jessica chan

I write! (she/ her)

[jessica chan @awildjesswrites]

Really grateful to have a poem in here 🫶🏻🫶🏻 many thanks to the editors!

[Vincent Alexander @NonsenseIsland]

RIP Marjane Satrapi, the great cartoonist and film director, best known for PERSEPOLIS. She was only 56. A great talent. She will be missed.

[mary oliver’s evil twin @mitenkabutgirl]

every time i read this poem, it knocks the wind out of me. “the only thing?” fuck.

[phillip crymble @phillipcrymble]

Victoria Chang

[jessica chan @awildjesswrites]

Vindication!

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

Let them not say: we did not see it.
We saw.

Let them not say: we did not hear it.
We heard.

Let them not say: they did not taste it.
We ate, we trembled.

—Jane Hirshfield, born #OTD in 1953

https://t.co/KqGJolnuMd

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

love the fresh way the moon is depicted/discussed in this poem by Victoria Chang, “Untitled # 5, 1977”

[Sean Lim @SeanLimMN]

the moon is pro palestine
poem by Summer Farah

illustrated by chanci, as part of spill paint, not oil art collective’s new ‘free art for a free palestine’ series

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

reminder (to you, to me)

[HAD @havehadhavehad]

new @yunghegelian_ today, with some real big and wonderful HAD vibes. think y'all are gonna love this one!

"OK, here’s what I want you to do
right after you get to your gate:

try writing a poem that is just
a list of all the names you remember..."

https://t.co/BTPQ5aNlMl

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

How do you survive even one morning even one day

With no mother to tell you

Time to change

—Kazim Ali

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—Minnie Bruce Pratt

[Regina Rosenfeld @ReginaRosenfeld]

Danez Smith:

"I know something that doesn't die can't be beautiful."

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

Emily Dickinson:

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—RACHEL SHERWOOD

[tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit]

Manuscript responses are forthcoming. In the meantime, enjoy these tiny golden shovels by CX Wang.

[jamie @jmsnftzptrck]

23yo me kind of ate with this one

[The Notorious J.O.V. @whotfisjovana]

ㅤ

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

a good day involves gay poems and gay sex

[jessica chan @awildjesswrites]

yes we are finally reading this two years later

[jessica chan @awildjesswrites]

Not this poem in the Hong Kong poetry anthology literally word for word copying Billy Collins LOL