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#poetrytuesday @aaww
https://t.co/sYo6WnY2pd Us in our "paper masks" loool https://t.co/YnDQ4mkwhK David and I were walking around in our KF94 masks in Waikiki and a drunk guy yelled "Why are you wearing paper masks? GET A REAL MASK" and... I guess it's cool that he's promoting mask-wearing @AdamHSays !! Thank you so much!🌷 @onejuliekim Thank you.♥♥ @laurelfantauzzo I'm so, so sorry for your loss, Laurel. Holding you in my heart. May she rest in peace. I love this poem by @VChangPoet in @LAReviewofBooks https://t.co/XEA2wBs4TR My poem "The Blades" in the physical copy of @LAReviewofBooks ✨ A poem on kindness, on cruelty, on love. https://t.co/ht3VOelerI @ujungjang ♥♥♥♥ I ended up canceling my class! It's 80 degrees in Honolulu and I'm in bed wearing a sweatshirt and sweatpants because I'm feeling too cold and out of it.😔 @samforbreakfast I'm getting woozy again😭 Not the worst, but not very clear-headed / super well-functioning. Agh (The class starts at 4 a.m. my time so I need to get up at 3) This may be a silly question but... I got my second Moderna shot yesterday. I had a bad night of weird dreams and chills waking me up, then got up feeling achy and woozy. Then I took Ibuprofen and feel mostly fine now. Should I... cancel class tomorrow or try to push through it? @action__books @DonMeeChoi Congratulations,Don Mee!!!🎉🎉🎉💖 @alexanderchee Congratulations, Alex!!!♥♥ This reading, today. @aaww https://t.co/3J3h9v2Vt3 @laurelfantauzzo Oh, Laurel, I'm so sorry to hear this. Wishing her strength. Sending you hugs @timothypanyu @Twitter @TwitterSupport @suvwtw Done! Ugh, I'm so sorry to hear this @MeanMisterKien g o o d t w e e t A few years ago, texting with @MeanMisterKien:
Kien: My glasses broke
Me: Get new ones
Kien: g o o d t i p
And now we try to find every chance to reply with "g o o d t i p" and it always succeeds in cracking me up @robottomulatto Omg amazing Thank you @TheCut @NYMag for publishing my essay on the meaning of "Asian/American" and "community" in the age of COVID and mass shootings. The photo is of baby me and my maternal grandmother, my forever muse. https://t.co/BEBPlNnX8X @RosebudBenOni @RubenQuesada @toryadkisson @JQiii @jezzbah @quintanagothic @JihyunYun2nd @TaylorByas3 @travisclau @robottomulatto @Danez_Smif @leahptw @rikam99 @Vanessid @thepoetmendez @jasminnemendez ♥♥♥♥♥ @underblong You Belong on Blong Avenue Really hate when Korean news outlets have headlines like "Black person beats up an Asian woman in the US" but omit the race of the perpetrators when they're white. I'm in this reading, among many writers I love. See you on April 8-- @JanetHong333 Aww yeah i love Yujoo!♥♥ hope we can all hang out sometime☺ I was honored to interview the graphic novelist Keum Suk Gendry Kim for @koreanlitnow.
"I draw as if I’m breathing, dancing on the page, sometimes roughly, sometimes softly—as if I’m singing pansori."
Full interview here: https://t.co/J2celQgmZx @boneless_koi Congratulations! @JanetHong333 ! Thank you😭 It means a lot coming from you!💖 @wochanofficial @LambdaLiterary YAYYY congrats, Wo!!! Who can face the dead
squirrel laying on the cul-de-sac
of some near suburbia, stunted,
and believe we are any better.
@sunlikethestar
@aaww #poetrytuesday
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https://t.co/JteHNzlDPz https://t.co/7eY7IZBn4V @LeaSalonganisa Ah! Thank you for introducing me to the song! It's gorgeous Remembering how when a friend described a feeling from a poem as "It's like watching a car drive away," that moment also felt like a poem. This is a re-wombing of conquest. 12 years of gliding between uncles carrying almond sweets. 1200 years of cracking the drupe to reveal the seed. 1200 lbs of unblanched almond stoned to a fine powder. Compressed in the shape of a clover.
