Sandra Simonds

hahah Sam you cray

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and you think this man would be unhappy, but def not the case.

because my dad was married 5 times, literally nothing has ever felt shocking when it comes to marriage & divorce

thanks so much 🙌

btw: I read Assia last fall and it's great!

haha

sean singer’s today in the taxi is a good poetry example

my fan base is like 22 year old former Bennington students

hey poetry mag congrats

sometimes I read these stories and my only thought is love with fuck you up 😭

ohhhhh let me think

back to work
or the coffee shop

google press and there should be instructions 😊😊😊

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friend was telling me about his depression and i was like i’m sure i am depressed but never let myself feel it & he was like that is basically not being depressed. fair. was always incredibly defiant. should i change?

i have already outlived a number of old lovers…does poetry self-select for the destructive?

how am i still friends w every poet in my phd cohort trauma bonds are strong

so does this make me a ho or alternately does it mean i have dementia or worse both? A ho w/ dementia.

and this is pretty much the only story in my head about this person.

I was thinking about this time I was talking to a man and halfway through the conversation I realized I had made out with him years before

ya 😊

why are early modern / Renaissance scholars always so much smarter than us?

i’m reading at the dali museum & yes def going to show my collages because art

🙏💕🙏💕 you too—are you going to awp?

ya to quote TS 😃

It’s been a
long
six months

Like, this is the opposite of AI or fuzzy writing. It's such a nice balm.

Prelude to a Porcupine Sandra Simonds Red text on beige with green silhouette of porcupine.

Loved this poetry collection by Sandra Simonds, Prelude to a Porcupine. Highly recommended. Sharp, funny, insightful. A live wire, an alive mind.

“you like adventure?”
sounds like an accusation