Donna Spruijt-Metz

@NewYorker @ilya_poet So so good

“This is not / a good year. / But it has / witnesses.” A new poem by Ilya Kaminsky. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ecrMpO

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“I find myself outside of my body—watching and narrating: 'the young widow crosses the living room.'” Excerpt from “Young Widow at the Kitchen Window" by @DSMpoet, in the new Summer 2025 edition. Listen to the poet read it here: buff.ly/0ndWAqf #writingcommunity

@ilya_poet It’s all a horror.

I went to college in 1997. My mother was a widow, a refugee, and couldn’t help me pay for it. There is no way I would be able to afford college if it was 2025 & the bill US Congress just passed was the law of the land. There are millions of people like me. What a shame.

First Father’s Day without my husband. Thank you Michael Simms at Vox Populi for giving this quirky elegy a home voxpopulisphere.com/2025/06/15/don…

Four words, and already we are in Kafka Territory: "Hey You! Papers, please?"

@ilya_poet Heartbreak

Overheard: “—This isn’t a time for decent people.” “—When is?”

It’s over a 100 years after the great Jewish crusader for free speech, Emma Goldman, was deported from USA for her speaking out. Yet history repeats itself. People shouldn’t be deported for speaking out. People shouldn’t be deported for speaking out. We mustn’t stay silent.

@ilya_poet I have so much sorrow, Ilya. So much

1/3 While Trump just stopped all help to Ukraine—Putin’s army attacked Odesa tonight. There are casualties and thousands are sitting without electricity or heat in freezing weather. This is happening right now.

Donna Spruijt-Metz reading for us at AWP. We'll see you soon in LA; we'll be at T540, our 23rd year of attending AWP! @DSMPoet @awpwriter #poet #AWP #AWP25 #poets #poems #poetry #SmartishPacePoets #creativewriting #poetrycommunity youtu.be/InrinuRZLbs?fe… via @YouTube

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What is happening to USAID will cost untold lives around the world, devastate America's standing, and massively empower China and other countries. There's no excusing it - it's a shameful, stupid, self-own without excuse and a harbinger of even worse to come.

@chenchenwrites Happy Lunar New Year!

happy lunar new year 🎉 / happy year of the snake 🐍 i was, in fact, born in the year of the snake, so it’s my year! (it’s also my mom’s year… and at least one aunt’s year… but most importantly, it is my year ☺️🐍)

@ilya_poet So beautiful

"I know that each one of us travels to love alone, Alone to faith and to death. I know it. I’ve tried it. It doesn’t help. Let me come with you." --Yanis Ritsos tr. P. Green & B. Bardsley

@ilya_poet Thank you.

This has been a year of suffering in the world—and in my small world with the sudden death of my husband. This book came fast, took me over, possessed me. I can’t wait to share it with you. Thank you, Melody Stanford Martin at @Wildhouse Press, for creating this beautiful cover.