me. What a dizzying gift to see my name among this group. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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favorite interviews with poets that are available in full online?
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Favorite poems that are one long sentence? Please and thank you!
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i am not too proud to admit that this review wounded me, even as someone who believes in the case for negative poetry reviews. there’s a subtext of resentment towards identity-based writing that I find shocking, and flippant, uninformed comments about cultural touchpoints . . .
PREPOSITION reviews HAVE YOU BEEN LONG ENOUGH AT TABLE by
@lesannsai
.
"..an agile and dexterously ambivalent navigation of these borders, bringing to life the displacement of the immigrant daughter and the endurance of that elusive country: the past.."
"
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Psyched and mostly nervous to share that my poem “Sean” is the poem of the week at
@YaleReview
! Many thanks to Maggie Millner for believing in this hard-won piece. “Sean” appears in my debut collection HAVE YOU BEEN LONG ENOUGH AT TABLE, forthcoming from
@Tin_House
in 2023.
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I’m so very proud of this issue, my first as managing editor. Happy reading! ✨📗🐇
Announcing issue 43.1 of NER, featuring new work by Sally Wen Mao (
@sallywenmao
), Rob Franklin (
@robfrank__
), Kim McLarin (
@DivorceDog
), Xu Xi (
@xuxiwriter
) and more. Check out the web selections & subscribe to the print edition so you don't miss a word!
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✨👁️ COVER REVEAL 👁️✨
I am immensely fortunate to have the eerie cover of my dreams thanks to the visionary Beth Steidle!
HAVE YOU BEEN LONG ENOUGH AT TABLE drops on 9/26/23 from
@Tin_House
. Signed preorder info coming very soon!
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It's hard to describe the host of feelings I'm experiencing around this, but my manuscript was named a 2021 National Poetry Series finalist! Thank you to the screeners and judges for their time, care, and attention, and many congratulations to the winners!
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today is my birthday & I’m doing final checks on the interior & cover of my debut poetry collection, HAVE YOU BEEN LONG ENOUGH AT TABLE (
@Tin_House
, 9/26/23), making it nice for you.
you can make my birthday even nicer by preordering a copy:
For almost a decade now, I’ve been writing the book I most desperately wanted to read. Today, on my 30th bday, I couldn’t be more elated to share that that book—my debut poetry collection—will be published by my dream press,
@Tin_House
, in fall 2023!
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It’s surreal to see my name on the list of 2019 National Poetry Series finalists, among so many writers I admire and adore. Feeling very grateful, and inspired. Congratulations to all!
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Jill Osier’s THE SOLACE IS NOT THE LULLABY is leaving me breathless
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Welcome, Leslie Sainz, the new managing editor of New England Review! An experienced editor and audience-builder for contemporary literature, Leslie is also as an award-winning poet.
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🌻✨ flowers of gratitude to brian teare &
@POETSorg
for bringing this poem to poem-a-day. “sonnet for Ochún” is so very dear to me and features prominently in my forthcoming debut, HAVE YOU BEEN LONG ENOUGH AT TABLE (
@tin_house
, September 26, 2023). ✨🌻
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I don’t dream of labor, but I’m about to move to Vermont for a job so perfectly aligned with my passions and interests that I’ve done similar work for free. Savoring the weight of my many blessings. VT folks, let’s be friends!
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Still emotional over my good fortune in being named a finalist for the 2021
@awpwriter
Donald Hall Prize for Poetry! Immense gratitude to
@ilya_poet
for reading my work with such care—-what a dream! Congratulations to
@PaulHlava
and the other finalists! 💐✨
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on a train to nyc crying inelegantly over my book’s appearance in
@nytimesbooks
"Sugar is a recurring motif in this debut collection by the daughter of Cuban exiles, whose poems address life after the revolution & especially the role of women."
Thrilled to see ✨ Have You Been Long Enough at Table by
@lesannsai
in the New in Poetry column
@nytimesbooks
!
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i’m still avoiding this app, but not acknowledging my inclusion in this feature would feel like a disservice to younger me, whose longtime dream of appearing on this list was a poorly kept secret 🤍
ty to
@poetswritersinc
&
@Tin_House
. read & teach every book mentioned here!
