“Pain, you boss and lord this existence slow as white blooms / along the sky crumpling into themselves then loosely breaking / away away I call my name.” —Layli Long Soldier, “King”
Our poetry editor, @wendyX, has selected one poem by Layli Long Soldier for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
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Sounds familiar: “During the day, I cleaned labs and ran assays. Every night, I wrote for three hours. On the weekends, I applied to hundreds of residencies, grants, fellowships, and literary journals — as chronicled in my anti-résumé — and got rejected . . . 97% of the time.”
"earning a steady living wage is the highest standard of economic success for a working artist in any field. And only a fraction of those who go to school to achieve that actually do" https://t.co/zlwL8Fpkus
i love asians. i love writing about asians. i love looking out of the eye holes of asians and moving around in my stories as asian. this sounds super obvious but man it was a haul to get here and i'm home and it's rad.
"When the world bends and shakes, you don’t always have to let yourself be bent and shaken. You already know to survive and adapt." https://t.co/tXG2X2MKWy
Twitter's favorite poet- astrologers @DorotheaLasky and @alexdimitrov comes to @nypl to discuss the connections between poetry and stargazing. Hear them read their new books and join in on their conversation on 11/27 at 6:30 PM!
https://t.co/Tl5ENUx3Wg
"You don’t have to change the whole world with your love, just because you’ve been asked to. Generosity alters so much, but all your softness, all your magic, all your blue and golden strangeness, are yours to give and yours to keep." https://t.co/oAYEAtsbWR
"If you feel too down, this week, or if you feel tangled up inside your head, try to pause, try to breathe, try to tell another story." https://t.co/tdkL1rSbBh