PlusMinusDelta

Sometimes Brooklyn, sometimes mountains. Words @kenyonreview. A biosphere is good for us all. @PeriplusCollect 2021 alum.

[PlusMinusDelta @PlusMinusDelta1]

I started writing this eight years ago, gave up on it repeatedly for fear I might hurt the hospital or my career or that what I had written did not reflect all of the truths that I found there.

(Warning: some stories are unhappy, with no exceptions for the very young)

[Kenyon Review @kenyonreview]

"The so-lu-tion to po-llu-tion is di-lu-tion, more than one surgical resident had told me. I drew up some sterile saline and washed out the wound."

"Between The Seasons Of Meningitis And Malaria"
by Soowhan Lah:

https://t.co/lc9fMR5j9j

[PlusMinusDelta @PlusMinusDelta1]

@ginathechung @ala_apala @JanikaOza @SFdirewolf @dalitdiva Congratulations! 🎊

[PlusMinusDelta @PlusMinusDelta1]

@papiwhathappen Congratulations Jenzo!! 🎉🥳

[Periplus @PeriplusCollect]

TODAY is the last day to apply to be a Periplus Fellow. We mentor in many genres, including longform journalism and poetry (which tend to be underrepresented in applications) and are looking for promising emerging writers of color of all ages/backgrounds!
https://t.co/sbkJNXlYcl

[Periplus @PeriplusCollect]

please share widely including outside of this particular site (but also on it) — deadline is in a week and we currently have just 193 applications for 50-ish spots. That's about a 1 in 4 chance! get on it!

[Evan Ratliff @ev_rat]

If you're just hearing about how @tab_delete and his @StanfordDaily colleagues took on (and now took down) the Stanford president, he had a great conversation with @maxlinsky back in April explaining how he did it:

[PlusMinusDelta @PlusMinusDelta1]

@itskmok @Morgan_J_Talty @papiwhathappen @MassReview 🎉🎉🎉

[PlusMinusDelta @PlusMinusDelta1]

Love this by Brian Phillips:

https://t.co/Mrujz2a0QD

[Sir Jonathan Bate @profbate]

This, by @jorie_graham in @NewYorker interview is as good an answer as you’ll ever get to Heidegger’s question, “What are poets for?”

[PlusMinusDelta @PlusMinusDelta1]

This is so good!

[PlusMinusDelta @PlusMinusDelta1]

@AnesAhmed99 Zain Khalid’s Brother Alive!

[Brian Gresko @briangresko]

“It is good to feed on some bitterness too.”

The final letter from @alexanderchee “What I Learned Editing BAE ‘22” @shipman_agency class was just what I needed this morning. Writers, if you ever see Alex teaching: TAKE THE CLASS. He is one of the best, most gracious teachers

[PlusMinusDelta @PlusMinusDelta1]

So excited for @papiwhathappen on the accomplishment and can’t wait to read these!

[PlusMinusDelta @PlusMinusDelta1]

@papiwhathappen Congratulations!! 🎉

[PlusMinusDelta @PlusMinusDelta1]

Thought someone might be checking me out on the subway but I think she was just enchanted by this book cover. A great read! A dream I did not want to leave.

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

As long as I am living in language, as I like to put it, I count it as writing. This is why reading, for example, is so important—is maybe the most important part of writing. If I'm reading, I'm also at some level taking in language's capacities...

—Carl Phillips, from "Silence"

[PlusMinusDelta @PlusMinusDelta1]

@rabblerouses @TheDenneMichele This is beautiful and illuminating Jonah, thank you so much for sharing, and for being who you are 💕

[Ilya Kaminsky @ilya_poet]

Of all the things keeping me from sleep,
words weigh too much, yet not enough.
Time weighs nothing at all,
but I can’t bear it.

—Li-Young Lee

*
There is too much alphabet
in the hospital rooms of my country, too much, too
much alphabet...

-Lesyk Panasiuk, tr fr Ukrainian

[🔻 @atlajala]

reading Permanent Red, John Berger's brilliant first collection of essays, which, even in the preface, may have my favorite first paragraph I have read in a good while

[CRIT @CRITWorks]

every publisher is going to have a meeting about why this worked and zero will come to the correct conclusion, which is the phrase "bigolas dickolas"
https://t.co/kh625VoDB5

[Greg Gerke / Socrates on the Beach @Greg_Gerke]

This is so good I had to post it. Most meaningful words on someone who still has too much of a pernicious stranglehold on US literary culture–and in 500 words. From Points of Attack by Mark de Silva–a book to have and to hold.