The clean square cells of this city contain so many faces. Each brightened by a fear which makes them commonplace. — @jennymxie

What red flowers, what hummingbirds, what storms have had to die for this moment — Alex Morris bit.ly/2rIGoDE

"The world is alive with appetite" — @HellsBellsworth reads this Friday for EMPIRE bit.ly/2rIGoDE

TONIGHT: 7:30pm at Art Cafe — hear the words of simone white @HellsBellsworth @jennymxie and Alex Morris bit.ly/2rIGoDE

I am in, therefore, a time of mass apprehensions. — simone white bit.ly/2rIGoDE

CORRECTION: Empire is on Friday, not tonight! x.com/Phantom_Books/…

"Does she feel a body larger than her own dilated boundaries?" — @jennymxie reads for EMPIRE tomorrow bit.ly/2rIGoDE

I have lost, yes, a sense of my own possible beauty, grown external, I externalize beauty. — simone white bit.ly/2rIGoDE

TONITE at Arts Cafe: EMPIRE & EARSHOT present simone white @HellsBellsworth @jennymxie and Alex Morris bit.ly/2rIGoDE

"I am the woman of your first maturity." simone white

"Nothing is yours. Not even the positive fact." simone white at EMPIRE Reading Series by Phantom Books

"The gator was a crumbled moon thrown in a wastebasket." Alex Morris at EMPIRE Reading Series by Phantom Books

"Some sorrow from your own childhood has kept her hidden from sight." Alex Morris at EMPIRE Reading Series by Phantom Books

Nothing like a little collaboration. Emily Skillings of #EARSHOT introducing @HellsBellsworth

"...the energy of collapse." @HellsBellsworth at EMPIRE Reading Series by Phantom Books co-hosted w/ #EARSHOT

"Beatiuful things happen when we rotate as if we could press on the tails of each others lips." #EMPIRE cohosted w/ #EARSHOT

These fishbone days, this fatty grief." @jennymxie at EMPIRE Reading Series by Phantom Books co-hosted w/ #EARSHOT

"I can make out truth and fiction taking turns. Each mimicking the other." @jennymxie at #EMPIRE by Phantom Books co-hosted w/ #EARSHOT

Today is my last day as a full-timer at Copper Canyon Press. I wanted to share 20 books I've loved working on over the past 6+ years. (thread!)