Introducing this year’s debut poets:
@ina_carino
,
@shieh_simon
,
@amandathegunn
,
@CHotchandani
,
@lesannsai
,
@kwxkuu
,
@athenek
,
@joshuaburton23
,
@mznieboer
, and
@ShainaPhenix
!
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In case anyone else is chipping away at their manuscript and needs a reminder:
“Don’t know who will publish my book. Don’t know at all. No reason to let it slide though. Must keep at it. Necessary.” -Steinbeck while working on The Grapes of Wrath
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Still pinching myself over this--I have two new poems in the latest issue of
@kenyonreview
online. Like all of my writing, it is for my ancestors, near and far. Deep gratitude to the editors and readers for trusting these stories. ¡Patria y vida!
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So sick-to-my-stomach excited that I’ll be reading with
@adalimon
(!) and Roger Reeves (!) next Saturday, 4/16, for
@omiamifestival
!
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like food. not to mention how irresponsible it is to accuse someone of aestheticizing violence without even attempting to cite an example in the text. i am genuinely disappointed in the reductive—another r word comes to mind—lens that was projected onto my work in this review
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it’s september which means i’m sobbing uncontrollably every day & about to go on tour for HAVE YOU BEEN LONG ENOUGH AT TABLE (
@Tin_House
, 9/26)
come hear me read and sob with a dreamy cast of poets in nyc, miami, boston, madison, portland, burlington, ann arbor, & elsewhere!
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I’m struggling to articulate what it means to me to have three poems in the new issue of
@adroitjournal
, as a 2019 Djanikian Scholar. To shed light on the Cuban-American experience on a platform of this magnitude is an honor that moves me beyond words.
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In my favorite used bookstore and I just found a signed Harryette Mullen broadside from 1994. I could cry!
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I'm elated to share that I have 2 poems in the latest issue of
@AGNIMagazine
. Their brilliant editors worked tirelessly to celebrate this issue with a virtual launch, so I encourage you to spend some time reading & listening to each contributors' work!
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I have 2 poems in the latest issue of
@adroitjournal
! Thank you to
@tweeterlabird
and the team for making this little Cuban girl’s dreams come true. It’s also a complete trip to see my name near Donika Kelly’s.
Shoutout to anyone that reads them!
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I’ve avoided writing the final poem in my manuscript for 4 years now because I feared it was too difficult, too brazen, too risky. Tonight, I wrote it.
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What luck that my mss was named a finalist for the 2020
@coppernickel
Jake Adam York Prize! Thank you to the editors & screeners, & judge
@randallmannpoet
for their time and attention. Congratulations to
@BTTierney85
& all the finalists & semi-finalists!
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Wow! Thank you to everyone at Adroit that had a hand in this decision. I am amazed by the company my poems keep.
We're thrilled to announce our nominees for the 2019
@SundressPub
Best of the Net Anthology! 😎
Congrats,
@jerichobrown
,
@k_mingchang
, Meg,
@rmennies
,
@lesannsai
,
@thecourtcase
,
@emilyharnden
, Naira,
@musicman_nkosi
, &
@CourtneySender
!
Learn more:
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Every year I look forward to reading the work of the poets on
@NarrativeMag
’s 30 Below 30. What an absolute gift to be included this year! I’m stunned and humbled by the talent on this list.
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! 😭
🎉Thrilled to announce we'll publish the debut poetry collection HAVE YOU BEEN LONG ENOUGH AT TABLE by
@lesannsai
in Fall 2023!!!
Editor:
@alyssa_ogi
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HAVE YOU BEEN LONG ENOUGH AT TABLE (
@Tin_House
, September 26) will be out in the world in 2 months!
I’m very proud of this work & fairly certain that you don’t have anything like it on your shelves.
Preorder signed copies through
@vtbookshop
:
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As a 17-year old CW major at Carnegie Mellon, I dreamed of having my poems appear in three journals: POOL,
@BlackWarriorRev
, and
@jubilat_
. As of today, I’ve had/will have work published in all 3.
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I have loved this journal since I was a wee baby poet, and this acknowledgement means more than I can express. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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One of my favorite poems from
@CPhillipsPoet
. Silverchest taught me to never be afraid of rhetorical questioning.
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I am so often terrified by the influx of good news, but I’m trying to be better about silencing the voice that says I shouldn’t celebrate myself. That having been said, I’m stunned and honored to be nominated by
@haydensferryrev
for a Pushcart Prize!
