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C.T. Salazar

2 years

Happy publication day to this book I’ve been writing for so many years 🥲 Link to signed copies from @friendlycitybks in the thread, or directly from @acre_books in the thread ❤️

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4 years

The same Sappho fragment from 3 different translators: Mary Barnard, Aaron Poochigian, Anne Carson ✨

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Arthur Sze ✨

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I am losing a man I love to Alzheimer’s, and it’s bringing out a violence in him we’ve never seen before. This poem is for him, and anyone who’s witnessed something like it. Thank you @BorderlandsTPR for publishing ❤️

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Cam Awkward-Rich 😭✨

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“You are the beautiful half / Of a golden hurt.” Gwendolyn Brooks

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3 years

I just signed a contract to be a tenure-track librarian. I can’t believe it 😭

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3 years

It’s been an unreal 3 months getting adjusted in a new city with a new library job, but my spouse and I did the wildest thing and bought a house 😭

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“History says we forgave the executioner.” Solmaz Sharif ✨

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*Gets joyously asked to plan a sonnet workshop, *pulls some books from the shelf 🥲

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9 months

Filling this thread with some essays about poetry and interviews with poets I've read so far this year and find to be very teachable and discussion-friendly!

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My book is here 😭 Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking. A book so many years in process is in my hands and out of my hands 🙏🏼

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4 years

I’ve been sitting on this news for a while and I’m so happy to finally share: my debut full-length collection HEADLESS JOHN THE BAPTIST HITCHHIKING is forthcoming from @acre_books in 2022 ❤️ The amount of joy I’m feeling is a hard to accept

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1 year

Poets! What’s a poem with green in it you love?

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2 years

Since it’s still May, this poem from Tom Disch ✨

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It’s Mary Oliver’s birthday, and even though she didn’t see 2020, she understood the interconnectedness of all things, even time. She’s forever writing about the present: how to love it; how to live through it.

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3 years

Over the past seven months, four ongoing attempts to translate a Sappho fragment ✨

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6 years

THREAD: essays on poetry I love (and used in my thesis bibliography). also--if you have favorites, link them to me! :)

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As a librarian, any day I put a Toni Morrison book in someone’s hands it’s an successful workday. ✨

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Sunday and the house is coming together ✨

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From Ocean Vuong's debut novel 😍

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Frank Stanford ✨

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Aram Saroyan, the perfect equinox poem ✨

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5 years

First acceptance of the new year is to The Cincinnati Review 😍🙌🏼

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After a reading last night, a group of highschool poets gave me a litmag they made together and it is absolutely the coolest thing I’ve ever seen 😭

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1 year

Mag Gabbert ( @mag_gabbert ) ✨

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1 year

Truly devastated to hear Charles Simic has passed. My university library has five of his collections on the shelf that I read last year. Truly one of our brightest.

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5 years

I'm going to carry this brilliance from @jerichobrown in my pocket and leave it at my favorite coffee shop. I think I should make this a habit ✨

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@JkAnowe Thank you so much! ❤️💐

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8 months

This incredibly ecologically aware love poem from Stacey Balkun ✨

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2 years

I think I became a better poet when I started reading the poets directly around me. Is this an essay?

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2 years

I didn’t have a huge amount of publications this year, but I don’t think I’ve ever read so much great poetry in a year before, and I’m much happier with that. Thanks for getting me through, poets ✨ this doesn’t include all the library books

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2 years

Where the reading / blurbing / review-writing happens on Friday mornings

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3 years

I’m the first in my family to go to college. In ‘18 I completed my MFA and today I completed my Master of Library & Information Science + a graduate certificate in Archiving. I am so tired, but so fortunate.

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3 years

This very tender and brief poem by Cid Corman ✨

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5 years

Some other really great news: I’m going back to grad school for a Master’s in Library & Information Science with a focus in archival studies 😎

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3 years

Holding this chapbook for the first time and absolutely in awe ❤️ it’s officially in the world in February from @BullCityPress

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2 years

Wanda Coleman’s American Sonnets are all together, in print, June 2022 😭 FINALLY!

