PLEASE SHARE! I am raising funds for a dear friend and member of the literary as well as arts communities. $5 and $10 goes a long way! Reshares even further! We are just $800 from our goal and my hope is bluesky can take us the rest of the way. 💛💛💛 chuffed.org/project/1299...

mark yakich —

so into this painting of a bath today

we should be spelling everything this way

i miss rilke

Deadline soon!

look at this absolute unit.

here is my new poem in The Paris Review, about a toilet www.theparisreview.org/poetry/8360/...

this is the funniest thing in the world to me though

obsessed with this painting by Hélène Delmaire, which inspired this ekphrastic poem from We Contain Landscapes. it’s a sonnet that breaks off, with fewer syllables at the last line, bc the speaker is crying. how to surrender to grief while refusing to be subsumed by it? WCL is forthcoming in March 🌀

"Lilting" from my book Tenderness

Join poets, publishers & readers from around the world for 24hr Global Reading for Freedom of Expression & in Solidarity with Palestine & Lebanon Fri. 29 Nov From 5pm EET / 3pm UK Live stream: m.youtube.com/watch?v=RxJN...

okay here it is: a big thread of small businesses & artists who sell beautiful things. if I can vouch personally for quality (from previous orders) I will include that. I'll try to include shop location, too. if you want to buy presents that are original AND non-corporate, here you go!

Applications for our 2025 Margins and Open City Fellowships are NOW OPEN to NYC tristate area-based Asian American & Asian diasporic writers through December 15! ✨ Share this with the writers in your community! Learn more and apply at aaww.org/fellowships.

Shout out to buildings for keeping us dry when it’s raining!

Here’s the new edition of my poetry collection 100 Chinese Silences, recently reissued by the wonderful open-access publisher punctum books. Order the paperback or download the free e-book here: punctumbooks.com/titles/100-c...

this M.A. Vizsolyi poem has haunted me for years, never more than now

In non fraud news- Alaa basically forced me to video call her even though she has plenty of other documentation (including an insta that predated the war and tons of unique photos) so I could see her adorable twins who waved at me while the quadcopter flew overhead

a zine of beautiful illustrations i just bought

Good evening yall, we will be posting upcoming workshops and ways to plug in soon but for now please turn your attention to the Refaat Alareer camp run by the Sameer Project! It’s proving much needed medical and mental health care for those in GZ: tinyurl.com/sameerproject-central

Line Drawing/Grid/Text(ile), Variation, Layered Print on Hahnemühle Textured Paper

Kim Chong-sam belonged to a generation of poets who came of age during the Korean War. Unlike some of his contemporaries who were drawn to cutting-edge poetic forms and maximalism, Kim Chong-sam was drawn to silence, and his poems were characterized by absences and excisions.

some of my 35mm photos from the underground bookstore in nanjing

I'm not big on happy / motivational poems, but I do love poems that point toward unseen sources of light. I need that right now, more light. Anyway, I'll be sharing some over the next few days/weeks, if that's appealing. To start, here's "Everything Lies in All Directions" by @huaxi.bsky.social 🌿

circle all the eggs

a new poem published in the yale review..

i wish a little bird would come in through my window

made a batch of these postcard sized prints! available for $4 each ✨

@huaxi.bsky.social's interview w/ John West is live on @anmlymag.bsky.social! "John West’s Lessons and Carols is a book of experimental and genre-defying fragments that chronicle the author’s relationship to addiction, beauty, faith, literature and his new daughter." -Hua Xi tinyurl.com/JohnWestInt

thank you, @huaxi.bsky.social for this interview with @anmlymag.bsky.social. It was, as always, a blast talking to you! medium.com/anomalyblog/...

they cancelled her exhibition, but samia halaby's work is beautiful and meaningful and deserves to be shared www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/a...

fruity pebble cookies

i'm really interested in the history of paper lately

today, Devin Kelly’s Ordinary Plots newsletter (a highlight of my Sundays!) is on the opening poem from Light-Up Swan (@ornithopterpress.bsky.social)—Devin is an incredibly careful & thoughtful reader, & I’m so grateful he turned his eye & ear to this poem! ordinaryplots.substack.com/p/tom-snarsk...

sad to see that nothing was addressed in the final column, a section that ran for nearly a decade deserves more than a non-statement..

i nominate peaches by jack black to win the oscars best original song of my heart 🫶

my favorite poem by niina pollari

aracelis girmay on student protests in the Stanford Daily

in lieu of form emailing your representatives about a ceasefire, you can also consider writing and sending physical mail. send one to the district office and one to the DC office

If you are a BIPOC writer with any inclination toward submitting a novella, novel, short story collection, or comic with a speculative environmental focus, I am happy to chat about your submission via email ([email protected]) and, whenever possible, extend deadlines. 3/5

this library was wild

all the translations of james joyce's dubliners from all over the world

Friday in Dublin - Poems Made by Walking Workshop! i hope to see you, rsvp here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/forms-and-features-workshop-tickets-737845665247

if youre in dublin, pls say hi

I'm really looking forward to being back in the Bay Area next week, reading with @huaxi.bsky.social and @sarahali.bsky.social and then doing the Writers-at-Work reading series at Cal Poly. If you're around, please come say hi ❤️

'In her final tweet, written in Arabic on October 8, the author wrote: “Gaza’s night is dark apart from the glow of rockets, quiet apart from the sound of the bombs, terrifying apart from the comfort of prayer, black apart from the light of the martyrs. Good night, Gaza.”'

A beautiful reminder from Mahmoud Darwish "Think of Others" #poetry