"what transpired back and forth/ between her resigned chin and his optimistic gaze in that/ moment"

Read two poems by Preeti Vangani from her collection Fifty Mothers, out last month from @RiverRiverBooks, shared in #TheMargins. ✨🚞

https://aaww.org/two-poems-by-preeti-vangani/

Dictee’s Pictures  What the mysterious images of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s seminal work might tell us about her life.

"[Cha] was interested in deep, long scales of human time. "

In belated honor of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's birthday (March 4, 1951), revisit "Dictee's Pictures," by Spencer Lee-Lenfield, in #TheMargins. 🖼️⚖️

https://aaww.org/dictees-pictures/

"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. 🌕🪨

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The Rejection Trap On Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection

Can the reject condition be elevated into art? Spencer Quong considers this in his review of Tony Tulathimutte's story collection, Rejection.

🌟 Read new criticism in #TheMargins at https://aaww.org/the-rejection-trap/

"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/

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/

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/

Osipon Six pieces from the Philippines’ Bikol region

We're so excited to be presented OSIPON, the newest folio from #TheMargins! Featuring poetry, fiction, and literary criticism, Osipon is a folio of six pieces from the Bikol region of the Philippines. 🇵🇭

READ THE FOLIO ❤️‍🔥 https://aaww.org/tlp-osipon/

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/

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/

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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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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Reconnecting with the Sea, Reconnecting with My People Of my two birth tongues, why had only one made the crossing?

"The Bajau think of homeland in terms of water, not land." 🌊

In a new multimedia essay in #TheMargins' translation column,
Judi Mae "JM" Huck considers Sama, a language spoken in the Southern Philippines, its indigenous culture, and childhood lullabies. 🎶🐟

aaww.org/reconnecting...

Nobody talks about the irises, so I give them to myself I remember you, small one, uncertain origin, lost home

"Little deer in the meadow of the night, night was the name/ of your first friend"

Read this week's PoetryTuesday piece, "Nobody talks about the irises, so I give them to myself" by Rasha Abdulhadi, in #TheMargins. 🐍🪻

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Searching for Shigeko Kubota The avant-garde video artist created autobiographical work that dares you to look closer.

"Life was to be scrupulously documented, an archive to be mined for art."

@terrynguyen.bsky.social examines avant-garde video artist #ShigekoKubota & her autobiographical work. Read more from "Searching for Shigeko Kubota" in #TheMargins. 📹🖼️

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The landscape of your heartbeats, more than 1,000 beats per minute I uncurl at the sight of you.

"I am a hummingbird tongue, tucked to the back/ of my own skull."

Read today's #PoetryTuesday piece, "The landscape of your heartbeats, more than 1,000 beats per minute" by @betsyaoki.bsky.social, in #TheMargins. 🐝

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Two Poems by Rajiv Mohabir “Serenade” and “बहार / Spring”

"Take my pearl/ for now, a moon for my Moon." 🌙

Read two poems, “Serenade” and “बहार / Spring,” by @rajivmohabir.bsky.social in #TheMargins' newest folio, MEHFIL, a celebration of playfulness and performance across queer South Asian diaspora.

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IN MY DREAMS, WE UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER dark matter shows us the shadow selves of trees and perhaps my own as well

"then he tells me Not to worry, there is no right place to live, just that you live in the right now" ☁️

Read today's #PoetryTuesday piece, "IN MY DREAMS, WE UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER" by Tiffany Tai, in #TheMargins.

aaww.org/in-my-dreams/

T4T we shudder red

"hungry / we paw each other good"

Read Aishvarya Arora’s poem, “T4T,” in MEHFIL, the latest folio in #TheMargins edited by Rajat Dayal Singh, with art by Jasjyot Singh Hans. 🌈

aaww.org/t4t/