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Woke up to the delightful news that the latest issue of
@memoriousmag
is out! Here’s one of my two poems in the issue, which also features work by my dear friend Lindsey Alexander, and favorites from Marcus Wicker and Barbara Jane Reyes. Mil gracias to guest editor
@jessbguz
!
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If you only promote the work of people you know, you’re not a good literary citizen.
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“Sainz probes spirituality with the verve & vitality of Emily Dickinson if Dickinson had been born Cuban American at the end of the last century.” —Terrance Hayes
Signed preorders of HYBLEAT (
@Tin_House
) are now available ⤵️, so I took my galley on a pilgrimage to celebrate.
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baby’s first podcast appearance includes lots of nervous laughter, wrestling with other people’s memories, f*x news cuban americans, and my forthcoming debut, HAVE YOU BEEN LONG ENOUGH AT TABLE (
@Tin_House
)
thank you Helena de Groot!
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and another !!!
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Nervous and excited to share that I have two new poems in the latest issue of
@NERweb
! Both were especially difficult to write, and were the last poems to make it into my debut manuscript. I hope they stay with you as they have with me.
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I’ve never been more aware that books have saved my life than in this exact moment. Keep writing your book. You would never guess the number of people who need it.
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feeling very lucky to have 2 poems from HAVE YOU BEEN LONG ENOUGH AT TABLE (
@Tin_House
) appear in this stacked issue of
@adroitjournal
, next to
@JesseLKercheval
,
@huaxixyz
,
@PaulHlava
, & so many others I admire.
here’s a little sample, go read the rest
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“And the corpses
were forgiven
their fantasies.”
—Jessica Q. Stark, BUFFALO GIRL
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“It’s a glorious book of poems that is well worth the wait until its release in September.”
seeing HAVE YOU BEEN LONG ENOUGH AT TABLE (
@Tin_House
) on this list makes my queer little heart feel so full. ty to
@byshondaland
for all these kindnesses 💗
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It's-a me! 🥰
#MeetOurFellows
:
@lesannsai
(she/her) is a first generation Cuban American, born and raised in Miami, Florida. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from New England Review, Kenyon Review Online, AGNI, jubilat, Narrative, Black Warrior Review, and others.
#CantoMundo
#Poetry
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My eyes welled with tears when I heard Eduardo Corral read poems from Guillotine. 2020 can’t come fast enough.
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Absolutely bowled over by this! Cheers & many thanks to the editors, & congrats to the other nominees!
We are thrilled to announce our six nominations for this year's Pushcart Prize!
Essays by
@sarahchihaya
and Becca Rothfeld; stories by
@monicaferrell
and
@cordjefferson
; and poems by
@jorie_graham
and
@lesannsai
🎉
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I’m overjoyed to share this honor with this group of incredible emerging writers! Keep an out eye for their work 👁
We are beyond thrilled to announce the results of our 2019 Djanikian Scholars Program! Congratulations to this marvelous crew of writers—and stay tuned for their work in our March Issue, dropping later this week! 👀
Learn more:
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thankful beyond measure to be a part of the
@poetswritersinc
get the word out debut poetry cohort! can't wait to learn from the delightful
@morgan_larocca
& get to know the other poets & their work.
shoutout to
@debutiful
for the official announcement!
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“Poetry is not only on the page; it's also the work that we do to challenge language.”
love, light, & congratulations to the incomparable
@bookswimming
on being appointed the new executive director/president of
@POETSorg
!
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Here’s one of my two poems in
@Post_Road
39! Many thanks to darling
@fascicles
for including my work in this dreamy folio. I’ll be reading both poems tonight at the launch reading, so come hang!
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Today I got to visit the students in the Cuban-American Literature class at Bucknell. They studied my poems, and asked insightful, thought-provoking questions. To say this was a dream come true is a gross understatement. I never thought I’d be able to do this.
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“She can sound like no one but herself . . .”
it is quite literally a dream come true to have
@cspaide
’s attentive & challenging critical eye applied to HAVE YOU BEEN LONG ENOUGH AT TABLE (
@Tin_House
) for a review in
@PoetryFound
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I am so terrified of the work I need to do on my manuscript that I’ve rendered myself motionless. I know we all have very little to give right now, but any notes of encouragement would be much appreciated!
