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MADNESS (National Poetry Series), BURY IT (James Laughlin Award), & PIG. YR DEAD forthcoming @mcsweeney . booking: @shipman_agency (they/he) queer jew4free 🇵🇸
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Going on a lil book tour with my first novel this August, if you find yourself in NY, Philly, Providence, Boston, Western Mass, Seattle, Portland, LA or the Bay, would be lovely to see you. (
@mcsweeneys
)
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i love when a plain croissant is a little sweet because it's spent the morning amongst sweeter pastries. i aspire to that.
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I always make sure to carry around a novel, a non-fiction book, and a book of poems just so I can read none of them.
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Y’all see scientists gave us until 2040 on this planet & that story’s only like kinda trending?!?! We’re done for.
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was today years old when i learned each fig you eat needed a wasp to crawl inside it and die in order for it to fruit. also, same.
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well shit. just realized instead of poems i accidentally sent an editor a document from march which included grocery lists, bad poem fragments, passive aggressive letter drafts, & weird erotica. pray for me.
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Can’t stop thinking about this poem : “in the beginning, the ending was beautiful”
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The longer I dedicate my life to poetry the less I feel like I know anything about it
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astounding
to still be
open to love—
despite
all the world
has done
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at the q & a someone just stood up and asked if we could call it a ‘q & c’ as in ‘question and comment’ then proceeded to comment... and I’m currently living in my nightmare.
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this note is attached to a plant
i've been watering since the day i met you
you may water it
yr damn self
Ntozake Shange
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prompt: write a poem
that opens
like a window
into a future
we survive
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"Poet" must be used cautiously; it names an aspiration, not an occupation. - Louise Glück
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as 2018 ends let's end pretending wanting clean water & bullet free public spaces is radical
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all my love
is built
on a circle
of friends
sitting where
we shouldn't
reciting poems
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writing is always a solitary act
unless you've ever read anything
or learned language
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I think of the opening stanza to this Ross Gay poem almost daily.
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no matter how bougie i get i'll always sit on the ground next to a trashcan in order to charge my phone
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a poem on the page is sheet music. it will sound different each time it's sung
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It’s my books birthday!!! I’ve been working on this collection in some way for the past eight years. Endless gratitude to everyone who made those last eight years possible.
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So... I've been accepted as a 2018-2020 Stegner Fellow.
! ! i'm moving back to the bay ! !
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At a bookstore a cutie in the stacks tells me this place has a large used Jewish books section. & me, trying to flirt, said [I’m a large used Jewish books section] then winked & crumbled to dust.
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Love poetry for the simple fact you can dedicate the rest of your life to it and not know a damn thing
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big update: my third book of poems, PIG, will be out fall 2023 with
@ScribnerBooks
!!! been working on this for 6 years and so excited for it to be in the world.
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sometimes making poem feels like cutting a sculpture out of marble. so much material to trim away in order to uncover what's always been there.
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The coolest thing about having a car now is anywhere I go I’ve got a nice place to cry!
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This whole month at home being judged by tables & chairs. Here’s a poem by Zbignew Herbert
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okay! so my first novel will be out in 2024 with
@mcsweeneys
!!! been working slowly on this since 2016 & am so excited !!
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I’m so bad at endings my highschool girlfriend and I may still technically be dating.
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just said 'you're toast' to my toast before eating it. & have been grinning for the past twenty minutes.
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I want to make poems that do everything at once. That de-throat autocrats & whisper into the lonely ear of my childhood.
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In workshop I’d rather think what’s possible instead of what’s the problem
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Anyone else listen to music one song at a time on loop & thus annoy all your loved ones?
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Alright so I just saved a baby when the stroller rolled into the street while her mom was looking away... I feel like I can kinda just do whatever now today, right?
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ecopoetics
we kept writing
down names
of the animals
as they left
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Just got my issue of
@AmPoetryReview
after forgetting to update my address! Here’s one of two poems about diasporic judiasm. Chag Sameach!
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The reading of a poem, a poetry reading, is not a spectacle, nor can it be passively received. It’s an exchange of electrical currents through language - Adrienne Rich
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just got ordained to officiate a friend's wedding. watch out world. i'm about to go on a spree marrying dogs to hydrants, trees to light, bank windows to rocks, & queers to birds.
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There’s truly nothing like randomly getting free drinks from a bartender who likes your poems while out with an ex who thinks you ain’t shit.
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Hate being too tender to be in the world and still having to be in the world. They should make protective egg suits that everyone agrees you can zip yourself into at public functions when you’re done.
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every time 'jews' is trending i brace for what my family's been saying will come my whole life... my people, one day our name will be a celebration in every mouth, will be the language that dismantles guns & tyrants alike.
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This poem by Rick Barot from his latest book has been haunting me since I read it in a journal
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Really feels like this world cup’s been going on for three thousand years
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ANTIZIONIST ABECEDARIAN [3]
After
Bombs
Come
Drought.
Every
Forgotten
God's
Home
Is
Just
Killing
Lands.
Man
Never
Operates
Peace
Quite
Right.
Still,
Time
Undoes
Various
Wounds-
Except
Your
Zion.
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A man just walking through the train yelled ‘I’ve been sucking dick for thirty years.’ Happy Anniversary!
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I never remember until it’s too late the problem of eating a whole sleeve of cookies isn’t you ate too many cookies, only that you don’t have any cookies left.
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Am I actually in love with you or are you just wearing glasses and have no interest in talking to me?
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Just realized flags have been at half mast all month cause of George Bush (lol). I just assumed it was for our collective state of perpetual grief & mourning. Silly me.
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in this new year:
i'm gonna wake up
i'm gonna wake up a little
i'm gonna wake up a little less
i'm gonna wake up a little less hurt
everyday
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Just won my first poetry slam in years and ate too many chicken nuggets
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started 2020 crying on the floor of a used bookstore. i'm nothing if not consistent!
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Anyone else remember needing to call an automated phone number for movie times?
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Now I’m housebound maybe it’s time to write that chap of outdoor gay public sex poem called Past Oral.
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My poem about getting choked with a belt during sex is now in print
@thenation
& I just got a note from my grandma saying she’s proud of me! 😭
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y'all know how caterpillars entirely liquify themselves in pupa before emerging as bright winged things? that's the stage we're in.
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Half the time thinking someone is hot is just noticing they are wearing glasses
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