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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 their voice & I've been a fangirl ever since.🥹Wo's book TOGETHERNESS (@nightboatbooks) dropped TODAY! Order your copy here, or at your local bookstore: https://t.co/jU5W8pg8J5 @JehanneIDubrow a very satisfied customer My parents didn't expect that Kong would be the most frequent user of their massage bed https://t.co/1z0tZ0i6iK @karissachen @PutnamBooks @michellebrower @trellislit congratulations!! @samforbreakfast Glorious She has always wanted me
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 Pakistani poetry & contribute to flood relief efforts. Please share and/or give what you can! @PierreChanton this story sounds like a Brigit Pegeen Kelly poem, honestly. @crowofminerva Thank you for sharing!!! My whole attitude about the world these days is I D K and it is both "I don't know" and "I decay"🫠 I only speak my native language to the people I love
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 @MoonsAtDusk @Danez_Smif @randajarrar @HalaNAlyan @sunyungshin @lutherxhughes @tagreathouse @natalie_eilbert @NifMuhammad It was super easy to have faith in your work because it was so obviously and powerfully on its way to make a mark in this world. Grateful for both your verse and your mind 🙏❤️✨ @chenchenwrites (...but I actually LOVE hiking 😭) @chenchenwrites https://t.co/jbB3DbaX8W I am probably never going clubbing again but I do miss the 5-minute intense friendships with random women at clubs, in which although/because we were all drunk, we would look out for one another and cry about how beautiful each other is lol The Moon is wearing red tonight https://t.co/UXnZ1Qqtgp @restingpotato @Milkweed_Books Always happy to share poem ghosts! @restingpotato Omg rn it’s this poem by Ama Codjoe. Saw it shared on Carl Phillips’ Insta last weekend and can’t stop thinking about that last sentence https://t.co/OGRlA2vtVT @TianaClarkPoet @chenchenwrites I have a line that keeps whispering in my ear 🌬 I love being haunted by a poem The crisis in Pakistan is all of our crisis, our tragedy, our present and our future. Ayesha is a caring and astute editor & writer, and I have no doubt that her workshop will be meaningful and illuminating. If you've loved even a single poem in The Margins in the past couple years, or if you've ever loved anything by a Pakistani artist, please seriously consider this opportunity to show up for Ayesha & her community, and learn from her. As the screenshot of Ayesha's IG post says, you can also donate to an organization & send her the receipt to enter the raffle (her email is in the poster, but is: ayeraees@gmail.com). PBS has a small but helpful list of organizations accepting donations: https://t.co/vO7pq3Ygn4 People can donate even if they don't want to enter the raffle (just send a little note with the donation). The Margins' @aaww Asst. Poetry Editor @SkunkBabePoet is holding a raffle to fundraise for Pakistan's flood victims. Send $10 to Ayesha by 9/15 for a chance to win a spot in her virtual workshop on Urdu poetry and/or contribute to relief efforts. Please consider sharing this info https://t.co/52PH8ayojg It was an honor & joy to read such incredible poetry in translation and serve as a judge alongside Soeun and Annelise. Congratulations to the shortlists! A pair of hands join palms in worship, then reach for the door.
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 are full of wilting shadows and the hearts nailed with human guilt. Now we can see why our mothers prayed but didn’t have the courage to love.
@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
https://t.co/CdtHTHVgjL
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 the nest but… is she injured or is she okay? https://t.co/aqJG9FAht5 Truly excellent and thought-provoking collection of translations @craigsperez Wow, it’s beautiful! Sometimes I get randomly embarrassed recalling the time I was stopped by a woman driving by & inquiring about my shoes, and I had to yell "N... Nasty Gal dot com. Nasty Gal dot com!!" multiple times across the lanes When the silkworms were ready, you began to boil
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 feel THRILLED watching MURDER I just joined Twitch so I can type in the chatroom & promote Kien's poetry book to the gamers lol. BUT also! Stream #PlayersTheSeries on Paramount+! Even if you know nothing about LoL (like me) you can enjoy the show bc it's more about relationships & tensions among pro gamers @wacrawford thank you! <3 grappling with the fear that doing a phd in literature made me a better reader/critic and academic writer, but worse writer in other forms of prose @chenchenwrites ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ @murmurshewrote @ASU @asuEnglish @NatalieGDiaz Congratulations, Muriel!!!💖💖💖💖🎉 This was such a fun event & I learned so much 😭 Buy these books!! Also let us have more translator talks! @saharromani @KazimAliPoet @Poetry_Society congratulations!! @cathylinhche @rondakaysen @nytimes I read this last night and screamed CATHY! By B.B.P. Hosmillo
@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.