Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972) Today’s #HighlightedPoet
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Two poems: On Silence & Untitled & a brief bio. William Basinski's Garden of Brokenness as the music track & a motley assortment of images of the poet: #Poetry reading at 3:29 of 7:53 min

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Image shows poet Alejandra Pizarnik, chin cradling her face - her eyes on a distant point, her lips closed in a tiny slight smile, hairstyle dark and short with a flash of bangs off to one side. Her quote to the right of her is as follows: I don't know about birds nor do l know the history of fire. But ! believe that my solitude should have wings — Alejandra Pizarnik — The Quotes

“I don't know about birds nor do l know the history of fire. But ! believe that my solitude should have wings”

—Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972)
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Fourteen Poems

Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972) Today’s #HighlightedPoet

Fourteen (amazing/wild/courageous) poems. Translated by Yvette Siegert

‘ . . . who is speaking in this room full of eyes? Who gnaws with a mouth made of paper? . . .’

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www.documenta14.de/en/south/465...

Two Poems by Alejandra Pizarnik ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK <br> And it was then / that with a tongue dead and cold in the mouth / he sang the song others allowed him to sing / in this world of obscene gardens and shadows / coming at unseeml...

Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972) Today’s #HighlightedPoet

Two Poems: Poem for the Father and Only

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Sex, Night Once again, someone falls in their first falling–fall of two bodies, of two eyes, of four green eyes or eight green eyes if we count those born in the…

Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972) Today’s #HighlightedPoet

‘Sometimes we suffer too much reality in the space of a single night. . . we’re horrified. . .the mirror from which your cry will pour out, your laceration.’

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www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147374...

[All night I hear the noise of water sobbing.] (trans. by Patricio… All night I hear the noise of water sobbing. All night I make night in me, I make the day that begins on my account, that sobs because day falls like…

It’s Saturday. Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972) #HighlightedPoet

. . .’The noise of steps in the circle near this choleric light birthed from my insomnia. Steps of someone who no longer writhes, who no longer writes. . . .’

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www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147376...

imessages My brother has never once said I love you. He doesn’t have the words in his throat. Those words, the staccato consonants. Their tall syllables are grainy. It is television static scattering o…

imessages
by Akira Ritos

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***Note: If you had an older brother growing up this poem’s for you! It’s longer but seriously worth the read.

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#Poem Balete Tree by Akira Ritos in her collection ALL OF THEM ALL OF THEM
—Available at Fifth Wheel Press
@fifthwheelpress.bsky.social

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Akira Ritos souvenir from a balikbayan box I am not Pinoy enough but not Colonized enough. I ama bad mango. Another bad omen. Where every part of meis unripe and uncool. I’m still trying to unlearn nay’spronun…

souvenir from a balikbayan box
by Akira Ritos

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The Things I Took Note Of During The Month You Left – Akira Ritos — fifth wheel press Akira Ritos is a queer Filipino &amp; disaster adult residing in the Chicago suburbs. They were previously published in Marias At Sampaguitas , Yuzu Press , the lickety split , and more. In 2023, ...

It’s Saturday! Akira Ritos is my #HighlightedPoet

Link to poem:
‘The Things I Took Note of During the Month You Left’

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the word mouthfeel monday’s tornado siren glowsticks
fingers shoe outlines on hallway carpets . . .

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Let me tell you a story
about hope: it always starts
and ends with bandages.

—Victoria Chang
#quote

This short #poem is from a longer sequence called ‘Love Letters’ from —The Trees Witness Everything

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#Poem The Swan, No. 20 (Hilma af Klimt) by Victoria Chang

today’s #HighlightedPoet @victoriachang.bsky.social

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Victoria Chang is today’s #HighlightedPoet
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This middle grade verse novel, EUREKA, sounds amazing. Remembering #history is critically important right now.

A Conversation with Victoria Chang - Center for Literary Publishing | Colorado State University Victoria Chang discusses writing as a reader, the relationship between poetry and philosophy, and her work in the Fall/Winter 2024 issue of Colorado Review with Assistant Managing Editor Chase Cate.  ...

Victoria Chang is today’s #HighlightedPoet @victoriachang.bsky.social

1/13/25 Interview with Center for Literary Publishing

Chang discusses writing as a reader, the relationship between poetry and philosophy . . .

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coloradoreview.colostate.edu/2025/01/a-co...

I Once Was a Child I once was a child am a child am someone's child             not my mother's not my father's the boss       gave us special treatment treatment for…

#Poem I Once Was a Child by Victoria Chang

@victoriachang.bsky.social

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in China one year everyone got a spinning top

one year everyone got a tap on their shoulders

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www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58602/...

