I had a dream last night that a rainbow was burning. I had a dream last night that the war fit on the tip of a finger. I had a dream last night that a scream did not need a hill to gather speed to reach the people.
How to start a book 🔥🔥🔥
(Brandon Shimoda, HYDRA MEDUSA)
Screenshot of a thread from the Gettysburg Review on Twitter. It announces the closer of the journal, describes the lack of communication/discussion from the higher-ups, and encourages people to contact the president and provost of Gettysburg College. President Bob Iuliano: riuliano@gettysburg.edu, 717-337-6010. Provost Jamila Bookwalla: jbookwal@gettysburg.edu, 717-337-6820.
Gettysburg College has decided to shut down its prestigious literary magazine, Gettysburg Review, without consultation with the people who run it.
Yuck. Sorry this happened to you (and now your friend).
Poem: The Good Life by Tracy K. Smith from the collection Life on Mars
I love this poem by Tracy K. Smith from Life on Mars:
I hope today is great!
You did it! <3
Submissions are open through the end of October for @kenyonreview.bsky.social’s Forough Farrokhzad Folio, guest edited by Kenyon Review Fellow Cindy Juyoung Ok kenyonreview.org/submit/speci...
This is the best news! So looking forward to this <3
On 11/19 & 12/10, 2 US Eastern, online, I'll give the inaugural Linkages Lectures—on the fundamental structures of my imagination, the alphabet and the drawn and written line. Thanks to all at Annulet for the invitation and to @drebelle.bsky.social for the nomination. Really looking forward to this.
it is chiles en nogada season, which means sustained heartburn season as we melt into the ever evaporating fall
I guess likes for now
cabbage soup! my oh my. every season *does* have good in it. thank you for the reminder here
I wish there were a bookmark option here for things I would like to return to read later. Any workarounds?
Sometimes going deeper means just going on. - Brandon Shimoda on his poem “The Bell” from his recent work HYDRA MEDUSA (Nightboat Books) poems.com/features/wha...
hesperaloe funifera
in kind <3
Al Filreis gathers Hoa Nguyen, Maya Pindyck, and Laynie Browne to talk about two of the poems (#1 and #4) in Mina Loy’s “Love Songs” series for POEMTALK: jacket2.org/content/poem...
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Reading this has made my day. Thanks for sharing. I hope to be able to share similar accomplishments one day
the application for the 2024 Periplus Fellowship—offering mentorship and community to writers of color—is now open ❤️🔥 you can learn more & apply by 10/27, pls help spread the word
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Harmony Holiday on Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharp: www.bookforum.com/print/3001/c... and more generosity with a playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/35n... Brilliance all around
gorgeous!
happiest birthday!
thanks for sharing!
yes!
Here’s a link to the series, which includes work by Chase Berggrun, Tyler Brewington, Chia-Lun Chang, Tytti Heikkinen (translated by Niina Pollari), Harmony Holiday, Molly Ledbetter, and Chessy Normile 2/2 www.afterhourseditions.com/products/aft...
I gifted myself a chapbook subscription from After Hours Editions, which hasn’t disappointed yet. Molly Ledbetter’s chapbook is GREAT. It feels like I’m having a conversation with a curious and funny friend in which I have nothing to say and am glad for it bc I just want to listen and keep on. 1/2
ah! was this recorded? (I hope so)
I love this book. thanks for this moment to recall its brilliance this morning.
paying attention to paying attention: a black ant seemingly surfing a feather, a bumblebee hovering over the plumbago, something else I’ve now forgotten—maybe a hummingbird