Rachel Mennies

Photograph of a statue’s hand and the poetry lines: All my life, I have measured my days by the gestures of a beloved Rachel Mennies

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

Episode 73: Rachel Mennies (Of the Sapphic Epistolary Tradition, Braiding Your Work With Others’, and Having It Out With Melancholy) Rachel Mennies, author of The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021) Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere Purchase: The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021) Read: “Practice Elegy”…

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

perfect 🥹💙

Earl Grey Lavender & The Naomi Letters by Rachel Mennies

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

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

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.

*worries in editorial staff*

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

The intro to One Night In Paris which is an American flag graphic with the words "in memory of 9/11/01.... We will forget"

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

September 1, 2016 My calendar counts time like this: days Naomi writes days Naomi doesn't write. All my life, I have measured my days by the gestures of a beloved. (I am the book resting where your hand last laid it down. I am the patient dog framed by the open door.) The last man wrote me letters, too. They began Next time—or Someday I'd like to— The one before him would close the blinds as he left. In my bed, he said when we're apart I always imagine you here. I let him touch my stomach, whisper I wish I could stay with you. But a body moves only forward, its course decided. I foat over my body and remember its arms reaching for you. Someday I'll ask them how they knew when to touch you and when to rest. How they knew not to lift me to the door, but to remain.

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.

can’t wait 💙💙💙

Rachel Mennies’ second book of poetry THE NAOMI LETTERS (BOA, 2021) held up in morning light, windows and hardwood behind, philodendron revolution, cat in a cat tree

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 Spotlight Campaign Find vetted fundraisers for Gaza here

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

wow the parade this year was crazy

brought to you by—I just saw a post about some startup promising to release 8,000 books a year? for whomst???? like who is actually sitting down to engage a full-scale creative work written by an LLM with their own human brains

Diasporist T-Shirt - Pre-Order Now This beautiful design was created for JFREJ by the Jewish illustrator Sarah Day.  The term Diasporist, as in someone who practices Diasporism, is an idea that comes originally from the Jewish Social L...

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...

just a dragon planting cabbages and watering them with his tears, you know doing what dragons fucking do [illustrated quite beautifully]

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

I keep the issue out on my desk just so I can gaze at the cover art, it’s so good

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...

A bomb dropped from an Israeli jet hits a building in Beirut An Israeli airstrike on Friday flattened an entire building in a dense neighborhood in the Tayouneh area, a few kilometers from the center of the Lebanese capital of Beirut.

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