Wow wow this poem by the incredible Hannah Aizenman—what a way to wake up

I am an instrument in the shape    of a woman trying to translate pulsations    into images    for the relief of the body    and the reconstruction of the mind. from ‘Planetarium’ by Adrienne Rich

For every birthday, a new notebook would appear wrapped tightly with a bow. I would bury my nose inside it as if the pages would write themselves with my breath. The pages I'd fill with words my young tongue was too knotted to express. from ‘Mother of Letters’ by @tiananob

“did anyone die or is everyone alive and kicking only frightened that there is no more peaceful life perhaps war happens and the laws of war are a cruel thing” Boris Khersonsky tr. Olga Livshin & Andrew Janco from “Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine” bit.ly/3tiFDBG

I am not silent, I can’t keep quiet Like the dead beneath the dirt In the midst of this sweet world. from ‘Contentment’ by Rüştü Onur, tr. by Hüseyin Alhas & Ulaş Özgün

but a poem can love            like hold you and scold you at the same time a poem can rip away the untruths that have cocooned us a poem can make you butterfly            not fly                       you already fly from ‘what can a poem do?’ by Darius V. Daughtry

The migrant feminist studies other people’s histories of themselves, because what one cannot have, one cherishes. The migrant feminist makes no claims on land. The migrant feminist makes love to hyperbole. from ‘Manifest’ by Cynthia Dewi Oka (Oh Hwi Siang)

“A hundred nights await you, and a hundred nights have died. You hover in between” Vasyl Stus from “A Stranger Lives My Life and Wears My Body” Translated from the Ukrainian by Alan Zhukovski poetryinternationalonline.com/poems/a-strang…

Mind blown by this Muriel Rukeyser:

Ah, flesh, technoflesh, // there are two kinds of people. Hot with mixed / light, drunk on insult. You and me. from ‘Postfeminism’ by @brendashaughnes

Every day is a memorial day Turn on the light it's enough to turn on the light it's enough When you come back from work The darkness, before it disappears, is a little worried --Lesyk Panasiuk, tr. from Ukrainian

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