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[блабла @bela6_bela]

Extremely excited for you to read my interview with Ludmilla Petrushevskaya in the Spring issue of the Paris Review.

[joseph @highslip]

You can always tell when a man’s mustache is performative and not representative of his true spirit

[Black Warrior Review @BlackWarriorRev]

We’re honored to announce Suchita Chadha (@sucheetah) as the winner of BWR’s 2024 Nonfiction Contest for her essay, “When Told to Remember,” selected by judge Rajiv Mohabir!

In Suchita’s own words about “When Told to Remember”:

"Caste animates our privileges as savarna diaspora children; yet, it’s surgically removed from us by elders through the mechanics of memory. This essay traces my attempts to question; to learn/unlearn. Collective liberation—for Palestine and elsewhere—demands we take accountability and reroute our privilege to dismantle the violent systems our ancestors built."

“When Told to Remember” will be published in BWR’s upcoming issue (51.2), set to release in early 2025. We’re looking forward to sharing this powerful work with all of you. Congratulations, Suchita!!

~

Suchita is a queer, Indian-born poet based in the Tkaronto region of so-called Canada. She is currently researching The Mahabharata to understand the dissemination of violent ideologies in India and its diaspora across the constellations of gender, caste, class, and climate. She is also interested in how, through trauma, we become exiled from our home / land / bodies.

[Heather Christle @heatherchristle]

Two different covers for the two different places I traveled between while writing this book. I have one fewer rib than when I began. Memoir is hard but preordering is easy!

(US is to the west, UK to the east, just like on earth.)

[Heather Christle @heatherchristle]

UK cover!!! It’s such a thrill to see IN THE RHODODENDRONS get dressed in different clothes for different places. Coming in April from the wonders at @CorsairBooks

[fatimah asghar. @asgharthegrouch]

"The most insidious thing of this moment is the doublespeak around victimhood, around morality, around tragedy." -- Hala Alyan

[Danez @Danez_Smif]

Very Cool Moment: Giving my barber Dede a copy of BLUFF and watching him read his poem 💈🥹

[entrenched @momsmt]

@maslenbode @Amtrak next month they’ll hire McKinsey to do a 6 month study about why ridership is down… six months and $900K later McKinsey will share a power point with fun graphics 💩explaining it’s because the trains are full of shit.

[maslen @maslenbode]

@Bustamove123 @Amtrak thanks for your support, my brother

[maslen @maslenbode]

@thejayestofzees @petroglyphes a micropress makes beautiful handmade chaps

[Sabrina Bustamante @Sabustamante711]

Honored to have my words in @mqr_tweets online!! Wrote about the sacred act of getting dumped and the life-saving potential of a 3 month Keeping Up With The Kardashians binge

https://t.co/VYuHiyFvIY

[maslen @maslenbode]

@tlmn19 mikko is my favorite….. u gotta get his latest book you’d love

[maslen @maslenbode]

@Bustamove123 septum!!

[Writers Against the War on Gaza @wawog_now]

From “I Am You” by Refaat Alareer (2012).

[Fady Joudah @FadyJoudah]

Another insidious and deliberate evil of this genocide is the silence on the impending famine which is irreversible once it sets in. Read and wake up. Hundreds will die daily. No need for bombs then.

https://t.co/8wxjLSojLz

[Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson]

“And how terrific it is” A poem by Lisa Jarnot.

[maslen @maslenbode]

@drewgum @havehadhavehad @martinezfjulian thank you!! :)

[maslen @maslenbode]

💀got my first skull today!!! so excited to have this poem in @havehadhavehad !! thank you @martinezfjulian for selecting ☠️☠️☠️ https://t.co/LJGNGHR9BH

[HAD @havehadhavehad]

fire after fire stanza today @maslenbode

"Eli says John Wick bothered him because of the easy
Killing pure masculine fantasy
I say totally
It was totally disturbing
Like a video game
Though really I love John Wick and don’t have anything critical to say"
https://t.co/Qh8Uw3OIrI