It’s Saturday! Victoria Chang is my #HighlightedPoet

New collection of essays ‘Dear Memory’ is out Mar 17

—Chang's lyrical experiment evokes an individual family's time capsule an artist's timeless yearning to shape carbon dust into incandescent gem. —NPR

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Ana Maria Caballero is today’s #HighlightedPoet @anamariacaballero.bsky.social

New collection ‘Material’ is out May 2026 from Trio House Press

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Ana Maria reads an excerpt from her poem ‘Oath Ceremony’:

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Ana María Caballero’s Lyric Protest - POETRY INTERNATIONAL Ana Maria Caballero and Milagros Vilaplana explore the overarching theme of motherhood and lyric styles of Mammal.

Ana Maria Caballero is today’s #HighlightedPoet @anamariacaballero.bsky.social

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—Interview on Poetry International about her collection ’Mammal’:

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Ghost House Review published two of my poems - Ana Maria Caballero I am very excited that two of my poems have been included in the up-and-coming independent publication, Ghost House Review. Please pay them a visit and see all the great things they are doing for your...

Ana Maria Caballero is today’s #HighlightedPoet @anamariacaballero.bsky.social

New collection ‘Material’ is out May 2026 from Trio House Press

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Poem ‘Morning Feed’ at this link:
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Ana Maria Caballero is today’s #HighlightedPoet @anamariacaballero.bsky.social

New collection ‘Material’ is out May 2026 from Trio House Press

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It’s Saturday! Ana Maria Caballero is my #HighlightedPoet @anamariacaballero.bsky.social

New collection ‘Material’ is out May 2026

“explorations . . .multiple roles and responsibilities that call to us . . . preserving our wild, creative, imperfect selves.”

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“Poetry helps me realise that faith is perhaps in the simplest of things–a road trip with my parents, arguments they’ve spent a lifetime committed to, and the physical spaces that know us in intimate ways.”

Nur Turkmani #quote

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To Revolt Is To Insist On Joy, by Nur Turkmani | wildnesswildness Wildness is an online literary and arts journal.

To Revolt is to Insist on Joy
#poem by Nur Turkmani
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“Look, there. I am stopping to lay in this patch,
they haven’t stolen it—yet. Even tragedy
has a shape, can be uprooted. The sea is breaking, . . .”

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Animal Grief A jackal returns to the border town of Aitaroun, after a year of phosphorus bombs. June, wasn’t it, years ago when we swam in the opal sea of Naqoura,…

Animal Grief by Nur Turkmani

“ . . . On our way home to Beirut, the sky curious like a face,
you said border towns are the most beautiful:
their existence depending on make-believe.”

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www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

The Missouri Review“Faith” by Nur Turkmani | The Missouri Review Discovering the best in fiction, essays, and poetry

#Poem “Faith” by Nur Turkmani

“This poem began as an ode to Ehden, a stunning city in Lebanon’s northern mountains. By the end. . . I realised it was about safety and what is familiar”

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October by Nur Turkmani — Hajar Press What do we carry from one year to the next? What remains after devastation, and what, despite everything, takes root again?

It’s Saturday! Nur Turkmani is my #HighlightedPoet

Debut collection is out April 2026. A life in Beirut Lebanon.

“October insists on poetry as a way of carrying across—of naming what persists when everything is under threat . . .”

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www.hajarpress.com/books/october

Nadine Aisha Jassat

Another #bio on today’s #HighlightedPoet

Nadine Aisha Jassat

a feminist writer, #poet, & professional working the field of gender-based violence

Her favourite #quote is by Angela Davis; “walls turned sideways are bridges”. This is a philosophy she lives by.

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Nadine Aisha Jassat: Many Ways to Tell a Story | New College Festival, 7-8 November 2025 | School of Divinity Nadine Aisha Jassat joins Professor Emma Wild Wood at New College Festival.

#Poet Nadine Aisha Jassat

This link is for a past event but has a delightful #bio for today’s #HighlightedPoet

Jassat. . . lives in Scotland and grew up in the North of England. . . Yorkshire mum and Zimbabwean dad. . . poetry collection: ‘Let Me Tell You This’

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Poet/Author Nadine Aisha Jassat on the power of #library events
(2 min video)

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Auntie My Aunt's hands are soft and brown and they smell like cumin and coriander. She is a gardener in the kitchen.

Auntie
#poem by Nadine Aisha Jassat

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<. . . >

Auntie, I remember your skin
the way some people remember the bus route.
I know I need to trace it to go home.

<. . .>

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/auntie/