East Jasmine Review

Here’s one of two poems recently published in The Banyan Review. The poem is about my daughter, but it’s really about me. Thanks to editor Juan Pablo Mobili for his thoughtful, smart, precise suggestions. Please check out the 2024 spring issue in the comment section. (1/2)

🧵 thread: how i write with a full-time job (like: if you were actually asking, this is what i'd actually tell you) 1. i write when i can. this means i look at my schedule with a sense of realism and actually look at the time i have available to write. i can't multitask writing.

if you get a rejection, don't respond like this. its rude & immature. a rejection doesn't mean you're a bad writer. it means that I get 400 subs a month & I can only accept 20ish. the same goes for lots of magazines. also don't ask how you can improve. write for you & no one else

Our store is a joint venture of two local presses, @rarebirdlit and @unnamedpress. They’ve joined forces to create a neighborhood bookstore that is also a home for independent publishing here in LA!

While we will still be publishing two pieces next week up on the website, the editors who are managing our social media accounts will be out of town so our social media will likely not be updated for the next two weeks, but keep checking our website for new work next week!

"These were the days when fathers waited outside while mothers gave birth inside, and I imagine him with the cup of coffee that was always in his hands staring out at the rain" eastjasminereview.com/2022/09/poetry…

"He knew I could no longer live in my skin. My feelings for the body, for the soul of that boy forced Saturn to descend from the heavens." - Ricardo Moran, When Saturn Came Home eastjasminereview.com/2022/09/poetry…

"The girls would sit relaxed and non-chalant leaning on one hip right knee slung over left arms crossed at the elbows. They would lounge so not unlike splendid iguanas basking on rocks, their slow lazy speech recounting buoyant weekends." Excerpt from eastjasminereview.com/2022/09/poetry…

"all his secrets on a thursday night drunk & upset until he found himself sunk & burnt" Excerpt from "Thursday Night" by Zama Madinana which is available to read in full here: eastjasminereview.com/2022/09/poetry…

Iconic name change

We were happy to see this @boaeditions post pop up on ig featuring @chenchenwrites forthcoming collection! We can't wait to read it! (This is not an ad— we just like Chen Chen's work.)

Yes, that is a Jeon Jungkook animation bc that was the first gif that popped up that was at all related to what we just tweeted... it's a problem.

We made a pleasant and unexpected discovery recently: we have a dedicated subsection of readers who are Asian American tattoo artists. Shoutout to y'all!

ICYMI This has to be one of our favorite lines from the new poems we've published: "Maybe spilling away feels good, and we should be careless with our limbs." Written by @adamdeutsch in his poem "Heme." This and 3 other poems up on our site now! eastjasminereview.com/2022/09/poetry…

@adamdeutsch Apologies for the extra "we" in the quote! Will correct in the icymi repost 🔂

@adamdeutsch We love this!

"There’s a knock at the door. I peer through the peephole." Blackout by Zach Murphy, a flash fiction piece, is up on the website as we tweet. Check it out! eastjasminereview.com/2022/09/fictio…

"Maybe we spilling away feels good, and we should be careless with our limbs." Four new poems by ⁦@adamdeutsch⁩ are published up on our website right now! eastjasminereview.com/2022/09/poetry…

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