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acolyte of the exquisite | Persian-American poet and critic | spells in @nerweb @kenyonreview @ANMLY_LIT @hopkins_review @passagesnorth | she/her 🏳️⚧️
Chicago, IL
Joined May 2023
a poem should be the most dangerous thing to enter insofar as it has the imperative to perform its responsibility to rupture the veil between what-is and what-could-be.
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born to watch films all day and look beautiful, forced to write an annotated bibliography
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Poetry friends, I have a chapbook I’m sending out on submission - who is currently reading?
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RT @stylesgala: mind you this should be your response when asked how you feel about trump being in attendance
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RT @Reckless_Edit: Chicago poetry & film fiends: if you love being riven by image-driven poetry, stop by this reading @musicboxtheatre Frid…
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I love trans poets and novelists. I love trans musicians. I love trans filmmakers. I love trans models and actors. I love trans painters and sculptors. I love trans programmers and engineers. I love trans art.
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Trans people are under attack. I implore people to rally around us - fight against policies, protect those in your community, read/watch/listen to/support our art … do not be silent as they try to silence and erase us. The future is a creative act; we have to create it, together
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spent 30 min reading the random transphobic tweets that are part of my algorithm now …
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Just went to see The Brutalist in theaters and the person checking tickets carded me to check that I was over 16 …. I am 25
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RT @Reckless_Edit: Chicago poets, film lovers, & literary types! Friday, Feb 7th, I’ll be reading cinephilic poetry @musicboxtheatre with t…
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Been in free fall for five months. What is in wait for me below?
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RT @literari_ana: Honored to be a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow 🦋 Every day I wake up mind-blown at the path my poetry journ…
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I have lost everything one could lose but I will never capitulate
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Yessss
Yesterday I submitted 30k words to @BloomsburyPub—for LIPSTICK, my first book of nonfiction! Indebted to the writers and thinkers I incorporated into the book: @lucyjanesantos_ @ZahraHankir @reproutopia @alokvmenon @ProfLindaScott @ContraPoints @jenniferbedbaum @ciara_cremin
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also yes she’s transphobic and yes she’s chasing me out of the building
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RT @Reckless_Edit: I'm guessing @PoetryFound shared my "Topless Modeling on New Year's Eve" poem yesterday! It's been such a joyous start t…
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in no particular order 1. Virginia Woolf 2. Olga Tokarczuk 3. W.G. Sebald 4. Shola Von Reinhold 5. Ann Quin 6. Renee Gladman 7. Clarice Lispector 8. Jenny Hval 9. James Baldwin 10. Jane Austen
10 favorite novelists in no order 1. mikhail bulgakov 2. william thackeray 3. thomas hardy 4. cristina rivera garza 5. james baldwin 6. clarice lispector 7. vladimir nabokov 8. olga togarczuk 9. toni morrison 10. elena ferrante
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