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[Verse @versedotnet]

We're excited to share our new feature, Chapify, for your chapbook and zine printing needs. All you have to do is upload your text, and it churns out a printable booklet—let us know what you print!

https://t.co/uY8lARFcW9

[Verse @versedotnet]

𝙒𝙀 𝙉𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙍
𝘿𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙈𝙏 𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙎
𝙎𝙐𝙈𝙈𝙀𝙍,

and yet,

lady
june blows
prideful as
the people
beat the
street

— Dior J. Stephens

@dolphinneptune
@nightboatbooks

https://t.co/DiJQo0VC7t

[Verse @versedotnet]

not talking much today
simply painting with my
breathstrokes, summer
lounging with creatures
with english names. tumble
butterfly, zipline ladybug;
are we one and the same?
branded with names from
languages we did not speak

— @dolphinneptune

https://t.co/DiJQo0VC7t

[Verse @versedotnet]

"not talking much today, simply
calling my own bluff"

Read more from Dior J. Stephens' 𝘊𝘙𝘜𝘌𝘓/𝘊𝘙𝘜𝘌𝘓 here:

https://t.co/DiJQo0W9X1

@dolphinneptune
@nightboatbooks

[Verse @versedotnet]

To document my failures
with language is to reveal
the act of non-writing
as a field in itself

— Ty Little
@GhostProposal

https://t.co/k8clvxq8AE

[Verse @versedotnet]

Ty Little's Body Poem I is a visual poetry pamphlet from @GhostProposal

Turn a page here:
https://t.co/k8clvxq8AE

[Verse @versedotnet]

Snowflakes fluttered, the color of Hockney.

—Are you watching? They’re the water drops of the universe.

It was a message from the real boy to the real boy.

— Kim Hyun
Translated by Suhyun J. Ahn + Archana Madhavan @chanamuu
@seagullbooks

https://t.co/8Ra0i0tD1u

[Verse @versedotnet]

I was hungry. So I came out of my mouth.

— Kim Hyun
Translated by Suhyun J. Ahn + Archana Madhavan @chanamuu
@seagullbooks

https://t.co/8Ra0i0tD1u

[Verse @versedotnet]

"Mister, I’m on my way to silence. Can you let me have a sip of words?"

Read more from Kim Hyun's 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘦 (Translated from the Korean by Suhyun J. Ahn and Archana Madhavan @chanamuu):

https://t.co/8Ra0i0tD1u

@seagullbooks

[Verse @versedotnet]

Of course, main reason didn’t think to tell anyone: shame. But also, if being honest—good to be honest—fantasy of violence. Something bad happening, disruption to usual order of life, threat of bodily harm, if not actual thing.

— Elena Comay del Junco
https://t.co/ipmpAs3zFF

[Verse @versedotnet]

@MO0ONIO1

https://t.co/ipmpAs3zFF

[Verse @versedotnet]

When looked up club he mentioned: not hard to tell from graphic design that would take effort to learn to like.

(Hegel never actually says that, though. Cicero does say that good feelings make bad habits die hard (or (and?) is it vice versa?)

— Elena Comay del Junco

[Verse @versedotnet]

"Unclear if just taste to be acquired, having head pushed down in six lanes of traffic: but hot idea and who cares if it’s not original if it’s hot."

Read on from Elena Comay del Junco's Second Nature:

https://t.co/ipmpAs3zFF

@MO0ONIO1

[Verse @versedotnet]

we might fall out of a habit, like thinking, like obeying, too, through the use, the employment, of language.

— Valerie Hsiung

https://t.co/EfmRxKFdKY

@HsiungValerie
@EssayPress

[Verse @versedotnet]

My love!

Seeing you here today just once has made me so happy it gives me a happiness enough to continue living in my own hell the little box

So, a life must be phenomenologically hard work

— Valerie Hsiung

https://t.co/EfmRxKFdKY

@HsiungValerie
@EssayPress

[Verse @versedotnet]

People watching people watching people, this is the real experiment. The experiment of humanizing the most beautiful thing. Now that, they will say, once it is history, is just criminally beautiful.

Read more from @HsiungValerie 's To Love an Artist:

https://t.co/EfmRxKFdKY

[Verse @versedotnet]

take the arms, off each side, us,ing, them, to, p,addle,,,,,a,,,cross,,the,,,words,,,cross,,,the,,legs,,,cross,,,the
,,,body,a,cross,a,stroke,,a,,,cross,,,,,,dress

– Nico Vela Page
@WendysSubway

https://t.co/nhLFZuwqZR

[Verse @versedotnet]

from English to lengua
to don’t ask where,
what, my accent, less, betraying,
my voice,s g,end,er’s, my pas,sing curling
language to confusion on
sour lips: where my body is
from, that is

– Nico Vela Page
@WendysSubway

https://t.co/nhLFZuvTaj

[Verse @versedotnet]

"Disbinary finality. I’m not from here. Crossing over, yes, but
settling anywhere — aquí or allá, there o where — is
not my aim."

Ream more from Nico Vela Page's new collection Americón:

https://t.co/nhLFZuvTaj

@WendysSubway

[Verse @versedotnet]

Fuck
cops and lobbyists, it’s not
too sonorous to say?? The rest will follow
these ribbons of youth until
gone by noon

— Jacob Kahn
@roofbooks

https://t.co/MpvFyqc0yo

[Verse @versedotnet]

Everyone says I’m too negative
to be loved but I say I
deserve it more. I can list
the names of birds and trees
what else would a true
love want??

— Jacob Kahn
@roofbooks

https://t.co/MpvFyqc0yo