🎟 No Other Choice dir. Park Chan-Wook 2025 📽 - ❗️

Sudden Light Enda Wyley

Tetelestai Eugene O'Connell

Winterfield Ellen Bryan Voigt

SoMa Hieu Minh Nguyen

Roses, Late Summer by Mary Oliver "If I had another life, I would want to spend it all on some unstinting happiness." 🧵🔖 144

Currently reading: ⛩️ Starting Point (H. Miyazaki) 🥿 My Brilliant Friend (E. Ferrante) 🏝 Rock Solid (M. Vitug) 💙📚

Q2 2025 The Devil Finds Work James Baldwin 💙📚 - ⭕️

How Our Bodies Did This Unfamiliar Thing by Malika Booker "My fingers would crush my pay slips, fold fresh notes, slip each between my breast, burying my independence in the folds of my body." 🧵🔖 139

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Q1 2025 The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen 💙📚 - ⭕️

Sleeping in the Forest Mary Oliver

Bowing to the Empress by Mary Oliver "The world is that bright, your senses so sharply tuned by the notion of oblivion--those black wings beating at the light." 🧵🔖 77

From Sunset to Star Rise Christina Rosetti

No Ruined Stone by Shara Mccallum "the farther you journey from them the more distance will maw in you" 🧵🔖

Wild Blessings by Lucille Clifton “sometimes i hear a single music in us, one note dancing us through the singular moving world.” 🧵🔖

Some Questions You Might Ask by Mary Oliver "One question leads to another." 🧵🔖

The Bleeding-heart by Mary Oliver "Most things that are important, have you noticed, lack a certain neatness." 🧵🔖

Ode to Repetition by Ellen Bass "You could despair in the fixed town of your own life." 🧵🔖

Universal Truths by Shira Haus "He got mean around fourteen, then sad." 🧵🔖

Sacred Objects by Ada Limón "I pretend my sunglasses hide my whole body." 🧵🔖

Brujitas by Emma Trelles "But the past is a haunting and the best you can hope from a ghost is a sorrow that won’t kill you." 🧵🔖

The World Has Need of You by Ellen Bass "What if you felt the invisible tug between you and everything?" 🧵🔖

blessing the boats by Lucille Clifton "may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back" 🧵🔖

“Reading Neruda’s “Ode to the Onion” by Ellen Bass “The masters eat everything right up to their death. And then they grab that, too, in their failing fist.” 🧵🔖

The Roses by Mary Oliver. From @readalittlepoem.bsky.social "there is no end, believe me! the inventions of summer, to the happiness your body is willing to bear." 🧵🔖

An excerpt from Claudia Rankin's Citizen: An American Lyric. "The world is wrong." 🧵🔖

Mirror by Sylvia Plath "I am important to her." 🧵🔖

Misty by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer "I can love anyone, anyone, even myself." 🧵🔖

Last Words by Sylvia Plath "I should sugar and preserve my days like fruit!" 🧵🔖

Long Nights by Jenny Xie "Nothing is as far as here." We are the thing through which the past and the future meet.

Inheritance by Diego Báez "I'm already a bystander in the green blaze of her ascendant arc." 🧵🔖

Take the I Out ny Sharon Olds "What if they had loved each other" 🧵🔖

The End of Poetry by Ada Limón "I am asking you to touch me." 🧵🔖

The Gospel of Mary by Mary Jo Bang "I was begging the sky for rapture but all I could see was a break in the clouds." 🧵🔖

‘I have calculated my self worth in the negative’ ‘Hoarfrost’ by @racheldeering.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering

24Dec2024 When the World Ended I Was Thinking About The Forest Glenn Diaz 💙📚 - ⭕️

Aubade with Burning City Ocean Vuong #poetry

Torso of Air Ocean Vuong #poetry

Who should you ask about the best poems of 2024? Poets, of course. And their picks are all available to read online for free.

At night, by marriage Lisa Ciccarello #poetry

Updated Book Rating: ❗️- Essential ⭕️ - Positive ❓️ - Neutral ❌️ - Negative +⬜️ - DNF 💙📚

17Dec2024 The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón 💙📚 - ◻❓

Two: Movement (from Inscriptions) Adrienne Rich #poetry

Sanity Caroline Bird #poetry

16Dec2024 The Other Wind Ursula K. Le Guin 💙📚 - ⭕️

14Dec2024 Tehanu Ursula K. Le Guin 💙📚 - ❗

To See If Something Comes Next Jack Gilbert #poetry