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3 years

Coming in February 🙏🏼 this cover, this press—I can’t believe it

Acre Books

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3 years

Acre Books proudly presents @CTsalazar_ 's full-length debut, HEADLESS JOHN THE BAPTIST HITCHHIKING! Forthcoming #Feb2022 . #poetry 🎉📚🎉📚🎉📚

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3 years

Thinking about this poet today. Besmilr Brigham is a mostly out of print, part Choctaw poet from Mississippi. She’s absolutely central to my own poetry, and I wish more people knew her work. Here’s a short thread—a handful of her poems ❤️

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Carl Sandburg ✨

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Diane Seuss ( @dlseuss ) ✨ from frank: sonnets, WHAT A BOOK

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John Hollander’s poem, “Swan and Shadow” ✨

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Victoria Chang ( @VChangPoet ) ✨

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3 years

It’s my birthday ☺️ drop a link to a poem you’ve published!

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2 years

Yesterday my spouse and I celebrated three years married together ❤️ it’s beheading to be alive and American but being with my favorite person is a blessing. Here’s a poem

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6 years

It feels crazy to hold a copy of @32poems with a poem of mine in it. Friends, this poem can be read down the columns and across the lines

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3 years

I’ve been working on a guest lecture centered around Southern poets, ecology, and justice—this stack of luminous books has been absolutely schooling me 😭✨

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5 years

Holy cow I finished an MFA yesterday 🙌🏼🙌🏼💐

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2 years

AWP Panel for poets who are also librarians?

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5 years

I'm so in love with this new 50th issue of @RuminateMag and baffled to have 2 poems in it. Here's one from a series on Noah's Wife + my frustrations of gender erasure through patriarchal systems. Thank you @KristinGeorgeB for this wonderful space ❤️

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Maggie Smith ( @maggiesmithpoet ) ✨

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Diane Di Prima ✨

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Ruth Madievsky in the new @kenyonreview ❤️❤️

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Franz Wright

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Get a job— one that doesn’t make you a dictator —KB Brookins ( @earthtokb ) ✨

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2 years

Woke up with this poem by Anna Kamieńska in my head this morning, translated by David Curzon and Grazyna Drabik

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Robert Lax ✨

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4 years

I haven’t been on here much lately and here’s why

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8 months

I’ve been facilitating a book club with the death row unit at Parchman Penitentiary. Incredibly bright, thoughtful men, voracious readers living in the most wretched place on earth. This is not “humane” or “justice”. We are not enlightened. We are part of a death cult, full stop

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3 years

If you’re a poet with a few publications (interpret that number however you want), drop a link one of your poems so I can help share ❤️ It’s Friday and I want to read some 🔥

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5 years

Over the moon to have a poem in the 2019 volume of @rhinopoetry ❤️ this poem is one I've kept close for a long time, and then finally got brave enough (or am getting brave enough) to let into the world

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3 years

One of my favorites from Jean Valentine, Rest In Peace ❤️

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5 years

I never thought people would want hear me read. I never thought anyone would want to buy a book with my name on it. I never thought I'd get to read with poets who are my heroes (and turn out to be the kindest people I've met). What a magical AWP it was ❤️❤️

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4 years

Hey friends, I have some incredible news: I’m overjoyed to the be the recipient of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award in poetry ❤️

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4 years

If you’re teaching a poetry workshop in the near future, it’s super helpful to know that EBSCO’s eBook Collection has TONS of full-length poetry collections & your institution likely has access to it. This means it’s FREE FOR YOUR STUDENTS.

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2 years

Someone should let me write a ‘favorite poetry collections of 2022’ because it was a good year in poetry and I HAVE A LIST 💞

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Tom Snarsky ✨

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I, too, want to unhook myself from shore. Kelly Cressio-Moeller ( @poetkellycm ) ✨

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“The world is gone, I have to carry you.” —Paul Celan, trs by Pierre Jorris

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6 years

Leila Chatti ( @laypay ). Please pick up her chapbook when you can: it's so gorgeous.