@kariminilu
@aaww https://t.co/ecVzEu4Cdi The Greek then sells Aphrodite to a Roman who sells her to the British
Museum. Curators finding it “wholly implausible” she be of any kind of
Middle Eastern descent.
@kariminilu
#poetrytuesday @aaww
https://t.co/D7nX0GfyuM @catrachxs @CGUTuftsAwards @su_hwangster @JakeSkeets @tommyeblount Congratulations, Roy!!!! @eileenchongpoet @VChangPoet @adalimon @danalevinpoet @chenchenwrites @chowleen @khatyxiong @monicasokwrites @JihyunYun2nd @ChelsDingman @TaraSkurtu @cuvaj_se @maryjean_chan @KathleenJamie @FelicPlunkett @SaraSalehOz @lachbr Thank you, Eileen.💕💕 hugs @chenchenwrites ♥♥love you @AAFederation I replied to the email from AAAA. Thank you! More info: this is paid work. Flexibility with timing required but work will be at least a few hours. This is from a friend. "An @ajc reporter [needs to] find a Korean-English translator in Atlanta, who can help him report on the shooting." Other language abilities also helpful. I don't have any more info; please reach out to the reporter @JoshuaWSharpe directly if you can help. @chenchenwrites Love you chen @alexanderchee Love you, Alex @JihyunYun2nd Love you sister My most meaningful and painful conversations happen offline. But, we are stuck in this pandemic; I really, really long for in-person conversations and hugs I would share with friends. I want to know the victims. Did they have family? The loudest laugh? What were their plans for the day? What was their favorite song? America, you need to feel the hurt. By knowing them, really feeling that they were humans. Not targets. They had lives. Beloved ones. There are certain issues whose magnitude is so great that I can't/don't want to engage with them on social media. But I come here because sometimes there is information before or not on conventional news platforms. I just want to say, I love you, my Asian siblings. (the formatting doesn't show up on Twitter--please see how the lines actually arranged on our website!) But who wants it dry when
you could be wet is a rhetorical question
for every context.
@dorothykchan
@aaww #poetrytuesday
https://t.co/PwVdxNowYL It was kind of funny so I wish I could play... Errrr test myself on it again In ESL class in 2002 there was this quiz program on the computer. Multiple choice. If you got correct answer right away, a multicolor ribbon, an excited voice saying "EXCELLENT!," and confetti popped up. If it took you 3+ tries, a white ribbon. And a blank voice saying, "Fine."😭 @JihyunYun2nd ♥♥♥♥♥ @alexanderchee @viet_t_nguyen This is excellent advice & tip @alexanderchee @viet_t_nguyen I love you Alex @RachelJGalvin Grateful for & miss you, Rachel😢💕 @thisisEJKoh Love this!! Thank you for always uplifting our community, EJ❤❤❤ No sickness is sweet, yet
it’s sweet to be made sick by your magic eyes.
Jahan Malek Khatun, trans. @rrgould & Kayvan Tahmasebian
@aaww https://t.co/SYQPzOwS2J How can I compare his stature to a cypress?
The cypress is sweetly stuck in the mud of astonishment.
Jahan Malek Khatun (fl. 1324-1382), trans. @rrgould & Kayvan Tahmasebian
@aaww
https://t.co/s9oorsgxas @chenchenwrites @poetrymagazine Chen, this poem is so good. Resplendent!! the dead bat in the hallway –
wings folded, shriveled on its side, the year we greeted
bats with terror and asians with diseased and spit.
