This #poetrytuesday we’re featuring Osmani Ochoa’s poem, “re: <migrant>futurism,” from the anthology Xicanx Futurism (Riot of Roses Publishing), edited by Scott Rusell Duncan. The first poem of the anthology, Ochoa’s work serves as an introduction to the concept of Xicanx futurism.

"the rock salt was not afraid of being sea-run"

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Ars Poetica: Poetry as Lot’s Wife Who Looked Back at the Burning Cities" by Ammara Younas, in #TheMargins. 🌕🪨

aaww.org/ars-poetica-poetry-as-lots-wife-who-looked-back-at-the-burning-cities/

"the most dangerous emergency at sea is fire"

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Give Me Rough Seas" by Seema Jilani, in #TheMargins. 🌊🔥
https://aaww.org/give-me-rough-seas/

If They Had Named Me Marion But I came into the world with this full head of hair.

"I’d still leave slices of bitter melon behind in my bowl, but the aunties/ would overlook it."

This week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "If They Had Named Me Marion," is by Jia-Rui Cook, whose debut poetry collection just won the 2025 Philip Levine Prize! 🥳 🦪
https://aaww.org/if-they-had-named-me-marion/

Ode to ប How your sound fills/ pockets.

"Tongue tamer, lip purser, performance is/ what you were born for."

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Ode to ប" by April Lim, in #TheMargins. 💨🐀

https://aaww.org/ode-to-%e1%9e%94/

This #poetrytuesday, we’d like to share Heidi Seaborn’s poem “Forty-Two Days Until The Election—“ from her recent collection tic tic tic (Cornerstone Press). We hope you enjoy this poem as much as we did.

Write in Blood The punishment of the oppressor is that they are denied poetry.

"Forgetfulness is a type of ingratitude,/ Remembrance a form of prayer."

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Write in Blood" by Yahia Lababidi in #TheMargins. 🧪📿

https://aaww.org/write-in-blood/

"Grief never leaves / the way the body holding it does."

Read today's #PoetryTuesday piece, "I didn't apologize to the well" by Alexa Luborsky, in #TheMargins.👔🌖

https://aaww.org/i-didnt-apologize-to-the-well/

"I stand unheeded, imaginary, / indistinguishable from air."

Read our first #PoetryTuesday piece of the new year, "A Korean Woman Walks Into a Bar in Chicago" by Sara Verstynen, in #TheMargins. 💎🌬️

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"Aren't all governments/ made up by men of/ might?"

Read two new poems by Rona Luo, "How To Evaluate A Family Genealogy" and "Men of Might", in #TheMargins' #PoetryTuesday column. 🐋🌲

https://aaww.org/two-poems-by-rona-luo/

"your hate unstoppers my spirit. it drifts above my head like a / chandelier."

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "street smart sunshine" by Michelle Chen, in #TheMargins. 🐝⛅

https://aaww.org/street-smart-sunshine/

The Long Revolution With me, there is always a high horse you can dangle your feet from.

"With me, there is always a high horse you can dangle/ your feet from." 🌊

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday poem, "The Long Revolution" by Bella Zhou, in #TheMargins. 🍃

https://aaww.org/the-long-revolution/

kestane kebap how must it feel for my mother, watching?

"our mother tells us:
once there was an autumn. once there was a spring.
once i was a young woman in a big city"

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "kestane kebap" by Z. Yasmin Waheed, in #TheMargins. 🌃🍁

https://aaww.org/kestane-kebap/

"She spoke of the war years./ Discovering the ways a body could rewrite itself after/ its becoming."

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "1947" by Amrita Chand, in #TheMargins. 🌾🌙

https://aaww.org/1947-poem/

“Where are you from?” I repeat, there is no leaving in the afterlife

"There is no living in the/ afterlife, grammar corrects me." 🕊️

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Where are you from?" by Tran Tran, in #TheMargins.

