SASHA D-M Profile Banner
SASHA D-M Profile
SASHA D-M

@sashadm

Followers
1,951
Following
1,033
Media
2,807
Statuses
22,903

I’m not big on social graces

Joined February 2009
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
Pinned Tweet
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
Tweet media one
10
3
107
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
Abolish all prisons except for one, in Paris, for Emily
23
427
9K
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
I figured out the trick to writing fiction btw. You start writing non fiction and then don’t stop yourself from lying
43
405
4K
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
1
232
2K
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
My poem, "Kaepernick," is in the November 22 issue of The @NewYorker , online today:
Tweet media one
28
196
1K
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
2 years
Frank O’Hara: lunch/ah lunch! Me: he just like me fr
1
139
1K
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
5 months
Once in the west village I saw a cute baby dressed as Olaf and I was like omg cute Olaf then looked up to smile at the parent pushing the stroller and it was Alec Baldwin truly a jumpscare
@offbeatorbit
Ashley Reese
5 months
Just passed by Alec Baldwin pushing all those babies of his in a stroller lol
36
19
2K
5
18
901
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
Ok u guys lived happily during the war we get it
3
30
601
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
The last time I will ever write an affair poem I swear to god
Tweet media one
@BathMagg
bath magg
3 years
It’s here! It’s here! Issue 8 is here!
Tweet media one
5
39
149
4
52
470
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
1 year
I have two poems in the summer @yalereview ! Here is one. I like to call it "ekphrastic" and "a sonnet."
Tweet media one
7
40
326
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
Matthew Zapruder visited one of my MFA classes. He was such a fucking privileged asshole, made ppl cry, his boring ass book was 50 pages too long, and when we told him one of his poems was violent to women he read that one at his reading to make a point
8
27
282
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
The things my mother has said to me about me I wouldn’t say to my worst enemy hope everyone has a great day!!!!
3
20
274
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
5 years
Five more poem rejections and I’m pivoting to solely being hot
2
25
241
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
This morning I was in a pretty empty coffee shop and a man walked in and started having a zoom meeting with no headphones and the meeting was everyone sharing memories of their coworker who just died
4
5
207
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
7 years
Dudes that only wanna be my friend: I'm a bad friend
2
56
185
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
I FEEL LIKE IF I'M NOT WRITING POLITICAL POEMS I'M WASTING MY TIME SO I MADE THIS CONTAINER FOR MYSELF IN WHICH NOT TO BE POLITICAL in @TriQuarterlyMag thanks to @lutherxhughes
Tweet media one
3
32
153
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
2 months
If I ever get married my wedding invite is going to be an emoji copy pasta
1
15
138
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
5 months
Maybe out of order ?
7
61
126
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
Poets live forever actually I decided today
1
12
129
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
I wrote today’s poem-a-day !!!! ❤️🧠😎
@POETSorg
Academy of American Poets
4 years
Read today's Poem-a-Day: "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PRISON!" by Sasha Debevec-McKenney @sashadm #PoemADay
0
13
41
9
22
124
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
I am so proud of this poem in the fifth issue of @underblong ! It is about the movie Babe.
Tweet media one
6
23
127
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
5 years
Who are my favorite writers???? Like three girls I follow on Instagram who write really good captions probably
1
18
123
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
6 months
My book is called POEMS see you in 2025 I love you
@FitzcarraldoEds
Fitzcarraldo Editions
6 months
💫We are excited to announce that we are launching a poetry list in 2025, edited by Rachael Allen & @joely_day . 💫 We're delighted to be welcoming @itsamule , Diane Seuss, @RebTamas , Matthew Rice & @sashadm to Fitzcarraldo Editions. More details here:
11
85
517
12
14
124
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
2 years
I'm teaching creative writing at my alma mater in the fall !!
10
1
107
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
"THE STARS OF THE FAST & FURIOUS FRANCHISE HAVE A CLAUSE IN THEIR CONTRACTS THAT SAYS THEY CAN NEVER LOSE A FIGHT" is out from behind the @GrantaMag paywall !!