Janelle Tan
@aaww
ERROR: type should be string, got " https://t.co/DTjIHwRyf6 Here is his story that has haunted me for 14 years: https://t.co/kO8Zn1g55X OMG David Hoon Kim, the author of my favorite story of all time, \"Sweetheart Sorrow,\" is coming out with a novel! From @fsgbooks ! THIS SUMMER! I AM SO THRILLED! Preorder here: https://t.co/fJFHBFR7R5 @DustinKPearson Health Tips by Dustin Thank you for the shout-out, @ozy ! @rmennies @boaeditions It is beautiful, Rachel!!♥♥ @chanamuu @daybreakjung ♥♥ @daybreakjung @chanamuu Even saying JMT is old now i feel like. Lol internet language transforms so quickly @chanamuu @daybreakjung I'm just passing by here but \"hoxy\" comes from the famous half Australian & half Korean baby William Hammington saying 혹시 a lot on this reality show 슈퍼맨이 돌아왔다. People turned it into a meme copying his tone lol. @catrachxs @Scholastic Yessss Roy CONGRATS!!!!🎉✨💖 @samforbreakfast @chenchenwrites Now i do it all the time too! Lmao it stuck with me after i heard you say it the first time @chenchenwrites One of my best moments!! Me: *question about John Cusack*"
David: i don't know
Me: And you call yourself a Film Buffy the Video Player?
David: When did I ever call myself that?
Me: Maybe you should start now @birdmaddgirl @artscouncil @masscultural Congratulations, Heather!!🎉🎉 @JihyunYun2nd @JihyunYunPoetry I love it here! You should visit & stay with us sometime when it becomes safe 💖 Oops follow the poet here!!: @JihyunYun2nd From @JihyunYunPoetry 's "Blood Type," in Some Are Always Hungry (University of Nebraska, 2020) https://t.co/w9CBViGBOa https://t.co/SsDGArssY1 @cynthiaxhua @aaww ♥♥♥ In a novel somewhere, a woman is waiting.
For an ending that arrives
in the middle of the story. 
My landscapes end in the long nights
my mother waited tables.
@cynthiaxhua
@aaww https://t.co/RC3GnWyzm4 I waited for love.
The heart
was a station
where evenings stopped.
@cynthiaxhua
@AAWW https://t.co/RC3GnWyzm4 The pandemic has made my emotions stronger but my ability to verbalize them much weaker, like I'm just like... "UgghhGHhh" I brought up @underblong in a meeting yesterday & said "I love them, the editors Chen Chen and Sam Wein use the word 'blonginess,' I don't know, it's not a dictionary word, but it just perfectly describes their aesthetic, blong-y." If anyone wants me to blurb anything again @fannychoir @newrepublic @cathyparkhong This is incredible I have a new poem in @NewYorker! Thank you @Deardarkness and @ghazalblues for publishing it, thank you @AriaAber for sharing it. Link to the poem here: https://t.co/C0EgS8DeUo @AriaAber !!! THANK YOU, Aria! So glad you like the poem! Also I forgot it was coming out today so thank you for that as well😆😆 Nothing but unearned luck has kept me
safe and alive these thirty-three years, a dumb, gift-luck
whose mouth I pry open every morning for inspection.
- Christine Kitano
@AAWW
https://t.co/fliXNfF1Vy In love with this Rosalie Prussing print I bought this week💕 https://t.co/G4QX6oo8mT Fingertips smelling of summer, pulp stuck under fingernails, gap-toothed grin. Stinginess ruins appetite.
@nazhongwriting
@aaww https://t.co/YHo6Fe1J7c One thing about fruit is that it has to be experienced generously. Profusely.
@nazhongwriting
@AAWW
https://t.co/YHo6Fe1J7c @tewatashibooks Thank you for speaking out. History does repeat itself... @RichieHof @AAKnopf Congratulations, Richie!!💕🌺💐🍹 Julian Saporiti's "The Ghosts of No-No Boy in a Nation That Still Imprisons Immigrants": https://t.co/fxWPnABaum Xewali's "Thresholds: A Story of Family Across Indigenous and Settler Histories in Northeast India": https://t.co/1eAu9eWbQX Congratulations to The Margins @aaww contributors Xewali and Julian Saporiti!🥳 Xewali's story was included in Best of the Net 2020, and Julian's essay was finalist. (Thank you @ColdDevil for the heads-up!) Now a macOS extension that names folders after birds is available!? Made by @hootalex, inspired by this thread😳
https://t.co/8AH1JUoIYF @ColdDevil @LefterisJP @hootalex Oh woow thank you for sharing! So cool! Happy to announce what will probably be my biggest contribution to computer history: my Korean bird folder tweet inspired this new macOS extension that names folders after birds!🐦 비 as in divide
비 as in maintain
비 as in bitch
비 as in queen
비 as in flight
@gregorspamsa