"For those encountering the Saami family, the experience often feels like entering a shared memory space."
In our latest #OpenCity piece, Sadaf Padder traces how the vocal tradition of #khayal is finding new life in NYC through the #SaamiBrothers. 💨🍵
https://t.co/FFpo3GD3Qb
"what transpired back and forth/ between her resigned chin and his optimistic gaze in that/ moment"
Read two poems by Preeti Vangani (@Pscripturient) from her collection Fifty Mothers, out last month from @RiverRiverBooks, shared in #TheMargins. ✨🚞
https://t.co/fRv9KbozpU
"[Cha] was interested in deep, long scales of human time. "
In belated honor of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's birthday (March 4, 1951), revisit "Dictee's Pictures," by Spencer Lee-Lenfield, in #TheMargins. 🖼️⚖️
https://t.co/M25qjUVoyR
"the rock salt was not afraid of being sea-run" 🪨
Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Ars Poetica: Poetry as Lot’s Wife Who Looked Back at the Burning Cities" by Ammara Younas (@_ammarayounas), in #TheMargins. 🌕
https://t.co/4I3VsTMFWj
It is a small thing to write about being a daughter of the refugee diaspora at such a grim time. But then I think, my family didn’t cross oceans just for me to remain silent. Thank you @aaww for amplifying our stories.
Can the reject condition be elevated into art? Spencer Quong considers this in his review of Tony Tulathimutte's story collection, "Rejection".
🌟 Read new criticism in #TheMargins at https://t.co/hspkPPDV3B
"the most dangerous emergency at sea is fire"
Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Give Me Rough Seas" by Seema Jilani (@SeemaJilani), in #TheMargins. 🌊🔥
https://t.co/Cmxib4FhSY
"I’d still leave slices of bitter melon behind in my bowl, but the aunties/ would overlook it."
Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece by Jia-Rui Cook (@funjiable), whose debut poetry collection just won the 2025 Philip Levine Prize, in #TheMargins! 🥳 🦪
https://t.co/iCKxFDviwv
"Tongue tamer, lip purser, performance is/ what you were born for."
Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Ode to ប" by April Lim, in #TheMargins. 💨🐀
https://t.co/gBtqrTHhWT
"Forgetfulness is a type of ingratitude,/ Remembrance a form of prayer."
Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Write in Blood" by @YahiaLababidi, in #TheMargins. 🧪📿
https://t.co/9fCNEnOF2n
"Grief never leaves / the way the body holding it does."
Read today's #PoetryTuesday piece, "I didn't apologize to the well" by Alexa Luborsky (@thebigluborsky), in #TheMargins.👔🌖
https://t.co/5ChsfqVVjI
"I stand unheeded, imaginary, / indistinguishable from air."
Read our first #PoetryTuesday piece of the new year, "A Korean Woman Walks Into a Bar in Chicago" by Sara Verstynen, in #TheMargins. 💎🌬️
https://t.co/BXU4JpRjLw
"Aren't all governments/ made up by men of/ might?"
Read two new poems by Rona Luo, "How To Evaluate A Family Genealogy" and "Men of Might", in #TheMargins' #PoetryTuesday column. 🐋🌲
https://t.co/44Im9W4Sh3
"your hate unstoppers my spirit. it drifts above my head like a / chandelier."
Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "street smart sunshine" by Michelle Chen, in #TheMargins. 🐝⛅
https://t.co/eCnj6nBQyb
"With me, there is always a high horse you can dangle/ your feet from." 🌊
Read this week's #PoetryTuesday poem, "The Long Revolution" by Bella Zhou, in #TheMargins. 🍃
https://t.co/ZKXuXN7CJ7