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I flip bedsheets inside out
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and exclude you from the poem.
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@EmilyMitamura
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@aaww
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https://t.co/vSvVRg2I2j @JihyunYun2nd @lighthousewrite congrats, jihyun!!!!!! how wonderful!! Happening in 5 minutes! See you soon! I hoard myself a swarm.
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The ecosystem of my house requires the materiality of my living.
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I am as fruitful as I am indebted.
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My grandma used to live here.
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@EmilyMitamura
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@aaww
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https://t.co/vSvVRg2I2j @asgharthegrouch Congratulations, Fati❤️❤️❤️ @aeheelee @BullCityPress @shadowscapes @TianaClarkPoet Congratulations, Ae Hee!! Love this book so much!! RSVP at the link below & you can access 2 films documenting the history of sex work for US soldiers stationed in Korea, and attend a panel on US military in Korea, its impact on women, and Anti-Asian misogyny & violence. Panel is tomorrow (7/29). I'll be reading before the panel. @fannychoir @JennyXu88 @MarinerBooks Omg congrats Franny!!!! How exciting🥳🥳🥳💕 I’m glad other poets share this tendency lol. After all the workshops in which we hear “do you need this part,” “this is too prosaic,” we’re in prose like LET ME TELL YOU EVERYTHING, WHAT THEY WORE, HOW THEY GOT FROM HERE TO THERE, IF THEY SMILED To poets writing fiction: now that you ~can~, do you feel like suddenly you just can’t shut the f up? Going on and on with alllll the details and movements and explanations?? The US needs a national holiday during which we just sip wine or whatever relaxing beverage of our choice and read/listen to Toni Morrison all day. I really believe we would all become better people Why did a package my friend sent from Chicago to Honolulu with USPS Priority have to go to New Jersey then Maine😭😭 Now it's "in transit" ~somewhere~ and only the Lord knows when I will receive it The full text of my new ❤️love poem❤️, "In All the Futures," is available here! I'm glad to see this as I wait eagerly for the physical copy of the @sewaneereview to arrive☺️ in Chinese, pistachios are called
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kaixinguo — happiness fruits.
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but they are neither happy nor fruit.
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they are birthed out of their shells
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i am not happiness nor fruit nor mother;
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only carefully extracted
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@RenaSuWrites
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@aaww https://t.co/JyEByMx5Cc What if you introduced your husband as your “ex-boyfriend” just to mess with people my mother tows away skin from her
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antiquated thumbs, into oars like pistachios.
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let me be more raw like my hands, she says.
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@RenaSuWrites
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@aaww #poetrytuesday
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https://t.co/JyEByMx5Cc @RenaSuWrites @aaww It’s an honor to publish your work!!❤️❤️ @samforbreakfast Sam!! That’s so stressful!! But school hasn’t officially begun yet so you should be able to register / turn things now, after you send some emails of explanation. Especially since you’re a graduate student in a small program. It’s going to be okay!! @hanjoseph @CounterpointLLC Beautiful!!! Congrats, Joseph!! @marianneLchan @clancymcg Congrats, Marianne!! @travisclau Loool the teeth https://t.co/2wQMsixuzq @travisclau My dog in Korea😭❤️ also hello fellow Penn alum 👋 (CAS class of 2013 here) https://t.co/NdiArkUDmO @rajivmohabir Omg!! Congrats, Rajiv!!! 👏👏❤️🥳💕 @rokwon I’m fantasizing about the moment when you throw that exact question back at them @helenkimgc Maybe it's not so weird given the circumstances, but I remember many things from 1997-8! @helenkimgc A classmate at the time told me she's transferring & her mom said they're going "somewhere bigger and better." Everyone in class knew her as having the wealthiest parents. It turned out that her father had lost his company that he was CEO of & they had to move to the countryside. Another wild fact: NK was better off than SK for a while post-Korean War, something that many, even younger Koreans like me, can't imagine, with SK being a rich country now. NK economy suffered dramatically after the fall of socialist regimes around the world in the late 80s & on It still bothers me a lot when people have lights, ACs, other machines turned on when they're not using the room/items!!! Though of course now we also have the added dimension of the climate crisis that plagues us all Among other things, I suggested in the essay that we can save the water from washing vegetables to water plants, and save bathwater to clean the bathroom Growing up during the "IMF crisis" in Korea was kind of wild. Children were called to action to get the nation's economy on track. The first writing prize I got was from a contest for essays on how to conserve water, and I was 6 or 7. @MeanMisterKien You do nut show me any short stories @nattyrao Congrats, Natasha!!! I’ve become a Krispy Kreme donut trying to read scholarly writing at this hour because my eyes are glazed and I’m just a big blank inside Reposting this because I tweeted this on my phone earlier and only now saw that it autocorrected "Haru" to "Gary." l o l . [ /they] gift a star sticker for a job well done.
