The Tender Between

A poetry book and a fumbling into social media...Eve Luckring

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

I have asthma

My wife has cancer

Covid is surging globally

I am traveling through LGA and DCA, where people are congregating from all over the world

So I’m wearing a mask.
🤷🏽‍♂️😷
#whyImask

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

This church took 632 years to build — what inspired it?

Heinrich Heine explained: "Men in those days had convictions; we moderns have opinions. And it needs more than opinions to build a Gothic cathedral."

And it was built to keep something extraordinary inside... (thread) 🧵

[The Tender Between @tenderbetween]

🎉🎉🎉👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[Susan L. Leary @susanlleary]

Oh my goodness! My little book, DRESSING THE BEAR, was reviewed in @PublishersWkly! What an absolute dream! Thanks to @triohousepress for uplifting your authors left and right! I am so lucky! Friends, check out the review if you can!!! 💙🙏⬇️

https://t.co/CmxZwKIMLw

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer—he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave.” —E. B. White https://t.co/w3n6LK0MgL

[Regina Rosenfeld @ReginaRosenfeld]

Langston Hughes:

[The Tender Between @tenderbetween]

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[After Dinner Conversation @AfterDinnerCon]

"Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."

~Kurt Vonnegut

[flowchartfoundation @flowchartfdn]

We could see it coming from forever,

then it was simply here, parallel

to the day’s walking. By then it was we

who had disappeared, into the tunnel of a book.

—John Ashbery (from WHERE SHALL I WANDER)
#AshberyWednesday

[Karen Elizabeth Bishop @ke_bishop]

The gorgeous latest issue of Lana Turner. Do purchase if you haven't yet, it's just a stunner. Many thanks to Cal Bedient and David Lau for including "lark, antigone."

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

“Is my ear the shape of a question?”

Riveting estrangement in this poem by Emily Skillings.

[Ben Niespodziany ☁️🐋 @neonpajamas]

Bob Hicok

[The Tender Between @tenderbetween]

@hmvanderhart @susanlleary @chanda_feldman Congratulations!!! 🥳Look forward to sitting down with it

[Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh]

“I think of the innocent lives / Of people in novels who know they’ll die / But not that the novel will end. How different they are / From us.”

On what would have been Mark Strand’s 90th birthday.

[flowchartfoundation @flowchartfdn]

COMING UP
Saturday, April 20 · 6 - 8pm⁠
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Join us for this in-person, reading of John Ashbery's deliriously joyous, 2019 poem Girls on the Run, paired with images from Henry Darger's visionary epic, In the Realms of the Unreal.

Register: https://t.co/XQbNDNQHxC

[Damien Kempf @DamienKempf]

Everything is fine

[The Tender Between @tenderbetween]

A great description of a gorgeous collection!

[Vikki C. @VWC_Writes]

Delicate ecopoetics flow in tandem with our introspective search for reclamation. A movement towards a "body of water", both healing and coruscant with stories of places quietly abandoned in kind.

Today's reading is @TomSnarsky's beautiful 'Reclaimed Water'.

#WritingCommunity

[lydia says JOY BANGLA!!!🌟🇧🇩🍉 @lydia_abedeen]

So honored to have this poem up in @strangehorizons !!!! Big love to @thevanessajae for selecting this little poem so near and dear to my heart❤️‍🔥🌟 you can read the poem here: https://t.co/gov07dCuXl

[The Tender Between @tenderbetween]

Looking forward to this!!!

[Tom Snarsky @TomSnarsky]

I am so excited to be able to share the news that I have a new book coming out from @PressAnimal in 2025! it’s called A Letter From The Mountain & Other Poems and I can’t wait to share it with you :) ⛰️

[burt berman @bbu]

Otto Piene Nachtsonne (The Moon Upon Which It Depends), 1964

[henri @henreading]

Anselm Kiefer’s solar eclipse :