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@wochanofficial
@aaww #poetrytuesday
https://t.co/Ky06nEtp9s The Margins is proud to present 3 poems from @wochanofficial's new book, TOGETHERNESS (@nightboatbooks). Savor them here: https://t.co/Ky06nEtp9s
@aaww #poetrytuesday All the while I was looking at Wo read with tender eyes, apparently they were thinking "Is that girl with the round face judging me?" Wo read this poem then, among others: https://t.co/Z08RwVzYPR I first saw @wochanofficial read poems in fall 2013, NYC. All the air in the room shifted according to ...
to speak pretty enough to be someone I am not.
But the truth is I have been repulsive from outset
- Mimi Yang
@aaww
#poetrytuesday
https://t.co/7b3OdP2V22 @giovarosawrites @chenchenwrites @YesAurielle @a_pirmohamed Congratulations!! Winning this award made me feel like a STAR, truly, and was a much-needed encouragement to keep going. I hope you take the time to celebrate! LAST DAY to enter this raffle for a chance at @SkunkBabePoet 's workshop on ...
the most, I’d whispered, a quiet confession
of my worst crime and cruelty.
- Mimi Yang
@aaww #poetrytuesday
https://t.co/7b3OdP2V22 Previously in my mind "@jzsalvipoet X New York times" meant memories of us drinking soju in Manhattan and exchanging silly stories about throwing up, and now it means my friend is a NYT bestseller 😭😭Just beautiful @jzsalvipoet @nytimes JAVIIIIII!!!!!!!! LET'S GOOOOOOO @IntifadaBatata @MoonsAtD...
I too wander the temple of knowing. I recognize you at the door.
Aria Pahari
@aaww #poetrytuesday
https://t.co/V6Y2pCzmYO A compass can disorient. One day I might not find you.
Wind wrestles the might of might: modal verb stutters the door.
Aria Pahari
@aaww #poetrytuesday
https://t.co/V6Y2pCzmYO A friend said After Yang is like a Muji commercial and I … have to admit that made me want to watch it https://t.co/9qkJfTEMmS @lalasoo @washingtonpost @Literati167 !!! @togekisskiss @aaww Thank you for sending us your work! The sun loved your every last
fractal.
-- @togekisskiss
@aaww #poetrytuesday
https://t.co/zY7AsJizR5 The body forgotten, an animal reversing
seamless & easy
as a glove.
-- Yun Chen
@aaww #poetrytuesday
https://t.co/zY7AsJizR5 @samforbreakfast ilysm!!!! I felt so rejuvenated after talking to you🥺✨ @dorothykchan @DiodeEditions Congratulations!! @murmurshewrote When I realized he made me a healthier person, physically and mentally—that made me feel safe & secure about our future together. Truth: the maps of absence...
@abhijitsarmah_
@aaww
https://t.co/dF0yeB9AJD No one buys cheap stoneware dishes for their old mothers, they stand quietly at the counter and intone spindly summer thoughts for their kids. And the kids, othered from the loss, groove to the mock static of indifference.
@abhijitsarmah_
@aaww
https://t.co/dF0yeB9AJD @murmurshewrote @ASU @asuEnglish @NatalieGDiaz YESSSS!! She lifts a vessel to my lips, says drink. Obedient, I touch
my tongue to bitter starlight
@IrisALaw
@aaww https://t.co/3AwMkqBHNU As the years went on the feelings pushed up through the lie, new information changes the need to have the same past, history should go through intimacies.
Rajnesh Chakrapani
@aaww
https://t.co/wjhr9uWrOX She wants me to remember
her girlhood sky’s red gash, its secondhand magic, how the trees
sang softly on the road as she sharpened the iron of her spine.
How could she then afford to believe in monsters?
@IrisALaw
@aaww #poetrytuesday
https://t.co/3AwMkqBHNU In order to translate I want to live happily ever after I have to ask if I lived happily ever before.
Rajnesh Chakrapani
@aaww
https://t.co/wjhr9uEiAP See more: https://t.co/HAaYFxrvtJ
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https://t.co/N4EAwIIktJ @thealyssalo congratulations, Alyssa! wonderful news! https://t.co/QrwvLZ4ctD Hey #BirdTwitter… there is a baby #zebradove on the ground & doesn’t have feathers around her neck? She hasn’t been moving a lot. I see on Google that fledglings can be on the ground for days before returning to th...
their cocoons. When I cried, you set the rest free.
The moths kissed our noses in thanks. Fleeing
into the sunset. See? You said. Just borrowing.
@amyzhenjing
@aaww https://t.co/oYkbuH6k4C @shieh_simon @djrealboy_ yay, congratulations, Simon!!!! after writing a dissertation, I appreciate even more the ~just vibes~ possibility of poetry. the freedom. the self-reflection. the silence!! @_joseolivarez Congratulations, Jose!!!💕🎉 Who gave the thriller genre its name??? I don’t ...
@aaww #poetrytuesday
https://t.co/NN3uU0nVul https://t.co/xt5FPNPuMZ 2022 has been STRESSFUL--hopefully it'll be less now, since I
-learned how to drive & got a license (again, after not having driven since 2009✅
-held my twice-postponed wedding (2 weeks+ ago & no one got sick from it)✅
-defended & filed my dissertation✅
...among other things😭 @MeanMisterKien Fine fine I will watch till the end And I think I love anyone who’s dead. How morose you whisper to a mango—I embarrass you. To our left, out of our peripheral, there is a girl learning French.
Mark Burr
@aaww
https://t.co/zgXREcpms4 Together we are the best pretenders. Look there, cigarettes are layer caked between pink and blue chalk pieces in a glass ashtray. The couple next to us is pretending they’re still in love.