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✨ it’s happening ✨
👀Fall 2023 titles coming from
@guszeineddine
@hannahlilystowe
@lesannsai
@AthenaDDixon
@anbara_salam
@manxwriter
@ethanchatagnier
and
@thisisEJKoh
!
Check out our 📚Fall 2023 Catalog:
➸➸➸
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✨ nyc, if you don’t come out for this you’ll hate yourself! ✨
tomorrow (10/16)
@mcnallyjackson
seaport at 7:30pm with the illustrious
@shieh_simon
& terrance hayes
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@ilya_poet
i’m so moved by your taking the time to write this generous and affirming note. sending light and ease and gratitude your way 🙏🏼
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Ada Limón is our new Poet Laureate! She’s truly an unparalleled ambassador for poetry, and I can’t wait to see what she does with the position. Felicidades, maestra! 💐🎉
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This is easily one of the most meaningful honors I’ve ever received and I’ve been weepy since I heard the news. Patria y Vida 🇨🇺✊🏼❤️
CINTAS Foundation announces the 2021 Fellowship Finalists in Architecture & Design, Creative Writing, Music Composition and Visual Arts.
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I am one large goosebump thanks to
@WavePoetry
and SOME GIRLS WALK INTO THE COUNTRY THEY ARE FROM. Get your hands on this book ASAP.
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it’s a thrill to see HAVE YOU BEEN LONG ENOUGH AT TABLE (
@Tin_House
) in this stellar roundup of new books by latina poets. love and gratitude to
@sofiaxaguilar
and
@Hip_Latina
for the inclusion. preorder these titles asap!
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HAVE YOU BEEN LONG ENOUGH AT TABLE (
@Tin_House
) is a
@The_Millions
must-read! it’s utterly surreal to see my book next to Terrance Hayes’s, my first ever poetry teacher. gratitude to
@nickripatrazone
for his sharp and thoughtful eye
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flowers & blessings to terrance hayes,
@ilya_poet
,
@zeinabeck
, &
@rblancopoet
for championing HAVE YOU BEEN LONG ENOUGH AT TABLE & writing such generous blurbs. my gratitude is boundless 🌻✨🌻
Only a few more weeks until we publish ✨Have You Been Long Enough at Table, the debut poetry collection by
@lesannsai
.
Check out the praise this collection has already received!
✨Read more + pre-order:
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The one and only Jennifer Chang interviewed me for
@NERweb
and my mind is still buzzing in the best of ways. I feel so lucky to have been given this space to talk about my manuscript in progress, Gertrude Stein, and my goals for NER! ✨📚
"For me, writing poems as a first generation American is to reject outcome thinking."
In our latest feature, Poetry Editor Jen Chang speaks with poet Leslie Sainz (
@lesannsai
) about poetic space, ancestry, and Leslie's new role as NER's managing editor.
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@JihyunYun2nd
Neil Aitken put together one of my all-time favorite resources, "Writers of Color Discussing Craft." There's a whole section of online craft essays in the archive:
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did I design these just to get my two cats immortalized on a tote bag? yes & now all of our lives are richer 🐈🐈⬛
Introducing our “Pets of NER” tote. For a limited time, order it through the Middlebury College bookstore and we'll include a free 1-year print subscription (4 issues, $35 value) to NER, beginning with our September issue.
Get yours before they're gone:
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with so many stellar books coming out this fall, I’m touched that
@poetswritersinc
included HAVE YOU BEEN LONG ENOUGH AT TABLE (
@Tin_House
) in their star-studded “page one: where new and noteworthy books begin” series.
I have some bonus audio up too 💗
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It's official! I'll be the Fall 2017 Writer's House Resident at the Hub City Writers Project! ✨
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awp folks, i’ll be taking a break from being awkward & avoidant in seattle to be on a panel with stellar women editors & read with my brilliant
@Tin_House
pressmates. come through 🌦
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my poem “at the center of the story & utterly left out” from HAVE YOU BEEN LONG ENOUGH AT TABLE (
@Tin_House
) is part of
@commonmag
’s august poetry feature! many thanks to editor john hennessy.
i wrote this for elena milagro de hoyos. here’s a sample 🤍
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This week has worn me down, but selecting books for the first half of my first
#SealeyChallenge
is gifting me ease!
