Also, here are some collections that use fragmentary poetry in beautiful ways 💛

My new book, Hydra Medusa — poetry + prose written in Tucson, 2017-2020 — is alive Nightboat Books: bit.ly/3Tfl7gs. Love to Nightboat for making the book of my (actual) dreams. To Solmaz, Dionne, Cristina Rivera Garza, Wong May for their support. To Manabu Ikeda for the mantis:

I’ve already said many times before why the white elite has sought to devalue & destroy Twitter specifically

Ugh. It’s been slowly dissolving anyway, I guess. Mostly now I’m at IG @ mooncake729 🌗 instagram.com/mooncake729

"She was running / in a field, though nothing / was chasing her and there was nowhere to go. / The truth was this: We are each / running for our lives." Read a new poem by Jennifer S. Cheng 鄭嘉怡: theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

Thursday MAY 9 6pm New Voice Series: feat. Jennifer S. Cheng, Karla Myn Khine, Evelyn Jo + music by Neblinas del Pacífico live The Poetry Center #newvoiceseries linktr.ee/thepoetrycenter

Jennifer S. Cheng

Our new anthology A Mouth Holds Many Things is out tomorrow and at Poetry Northwest there's a great new interview with one of the volume's editors Dao Strom and several of the contributors--Stephanie Adams-Santos, Jennifer S. Cheng 鄭嘉怡 and Cindy Juyoung Ok. poetrynw.org/a-mouth-holds-…

Issue 53/3 pairs perfectly with a porch and a glass of lemonade (seen here at Porch Light). Featuring Janice N. Harrington, Jennifer S. Cheng 鄭嘉怡, @GeriModell, Robert Wood Lynn, Ryan Van Meter, John A. Nieves, Stella Wong, and more! Read selections or subscribe: iowareview.org/issue/volume-5…

the final paragraph of Edward Said's memoir, Out of Place:

There’s just no serious way to discuss political violence in this country without acknowledging the US government as the primary source of it Who floods US streets w/ guns while engaging in hateful demagoguery? The dead unnamed suspected shooter on the rooftop far away or…?

Ta-Nehisi Coates really comes through here. “The question is to president Biden, do you want your final act to be sending more bombs to blow more children up? Is that what you want your final act to be?” vanityfair.com/news/story/dnc…

thinking about this poem again, and it feels fitting to share it in its gorgeous entirety now, while it's still august—

“There’s nothing more interesting than language and the problem of trying to bend it to your will, which you can never quite do. You can only find what it contains, which is always a surprise.”—Marilynne Robinson

Fucking fuck fuck fuck

Don't blame Muslims; or Jill stein; or Biden for dropping out; or for Kamala not going left enough. It's patriarchy. It's racism. And it's neoliberalism behind it all to pit us against each other until only the plutocrats thrive.