em setzer🏺

poet/translator @ Cornell MFA '25

[em setzer🏺 @EmSetzer]

new poems in one of my fav lit mags!

[BULLSHIT LIT @bullshitlit]

"Man, I'm like Jackie O. / Man, my body's like a wet blade. / Man, I can make it quick."

from 'Siren Song,' one of four awesome poems by Em Setzer [@EmSetzer], up now on the Bullshit site.

read 'em all!

https://t.co/BUQXB6YV45

[em setzer🏺 @EmSetzer]

new lynchian poem out today in @strangehorizons !! 🐇🤖🫀 https://t.co/zeMR16Pbt4

[em setzer🏺 @EmSetzer]

special shoutout to @mattb9_matt with whom I watched 76% (that’s 169) of these movies

[em setzer🏺 @EmSetzer]

commemorating my biggest achievement of 2024 🙂‍↕️🍿

[em setzer🏺 @EmSetzer]

My new translation of an Andreas Embirikos poem for Epoch - check out the rest of the article, too!! https://t.co/b8uJ28eOrA

[Roger Boylan @BoylanRoger]

Vladimir Nabokov looking for butterflies.

[Nissehatt @hekwoys]

“So there’s no vowel elision before words like εἴκοσι or ἄναξ?”
“That’s right Joe. There’s a digamma there, beautiful letter, like a W, it stops that horrible elision, nasty business. Those awful Athenians, they can’t pronounce it, but Homer could, it affects the meter.”

[matty matt @noetic_emetic]

just figured out 😳😳 “j.d.” in j.d. vance is short for jacques derrida

[ACE @ACEducation]

We published a full-page open letter in The New York Times to the two presidential candidates, reminding them that Higher Education Builds America. #HigherEd #HigherEdBuildsAmerica
https://t.co/EFjKkZJgKI

[Isi Breen @isaiah_bb]

Astounding how the IDF has killed more UN employees than Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram, and JNIM combined.

[Rinky Dink Press @rinkydinkpress]

Last week for submissions, so here's a sample from one of our latest zines by @EmSetzer

For guidelines or to order our latest series:
https://t.co/zpC0G4njn0

#poetrycommunity #WritingCommmunity

[em setzer🏺 @EmSetzer]

“Inflame the heart, the liver, the spirit of Gorgonia with love and desire for Sophia”

My translation of an Ancient Greek lesbian love spell (SM 1.42) is live! Shoutout Lesbiantiquity, the anthology I am so lucky to be a part of. Read it here:

https://t.co/imqh7OOunY

[Hana Widerman @HanaWiderman]

Two micro poems posted this morning in @theoffingmag
Thank you so much to @ashakijackson and @sagareej

[Pigeon Post @pigeonpostcafe]

Around the world, birds deliver the mail! 🐦✉️

[Taylor (is living and posting elsewhere!) @taylor_thefox]

O that my voice / were a knife,

Donika Kelly, Bestiary. 🐚

[Andrew Guttenberg @guttenbirder22]

Who else is really digging this new album??

[Matthew Bettencourt @mattb9_matt]

I had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with @alexandra_chang to talk making stories, modes of being, and her new collection, Tomb Sweeping. You can check out the whole interview right now over at the Epoch Lit Mag website (like, right now): https://t.co/osNphb4rB9

[em setzer🏺 @EmSetzer]

@freetobeChi @kan_writersside Congrats Chi! 🎉📕🥳

[steven duong @boneless_koi]

best poem of all time. it's by maureen n. mclane. i tattooed OK FERN on my thigh a few years ago and i need to touch it up soon. :)

[em setzer🏺 @EmSetzer]

@mag_gabbert of course, thank you for writing your poetry!!

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My review of SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS by @mag_gabbert is up! It was my favorite poetry collection of 2023 - what a joy to get to spend time with it for Epoch 🦪🐂🌊🦇

https://t.co/AViFGDGGcK