Leslie Sainz

you’re the only exception, sweetie

this is me trying to spice up this dull app

there is a direct correlation between how many selfies someone posts to promote their forthcoming book and how little I want to read their forthcoming book

I am gonna post my APR review of Jason Koo’s latest, but I want to make something clear first. I will never ever participate in circle jerk literary culture. it’s anti-intellectual for friends to write about how great their friends are and call it a review.

it was a delight to review poetry apps for this year’s NEA fellowships. congrats to this impressive bunch! 💐

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my campaign platform is that I believe the world will heal itself once granta reopens for poetry subs

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thank you for this thoughtful review! cheers to quiet radicalism 🤍

Have You Been Long Enough at Table (@lesannsai.bsky.social) is a multifaceted, in-depth engagement with history, lineage & memory. There is a quiet radicalness in witnessing all the complications and choosing oneself: “I stopped anticipating needs and set the table for one.” @tinhouse.bsky.social 2/

i love the yearly countdown...but i also recognize that it can happen offline, as the work does

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

Wittgenstein

Adjacency, or, Words for Pain From the age of nine, I started to be not where I was from, where people shout in the streets, where the accent is flat, flet, plat, as the place. The more educated I became the more I sounded like…

"A soft, internal machine becomes softly blank, receding, not. Into the vast space of not enters pain."

From the essay "Adjacency, or, Words for Pain" by Gabeba Baderoon, new in our winter issue (45.4) and now available to read online.

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I swallow my subtweets like air

A screenshot of the cover of New England Review’s latest issue. To the left is the list of contributors. To the right is a photograph of a convenience store selling Asian products; a gray-haired man wearing a white tank top, shorts, and sandals, sits reading in the doorway.

It’s always a thrill to get contributor’s copies in the mail, especially when the story’s new home is as cool as @newenglandreview.bsky.social. Many thanks to Carolyn Kuebler, @lesannsai.bsky.social, and the rest of the team, for saying yes to that bit of darkness.
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An appetizer to start off my (your) morning. Poem by Leslie Sainz from the Fall-Winter 2023 volume of american poets (poets.org). #poetry

this conversation is scripture

hopelessly in love with the cover of our winter issue

Jessica Treadway NER managing editor Leslie Sainz talks with author Jessica Treadway about distillation, first-person narration, conscious and unconscious influences, and her short story “Tribute” from …

In a new Behind the Byline interview, NER managing editor Leslie Sainz (@lesannsai.bsky.social) talks with author Jessica Treadway about distillation, first-person narration, conscious and unconscious influences, and her short story "Tribute" from issue 45.3.

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Announcing our 2024 Pushcart Prize nominations:

Congratulations to Imad Rahman, Laura Schmitt (@schmittpod.bsky.social), Daniel Borzutzky, Fay Dillof, Ben Miller, & Kyle Minor!

"Poetry comes out of nothing. Read the nothing."
—Renee Gladman, CALAMITIES

sean singer

which poets are doing delightful and ghastly things with the villanelle?

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i've really set myself up for this

we of little faith

now that we're all mostly here can we please start circulating better poems

Only a few more weeks until we publish ✨Have You Been Long Enough at Table, the debut poetry collection by @lesannsai.bsky.social !

Check out the praise this collection has already received!

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Love seeing both

⚡ Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine

and

⚡ Have You Been Long Enough at Table by @lesannsai.bsky.social

on Lambda Literary's list of the 💛 Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books for September!

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MAS Latinx writers to follow!!
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