Victoria Luisa

writer. reader. recovering. 🌱
english, mexican, american. (l)gbtq.

[Victoria Luisa @vpelham]

My angel of the get-through 💞

[Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem]

“We’ll float, / you said. Afterward / we’ll float between two worlds—"

— Ellen Bryant Voigt

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This poem appeared in Messenger: New and Selected Poems by Ellen Bryant Voigt, published by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2002. Shared here with deep gratitude.

[Tom Snarsky @TomSnarsky]

René Char, tr. Cid Corman

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

An undermentioned part of the poetry-writing process involves cackling, cringing, pinching yourself, knocking on wood, gulping down watermelon-flavored sour straws, and begging the moon to forgive you.

https://t.co/fcRqBAaTW4

[the elder emo @theelderemox]

Avril Lavigne was right, it absolutely is a damn cold night and I am, in fact, trying to figure out this life

[Sally Read @sallyreadwriter]

Some peace from Denise Levertov

[Ben Niespodziany ☁️🐋 @neonpajamas]

Zachary Schomburg

[Jacob Wren @EverySongIveEve]

“No revelation is immediate, not if it’s real. I feel that more and more.”
- Helen Oyeyemi, Boy, Snow, Bird

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“All I need to write is to run in the morning, to have coffee and a Coke at hand, and to be able to take a nap. The siesta is crucial.” —Javier Cercas https://t.co/oTH8csBt7B

[literland @literlandweb1]

Juan Rulfo falleció hace hoy 40 años. Además de escritor, Rulfo era una apasionado de la montaña y la fotografía. México, su vida rural y sus costumbres eran temas habituales de su trabajo fotográfico. Susan Sontag llegó a afirmar que “Juan Rulfo es el mejor fotógrafo de América.”
Algunas de sus imágenes:

[Peege @bloodsigns]

Ada Limon • Bright Dead Things

[ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag]

...but we are responsible for our souls.

[Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson]

“Believe in this. Young apple seeds.” A poem by Bob Kaufman.

[chloe @chloeprw]

“i never see you at the club” ok? i never see you in the poetry section of an independent bookshop

[Meggy @igetsoinspired]

It’s good to have a relationship with a tree in your neighborhood

[WILDNESS. a literary journal @wildnessjournal]

@abugoddess @ParadiseLAust @deesoulpoetry Frankly Quite, @chenchenwrites

https://t.co/J3IOsT8g6J

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

love this poem of delight and grief and rage and moon—by Ally Ang

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

everyone deserves not only food but GOOD food.

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

something that can be so chic is feeling like yourself again after a long period of numbness

[Eye On Axis @eyeonaxis]

"Confidences by Mount Fuji", Japan | Yao Yuan