Tweet media one
2
31
104
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
I’m supposed to be doing this badass residency where Melville wrote Moby Dick but it’s virtual now so instead they put our writing up all over the town in essential businesses and it’s amazing
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
4
8
105
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
Tweet media one
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
How do I tell my ex who follows me on IG and is now married that I’m about to publish a poem about how good our sex was
1
0
32
3
13
103
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
1 year
In print!!!!! 🥹
Tweet media one
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
1 year
Got a very Wisconsin poem in the new @nybooks ☀️
3
21
48
2
11
100
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
I wrote a sestina using @Noname titles as end words, thank you @Chicago_Reader @xandriaphillips for giving me the opportunity to give something back to my favorite artist !!! 🧡☀️
Tweet media one
0
20
97
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
I am the 2020-21 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow @UWMadCW ‼️
Tweet media one
17
0
96
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
2 years
Madison WI 1000% chance this is a white person’s car
Tweet media one
4
3
97
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
Literally someone, anyone, write about me. Please I’m begging you
2
5
95
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
Literally so bored I made a found poem using only tweets where I used the word literally. goodnight
Tweet media one
1
14
81
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
I love sports
Tweet media one
4
7
81
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
The poem I wrote after discovering @blankcheckpod and only thinking in “bits” for two weeks !! And now it’s on Poetry Daily ok inspiration is everywhere and everything belongs in poems ☀️
Tweet media one
@Poetry_Daily
Poetry Daily
4 years
Read her poem, "STAND UP ROUTINE," here:
2
2
40
6
5
77
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
1 year
Burrito Drive is closing, put all the flags at half mast
16
13
79
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
I have a sweet (!) love poem in @madison_mag ’s February issue 🛶
Tweet media one
2
16
77
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
hate to hear it hate to see it
1
22
70
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
If the world is as about me as I believe it to be....I deserve to live thru a president death
0
6
76
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
Anyways he has me blocked what’s he saying about metaphor
1
1
75
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
The book he was touring was about how when his son was born autistic and trump was elected he realized the world was bad :((( Will always remember the line about how NOW he can finally see the tarps under the highway????? LOL
2
1
74
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
Something about the state of Wisconsin idolizing black people for only like 3 weeks a year (when they’re in the NBA playoffs) does not sit well w my spirit
1
3
73
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
Hi!!!!! My weird ass @underblong poem is up on Poetry Daily today!!!!!
@Poetry_Daily
Poetry Daily
4 years
Today's Featured Poem: "STAND UP ROUTINE" by Sasha Debevec-McKenney ( @sashadm ), from Issue 5 of @underblong . Read here:
0
11
38
7
15
70
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
Celebrating @nattyrao today !!!!
Tweet media one
1
6
67
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
9 months
wow
@yalereview
The Yale Review
9 months
Our most-read lists of 2023 are here! Encompassing a wide range of styles and tones, these poems all reveal a deep preoccupation with embodiment. Read—or revisit—here:
Tweet media one
1
25
103
3
8
67
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
The Instagram blackout is so funny to me especially bc in comparison the white TikTok girlies simply all changed their avatars to BLM, put donate links in their bios, and stopped posting in an organized attempt to force the algorithm to boost black creators
1
6
62
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
The lit mag that just rejected my poems has a typo in their twitter bio
1
0
64
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
I only have sappy shit to tweet about now like how sometimes the man I'm seeing calls me "my love" and it undoes years of loneliness or how when I asked for help on IG re: teaching Comp 100 for the first time so many people offered it made me cry
3
0
64
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
You guys this is crazy but I’m hearing that the New Yorker staff is striking bc they wanted to put out an entire issue that was only poems by me , but higher ups wouldn’t allow it
3
1
62
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
Not to be ageist but shouldn’t they both be asleep right now
1
4
59
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
Wild year. I literally got a master’s degree and felt nothing
1
3
61
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
1 year
I made a smart financial decision instead of an emotionally driven romantic writerly one and wow I fucked up. Never again
1
2
61
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
Happy national poetry month; poets can be shitty, manipulative people and abusers too !!!! Xoxoxoxox
1
3
59
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
6 months
You can turn any bad day into a good day by deciding to get Indian food later
1
4
59
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
The feminine urge to get a second MFA in creative non fiction bc idk what else to do with my life
0
1
56
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
6 years
Rihanna said wear a shirt or a bra never both
@Celsey_Dye
Celso
6 years
Girls who wear shirts you can see their nipples through have big dick energy
32
5K
19K
0
12
53
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
Collage poem from How To Murder Your Life @Cat_Marnell 💓‼️
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
1
7
57
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
1 year
Tweet media one
5
2
56
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
I want to be able to mute Schitt’s Creek gifs @twitter
1
5
53
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
2 years
My boyfriend gave me a key to his house to come over and sit in his AC when he’s not home this is why I’m not writing poems I’m not suffering enough
2
0
52
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
Just met someone who joined Grindr bc they thought it was a dating app for skateboarders
1
0
52
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
I got officially diagnosed as autistic today :) and the Crystal reopened :)
2
0
52
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
Even tho it “feels like -24” I’m going to go walk to get my donut and green drink like I do every Sunday because I stood in the LL Bean in October and bought the more expensive coat for my “mental health” so I could walk no matter what!! and this is that !! ☹️
3
0
52
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
A cool easy way to support black women would be to not let the one white male at your table speak down to me when I’m your server please and thank you
0
3
51
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
I don’t give a shit about posting weed on social media I have a poem in the Yale review where I talk about masturbating to BET Unplugged music videos as a child on the floor of my dead grandmother’s house
0
1
51
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
!! "most - read " 🧡
@yalereview
The Yale Review
4 years
We've compiled our most-read pieces from TYR's 2020 issues! To read the rest of this poem by @sashadm and see our other reader favorites, click here:
Tweet media one
0
0
19
1
7
50
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
I got a teaching job for the summer, I got off a CSA waitlist, I got good news, then I got a cheeseburger and a chocolate milkshake and now I am watching The Bourne Identity. Goodnight
2
0
51
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
In January I was clowning Emily Dickinson like how did this bitch just sit in her father’s house and write poems during the Civil War; cut to me in June, doing that
1
2
49
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
2 years
I do love Wisconsin sometimes
Tweet media one
1
6
49
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
5 years
Why is this his bio
Tweet media one
0
5
48
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
7 years
I wrote a poem about Colin Kaepernick what do I do now
2
0
13
1
2
49
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
Biden not being able to take the Amtrak to his inauguration is fucking with the vision of his life he’s had for like 60 years and I know it’s tearing him apart
1
2
47
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
2 years
Wow
Tweet media one
2
0
49
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
Am I dreaming?
