Bethany Dixon

I heard there'd be Sappho fragments at this party.

[Bethany Dixon @TheModernCirce]

very grateful for this surprise of a lovely note.

you can listen here - https://t.co/wHsLkuZ2cs

[Jenny Reddish @JennyReddish]

@TheModernCirce came here to say I loved your podcast episode of the Crane Bag! Gorgeous.

[Bethany Dixon @TheModernCirce]

@JennyReddish Oh my goodness! I took some time away from Twitter (accidentally) and missed this beautiful note, thank you, thank you!!

[Bethany Dixon @TheModernCirce]

@samccart1 And I fell in love with that idea enough to start studying Ancient Greek, not realizing until too late what total chaos could ensue from that possibility of artistic grammar 😂

[Bethany Dixon @TheModernCirce]

@samccart1 I just have to say that I love this thread very much, and a classics student once told me about a version of the Diana/Artemis myth where the names of her nymphs were clustered around her name in the printed text the way the nymphs clustered around her character in the myth

[Bethany Dixon @TheModernCirce]

@EmilyRCWilson @emily_skaja @MaryNorrisTNY @MillerMadeline you shouldn’t @ the muse and yet I can’t help it (thank you for your words)

[Bethany Dixon @TheModernCirce]

A November Sunday seems as good a time as any to say: if you’d like to hear me wax poetic about resonance and myth and grief, and also laugh like a slightly deranged opera singer, please have a listen: https://t.co/im93LweZxj

[Bethany Dixon @TheModernCirce]

Thank you to @MarshaTaichman for telling me that my dream publication might in fact exist. This is why librarians = permanent swoons.

[Bethany Dixon @TheModernCirce]

@jbaileyhutch Yes please! This is my dream and I’ve been working on poem-recipes. You can find my cakes here, which hopefully are tiny poems themselves. https://t.co/tPFsr5fHjX

[Bethany Dixon @TheModernCirce]

I have a poem, "Field, February" in the spring issue of @NorthAmerReview. So grateful to have it in print and so grateful to the world for inspiring and asking for my full and rapt attention.

[Bethany Dixon @TheModernCirce]

I have a poem, "Sibyl's Leaves," in the first volume of Tempered Runes. Available in print or online, and you can read the PDF version for free (just click on the red "read now" banner on the image). You can find Sibyl, and the Fates, on page 29!

https://t.co/OMPHfo9lp1

[Bethany Dixon @TheModernCirce]

Whose grief do I hold in my hands

it is a dark animal shape

asleep on my chest, a stone

worn smooth by worry, it is softer

than the velvet wing –

your mouth on my face

https://t.co/ugwg9rPp3E A new poem up at @forwomenwhoroar.

[Bethany Dixon @TheModernCirce]

@NorthAmerReview Thank you, so much!

[Bethany Dixon @TheModernCirce]

Over the moon to see this brambling poem up at @NorthAmerReview. Swan dive into it with me.

[North American Review @NorthAmerReview]

"If I am scratched by this harvest, / let me wear the memory across my cheek" Find a bit of refuge today in Bethany Dixon's "Smultronställe" https://t.co/pvSV1AV6dt

[Bethany Dixon @TheModernCirce]

If you do nothing else today please read this set of luminous Tsvetaeva translations by @ilya_poet and Jean Valentine. And then read the translator's notes. And then, order the book.

https://t.co/EMsXrKPcoJ

[Bethany Dixon @TheModernCirce]

You will sit down to a clean table filled with glasses of water. Friends will be everywhere. It will be your turn to give flowers. You will kiss your true love quietly.

from the wonderful @poetastrologers

[Bethany Dixon @TheModernCirce]

How it’s easier

if we become more like a body of air, branches, and make room
for this red charging thing that barrels through us,

how afterward our leaves shake and stand straighter.

- from "Sway," Ada Limón to Natalie Diaz

[Bethany Dixon @TheModernCirce]

Five writings that have never left my side in the last year:

"Circe," @MillerMadeline
"The Odyssey," translated by @EmilyRCWilson
"Brute," by @emily_skaja
"Envelopes of Air," @NatalieGDiaz and @adalimon
"If Not, Winter," translated by Anne Carson

#ReadWomenPEN @pen_int

[Bethany Dixon @TheModernCirce]

Let the broad listening silence which sweeps across all of your life, underneath, before and inside it be what remains
uncuttable and necessary, what holds together
even what you cut from your life. Or have just this silence.

-Tryfon Tolides

[Bethany Dixon @TheModernCirce]

@stynnelahl 😂😂

[Kate Manne @kate_manne]

This. https://t.co/xmuSiX0qhY