Katie Mansfield

viet-am she/her | (poe)trying my best with the occasional dash of prose | latest in 68to05

[Katie Mansfield @mansfieldnotes]

I have an essay out today! Major thanks to my mentor @KGoodMarable for being such a champion of this piece & encouraging me to let it live somewhere beyond the recesses of my Google docs

[Hanif Abdurraqib @NifMuhammad]

I know I've been saying it every week as of late, but I'll keep saying it as long as it's true

This latest run of 68to05 essays has been incredible. To add to the choir this week, @mansfieldnotes on Belinda Carlisle's 1987 album HEAVEN ON EARTH:

https://t.co/D6KQ4IYto5

[matthew leger @lightumbreIla]

been waiting a while to share a personal favorite of mine, "Grove Elegy," published in the lovely @electricpinkmag ‼️⚡️
https://t.co/U4aiWFUQr2

[ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag]

"diario verano | chronicle", Jonathan Chan 💙

[Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem]

“I might as well hire back the angel who quit me”

— Chris Forhan

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This poem appeared in Forgive Us Our Happiness by Chris Forhan, published by Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, 1999. Shared here with deep gratitude.

[Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem]

“I want to shut / this machine down”

— Nicholas Bon (@1000000horses)

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This poem appeared in Protean Magazine, 2019. Shared here with deep gratitude.

[aiman @dumbsoftheart]

happy may to the poets & lovers

[ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag]

Dean Young❤️

[ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag]

Index of Discarded First Lines

[Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson]

“They told me there’d be pain.” A poem by Elizabeth Arnold.

[Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem]

“we’ve plunged into war / and wars don’t stop like rain stops”

— Hettie Jones

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This poem appeared in Doing 70 by Hettie Jones, published by Hanging Loose Press, 2007. Shared here with deep gratitude.

[free 🇵🇸 @tdmybeloved]

HAPPY 17776 DAY!!!!!

[anna (In Play, Chad(s)) @rockmeannadeus]

i think human society remaining crystallized for all eternity in 17,776 is obviously a complicated theme but this bit becomes more salient with each year that passes

[anna (In Play, Chad(s)) @rockmeannadeus]

i'm gonna do my yearly reread and you should too. it helps

[ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag]

Finally, a sin worth hurting for.

[aiman @dumbsoftheart]

it’s a pity / only loss / proves this

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

like a metal heart

—Schuyler

[aiman @dumbsoftheart]

javeria hasnain

[Satya Dash @satya043]

Jennifer Chang.🌩️

[aiman @dumbsoftheart]

donika kelly —

[Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem]

“when you put your hand / on my thigh it was like i knew for the first time / why god gave us thighs. why god gave us hands.” — José Olivarez
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This poem appeared in Promises of Golds by José Olivarez, published by Henry Holt and Company, 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.

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—Natalie Shapero