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a reward for killing without using hands.
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the rest of us practice by watching the evening news.
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Haru Matsuura
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@AAWW
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https://t.co/VoKR4PtDiO @samforbreakfast Omg it’s happening!!! I so wish I could be there😭😭😭 Of course, the horizon
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shimmers: limit of her body’s
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jurisdiction. I do not rule the body
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of the girl I love, nor the body
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of the girl I was, who is the city
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I go home to, which is an island,
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which I am always forgetting.
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Lucy Wainger
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@aaww https://t.co/cfXomSsc9c In Georgia,
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I have never tried to divide my body
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by zero. My hair has grown
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long and purple, a river in the hands
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of the girl I love.
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Lucy Wainger
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@aaww
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https://t.co/cfXomSsc9c @maureenthorson @ArrieuKing Hmm! I don't remember if I particularly had a lot of dorm dreams but my anxieties do manifest in my dreams a lot in somewhat realistic ways. @ThirdWorldNewsr @nodutdol @aafcollective @kpolicyO @mnj_b I'm reading for an event on Anti-Asian Misogyny & War on Jul 29. I'm "opening" for a panel of scholars & activists. RSVP & access two historical films about the US in Korea--THE WOMEN OUTSIDE: KOREAN WOMEN AND THE US MILITARY and CAMP ARIRANG--here: https://t.co/4z9QkmMmpB Do you have dreams in which you sleep, wake up, and continue on the the dream-day? I dreamt that I was living in a dorm again, sharing a bathroom with EVERYONE in the BUILDING, and took a stress nap. I woke up from the teary dream-nap, was still there, and was devastated lol @hanokreview Thank you for sharing!🙏🙏 this morning, kitchen compost dispersed like us
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across my floor: the burden of smelling the homeland.
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Adrian De Leon
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@aaww #poetrytuesday https://t.co/VZKZTYn51Q Years before, leather lashed at my flesh, & I reveried
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bloody-knuckled ways to forgive each crack
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@aadeleon
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@aaww #poetrytuesday
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https://t.co/VZKZTYn51Q Success! We put him outside. https://t.co/KxpoK9kChZ #문예지 #에픽 에 #넌픽션 이 실렸습니다. 저를 믿어주시고 세심하게 읽어주신 임경섭 편집장님과 차경희 #고요서사 대표님께 큰 감사를 드립니다! I am grateful & honored to have an essay in the beautiful #epiic & have editors who trusted my vision. Full text: https://t.co/1UlVbAA92V https://t.co/UL4z8Dqa32 Also the films respectively star a black woman (Radha Blank; also the director, producer, and writer of the film) and a Puerto Rican woman (Gina Rodriguez) I feel like not enough people saw 40 Year Old Version and Someone Great, both Netflix movies & directed by women. The acting, writing, and directing are all sensitively and brilliantly done, yet I didn't see a single banner promoting them on the site, though maybe I missed it @thealyssalo oh nooo :( they keep running into places I can't reach! Can wild geckos survive ok inside a place without bug problems or fruit openly lying around? A couple snuck into my house recently and I haven’t been able to capture them😭 @MeanMisterKien Super fun and cool Watching surfers 🏄♂️ https://t.co/iGMO8COw0c I should reinstall Facebook messenger just so I can return to a chat w/ a hot author whom I had never spoken with but really respect, who asked where I get my brows done & when I said i don’t, she said “oo you’re my brow inspo” & I was like… I inspire YOU?😭eyebrows r powerful @joanpglass @chenchenwrites love that, and same! @eileenchongpoet Thanks, Eileen. I'm going to think about ways to save them! @chenchenwrites What a hurtful thing to so say. Sorry, Chen :( Also your poems are not just about suffering! It's also full of joy, love, friendship, humor, sparkle!! I want to take several moments to remember our beautiful wedding invites, never used (because our 2020 wedding got postponed due to COVID). It folded twice! It had a calendar! There was an English version and a Korean version! It had shimmery gold letters in the front😭😭😭😭😭😭 https://t.co/57CKqPe3o9 The men forgot to sever the vessels This is the deer
