Richard Siken:

'Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.'

so grateful to have my little poem in this stunning issue of ANMLY :: Anomaly :: Anomalous Press alongside Allya Yourish Mordecai P. Martin Justin Aoba and so many other stellar poets!!!

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thank you sarah clark (they) <3

doing NAPOWRIMO & today's poem:

“Acknowledgments” pages in books are a beautiful thing but I wanna hear your “Grievances.” “In spite of ____ this book has come to exist.” Spill the teeeaaa

twitter friends, it's finally here!!! my thesis defense reading!!! if you're in or around Knoxville, i would love to see you! if you aren't and would still like to attend, here's the zoom link! sad poems await <3
tennessee.zoom.us/j/89010172132

Ecstatic I'm the poetry winner of the 2024 Elizabeth Alexander Creative Writing Award!

To celebrate, my sweet love brought home a bouquet of flowers, & we built a 3D bookend puzzle into the night. It still does not feel real. How lucky am I.

Late again this year but it never gets old
Thank you Poet Lore

this girl graduates in two months and is looking for!!! jobs!!! and is open to relocating anywhere in the States so if you find any openings in academia or publishing or programming and management of a literary org, pls send it my way and keep me in ur prayers <3

how genius is Shlagha Borah (she/her)🍉

drop dead gorgeous poem <333
sundoglit.com/bhavya-bhagtan…

bhavya 🌻

Tara Skurtu Here's a lovely one by Jericho Brown:

This is how I think about it. Open the door & leave it open for people to come in.

You may sometimes need to leave the room.

Someone will remember how you held the door for them, and will hold space for you to return.

yessss bhavya

Airport bookstores need to carry poetry books. Just sayin’.

pls pls pls

everytime someone from a 3rdworld country messages me, they always begin & end with greetings, say please, thank you, sorry at least twice vs when my american freshmen email/talk to me it's always the most entitled tone ever, filled w WHAT/HUH/CAN YOU & it's not even an ESL thing

“Writing is an act of desire, as is reading.
… And desire is also an act of reading, of translation.”

Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging