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[aaww-nyc.bsky.social @aaww]

"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

[aaww-nyc.bsky.social @aaww]

"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

[aaww-nyc.bsky.social @aaww]

"[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

[aaww-nyc.bsky.social @aaww]

"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

[Seema Jilani @SeemaJilani]

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.

[aaww-nyc.bsky.social @aaww]

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

[aaww-nyc.bsky.social @aaww]

"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

[aaww-nyc.bsky.social @aaww]

"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

[aaww-nyc.bsky.social @aaww]

"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

[Yahia Lababidi @YahiaLababidi]

#Poetry is what happens to prose at boiling point 🔥

https://t.co/XYftSf0mRp @aaww

[Yahia Lababidi @YahiaLababidi]

Thank you, very much for sharing my new aphorisms 🙏🏼

[aaww-nyc.bsky.social @aaww]

"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

[aaww-nyc.bsky.social @aaww]

"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

[aaww-nyc.bsky.social @aaww]

"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

[aaww-nyc.bsky.social @aaww]

"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

[aaww-nyc.bsky.social @aaww]

"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

[aaww-nyc.bsky.social @aaww]

"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