Saakshi Patel

🎓@TWSSFU @MAPoetryQUB @HeaneyCentre | 🏆@chairofpoetry @centavepub | 📝poems @ArlenHouse @HonestUlsterman @canadianpoets @DedalusPress

[Saakshi Patel @saaker007]

so fun to read my new poems at The Writer's Studio Reading Series at Container Brewing 🍻 an amazingly supportive and responsive audience ❤️thank you! @TWSSFU

[Saakshi Patel @saaker007]

my first words were not "mama" or "dada" but "hi there"

[Saakshi Patel @saaker007]

really fun to read at the poetry open mic at Enabling Arts in Vancouver 🌱💚 thank you for lending us your space!

[Saakshi Patel @saaker007]

almost always homesick in some way

[Saakshi Patel @saaker007]

revisiting this today

https://t.co/zgTexXlCbh

[Saakshi Patel @saaker007]

poems don't have to all be serious and heavy, i will write a sestina on an onion if i want to

[Saakshi Patel @saaker007]

my talented friend Shannon Kuta Kelly wrote a poetry book!!!💛🩵🧡
https://t.co/kgI1XEjy2d

[love drops @lovedropx]

women in PHLEGM (poetry, history, language, english literature, ghost stories, music)

[Saakshi Patel @saaker007]

@fionamkorourke thank you so much Fiona 🤓🥂

[fionaO.substack.com @fionamkorourke]

Brava, Saakshi @saaker007 on your work finding a good home in the Central Avenue Poetry anthology. Special guest 2023 #NorthernSoulRoadshow 👏

[Saakshi Patel @saaker007]

@CauveryMadhavan thank you! 🤓

[Saakshi Patel @saaker007]

very excited to be a Runner-Up for the Central Avenue Poetry Prize!

the anthology releases April 2nd, available in your local bookstore! (Canada)

[Husam Zomlot @hzomlot]

Three young Palestinian men, Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Ali and Kenan Abdulhamid, students at Brown and other US universities, were shot last night on their way to a family dinner in Burlington, USA. Their crime? Wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh. They are critically injured. And Six weeks ago, 6-year old Palestinian child was stabbed 26 times in a hate crime in Illinois. The hate crimes against Palestinians must stop. Palestinians everywhere need protection.
@POTUS @SecBlinken

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

this poem, again

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the grief

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[Saakshi Patel @saaker007]

@__shivanis__ thanku shivy 🤓🤍

[Saakshi Patel @saaker007]

I've been awarded the Runner-Up position for the first ever Central Avenue Publishing Poetry Prize and I AM SO HAPPY! SO much gratitude🥲🤍

[Saakshi Patel @saaker007]

@NualaNiC @ArlenHouse @publishingwomen @BooksUpstairs thank you so much!! 😍

[Saakshi Patel @saaker007]

i feel so incredibly privileged to have a piece in the wonderful Washing Windows III and wish with all my heart I could be there to do a reading! All my gratitude to @ArlenHouse @NualaNiC @publishingwomen @BooksUpstairs and the amazing women whose words sit beside mine!

[Saakshi Patel @saaker007]

@dilfpickle_ ILY2 THANKS BB 😍