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6 years

Last night I finished @TianaClarkPoet 's I Can't Talk About The Trees Without The Blood, and all day today I've been coming back to these lines. There's no universe where any one could've written these lines any stronger 🔥

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4 years

❤️❤️Hey friends—I’ve been wanting to say for a bit that I’ve got a chapbook of sonnets coming into the world soon

Bull City Press 🐂

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4 years

The results of our summer 2019 Chapbook Open Reading Period are in: we've selected two collections! SPINNING THE VAST FANTASTIC by Britton Shurley and AMERICAN CAVEWALL SONNETS by @CTsalazar_ are coming your way in 2021!

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This poem means so much to me, and now it's got a home in one of my all-time favorite journals, Beloit Poetry Journal ( @BPJTweets ) ❤️❤️ The whole issue is incredible!

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3 years

Came home to the new issue of @DenverQuarterly where I’ve got three sonnets reimagining Mississippi as a place where nobody dies lonely ❤️ also overjoyed to be on the back cover?! ✨ thank you @aliciaawwright for being such an attentive and kind editor

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When I was first writing this sequence of sonnets, I wasn’t convinced I wanted to publish them. The language felt so private to me I didn’t know if anyone would be able to connect w/ them. Thankful for how poetry proves is possible ❤️ 1 of 3 that appeared in @DenverQuarterly

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4 years

Louise Glück ✨

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4 years

Bashō stepping on my heart (tr by Robert Hass)

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3 years

Ocean Vuong in the latest @YaleReview 😭

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10 months

It’s bb’s first AWP panel acceptance! Queer Poets Thriving In Red States w @_rayehendrix @Brody_Parrish_ @SteveBellinOka & Bleah Patterson 💫

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5 years

Hey everyone! My super small book of poems, This Might Have Meant Fire from @BullCityPress 's Inch series is officially up for pre-order! (and it's only $3.99!!!) ❤️🙌🏼🔥

This Might Have Meant Fire by C.T. Salazar (Inch #39)

by C.T. Salazar Inch #39, Summer 2019 28 pages, saddle-stapled ISSN: 1932-6149 release date: June 2019

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3 years

My Friday has been blessed with a dream acceptance 😭

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2 years

Just got through Zooming with a Community College creative writing class and I am WOW’d by the conversation we had on the line, the line break, and the margins. Here’s a short thread of the poems that informed our discussion / made our discussion as wonderful as it was ❤️

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6 years

I'm going to do 31 days of Mary Oliver for July. Because maybe we need more goodness. This is the first Mary Oliver poem I ever read--from Twelve Moons (1979).

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Picked up a library book, fell in love with a complete stranger who must’ve been the previous owner of this book

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Federico García Lorca with so many moons ✨✨

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6 years

I don't talk about myself a lot, but in 2019 I've got poems coming out in @GristJournal , @RuminateMag , @rhinopoetry , @BPJTweets @HomologyLit & others + a microchap from @BullCityPress . My poetry is my space to celebrate my living, and I'm so, so thankful for this community <3

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6 years

Good morning my best friend asked me to marry her ✨✨

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William Stafford ✨

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Landing poems in @WestBranchMag is a dream come true. Here’s one of three sonnets that appear in the new issue ✨

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3 years

This sonnet from Camille T. Dungy 😭✨

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5 years

Ada Limón ( @adalimon ) #31DaysofLatinxPoets

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2 years

In January I get to write poems with high schoolers, and these poets will guide: Lucille Clifton, @Vanessid , @tagreathouse , @craigsperez , @TomSnarsky , @VChangPoet , @Danez_Smif , @JakeSkeets , @cwahmanholm , @Paige_M_Lewis , @queerpoetics , @cawkward_rich ✨

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Langston Hughes ✨

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3 years

Once again time for me to share these two stanzas from Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem “Jerusalem” and sit in my stunned silence

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10 months

I can’t believe I got to help make this book. It’s here and it’s beautiful ✨ @BellePointPress

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Kevin Young.

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@masonsdrunk @tssttsst_ @JkAnowe @TweetneyMoore In truth, the poem's "about" refusing patriarchal policing and archiving that historically disenfranchises women's voices.

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