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@aaww https://t.co/8mLgq2T7rs @aliberryzheng thank you for sending your work💛 The silence between us doesn’t feel as easy as it did back home. It always seems like dad wants to say something, but he can’t figure out how to say it.
Alison Zheng @aliberryzheng
@aaww https://t.co/w96iEbL3Hq A man on our tour asks, What’s wrong with your daughter? Why doesn’t she ever speak? Mom says nothing is wrong, it’s just that I don’t know Mandarin.
Alison Zheng @aliberryzheng
@aaww
https://t.co/w96iEbL3Hq Obsessed with garden eels https://t.co/WohLDoExil Me: *shows husband meme* isn't this hilarious??
Husband: ... this is funny?
Me: How dare you humiliate me? You are now my mortal enemy I don't trust this reservoir of feeling--the way it moves slowly, then all at once
-- @amandalinhayes
@aaww
https://t.co/8mLgq2T7rs @samforbreakfast you deserve all the toasted bagels and toasty rest!!!!!!!! Essay trans. from Japanese by @tanyanb13, Andre Haag, and Nathaniel Heneghan.
Read Zhong Zhang's poem here: https://t.co/aP4QRKaAuw (trans. from Japanese by Andre Haag and Nathaniel Heneghan) "I became a poet in order to live as a Korean person."
Proud to share this stirring essay on statelessness, citizenship, and poetry, by the #zainichi (ethnic Korean in Japan) poet, Zhong Zhang. Published in The Margins @aaww: https://t.co/aP4QRKaAuw @aaww @SoleilLoquy CONGRATULATIONS, @SoleilLoquy !!!! @g_liew @aaww we are so happy and proud to publish your work!!! by the time
we stop we are halfway dropped and ready
to shatter. How we enclose each other and
call the silence love.
— Grace Shuyi Liew @g_liew
@aaww
https://t.co/K9bX7SKt8f Your father did something to your mother,
your mother didn’t do what she should have done,
and now we do things to each other without
knowing why.
-- Grace Shuyi Liew @g_liew
@aaww #poetrytuesday
https://t.co/K9bX7Stq6f Very pleased to have my contribution in this @IHLR post, among poets I'm a SUPER fan of! To straddle language presents the predicament of choice: which language will you make your moon and which your earth?
-- Susan Moon
@AAWW
https://t.co/sGBcb5VmCR https://t.co/0KC43H1b3D To be born in this country is to be both gifted & wounded into a theater of our contradictions.
-- Susan Moon
@aaww
#poetrytuesday
https://t.co/sGBcb5DdoJ https://t.co/HwdyqkkyqM Mount Ogura,Do you have a child?
Its head luxuriantly crowned by maples.
Mount Ogura,Have you ever wished
to take one longer pose for your son?
-- Teishinkou, trans. Naoko Fujimoto
https://t.co/8LzJtvwEXB @chenchenwrites Oh Chen, I’m happy for & proud of you. Sending much love your way 💕 The moon remains in the daylight
like your cold,
feeble eyes. They pierce me
when the day breaks.
--Mibu no Tadamine, trans. Naoko Fujimoto
@aaww #poetrytuesday
https://t.co/8LzJtvf463 We give each other a year to find
reasons to live, but it’s not even day
one and I have a handful, more than
enough for the both of us
-- @RuthAwad
@aaww
https://t.co/YZavP5AyNi I am sick of towing my body around, showing it the strange world like a newborn. All this wonder and nowhere to rest.
— ⁦⁦@RuthAwad⁩
@aaww #poetrytuesday https://t.co/cCw7CKLwCZ Everything was hard and we all lost our minds. We bottled water, for fuck’s sake. Flung the barn doors and burnt the hay. You know someone is telling the truth when they’re on fire.
-- @RuthAwad
@aaww #poetrytuesday
https://t.co/cCw7CL3FR7 @kazumiochin Kazumi, I'm so sorry. It is all too devastating and infuriating. Holding you and your family in my thoughts. @rokwon @yalereview Thank you for writing this. I love the recent plethora of essays & articles renewing/revisiting Cha's significance. I'll look to this piece (+the others you mention here) when I teach Cha in the future! Also I sent you a DM about the wall scribblings, in case you're interested-- I am taking my time apart like a cicada. God knows how many years.
Some years are older than centuries — but they still die just the same,
they break apart when you pull it.
-- Haolun Xu @haolun1
@aaww #poetrytuesday
https://t.co/30tRcxtcsx @haolun1 Thank you for this.❤️ What an honor. I'm so thankful and glad poetry brought us together--love your work so much So what would Whitman even say, with his little words about the grass.
Even the grass is angry. The old poems have been dead.
The old poems are no longer possible.
-- Haolun Xu @haolun1
@aaww #poetrytuesday