Celinda Olive

Poet/fiction author, believer, #OCDSurvivor, clumsy steward of beauty. Currently drafting WIP for dark fantasy manuscript ✨ C Art: R Mersh

[Celinda Olive @celindaolwrite]

A lifelong dream fulfilled: having a little book of poems out there in the wild. For anyone struggling, may it be a pinprick of solace. #depression #poetry #chapbook

https://t.co/zKREr3401w

[Celinda Olive @celindaolwrite]

@shemaiahng I read this during the MFA program and ended up sobbing the whole night.

https://t.co/75rmfj02pf

[Moniza Hossain @moniza_hossain]

Me surveying the horror that is the first draft of my novel

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

A.R. Ammons:

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

🤍

[Alyssa Matesic @AlyssaMatesic]

From AI controversies to BookTok's enduring influence to scandals in the online writing community, publishing took us on a rollercoaster ride in 2024.

What's next?

Here are my best guesses for what we’ll see in the book publishing industry in 2025: 🧵

[Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem]

“If the day clouds over, / go on anyway / regardless.”

— Ko Un

[Regina Rosenfeld @ReginaRosenfeld]

Adam Zagajewski (translated by Clare Cavanagh):

[Carla Sarett @cjsarett]

Li-Young Lee, “Restless”

you can’t love except by remembering

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

"At the end of my suffering
there was a door."

The Wild Iris • Louise Glück

[Celinda Olive @celindaolwrite]

@FawnPoet Not me already scanning my first draft for this 😭🤣🤡

[RobertAllenPoet @RobertAllenPoet]

Thomas Transtromer

[Celinda Olive @celindaolwrite]

@AmitMajmudar All too true 😭

[Patrick Dexter @patrickdextervc]

The Wexford Carol, one of the oldest surviving Christmas carols. Thought to have been written in Ireland in the 12th century but the melody may be much older, originally sung to celebrate the winter solstice. Happy solstice from the west of Ireland

[Celinda Olive @celindaolwrite]

@shemaiahng This sounds wonderful, Shemaiah 🤍

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

I love the phrase "the negative of night."

Mark Strand:

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

🧥:

[Steven Searcy @ithinkiamsteven]

Christian Wiman, dazzling in the centennial issue of @commonwealmag

[Makoto Fujimura @iamfujimura]

It's been close to 20 years since I wrote this statement.