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9 months

book launch for PIG is sept 17th at @gilman_brewing in berkeley CA. feat readings from @HieuMinh & @aracelisxgirmay . There'll also be some drag performers and live pigs. hope to see you there!

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6 years

The first time I heard this poem by @gumbo_amando I was laid flat out.

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5 years

i love when a plain croissant is a little sweet because it's spent the morning amongst sweeter pastries. i aspire to that.

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5 years

RIP Mary Oliver

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I always make sure to carry around a novel, a non-fiction book, and a book of poems just so I can read none of them.

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6 years

This new @adalimon book y’all!

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5 years

Currently at a gay bar reading @ilya_poet new book and sobbing

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6 years

Y’all see scientists gave us until 2040 on this planet & that story’s only like kinda trending?!?! We’re done for.

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4 years

was today years old when i learned each fig you eat needed a wasp to crawl inside it and die in order for it to fruit. also, same.

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4 years

well shit. just realized instead of poems i accidentally sent an editor a document from march which included grocery lists, bad poem fragments, passive aggressive letter drafts, & weird erotica. pray for me.

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6 years

Write to save yr younger self. It might save us all.

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6 years

Can’t stop thinking about this poem : “in the beginning, the ending was beautiful”

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2 years

i've got a new poem, "a very small animal entirely surrounded by water" in @theatlantic

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4 years

The longer I dedicate my life to poetry the less I feel like I know anything about it

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6 years

write the poems that make kings tremble

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7 years

astounding to still be open to love— despite all the world has done

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5 years

at the q & a someone just stood up and asked if we could call it a ‘q & c’ as in ‘question and comment’ then proceeded to comment... and I’m currently living in my nightmare.

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6 years

Honored to have poems in this outstanding new issue of @poetrymagazine

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6 years

this note is attached to a plant i've been watering since the day i met you you may water it yr damn self Ntozake Shange

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6 years

prompt: write a poem that opens like a window into a future we survive

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6 years

let all our best poems be / somewhere ahead of us.

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4 years

Audre Lorde

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6 years

This poem by Ken Chen’s haunted me since I first read it

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4 years

Happy National Poetry Month. Here’s a poem by @aracelisxgirmay aracelisxgirmay

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6 years

"Poet" must be used cautiously; it names an aspiration, not an occupation. - Louise Glück

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5 years

as 2018 ends let's end pretending wanting clean water & bullet free public spaces is radical

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5 years

From On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

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5 years

all my love is built on a circle of friends sitting where we shouldn't reciting poems

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6 years

writing is always a solitary act unless you've ever read anything or learned language

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4 years

I think of the opening stanza to this Ross Gay poem almost daily.

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5 years

no matter how bougie i get i'll always sit on the ground next to a trashcan in order to charge my phone

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6 years

a poem on the page is sheet music. it will sound different each time it's sung

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6 years

It’s my books birthday!!! I’ve been working on this collection in some way for the past eight years. Endless gratitude to everyone who made those last eight years possible.

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6 years

So... I've been accepted as a 2018-2020 Stegner Fellow. ! ! i'm moving back to the bay ! !

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6 years

Happy Halloween

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6 years

thrilled to share the cover for BURY IT out Sept 4th from @weslpress

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5 years

I wonder if straight people know there are other options

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4 years

At a bookstore a cutie in the stacks tells me this place has a large used Jewish books section. & me, trying to flirt, said [I’m a large used Jewish books section] then winked & crumbled to dust.

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6 years

Prompt: write a poem. make it sob then make it sing.

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7 years

Love poetry for the simple fact you can dedicate the rest of your life to it and not know a damn thing

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7 months

what are some of your favorite short poems--ten lines or less?

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5 years

From Megan Fernandes’ forthcoming book Good Boys @Tin_House

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2 years

big update: my third book of poems, PIG, will be out fall 2023 with @ScribnerBooks !!! been working on this for 6 years and so excited for it to be in the world.