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His mother cut open carotid arteries
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first emptying sin She did not pray She ate this meat
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@kariminilu
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@aaww
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https://t.co/x1a1H5G5c6 My cousin age six says I think there is someone in the well
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My lover age thirty-six says I think those Arab kids are robbers
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@kariminilu
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@aaww
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https://t.co/x1a1H5G5c6 @rddlmethisperth Thanks, and I did! One more day until @SkunkBabePoet and I go on a break from reading subs! Get those poems in! @Rose_Siyaniye @eccobooks ❤️❤️❤️ I did read and got a beer as compensation, if anyone was curious!! Pros: maybe some people will like my poem and I’ll make some poetry friends / Cons: I look like shit because I wasn’t planning on attending an event when I came out & I haven’t read at an open mic since maybe 2013 I’m at a poetry reading for the first time in Honolulu (besides my own from 2 years ago), should I read at the open mic Y/N I consider myself a generally positive person, but it's been maybe 45 minutes since I saw a car with stickers that said RACISM SUCKS and HONK IF LOVE YOURSELF FOR WHO YOU ARE, and I'm still not done rolling my eyes Im in a place, which I mean both geographically and personally, where wearing tight pants is simply way too much to ask of myself @haolun1 Happy birthday 🎉 The poetry section of The Margins @aaww is closing submissions for 2 months! Submit your poems by June 28 before we close. https://t.co/o1WHRVcSKL @AselaLeeK Replying to @mansfieldnotes too since you both had the same Q!! I bought the tee for $35 at Bās Bookshop (https://t.co/pj2wdNYJTa) in Honolulu. I believe they’re the only US store that carries the brand. I suggest inquiring Bās! + Here’s the brand website: https://t.co/iJCtUpDXDm My new favorite t-shirt! Always thinking about poems 💭 https://t.co/umkbD8J52Y @bardsbesidebars Happy anniversary!!!🥺💕🎉🎉 https://t.co/IyUBijd3rg @MeanMisterKien See I knew it was a billion-dollar idea this is a joke btw none of the books we like are happy sappy lolol thinking about how my boo and I don't have ~OUR SONG~, and, what if instead of songs, marrying couples walked down the aisle to audio-recordings of their favorite books???? @daybreakjung @DavidsonCollege Yay congrats, friend!!! Who cracked open crab shells
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slurped the broth empty
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held the carapace out for
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someone to give him more
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someone to keep him fed
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Mylo Lam
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@aaww
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https://t.co/g81BoYgsUm the ventilator
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chanting keeping the father’s lungs from decaying
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into leaf litter before morning
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The monks stood in the quiet
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Mylo Lam
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@aaww
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https://t.co/g81BoYgsUm @japanonmymind @southern_review Thank you.❤️❤️❤️ "Are you okay?" Okay? No, I'm not okay
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I'm severe I'm severed I'm savior--
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sorry, savoring this moment Tasting marrow
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