@GrantaMag
Granta
3 years
You are all invited to the launch of our summer issue, Granta 156: Interiors! Join us on 29 July to hear from a selection of contributors: Eva Freeman, @AdamOPrice , @onwuemezi , @K_Scanlan_ , Kaitlin Maxwell, @robbielawrence1 , @sashadm and @OdubanjoGboyega .
Tweet media one
2
9
33
7
1
49
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
Madison foodie Instagram is not ok like if you are actively calling yourself a “Midwest muncher” maybe take a second of self evaluation
4
0
46
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
😳🧡 I wrote this!!
@NifMuhammad
Hanif Abdurraqib
4 years
something special on 68to05 today -- since it is Last Waltz Week for me, I asked 8 writers to offer short reflections/criticisms/praise on one performance from the concert film that meant something to them. You can read their contributions here:
Tweet media one
9
27
138
4
5
48
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
I didn’t believe in exclamation marks for like 5 years because I thought they were lame and unnecessary!!!! I was so wrong and now I am making up for lost time!!!!!
2
0
47
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
2 years
New headshots 🧡🧡🧡☀️☀️ @kkaseycortezz
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
3
0
49
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
2 years
Winter’s so fucked you’re like I’ll go for a walk at 2pm because it’ll be 18 degrees instead of 14
1
2
48
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
I wrote an essay for @ToneMSN
Tweet media one
3
8
47
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
The covid test hurts narrative is a result of men w/ low pain tolerance and losers who have never done drugs
1
3
48
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
Poets should absolutely sell out I want my first book sold exclusively at Starbucks right next to the acoustic Jason Mraz CD
2
0
46
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
I’m driving half way cross the country
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
3
0
48
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
I quit my most recent restaurant job bc I posted this on my personal Instagram and then we all got this email 🤗
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
2
1
46
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
1 year
Got a very Wisconsin poem in the new @nybooks ☀️
3
21
48
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
5 months
Good morning from Emory where I just saw a grown woman ask a cop to walk her past this demonstration of like 20 people because she was scared…
Tweet media one
1
2
45
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
The in-person session of my autism diagnosis was today! Then I went to a nearby park with 12 stone fireplaces (built as a New Deal project). Because I’m trying to see all the New Deal projects in Madison. Because I’ve been obsessed with FDR since I was six. Because I’m autistic
1
0
45
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
who is she
@peachmgzn
Peach Mag
4 years
💻🍑 Next up, @sashadm ! Sasha Debevec-McKenney received her MFA in poetry from NYU. This fall, she will be Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin. Her poems have appeared in The Yale Review, Nashville Review, Peach Mag, and elsewhere. She was born in Hartford, CT. 🍑💻
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
1
2
15
0
4
46
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
omg suck my dick Walt Whitman
1
4
46
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
I had a zoom interview
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
4
0
45
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
For some reason every man I’ve ever met is like you’re so special and then treats me like I’m a normal ass bitch I need everyone to get their stories straight
2
8
45
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
I simply want to have sex once a week with someone who knows that I am smarter than they are. That’s it
0
0
45
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
My magnum opus @ToneMSN
3
7
42
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
Louise Gluck couldn't do evermore but Taylor Swift could write Averno
0
3
43
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
3 years
Thank you @uwwritingcenter for profiling me for poetry month!!!! XOXO
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
2
7
44
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
I sent this to a bunch of my friends to upset them but it wasn’t enough so I’m posting it here too :)
17
4
43
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
So insane every day that this is not a dream
@bethminhnguyen
Beth Nguyen
4 years
Here are the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellows for 2020-2021! Hurrah!
Tweet media one
0
1
26
2
0
41
@sashadm
SASHA D-M
4 years
I don’t want a fellowship or a grant or a tenure track job I want a rich husband
2
2
41