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i just had a nutella cappuccino and now i want all coffee to be just that

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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our life. —Annie Dillard Well, every day is all there is. —Joan Didion

@chenchenwrites.bsky.social spotted in my local bookstore!!! "Explodingly Yours"

I hated childhood I hate adulthood And I love being alive —Mary Ruefle, from “Provenance”

after much consideration, ughhhhhhhhhhh hhh

It is true there is not enough beauty in the world. It is also true that I am not competent to restore it. Neither is there candor, and here I may be of some use. —Louise Glück, from "October"

love being in a bookstore and they suddenly start playing laura palmer’s theme from twin peaks

My therapist tells me that I need to work on holding onto myself. This is my first therapist. I don’t know what she means. I thought that having myself was not supposed to take any effort. —Yanyi, from The Year of Blue Water thinking about this little (vast!) prose poem again

Join @chenchenwrites.bsky.social on Zoom for a special writing workshop! Discover a poetic form using only the letters in your name. We'll explore examples and guide you in creating words and lines. One week from tonight at 7 PM ET! 🎟️ chenchen2025.eventbrite.com?aff=Bsky

Reading poems from When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by @chenchenwrites.bsky.social and feeling so many feels

keep your wonder alive, keep your aliveness alive

the great adventure of living while very very gay

love a crisp fall day with a high of 82°

When someone dies, we go searching for poetry. But I want elegies while I’m still alive... I want ballads, I want ugly, grating sounds, I want repetition, I want white space... and even center-aligned italicized poems that rhyme, and most of all — feelings. —Jenny Zhang

something that can be so tough is Everything

Write into the honey. ... Write into the rain. —Rick Barot

i am meant to be cute at cute cafes, like that’s my destiny, and too much time away makes me despondent, like it makes me fucking wither

eavesdropping on the homosexuals as well as the bisexuals: a craft essay in the form of community gossip

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thinking about luke and lorelai

no i love the temperature love it i just need the sun to keep setting at 8:00pm thanks

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. —Lucille Clifton

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oh! my second book just turned three!! happy third bday, emergency contact!!!

love getting to the "But is this comma right" stage of editing and losing my mind

but i can't remember a thing: a memoir

what a weird week

love teaching this poem by @chenchenwrites.bsky.social so much and cannot wait for students to dive in today!

so important to be hot AND funny AND sad

i love how if just one line is wrong in a poem the whole thing is wrong (currently trying to revise One Line)

i love a long meandering conversation about the heart with a friend. about OUR HEARTS. and outfits

i am not nonchalant about anything, i am so chalant, the chalantest guy who's ever chalanted

ugh there really is Something about late summer. a joy that is a sad at the same time

we need more queer lactose intolerant representation in the arts

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves... the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. —Rilke

sometimes you really do write a whole poem just to give one beautiful phrase a home

wrote 3 poems yesterday??? not sure if any of them are good, but i guess my heart’s been needing some language for things

love it when a poet’s new book genuinely surprises me. like oh i didn’t know you had THAT in your repertoire

had some tiramisu gelato today and now i understand true joy

got to read a favorite poem to some adorable farm friends

i love paperclips. wish i could paperclip my soul to my favorite colors

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last night’s reading on this outdoor stage felt extra special. an amphitheater! i always picture big ones, but this amphitheater was so intimate and perfect for poetry

need to be held for at least 14 hours and then i will be okay

Celan said a poem is a handshake. Tranströmer—a meeting place. But isn't a poem a kind of soup dumpling? Deceptively small, seemingly simple. Containing a juicy secret about existence. Or maybe a poem's a soup dumpling spot, where people meet & shake hands, yes. & slurp together

i love the expression "feeling emotional," which is funny when you really stop to think about it. feeling the feelings of this moment, yes. could be sad, but grateful, too. and in love. but frustrated, also. maybe hangry. failing. but in a triumphant way? i'm feeling emotional

& so to tenderness I add my action. —Aracelis Girmay

i love bagels and i love bagel sandwiches