Hear @rmennies.bsky.social read from The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021) on Episode 73: (Of the Sapphic Epistolary Tradition, Braiding Your Work With Others’, and Having It Out With Melancholy) here: share.transistor.fm/s/6b0120b3

Of letters between women, of Plath and Sexton, of the organizing principle of the seasons, of the purity of what we read (and teach), of mental health & documenting medications & radical texts on women’s sexuality & health & more. Episode 73: Rachel Mennies is now live! 🎙️📚💙 @rmennies.bsky.social

17. Earl Grey Lavender & The Naomi Letters by Rachel Mennies (@rmennies.bsky.social) from @boa-editions.bsky.social

✍️ AGNI at #AWP25 ✍️ 👉 Reviews editor & assistant poetry editor @rmennies.bsky.social — The Personal Is Always Political — 1:45pm — buff.ly/v0aau6E 👉 Assistant poetry editor @izineh.bsky.social — The Politics of Imagining: Poetry as Social Practice — 3:20pm — buff.ly/bmrIBrz

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

anyone know if/how today’s freeze announcement will/could affect NEA disbursements for recently awarded grants?

the chicago rat hole is now a small cheval

You can't understand what the 2000s were really like without realising that the official release Paris Hilton sextape opens with a tribute to the victims of 9/11

Racism! Check out the relationship between the integration of higher education and the decision to increase tuition and cut state support for colleges. Public goods were only good when serving a specific version of the public.

heyo what poetry books are you buying this year for your buds? your family? the “non-poetry-readers” in your circles? this is one of my most beloved self-assigned tasks each holiday season & I want to know your favorite possibilities

All my life, I have measured my days by the gestures of a beloved. —Rachel Mennies, from The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021)

This last long year has put everything we know and rely on under pressure. As the literary world starts to gather in solidarity, we at AGNI wish to thank our community for its generous support—it has steadied and heartened us.

If you love and miss Rachel Mennies @rmennies.bsky.social oh do we have good things in store for you at @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social 🎙️📚 💙 #poetry #podcast

Gaza Funds features a new fundraiser every time you reload the page: gazafunds.com

wow the parade this year was crazy

I’ve found a lot of amazing community with JFREJ — their activism for Palestine, their social justice work more broadly, and especially their families/little kids programming in NYC — and if you become a member rn you can get this VERY good tshirt shop.jfrej.org/products/dia...

who is the audience for AI-generated literature? novels, poetry, nonfiction? who is actually *asking* for this? (I don’t mean the stuff that writes your work emails or meal plans, also ethically nightmarish but I can at least picture a human being wanting such a thing—even if we shouldn’t)

Have you heard? We've got a brand new prize on the horizon: aprweb.org/news/2024/10...

This is actually poets

trying to imagine explaining all of this to 2007 Rachel applying to graduate school from her dorm room senior year, the trusty reliable normal MFA blog open on her laptop

everyone say hi to @agnimagazine.bsky.social !! add us to all yr lit mag lists !!

AGNI Magazine is on Blue Sky! I love these lines from Paisley Rekdal's poem, "My Brother": "I want a brother to walk with me now through these woods, to stare with me into Death’s eyes, those glassy, winking flames." Read the full poem here: agnionline.bu.edu/poetry/my-br...

what an attempt at a passive voice

love it here but still longing for the Weird. is the Weird coming? is it in the room with us and I just don’t have the tools to find it yet? show me the way weirdos

moaning “yes chef” as i eat an egg mcmuffin in my car

Traci Brimhall

Jenny George is one of my favorite poets. Her books are fantastic, and this poem is fantastic. poems.com/poem/eurydice/

"I admit to it. I have loved you publicly and I have loved you alone, and while the loves touch, they are not the same"

Twitter isn’t a place, it’s a tool, one that’s being shaped by the person who owns it to specifically boost his ideology among users for his own personal gain. There comes a point where using it, by design, can only benefit him

your last meme saved is your moral philosophy

I've got a new poem from the new-book-in-process live at Copper Nickel -- copper-nickel.org/practice-ele...

will be reposting things I don’t even like but see as necessary for developing the culture here. like introducing wolves to a new environment

have thought ~ weekly since lockdown about going to pastry school. this is good and healthy and normal

Feeling deeply tired, but going to call my senators (again!) and express support for the Joint Resolution of Disapproval, against arming Israel in the ongoing genocide www.congress.gov/bill/118th-c...

For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free Another world is possible if we fight for it www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...

one of my favorite things we’ve run at AGNI of late — a must-read

Rachel Mennies on Emily Moon-Slate’s “Be Where You Are” newsletter

Today longing for you feels like pressing a foot into untouched snow. It contorts the face as weeping does, or an idea suddenly arrived. It lives on the page where I know it will find you. from “The Naomi Letters,” Rachel Mennies #poetry

how I have missed you, little box of letters!!!!!!