Theta Pavis

Associate Director, Strategic Communications, NJIT. Former Vice President, College Media Association @collegemedia

[Theta Pavis @ThetaPavis]

Pre-sales are live now for my first poetry collection.

[Finishing Line Press @FLPress]

FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: The Red Strobe by Theta Pavis
On SALE:   https://t.co/YgStGmRbB3

This fierce book unfolds in a landscape marked with #loss. Its sparse, direct, and gorgeous language celebrates #survival, #daughters, #mothers, #sisters, and the whiplash of #girlhood. The Red Strobe bears witness to the labor of #caretaking and #love.

Theta Pavis is a writer and educator. Her writing has appeared in The Journal of New Jersey Poets, The Red Wheelbarrow, Mom Egg Review,Spillwords Press, Why to These Rocks: 50 Years of Poetry from the Community of Writers (HeyDay Books), and many others. Her poems have been performed onstage by Poetry Well in New York. She works in university communications and lives in Jersey City, NJ.

PRAISE FOR The Red Strobe by Theta Pavis

“Theta Pavis’ unflinching and luminous poems explore the nature of family, the impact of childhood trauma, and the heart of loss. Intimate, startlingly alert, and punctuated by perfect imagery, her work chronicles the near miracle of personal transcendence with musicality, grace, and deft intelligence.”
 –Catherine Doty, author of Wonderama

“In The Red Strobe, both searingly honest poems and ruminations are woven together where, as the reader, “Your job is to love the scars” of the speaker’s experiences. With a keen and well-adjusted eye, Pavis takes you by the hand across different moments of her past and present to illustrate how we’re made up of memories and decisions or better yet, how these sinews of our lineage create us.”
–Dimitri Reyes, author of Papi Pichón

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[Theta Pavis @ThetaPavis]

@MissLizBerry I will be 58 when my first chapbook comes out next year. Spent most of my career as a journalist and media consultant/freelancer and sometimes journalism professor.

[D.A. Bullock @BullyCreative]

TaNehisi Coates with the most clear, to the point description of what I can only hope will be the accounting for my entire life's work. - The essence of why narrative is everything, and especially for Black folks, culture is politics in every way shape and form.

[Radheyan Simonpillai @JustSayRad]

Glad Ta-Nehisi Coates got to have a normal and healthy conversation about what remains a horrifying situation. https://t.co/3NWfPUI2in

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

Today's Poetry Thread: CHILDHOOD

Today's poem is from Louise Glück's ARARAT (@eccobooks, 1990). Feel free to add poems that hold the wounds & wonders of childhood.

[🍑 @PEACHYBLACKG0RL]

we really living in the the most difficult section of someone’s AP gov exam in 2053

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

Brilliant @VChangPoet:

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

Since poetry has been largely neglected on a certain List of Best Books of the 21st century, let's do a thread of books of poetry that changed you, or saved you, or just did for you what true books can do, even when they're not best sellers. 🕯

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

People tend to think of classics as being “boring,” but we wouldn’t keep reading them for hundreds of years if we didn’t love them.

Let me introduce you to some FUN classics:

[Theta Pavis @ThetaPavis]

@CaseyNewton OMG please have Joanna Stern do a podcast on shopping for backpacks for women!!!

[Bethany Jarmul @BethanyJarmul]

13 tips to SAVE TIME when submitting to literary magazines. 🧵

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

A Brief Introduction to Neo-Gothic Architecture:

(sort of)

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

Called it! - classic Facebook move on Thxgiving eve. Unsealed nearly every redaction 233 pages in 40+ state AGs lawsuit alleging FB knowingly harmed children's mental health with addiction for profit. Email me, I'll send to you. Yellow = newly unsealed. 20 tweet summary here. /1

[Saeed Jones @theferocity]

Anne Boyer has resigned as the poetry editor of the New York Times magazine: “Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes all artists have left is to refuse. So I refuse.”

[Theta Pavis @ThetaPavis]

This AI Moment tonight with @sree #sreeai

[Theta Pavis @ThetaPavis]

@Angels2014 The sound on the first floor was great: the sound of you were in the balcony area was garbage

[Nicholas Katzban @NicholasKatzban]

I went to the Fugees/Lauryn Hill show in Newark last night and she came out looking like Sun Ra.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

While trying to recapture his runaway chickens in the 1960s, a Turkish homeowner stumbled through the wall, revealing an abandoned underground Turkish city, now known as Derinkuyu,

Derinkuyu is the largest excavated underground city globally, burrowed more than 280 feet beneath the Central Anatolian region of Cappadocia. It is believed to connect to over 200 smaller underground cities discovered in recent decades.

Inside, researchers found 18 levels of tunnels containing various facilities like dwellings, food storage, stables, schools, wineries, and a chapel. The city also had a ventilation system to provide fresh air and water.

Its exact construction date is uncertain, but ancient writings dating back to 370 BC mention its existence. The city served as a storage place originally but later transformed into a secure bunker to escape from invaders, designed with narrow, low hallways and blocked doors with movable boulders from the inside.

While the architects remain a mystery, it is thought that the Hittites and later the Phrygians contributed to its construction. Derinkuyu reached its peak population of 20,000 during the 7th-century Islamic raids on the Christian Byzantine Empire.

After two millennia of use, the city was abandoned in 1923 by the Cappadocian Greeks, who fled to Greece after the Greco-Turkish war. Today, Derinkuyu is a UNESCO World Heritage site and welcomes curious visitors keen on experiencing life underground.