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6 years

sometimes making poem feels like cutting a sculpture out of marble. so much material to trim away in order to uncover what's always been there.

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5 years

The coolest thing about having a car now is anywhere I go I’ve got a nice place to cry!

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4 years

Louise Glück handed me a knife today.

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6 years

Hold close whoever futures you.

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4 years

This whole month at home being judged by tables & chairs. Here’s a poem by Zbignew Herbert

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5 years

Wow! This poem by @VChangPoet in the new issues of @poetrymagazine

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2 years

okay! so my first novel will be out in 2024 with @mcsweeneys !!! been working slowly on this since 2016 & am so excited !!

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6 years

I’m so bad at endings my highschool girlfriend and I may still technically be dating.

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4 years

just said 'you're toast' to my toast before eating it. & have been grinning for the past twenty minutes.

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5 years

One more from Aaron Smith’s new book!

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5 years

I want to make poems that do everything at once. That de-throat autocrats & whisper into the lonely ear of my childhood.

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7 years

My poem in print in @nytimes

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4 years

From There Should Be Flowers @sadqueer4life

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4 years

In workshop I’d rather think what’s possible instead of what’s the problem

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5 years

not gay as in happy, but queer as in sad.

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5 years

Anyone else listen to music one song at a time on loop & thus annoy all your loved ones?

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5 years

Alright so I just saved a baby when the stroller rolled into the street while her mom was looking away... I feel like I can kinda just do whatever now today, right?

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7 years

there are no ghosts in chechyna

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5 years

Y’all! @NifMuhammad new book of poems is SO beautiful

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5 years

Just got my issue of @AmPoetryReview after forgetting to update my address! Here’s one of two poems about diasporic judiasm. Chag Sameach!

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5 years

ecopoetics we kept writing down names of the animals as they left

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6 years

The reading of a poem, a poetry reading, is not a spectacle, nor can it be passively received. It’s an exchange of electrical currents through language - Adrienne Rich

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6 years

I’m my own emotional support peacock

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5 years

just got ordained to officiate a friend's wedding. watch out world. i'm about to go on a spree marrying dogs to hydrants, trees to light, bank windows to rocks, & queers to birds.

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5 years

There’s truly nothing like randomly getting free drinks from a bartender who likes your poems while out with an ex who thinks you ain’t shit.

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5 years

Hate being too tender to be in the world and still having to be in the world. They should make protective egg suits that everyone agrees you can zip yourself into at public functions when you’re done.

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4 years

A few lines from Eavan Boland

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6 years

every time 'jews' is trending i brace for what my family's been saying will come my whole life... my people, one day our name will be a celebration in every mouth, will be the language that dismantles guns & tyrants alike.

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6 years

This poem by Rick Barot from his latest book has been haunting me since I read it in a journal

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6 years

ANTIZIONIST ABECEDARIAN [3] After Bombs Come Drought. Every Forgotten God's Home Is Just Killing Lands. Man Never Operates Peace Quite Right. Still, Time Undoes Various Wounds- Except Your Zion.

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6 years

Really feels like this world cup’s been going on for three thousand years

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5 years

as 2018 ends let's end pretending capitalism cares about people

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4 years

Social Distancing with @HieuMinh

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Jane Hirshfield

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Mary Ruefle

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4 years

Eavan Boland’s absence is a vast one.

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5 years

‘To address someone I love / the way a knife is thrown at a tree’ - @ruthmadievsky

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5 years

A man just walking through the train yelled ‘I’ve been sucking dick for thirty years.’ Happy Anniversary!

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4 years

I never remember until it’s too late the problem of eating a whole sleeve of cookies isn’t you ate too many cookies, only that you don’t have any cookies left.

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5 years

Marvin K. White

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5 years

Am I actually in love with you or are you just wearing glasses and have no interest in talking to me?

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5 years

Just realized flags have been at half mast all month cause of George Bush (lol). I just assumed it was for our collective state of perpetual grief & mourning. Silly me.

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6 years

I think about this poem by Natalie Diaz @ least once a week