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thank you to
@LambdaLiterary
for including HAVE YOU BEEN LONG ENOUGH AT TABLE (
@Tin_House
) on their most anticipated list for september!
♥️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜
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It’s surreal to share that my poem “If for the Flies” is the Poem of the Week up at
@NarrativeMag
! Thank you to the gracious editors, and to anyone that gives it a read:
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After 10 months, I quit my job at an all-white nonprofit after I could no longer survive in a space that made it clear I was a token hire whose connections and image were being milked to make the organization appear thoughtful, diverse, and inclusive. 1/
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reading at
@Powells
was a very bright spot, which feel few and far between these days 🤍
I love it when I get to just sit and listen to fantastic poetry readings at my job! It was so great to hear
@agdietzman
and
@lesannsai
read from their new collections
@Powells
yesterday. Perfect activity for a Sunday afternoon!
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It’s my 30th birthday on Friday (!) and I’m counting appearing in the spring issue of
@SoInReview
alongside
@saraelizaj
, Natalie Scenters-Zapico,
@hinxminx
, and
@isjonespoetry
as a present. Many thanks to
@a2poet
for believing in the work 🌼✨
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My contributor’s copy of the new
@ninthletter
just came in and my eyes have turned into hearts. It means the world to me to have 2 sonnets in the
@CantoMundo
feature, alongside
@SuziG
and
@ellemoncayo
. Here’s one just for kicks!
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next wednesday I’ll be reading from my forthcoming debut, HAVE YOU BEEN LONG ENOUGH AT TABLE (
@Tin_House
), with my
@poetswritersinc
GTWO cohort. come through for challenging poems & reflections 📚✨🎉
June 14
6:00 PM ET on Zoom
Register:
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I’m delighted to return to this as a 2021 poetry mentor! It’s a gift to be even a small part of what
@johna_taylor
has grown and sustained in the Adroit Summer Mentorship program. Help us spread the word!
IT'S TIME! We're open to summer mentorship applications from high school writers from around the world. Poetry, fiction, nonfiction, & spoken word. No app fee. Deadline 3/22!
Learn More:
Info Booklet:
Apply:
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I’m elated to return to my hometown indie with HAVE YOU BEEN LONG ENOUGH AT TABLE & my dearest sisters ♥️
✨ Tomorrow!✨
Join
@lesannsai
author of ✨ Have You Been Long Enough at Table
@booksandbooks
!
She'll be in convo w/
@Janbandit
+ Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello.
More details:
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our fall issue is not to be missed!
Our online preview of NER 44.3 is now live! Featuring new work by
@bardsbesidebars
,
@JessieRenM
,
@SamuelKerubu
,
@laypay
, and Joseph Pearson, translations from the Hungarian, Ukrainian, and Chinese, a play by
@Csvich
, and much more.
Experience it here:
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I’m delighted to share that two poems from my Orisha sonnet sequence are now up at
@NarrativeMag
! Thank you to the editors & Jack Schiff for believing in my work.
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Honored to have been a finalist for this year's National Poetry Series! Though my book found its perfect home with
@Tin_House
, it's always moving to learn that readers connected with this work. Congratulations to the finalists and winners!
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Finally looking at a handful of poems I’d abandoned in grad school, and there’s so much heart and potential in them. I wish I hadn’t wasted so much of the MFA convincing myself I wasn’t talented.
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There’s nothing like buying a new moleskin then getting the first publishing acceptance of the year to make the day feel cosmic.
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Serving as an
@adroitjournal
mentor was both personally and creatively fulfilling. Not only did my understanding of poetic craft change, warp, and expand, but I also gained the friendship of two incredibly talented young writers. Apply now!
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Today was my last day at Miami Book Fair. I feel so blessed to have worked with such brilliant, ambitious, creative women. On the whole, I’m so very excited for what’s next, but for now I’m teary.
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YEAR: Finalizing the first draft of my manuscript and having it be named a 2019
@NPSPoetry
finalist
DECADE: “, Finding true community /my most trusted readers, surviving the MFA, landing my dream fellowship
@StadlerCenter
, being published in journals I worshipped as an undergrad
What were your best successes or favorite moments in your writing/creative life this year? Or this decade?
#endofadecade
#HappyNewYear
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