🌟 https://aaww.org/where-are-you-from/

Two Poems by Kimberly Nguyen “dodging the bullet” and “google search: do abusers know they are abusive”

“in my girlhood, there was no love without sacrifice.”

Read two new poems from Kimberly Nguyen in our #PoetryTuesday column, “dodging the bullet” and “google search: do abusers know they are abusive.” 💌💔

⭐ more in #TheMargins: https://aaww.org/two-poems-by-kimberly-nguyen/

Aubade with American Dream you are only a persimmon strandedon a rowboat sinking, ocean slipping solemn against your wrinkled skin.

"In the dream where you are still alive, you keep reincarnating:"

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Aubade with American Dream" by Ela Kini (@elakini.bsky.social), in #TheMargins. ☁️

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Safety Pin Safety is a body with a place to hide in.

"Safety is a body with/ a place to hide in."

Read "Safety Pin" by Luisa A. Igloria (@thepoetslizard.bsky.social), new in our #PoetryTuesday column in #TheMargins. 🧷

aaww.org/safety-pin/

For our first #poetrytuesday of October, we’d like to share the poem “Octobering” by Aruni N. Wijesinghe. We hope it invokes the same memories for you as it did for us, and that it gets you excited for the coming events this fall.

winter sunlight
an old spider-web strand
from pine branch to branch
Haiku from Land Shapes by Sherry Weaver with illustrations by Sylvia Van Strijthem tinyurl.com/y8fs9db9 #poetry #PoetryTuesday

With these crows for hands, I caress a flower The body of wings breeds a body of wings

"I know something about the nation from the way/ it resembles a body that could split another body."

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "With these crows for hands, I caress a flower" by Yunkyo Moon-Kim, in #TheMargins. 🐦‍⬛🌷

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Birth Country Changeling, mythical animal, delighting in the chase

"Today I long for your sand-white shore, the crash of tides against my skin, my body floating on your salt-crusted surface." 🌊

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, “Birth Country” by Nghiem Tran, in #TheMargins.

aaww.org/birth-country/

This #poetrytuesday we bring you Margarita Pintado Burgos’s poem, “Raining, Outlined,” from her collection Ojo en Celo / Eye in Heat (The University of Arizona Press). Please enjoy the elegance of its prayer-like repetition. Now that fall is here, we’ll be sending out our own affirmations of rain!

A Bollywood Story Even that night father refused to play the hero.

"He couldn’t even pretend to live her fantasy, and I see it slipping past her every day."

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "A Bollywood Story" by Gauri Awasthi, in #TheMargins. 🧊

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This #poetrytuesday we are sharing Melinda Palacio’s poem, “Laughter,” from her collection How Fire is a Story, Waiting (Tia Chucha Press). We hope its power and mysticism encourage you to reflect on the ancestors you come from.

This #poetrytuesday we’d like to lull you into a soothing sense of calm and wonder with Chris Santiago’s poem “Tula,” from his collection Tula (Milkweed Editions). Together we can dream of better worlds and make them our reality, too.

therapy exercise // tension tell me why the image of tree bark makes you cry

"imagine setting down your burden
of questions & past harms. resting. basking."

New in #TheMargins' #PoetryTuesday column, read "therapy exercise // tension" by Genevieve Hartman. ⛅🍀

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This #poetrytuesday we are featuring the poem “The Words I’ve Lost” by Adolofo Guzman-Lopez, from his recent collection California Southern: writing from the road, 1992-2025 (HINCHA Press). What kind of language do you hold dear?

This #poetrytuesday, please enjoy Jen Cheng’s poem, “For the immigrant social worker who left her barrio,” from her collection Braided Spaces (Wokelicious).

Stay tuned for our upcoming fall programs, where Jen Cheng may just be making an appearance! 👀

This #poetrytuesday we’re sharing S.A. Griffin’s poem “What If I Were a Tree and I Knew the Carpenters Were Coming for Me?” from his collection Pandemic Soul Music (Punk Hostage Press). We hope it inspires you to reconnect with our natural world this summer while the weather remains temperate!