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outside my body. The world is a series of scales,
and this summer has been sinking.
@jewelCcao
@aaww
https://t.co/56Yirs3Wlf Some news~ Very thankful to hold this postdoc position @UChicago with no teaching and residency requirement (!!). I’ll be defending and graduating in July (!!!!) 😳😳😳 Any dissertation-related advice for 3 weeks before the submission deadline (which is right about now)?! @chenchenwrites So exci...
https://t.co/M4EKHoWjKE Tatsuya Tanaka’s Miniature Life https://t.co/Tk7KSaNtP6 @JihyunYun2nd Happy birthday bb!!💕 UAE, Choi Ji-hoon https://t.co/3bVGnP4sFA South Korea, Choi Ji-hoon https://t.co/pe4xp9spLC Egypt, Ji Dae-young https://t.co/5pRLjoR5oW India, Ji Dae-young https://t.co/jwch3O9ZJP Cambodia, Kim Gil-man ht...
of naming a kind of claiming
of my erasure
@bretyamanaka
@aaww
https://t.co/XCmVYJQJTE Child, I swell, I remember
how to touch you, how to be a mother, how to coax
a howl to eat. I’m sorry. I said child and meant war.
@gaiarajan
@aaww
https://t.co/aeJK12Jh2S Not even my grief is new. I wander through corridors
where the dead are everywhere and full of want.
@gaiarajan
@aaww
https://t.co/aeJK12Jh2S You hold
me hostage at the back of your skull hoping
to be the first to swallow me whole
@bretyamanaka
@aaww
https://t.co/XCmVYJQJTE @AnnieZhou13 @hmvanderhart @fannychoir @ilya_poet 💕💕💕 I recommended Duy Doan’s WE PLAY A GAME for The Cut. Check out the full list in the link: Night & day from my hotel in Seoul—stopping by for a couple days before going home to Busan https://t.co/4YsActuZv5 I've said this in a poem befo...
I recommend UNEXPECTED VANILLA by Lee Hyemi, trans. by @sojeflux ! 15. The bedroom The clock ticks killing the curtain What material
16. Are your floors made of never half a cup of rice scooped from the pot you named your
17. Daughter after
@lycheebaobei
@aaww #poetrytuesday
https://t.co/CbwXTxR3AE 5. Why did you what did you name your daughter?
6. In your old house, in which direction did your windows face? North
7. East? How many steps away is your house from your
8. Neighbor count the steps.
@lycheebaobei
@aaww #poetrytuesday
https://t.co/CbwXTxR3AE @sallywenmao @GraywolfPress OMG SALLY!! so exciting!! congratulations <3 @daybreakjung <3 <3 <3 @MeanMisterKien delete this @PoetEllenBass "Epithalamion" by Rickey Laurentiis @rckylrnts : https://t.co/2Sw0z6L5Ht @SandraBeasley Happy birthday!!🎂🎊🎉 Was texting a friend that I love t...
@aliceyliang
@aaww
https://t.co/NKBC8vUq8K ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Imagine that, an America with no hills. To be in an America with no hills.
To be an American with no hills. To be no hill to America. To hill up America’s hills. To call this
hill America. To be called by this hill, America.
@aliceyliang
@aaww
https://t.co/pilm64JsMC @DustinKPearson love you!!! @speakdeadly @The_Rumpus we will always have Vermont @abhijitsarmah_ @The_Rumpus Thank you so much! A poem dear to my heart @FaizullahTarfia @chenchenwrites @The_Rumpus Thank you Tarfia!❤️☀️ @krizbell thank you for being there!! <3 @chenchenwrites !!!!!!!! I was ex...
the wet song of a wooden silhouette, the hollow body
& its carnivorous nostalgia
Corine Huang
@aaww #poetrytuesday
https://t.co/4TswSFHmUe I exhale & I let go of a jagged myth,
a small blade.
Corine Huang
@aaww #poetrytuesday
https://t.co/4TswSFHmUe @mikeets14 I hope someone who read this translation can explain!! I’m so interested haha From just looking at the image I would never have guessed this as the cover for The Iliad… https://t.co/fxNzUYGaM3 @Joseph_Fasano_ Wishing you health and energy, Joseph. @notsumatra @ncstate_english CONGRATU...
a cigarette stays pressed between his lips 
and on his mind, confidence that we are now one marriage 
each away from happiness.
@Pscripturient
@aaww #poetrytuesday
https://t.co/2jYFPbGUak @yanyi___ I have a bookcase for poetry and another for prose! In the prose case, literary first then research/scholarly texts. All in alphabetical order! Finding the !!~perfect~!! gift for someone is so satisfying @chenchenwrites It’s everything!!!! @SuziG “Do something about this weird rat” @ei...
Arc-tic, press down on that c.
Foyer, forget your middle school
French, not like the ay in carried away but the ur in louder,
Say it clearly. I can’t hear you.
Madelyn Chen
@aaww
https://t.co/uYjtFkVygx Right after learning about the Brooklyn subway shooting, I saw on the news that a 79-year-old man was SET ON FIRE in Honolulu’s Chinatown. He suffers serious injuries. Yes, “even in Hawaiʻi.” In a high school Model UN competition,
I won an award for having the best accent. Ever since,
I wonder how others hear me. My boyfriend teased me that I spoke