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Bret Yamanaka
@aaww
#poetrytuesday
https://t.co/n1n4TkNxDR I need to stop trying to trick myself into feeling I’m relaxing when I’m actually working—like, I always enjoy reading, but I don’t want to let my weekend beach read to be a text I need to teach, blurb, or research. I must allow myself to pluck that juicy novel out of the shelf Forsaken,
I moved my legs toward home like metal chopsticks
in the palm of a baby. My baby doesn’t walk
this Earth yet; I rarely hear why it should.
I am afraid of the day I’ll only be able to hear.
@JoeGJang
@aaww https://t.co/vTcqkHfZX6 The night never held me a lullaby.
I had to learn to lull my body into good
but my body never leaned good for its own sake.
@JoeGJang
@AAWW
https://t.co/vTcqkHfZX6 your wrinkled eyelids folded and folded upon
opening fields where I grow. You said,
It is still so beautiful to look at—
breathlessly beaming at its fair shade of grape.
@daybreakjung @SkunkBabePoet @POETSorg @comewancomeall 👏👏👏 this is fantastic, Ayesha!! Welcome, @vandanaiscool !! @chenchenwrites Chen!!! An honor!! What a thread, and to be mentioned among these giants and bright lights—😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️ Rhodes College looking to fill a 2-year VAP position in US Ethnic Literatures, to start THIS FALL: https://t.co/vnhUSBufWY @CloseTalking 🥰🥰thank you @UChicagoCollege @UChicago_GRAD Congrats, girl!!!!👏👏❤️💕✨🍾🍾 This event, a panel discussion on "comfort women" in film, poetry, and theatre, is happening 5 minutes! Hope to see you some of you there soon--https://t.co/Qk3ZPTDnfF Felt very special to ring in year 30 with the Super Flower Blood Moon & total lunar clipse🌚 Phone camera couldn’t capture it well at all, but the sky was a magical sight all night, shining so bright✨ https://t.co/Lh3RDniaXW @joanpglass @MarciCalabretta @EugeniaLeigh @cathylinhche @chenchenwrites @KesheWrites @mchangpoet @ToddKaneko @jezzbah @jessiicable @minjinlee11 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ A monk seal and her baby https://t.co/Z38HraiHsp In every dream, I consider coming clean
through my skin like a shadow, every bare bloodline
unedited & untouched. In every reality, I play
vulture to my native vocabulary
Serrina Zou
@aaww
https://t.co/M21tONDXKh @thealyssalo Yes!! 😭💖🌈 @Rathole747 😭😭thank you so much!!! @samforbreakfast You need to be hereeeee Sometimes in Hawaii I turn a corner and am suddenly confronted with a bright rainbow sprayed across a perfect green, and it stuns me every time, how vivid yet true it is all https://t.co/AfrBNnqmld How we used to sink into
grey, muted by the silhouette of a nation
hungering for our heads; our hands clasping
in between gasps for mercy. Tell me, is my
jaded tongue invitation for this prayer of
knives?
Serrina Zhou
@aaww
#poetrytuesday
https://t.co/M21tONDXKh A monk seal and her pup, a couple weeks old now https://t.co/QCZzMLczdO @chenchenwrites Did u get the Madonna or the foo pfizers?? I know the word for father in Seraiki is pio
I know the word for daughter in Seraiki is dhi
I didn’t know the word for language in Seraiki is zaban
@FaZeMalik
@aaww #poetrytuesday
https://t.co/3l38GJ5Q2d @FaZeMalik @aaww Thank you again for choosing to share your words through The Margins, Fatima. I hope you are taking care this week. Last year passed in a haze. This
feast of the sacrifice, there seems more clarity. There is no father,
there is no feast.
@FaZeMalik
@AAWW #poetrytuesday
https://t.co/3l38GJ5Q2d Deep thanks to @southern_review for publishing my first, LONG short story! 😢💕💕 https://t.co/SRaP1Er5xd @yoo_kyung_sung Thank you!!✨ @RachelJGalvin @aeheelee @southern_review It's so good!💓✨ @starsandmud @southern_review Yes! And the precision!! Ahhhh And this stunner by Michael Shewmaker 😭 (from "Heat Lightning") @southern_review https://t.co/lyFjMppDKM I love this poem by @aeheelee in @southern_review 💖 https://t.co/SJYtCvihYO I was so delighted to see this parakeet peek out from a tree. A little green bird face moving in and out of the tiny window. 😭💕 https://t.co/EyrQi4L7gM @alexanderchee Alex. I am so, sorry. That's heartbreaking and infuriating that she had to confront so many challenges. Being healthy should not be expensive and difficult. I hope you are holding her memories close while taking care of yourself, too. This is so lovely. ❤️ Congratulations and good luck at the Finals, Soojin! Thank you for lending your voice to "Say Grace." Listen, we can stay here forever, in Tucson,
rain is a fable and we don’t need
a story to fall asleep. ​Forever Awake?
Yes.
@phlat_soda
@aaww https://t.co/9NYlmXYW4b Don’t the cocoon. It’s been April
for too long. Look at the clouds,
their shape held hostage by the wind
@phlat_soda
@aaww
https://t.co/9NYlmXYW4b @JihyunYun2nd @daybreakjung It's such a pain!! I feel you. Some consulate websites are not updated / staff don't have all the answers ... I think calling the Embassy is the best bet on getting the most precise information. @GringaLandia @tupelopress @JenifrMilitello ♥♥thank you for being there. "... the native speaker doesn't know how to do what nonnative speakers do naturally: speak in ways that are accessible to everyone, using simple words and phrases.
... this more accessible way of speaking is often called 'bad English.'"
https://t.co/EI1Q4Bp0MJ This is in less than 2 hours! Hope to see you soon-- I'm reading on Monday (7 p.m. EST, 4/26) with Lee Upton and @JenifrMilitello for @tupelopress. Hope to see some of you there!:
https://t.co/CQV5AYcSru
Meeting ID: 961 075 6833
Passcode: 026909 https://t.co/F7f09utoA0 @MeanMisterKien I resigna I just want to eat lasagna and lie down. Everything else feels like too much @wochanofficial "You spelled Bukowski wrong" @chenchenwrites @Noemi_Press Amazing news for all of us! Congratulations, Chen!!! @chenchenwrites @samforbreakfast I love samXchen friendship photos The #Manoa location of #Longs has extra doses of the #COVID19Vaccine and people over 18 can get it tonight! Go go #honolulu #hawaii #GetVaccinated @ltjournal Did this event get recorded? @IntifadaBatata Congratulations, George!! I hope you love the program and Chicago. <3 https://t.co/I9nNi6l78M One of our dogs in Busan, the Chihuahua named Kong, likes to step on my mom's laptop. One time, he moved all my mom's email to Archive. Today, he printed out documents while she went away for a minute. I guess he's just trying to help her safekeep all her stuff! https://t.co/uJy3W67sWI @MeanMisterKien It's the end of you and me @MeanMisterKien stuck in jojoland now after our little conversation? @notsumatra @LAReviewofBooks @AliceJamesBooks @Carcanet This is beautiful. Thank you♥ @samforbreakfast Yayyy Sam!!! Tennessee is lucky to have you!! I let holy smoke into my lungs
and swallow tongue grey eyes wet
mouth seething A dead kingfisher November passing
through brown bodies like ghost
@mayaeashwaran
@aaww #poetrytuesday
https://t.co/sYo6WnY2pd I spend my days writing poems about
love and distance and emergency and something
that is all this in one moving body half beat and heaving
A starved star
@mayaeashwaran