Sasha Pimentel

author #ForWantofWater winner of the National Poetry Series @NPSPoetry @BeaconPressBks @NEAarts Assoc Prof @utep #BilingualMFA @POETSorg #PoemADay March Editor

[Sasha Pimentel @SashaRPimentel]

Today I carry in my 💙 #Pinay sister Luisa A. Igloria's @ThePoetsLizard wisdom: "stay the trigger, the heart to register / its trembling".

"Custody" too can shift from restraint to "guardianship, // keeping, care."

Hers is a sung abundance of verse & heart.

@ODU_MFA @siupress

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

"I also thought about the word custody itself, and how its meanings casually shift from the idea of protection or care, to that of legal restraint and imprisonment."

—Luisa A. Igloria
@ThePoetsLizard
#AboutThisPoem

https://t.co/E6AlK6aOW1

[Sasha Pimentel @SashaRPimentel]

Oh my gosh, this is so kind, thank you @MsAubeELA and students...

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

Read today's #PoemADay: "Custody" by Luisa A. Igloria
@ThePoetsLizard

https://t.co/E6AlK6aOW1

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

Listen to Luisa A. Igloria read "Custody"
@ThePoetsLizard
#PoemADay

https://t.co/fD6Xqmom8J

[Sasha Pimentel @SashaRPimentel]

"[ ] died alone . . . [ ] died in the afternoon" @mariahdbosch writes in "Obituary Generator." Even w/o their names, she does not forget them. Through the elegy, we reclaim the daily ways of those we've lost who have lived--who have lived. @FresnoStateMFA @Laureate_lab

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

Read today's #PoemADay: "Obituary Generator" by Mariah Bosch
@mariahdbosch

https://t.co/pgVOJC3291

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

Listen to Don Mee Choi read "Berlin: 28.6.2019"
#PoemADay
@DonMeeChoi

https://t.co/GNS0gFpY4P

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

Dear (again)
I regret to inform you

I am

here

—Camisha L. Jones

https://t.co/0Gn3yAQUXX

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

When did my heart

become a boat, this desert the moving
chart of my palm? And when did pain invert

the sky to glaucous sea, each home on each hill
rocking?

—Sasha Pimentel

https://t.co/GFKJH2leGu

[Sasha Pimentel @SashaRPimentel]

@mariahdbosch @POETSorg Thank you so much, @mariahdbosch for keeping, in your verse, our peoples' lights.

[Sasha Pimentel @SashaRPimentel]

@DonMeeChoi @POETSorg Dear @DonMeeChoi, it is us who should thank you for your sight, your music, and your words. I am so grateful to you.

[Ina Darling @ina_carino]

Hi hallo...! Excited to announce this! Thank you to @AliceJamesBooks for the warm welcome!! 🧡✨

[Christine Ahn @christineahn]

The roots of anti-Asian violence stems from the long history of US wars and militarism in Asia and Pacific. When you can drop thousands of bombs and splatter napalm and agent orange on millions of Asian lives, that dehumanization will come home to roost. https://t.co/O71JNFqeWO

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

"The view triggered for me a sense of overlapping time and place, including my father’s memory of the Korean War, which first appeared in my book Hardly War."

—Don Mee Choi
@DonMeeChoi
#AboutThisPoem

https://t.co/Nkie2hWg6d

[Women Cross DMZ is @womencrossdmz.bsky.social @WomenCrossDMZ]

With the recent killing of six Asian women in Atlanta and the rise of anti-Asian violence across the country, we feel it is important to point out that anti-Asian violence (esp against women) is partly rooted in the long history of violence waged through US imperialism in Asia.

[Sasha Pimentel @SashaRPimentel]

"in Seoul, three days after the war had begun, my father washed his face and looked up at the stars" the extraordinary @DonMeeChoi imagines, in a poem of "endless barbed" wires "across the waist" of nations. How we rend geographies, people. @nationalbook @WavePoetry @DAAD_Artists

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

The incessant chirping of the sparrows perched on tall birch trees outside my balcony only heightened my grief.

—Don Mee Choi
@DonMeeChoi
#PoemADay

https://t.co/Nkie2hEFeF

[Sasha Pimentel @SashaRPimentel]

May our women rest in peace & power.

Delaina Ashley Yaun
Paul Andre Michels
Xiaojie Tan
Daoyou Feng
Julie Park
Hyeon Jeong Park
& the 2 women whose names whose names have not yet been released

#StopAAPIHate. In solidarity with our Black, Indigenous, and brown siblings of color.

[Sasha Pimentel @SashaRPimentel]

We do not ask for your violence. Our bodies are ours, and not a danger: not for your fantasy, not for your brutality, and not for erasure.

May our women rest in peace and power.

#StopAAPIHate

[Dr. Diamond Forde @PoemsAndCake]

I don't know who needs to hear this but white supremacy is not just a Southern problem.

[Phil @ifyouwereafo]

I was walking around Virginia State & the President of the school just embarrassed me..😭🏀

[Literary Hub @lithub]

"I left the convent in 1991 when I was about to turn forty, the same decade of life as Bishop’s when she partnered with Lota. I, too, felt the world shift under my feet." https://t.co/hVjXu7fwqE