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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 T...
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 grand...
"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
ERROR: type should be string, got " https://t.co/u9177w4hFJ My boo's rendition of the past weekend (Him: Are you okay? Me: I have no energy) https://t.co/IsgKHE1GHb @cpamzhang Pam!! Congratulations!!!🔥🙌👏 \"flafored\" lol Our way of cherry blossom viewing in Honolulu🌸 Made by Korean rice cake specialist Cake Mimi! The base is matcha-flafored rice cake and the frosting & flowers are bean paste https://t.co/jZBTuyFH6e @MeanMisterKien g o o d t i p Finding out in the hard way that overcommitting in this time is actually NOT a good idea because it only makes one more stressed and not \"distracted\" at all from all the horrors of the world, turns out there is no mental escape from those no matter how busy 😭❤❤ @eileenchongpoet Thank you for sharing, Eileen.💕 I wrote this poem called \"The Blades\" last year spring, thinking about anti-Asian violence and COVID, about cruelty and kindness. I'm grateful that the poem is online at @LAReviewofBooks today. "
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 bet...
@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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 diction...
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 Indigeno...
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