Top Tweets for #PoetOfTheWeek
I’m not silly, you know, my great-grandfather was an architect back in our city—the other a poet—the other a nuclear physicist
— Our #PoetoftheWeek, leena aboutaleb!
https://t.co/CJfVIS6B95
An archive of final and found and filtered resting places
and finally the pixels and poses and pretend / get ready with
me to survive another day
— Our #PoetoftheWeek, Jesi V. "Rocki" Taylor!
https://t.co/4lhmg2XxY7
We be the namers, the preservers, the luddites of this new dawn.
— Our #PoetoftheWeek, Isabel Cruz!
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I lucid my hands with the responsibility of clay
Make sickle my tongue
Make hammer my language
Make concrete the hammer
Our people the concrete.
— Our #PoetoftheWeek, Dana Ysabel, reads their feature poem, "Demand Nothing Encased in Amber"
https://t.co/IyELdDtZu5
Meanwhile, my father speaks of captivity
live on television, breaking
news in a country fed
on confectioner’s sugar
— Our #PoetoftheWeek, Magdalena Arias Vásquez reads her feature poem, "Triptych"
https://t.co/9u4bFGQeGi
When I was finished, you’d hold me
as I took those 2 steps over the ledge
of the tub, over the edge of intimacy
— Our #PoetoftheWeek, Kayla Schwab (@80smomchic) reads her poem, "Ode to my hip surgery scars"
https://t.co/CDmXqE152U
Still,
when I spot you glistening
and fat on the vine, I want
to weep sticky tears of joy
while I toss you into my mouth.
— Our #PoetoftheWeek, Ally Ang (@TheOceanisGay), reads their featured poem, "Fruit Études"
https://t.co/Fv1djlTTT1
No, not like that. Again—from the start.
Louder now, the maidens cry out
through closed mouths: there is no light
that can reach this chamber.
—Our #PoetoftheWeek, Daniel Yadin
https://t.co/CSaXzickES
Hurricane María smashed our
prefrontal cortices to whistles of dead air
it is mentioned that we are props flung
against a landmarked plot
—Our #PoetoftheWeek, Dorsía Smith Silva (@DSmithSilva) reads her feature poem, "Widows"
https://t.co/eoFmWq1KtC
we were already in mourning
cells bathed in fight or flight
having lost everything to bits
in battlefields of wind-rain clapping
—Our #PoetoftheWeek, Dorsía Smith Silva (@DSmithSilva)
https://t.co/6FiRD3JO46
And you will wonder where the salmon have gone.
And I will respond about the physics of water
and the artistry of land sculpture.
—Our #PoetoftheWeek @heidiseaborn1 reads her feature poem, "Missive to My Father from the Now"
https://t.co/2YpVpgZ2m0
And if you ask how I am, I will tell you—
some days, I watch the sea
as if it’s my child
—Our #PoetoftheWeek, @heidiseaborn1
https://t.co/VwZGXtvadJ
It was a gala, we made ourselves
anonymous with lace masks
and rhinestones. The backdrop was a hurricane
of triplicate tulle.
—#PoetoftheWeek @TaylorByas3 reads her feature poem "Formal"
https://t.co/ahglbmXyv9
I was out
of practice, then, of being gentle after so much
cruelty.
—Our #PoetoftheWeek, @TaylorByas3. Join us for the launch of her latest collection, Resting Bitch Face, this Saturday!
https://t.co/jpzNo3xSfi
Each ghost born from that part of a person that dies
when, creeping through the museum on any Tuesday,
slowly, frame by frame, you find there is no art for you.
—Our #PoetoftheWeek, Rob Macaisa Colgate. Catch him at our Reading Series this Friday 10/3!
https://t.co/TyFEUOKmWU
grief of losing that might never seep out of this cleaving. our
hinge still fears talking about it with me. fears a minefield
I seeded during the war and forgot ...
—#PoetoftheWeek @LiterallyMya reads their feature poem "Poly Abecedarian ☼ ☽ ⟡"
https://t.co/pxfW00ueUJ
He screenshots the poem before clambering
out of the Jeep to aim at the youths throwing stones,
most of which are likely repurposed rubble from bombed buildings
—#PoetoftheWeek @YouKnowFargo reads his feature poem "An American Writes a Poem,"
https://t.co/wUZ7z2Z2vG
the spines of streetlights melt,
scoliotic, into the sidewalks. Soon,
the experts drone, this place will be uninhabitable.
—Our #PoetoftheWeek, Maria Gray. This Weds, 7/30 @ 7 PM, Maria will read on Zoom as a featured reader at our Staff Picks series.
https://t.co/seIJWXadVk
You’ll take my [ voice | story | memory ]
And weave it with others
To create a loosely woven map
—Our #PoetoftheWeek, Rebecca Yeong Ae Mzengi Corey.
https://t.co/uzTLdIwEQ1
And I say, if I am ever less than a mountain
for myself, what could I seek to be for the ones who are coming?
Selfish. We spend our whole lives explaining why we are this way.
—#PoetoftheWeek @ElizabethSpenst reads her feature poem "Poem for Myself"
https://t.co/VUfWLyb8Ix
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