Top Tweets for #PlaceIssue
“This is the language my father uses: I was waiting to be discovered.” —in the 2021 #PlaceIssue, @vanessid pays tribute to the musical genius of her father, Gilberto “Beto” Villarreal, while critiquing the systems that failed to recognize it: https://t.co/w5g5WgjnWb
“We might ride out the coming flood / before sunlight returns or we’ve softened / to moss, if we split these reeds down their length.”
—@ThePoetsLizard meditates on patterns of nature & change in “Caulbearer,” from the #PlaceIssue.
https://t.co/VHTqq7idJ6
Art by: Sofia Hager
“At one point he tells me, ‘I can close my eyes and draw a map of every creek, every river around.’ And in that moment he flashes his widest grin.”
—@Max_Uf in “Oysters on the May,” featured in the #PlaceIssue.
https://t.co/g2lw7OJFdb
Art by: Katlego Tlabela
“everything’s findable, even now, they say (parallel, ascending), but / that’s not true; not true.”
—@CPhillipsPoet in his poem “Blue-winged Warbler” from the #PlaceIssue. Read the full piece below.
https://t.co/NAUAJ3jgZw
Art by: Bernard Hermant
“The problem of growing old at a young age is that, just when you think you have seen it all, you can be blind to the things you really need to see.”
—Reflections from @gayrodcon in “Mirror House,” featured in the #PlaceIssue.
Art by: Howard Finster
https://t.co/BMSO8zhTE3
“His crown of bones, his genius-heavy head, / he’s Jesus—he can see it—hosed in light, / the world on fire. Conspiracy, he said.”
—Read @emily_skaja’s poem “If Anyone Should Fight to Breathe” in the #PlaceIssue below. Photo: Library of Congress.
https://t.co/O6QtMNzSoV
We can’t get enough of Dinorá Justice’s #PlaceIssue cover artwork! That’s why, for a limited time only, we’re offering our first-ever fine art print. Add this piece to your OA collection as a print or classic poster!
Print: https://t.co/Xf9arQP0Hn
Poster: https://t.co/F5PcMBG99V
Don't miss @Vanessid's recent piece, featured in the #PlaceIssue! https://t.co/supOC1fq5d https://t.co/fEBcMX00Xf
RT @Longreads: "You might think from my tone that this is a sad story. And maybe it is, but it is also a tribute to an unseen life, a long…
“There used to be a barrier between the two sides of the cemetery. Even though it was taken down, the bodies still lie exactly where they did before. Separate and color coded.”
—@isfinch1 in “Walls,” in the #PlaceIssue, #Issue113. Art by: Jon Henry.
https://t.co/pzhVc4jrfE
“Though I have never been one to believe in ghosts, I have always believed in stories.”
—@AnjaliEnjeti uncovers local legends in “The Haunting of Lake Lanier,” from our #PlaceIssue. Read the full essay below.
Art by: Wesley Allsbrook
https://t.co/LQqgZcrWr4
“The real river was large, untouchable. But the model river shrank it down to my size, brought it within reach.”
—Martha Park contemplates the Lower Mississippi River in graphic essay “Cast in Concrete,” featured in #Issue113, the #PlaceIssue.
https://t.co/KrIuTXfydy
Have you ordered your #PlaceIssue yet? Do you love Dinorá Justice's cover art as much as we do? Check back next week for an exciting new surprise—and order your copy of #Issue113 today!
https://t.co/fL1AEPCqCI
“To be truly of the South is to recognize there are many Souths.”
—@danielleamir’s first editor’s letter, “How Beautiful My Land Is,” opens our #PlaceIssue at the link below. #Issue113 is available now online and in stores!
Art by: Chris Jackson.
https://t.co/qQzYerdw7o
Happy Pub Day to @MartyPadgett, whose book A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta's Gay Revolution is out now! We had the honor of publishing his essay on the subject last summer, which you can read here: https://t.co/JMkMlDji9H
#LGBTQ+ #Pride #PlaceIssue
Time to reveal our Summer 2021 #PlaceIssue cover! Featuring cover art by Dinorá Justice, the issue examines how sense of place intersects with issues of identity using lenses of music, art, history, and the natural world. Pre-order your copy today! https://t.co/aUC137o0e2
Congratulations to Halle Hill, whose debut short story collection will be published by our friends at @HubCityPress! Her story “Bitch Baby” was our debut fiction selection in last year’s #PlaceIssue
Art: “Crown” (2017), by Devan Shimoyama
https://t.co/En1kb7q9iN
Happy Pub Day to @Wralpheubanks, whose book A Place Like Mississippi comes out today! To celebrate, we’re revisiting his essay “The Dimming Mystique of Mileston” in last year’s #PlaceIssue.
Art by @rorydoylephoto
https://t.co/fibxxgkYlv
“A cautionary diagram with the drag strip down at the bottom like a sump, the place you never want to go? What gathers there, of course, is fearful. Fundamental.”
—From “Yellowbelly,” by David Searcy. Photo by Camilo Ramirez. #PlaceIssue
https://t.co/nk8Y3iH5qR
“My sons don’t believe me when I say there was ever a time they couldn’t pronounce the word orange.”
—@aimeenez shares the sweetness of her parents’ fruit trees in “Cara Cara Oranges.” Full piece at the link below. Photo by Roe Ethridge #PlaceIssue https://t.co/DIvYYfJuxs
“Landlocked, she imagined the Pacific’s cursive blue waves / as she read letters of submarine gossip.”
—@blairhobbs shapes and reshapes water in “A Ghazal for My Mother.” Read the full piece below. Photo by Lily Brooks #PlaceIssue https://t.co/x6bqxHGPke
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