Anthology Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action EDITED BY ANNE WALDMAN & LISA BIRMAN
And I made an amazing discovery. When you go searching for your identity. When you write about yourself and your struggle. When you begin a journey of identity for liberation, you find yourself and others who have been vanished too or who have hidden their eyes from themselves.
Sonia Sanchez
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This. Again and again. No one has written the heart like @appletwigli.bsky.social— her words are foundational for me, as a writer, a human, and a mother. Always.
Statues and legs
Some of you are still afraid of angry women — and that brings me great joy. Hark, my heart is swole and pinkened with joy when I imagine your fear. It's almost spring! Life buds and beckons!
ode to that little recharge hug toddlers give you after they fall but are totally ok
I can’t wait to read this. It sounds wonderful.
“You say you’re not going to make the same mistakes your parents made. But I didn’t realize how many other mistakes were available.”
– Sharon Olds
The poems in this book are so deft, so layered, so beautiful. You won't be able to get them out of your head, and you won't want to. I know that I'll be returning to @akwenstrup.bsky.social's work again and again. It's brilliant! Get yourself a copy, pronto!
Cool to see the print edition of the starred review from Kirkus for my essay collection, The Body Is A Temporary Gathering Place.
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/the-...
I’ve been working my way through the NYTimes cookie recipes for my creative writing class. Last one was birthday cake blondies.
“The trouble is that once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There’s no innocence. Either way, you’re accountable.”
- Arundhati Roy
my book came out when the lockdowns started. I barely promoted it. Then when the protests began I continued to stay silent. I felt small and insignificant and unworthy. I’ve since heard several people say they needed my poems. Please. Don’t keep your art from those who need it. Especially not now.
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Han VanderHart : Three poems / @hanvanderhart.bsky.social ;
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/02/han-...
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Next Letters of Recommendation please!!
184 THE BEGINNING OF THE ROAD Night was paper and we were ink: - "Did you draw a face, or a stone?" -"Did you draw a face, or a stone?" I did not answer nor did she. Our love our silence-has no inroads like our love—no road leads to it.
Night was paper and we were
ink:
- Adonis, “the beginning of the road” (translated by Khaled Mattawa)
A beautiful young couple
187 THE BEGINNING OF ENCOUNTER A man and a woman, reeds entangle them, reeds and moans. Rain and dust meet,- heaps of rubble collapse, and from the language of ash, a spark. Where is the oncoming cloud, where is the book of sorrow? I ask— Your eyes are bewilderment and your face hears no questions. Lam the end of night I love so that I begin. And I say, they met a man and a woman a man and a woman ...
THE BEGINNING OF SEX II A room balconies the remains of wounds a body breaking apart- sicep between one loss and another Our bloods spin their dialogue and our labyrinths are words darkness
Adonis (or Ali Ahmad Said Esber) and Khalida Said, Beirut 1956.
And two poems by Adonis translate by Khaled Mattawa.
I’m really sorry. ❤️🤗
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Wow! Congrats! I love that journal.
All a poem is is an emotionally disturbing structure made of words.
-- X.J. Kennedy
Brightest news today so far. Hugging you @mitchnobis.bsky.social in my mind.
Gosh it would be cool to have you zoom into my HS creative writing class sometime.
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Oh I love this! I’m going to share this with my high school poetry club!!
A lot of folks have great resources circulating—adding ours to the mix. Here's ACLU of Virginia's Know Your Rights / What To Do If Stopped By Police or ICE, translated in English, Spanish, French, Dari & Pashto, plus Va. immigration legal services orgs & contact info: www.acluva.org/en/know-your...
I got Ann Patchett’s annotated Bel Canto for Christmas & I wish there were more books w author annotations!! It’s her own handwritten notes looking back at the book 30 years later or so. I love that she still writes things like “Ack! This is terrible” or “too many adverbs” in between “lovely.”
Helloooo… this site is weird like I’m a ghost. Hellooooooo?
A photograph of 3 men walking in Sarajevo with a swarm of pigeons lifting all around them obscuring their faces.
Sarajevo, 2005
