Morning walk

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Zhao Dexun Cr: 【澄怀咫尺】赵德勋

I’ve been taking a workshop this summer with @jsalowe.com and it’s been such joyful work! I’m coming out of this class with so many new poems and I’m thankful for every minute. I’m proud of myself, of this summer, of the work I put in. Here are the full moons that occurred these weeks 🌕

I look at myself and see myself a distance

When the muse wakes you at 4am, you listen.

Fantastic, @scribblermiller.bsky.social ! Congratulations 🍾

Going to see this amazing human today, and it’s going to be profound 💙 #oceanvuong

Nothing is the way you think it is going to be. Take this little flower from me, and let it go into the way you think of it. - Ron Padgett, “American Cowslip”

all i want is more time to read

I wish I could be in two places at once 😭 Please record!

“What if the poem refuses to satiate our expectation of conclusiveness?” Your summer #poetry course is ready! Drop into my #interview with @alinaetc.bsky.social on her latest collection MY HERESIES, replete with syllabus: hypertextmag.com/nothing-less-t…#newbooksk#WritingCommmunityt#amreadingng

“There is no secret to longevity so long as one’s mentality is good.” 110-year old painting by Yan Jiyuan Cr: 中国书画诗词院

The grief. How far-reaching like the desert sun. Writers and editors in the literary landscape have long spun gold from straw and we shall persist. Nevertheless, I want to name the loss of NEA funds that have supported publishers, programs, & writers I work with and benefit from. I’m sorry, friends.

‘I entered into motion because …I was not put here to prove I could endure the terrifying, brutal things humans do to each other. Because there are flowers in bloom that need my attention… Because “one wild and precious life.”’

Be sure to support a fine writer and a fine cause.

& so what––if my feathers are burning. I never asked for flight. Only to feel this fully, this entire, the way snow touches bare skin––& is, suddenly, snow no longer. Ocean Vuong #booksky #poetry Xiyao Wang #art #contemporart #oilpainting

Happening TOMORROW night, Wednesday March 26th! Email me at [email protected] for the Zoom link! This will be an unmissable event of brilliant multilingual writers!

“Eloquence is heard, poetry is overheard. Eloquence supposes an audience; the peculiarity of poetry appears to us to lie in the poet’s utter unconsciousness of a listener. Poetry is feeling confessing itself to itself, in moments of solitude.” - JS Mill

Today is for springtime tea and @alinaetc.bsky.social’s stunning MY HERESIES, coming soon to @hypertextmagazine.bsky.social! #poetry #newbooks #poetrycommunity

My friend Ed Sage and I workshopped this poem of his last year, so I’m thrilled he found a home for it!!! Go Ed! passionfruitreview.com/what-remains... #poetry #poemoftheday

Inanities aside, writing under that lunar eclipse was very lucrative.

@wendychen.bsky.social considers what translating Li Qingzhao taught her about her own work: “There was a seductive magic to the process of translation; it felt like a communion that transcended time and space.”

Pre-orders are up! Pre-orders matter to tiny presses also; we need the money to print the books! Would you join me in a group howl today about this wonderful collection? (And did you see the blurbs so far?) www.atthisarts.com/product/wolf...

Just discovered I was included in this 2024 Hispanic Heritage Month list 🥹 What an honor! Thank you @clmporg.bsky.social ☺️ www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

Also need this

Poets! What advice would you give about your first collection/chapbook? What do you wish you knew then that you know now? #writingcommunity #poetry

Here’s some Gustavo Rimada art to make your Friday a little better.

Poets! What advice would you give about your first collection/chapbook? What do you wish you knew then that you know now? #writingcommunity #poetry

蛇年大吉！Happy Year of the Snake! Credit: 中国书画诗词院 (The Chinese Academy of Calligraphy, Painting and Poetry)

Painting.

I need this on a shirt: www.coloralamexicana.com/store/map-18...

Aria Aber, "Waiting for Your Call" "My phone notes littered with lines like *Beauty will not save you. Or: *mouthwash, yogurt, cilantro.*"

“I feel, in every cell, that word and image are meshed in a symbiotic relationship.” My interview with the indomitable Donna Seaman on her #memoir RIVER OF BOOKS is live! Drop in for our conversation on #libraries, resisting fascism, and more… www.hypertextmag.com/how-books-st... #newbooks

I am exhausted of seeing Emilia Pérez win awards while mocking Mexicans and trans people alike. “[W]ithout embracing either the perspective or experience of trans, queer, and Mexican people, [Audiard] ultimately takes us on a trans-racist touristic journey.” feridemercury.com/2025/01/10/s...

One more … this one in the key of whimsy :) static1.squarespace.com/static/5aea0...

“Ladies Under the Moon” by Fu Baoshi, 1947, at the Wuxi Museum. Credit: 动脉影

Goodnight, Empire. Goodnight, white supremacy. Your veins are dangling from my teeth. —Bhanu Kapil

Pitcher plants and wooly bats... what could be a better match? Dreamy painting by Erica Peebus ‘Nepenthes’ 16x20”, acrylic on canvas, 2022 #beautifulbizarre #contemporaryart #surrealart #bats #nature #artcollectors #artmagazine #artinspo #art

I need this book

@bonniejo.bsky.social’s THE WATERS was named the most immersive book of 2024 by Oprah Daily this past week! Revisit my interview with Bonnie in @hypertextmagazine.bsky.social : www.hypertextmag.com/we-might-sav...

Here’s some Remedios Varo art to make your Thursday a little better. One of my favorite painters.

"Liu Yi's Book of Passage” painted by Dai Honghai in the early 1980s. 《柳毅传书》是画家戴宏海于八十年代初创作 Cr: 中国书画诗词院

Fuck it. I can’t not share the midsong Monk drifting through. “Little shiver, I want to preserve you.” - Dean Young

Chicago folks! It’s Reader voting time—and I’ve had the enormous privilege of having interviewed two of the nominees for Best new poetry collection by a Chicagoan 😏 Congratulations to Diego Báez and @rubenq.bsky.social ! Vote at chicagoreader.com/best-of-chic...

Sent my little corvid submissions off; go, darlings! And return with shiny gifts.

Calling all translators! We're building a Bluesky starter pack for emerging and established translators—so that we can follow each other and be in community together on the World Wide Web. If you want to be included, add yourself to this thread, and share this post far and wide with your networks :)

‘Dusk Clouds’ by Li Xiongcai 《暮云图》黎雄才 Cr: 国画雅集

Loooooved this episode, in particular the conversation about musicality of language and the phenomenon of time.

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