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[ominous music intensifying] reviewed in Publishers Weekly. Read it here! 🎵 https://t.co/rblvoHK8NB @PublishersWkly

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“Here I am / trying to give up / and you keep blossoming”

-Joy Ladin, Family (@PerseaBooks) https://t.co/sExU7uHVEr

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MOVED to Zoom and happening now! https://t.co/IU8IzoIN6B

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Join the virtual book launch for @JoyLadin’s double publication today! She’ll read from Once Out of Nature and Family, a book of poems, alongside Joan Larkin. Join here at 7pm EST: https://t.co/HCM41vylvG

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Join the virtual book launch for @JoyLadin’s double publication today! She’ll read from Once Out of Nature and Family, a book of poems, alongside Joan Larkin. Join here at 7pm EST: https://t.co/HCM41vylvG

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Read Raisa Tolchinsky (@raisatolchinsky) on her poem “Solve for Me That Knot” from her new collection Glass Jaw (@perseabooks)

https://t.co/oU9QBV3xBo

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#Preorder coming soon. Corresponding cover artwork by David Orr.

#comingsoon #coverreveal #poems #essays #lgbtqlit #genderlit #transgenderlit #lambdaliterary

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1 author, 2 genres. Persea will publish FAMILY, poems, and ONCE OUT OF NATURE, essays, both by Joy Ladin this September.

“Ladin gives us one of the most startlingly beautiful depictions of mid-life transfeminine transition currently written."—Mitch Kellaway, Lambda Literary

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We couldn't have put it better. Thank you Jubi!

Luckily Chantal Lawrie got photos of Jubi and fellow readers Angel, Raymond, and Francess at the @omiamifestival. ❤️

#napomo #coffeebreak #authorinterview

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Jubi Arriola-Headley closes out our #NationalPoetryMonth interview series. Read his responses, candid and complex, below:

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Q: Name a poet, living or not, whose work you wish people talked about more.
A: I want the living to get their flowers, so: Willie Perdomo, Marlanda Dekine, Alfredo Aguiar, Laura Villareal, Taylor Byas, and dozens more out there poeting with a rapturous spirit.

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Sports 🤝 Poetry

Tune in to "Talking Title IX" to hear @raisatolchinsky talk writing, amateur boxing, gender, and more with host Dr. Ellen Staurowsky.

Listen here: https://t.co/H1WNASbWgG

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Thank *you* for 4,000 followers on Instagram! And over 11,000 across our platforms. We love the independent and small publishing community!

#nationalpoetrymonth #mercibeaucoups

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Q: Name a poet, living or not, whose work you wish people talked about more.
A: Jessica Johnson

Thank you, Sara, for the recs!

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Q: In just one word, describe your #nationalpoetrymonth this year.
A: Eclipsed
Q: What poems have your attention right now?
A: The Most Foreign Country by Alejandra Pizarnik trans. Yvette Siegert and So Tough by Jared Stanley

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Short and sweet responses from Sara Wainscott--and my cats are Spark (black) and Rio (fuzzy)--for our #nationalpoetrymonth micro interviews!

Full text:

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Raisa Tolchinsky's GLASS JAW reviewed in Pleiades Magazine. Gratitude to Katherine James for penning it!

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Q: Name a poet, living or not, whose work you wish people talked about more.
A: I think the poet Chiyuma Elliott is beyond incredible and her work deserves much more attention. Check out AT MOST (Unicorn Press) and BLUE IN THE GREEN (The University of Chicago Press).

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A cup of joe and a brief poetry chat with Kimberly Grey (and her adorable pug) in celebration of National Poetry Month. Full text in the thread!

Q: In just one word, describe your #nationalpoetrymonth this year.

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Q: What poems have your attention right now?
A: Right now I am reading Julietta Singh's lyric essays "No Archive Will Destroy you" and Maggie Millner's amazing "Couplets."