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🙆🏻‍♀️ It’s been a long and amazing haul to now. Thesis sign off. Novel in progress. MFA Graduating class 2023 👩🏻‍🎓🍷@UBCGradSchool @UBC @UBC_Arts @PrismLitMag @ubccrwr in the past 13 years I’ve published two books of poetry @guernica_ed attended conferences, worked with awesome folks

Happy World Poetry Day! To celebrate the occasion, we are making The Poetry Review modern archive freely available for the next 24 hours for everyone to enjoy the best in international poetry. Click here to take advantage of this offer! bit.ly/4irqvug 📚

Always a favorite. Raymond Carver • Where Water Comes Together With Other Water

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I only wrote one poem last year and it's in this week's New Yorker newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

Clarice Lispector 4-book cover design New Directions Books

Here’s my poem “Ode to the Melting of I.C.E.” From my forthcoming book “Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man.”

My inability to express myself is astounding. —Mary Ruefle

“It’s a hard time to be human.”

We are accepting submissions for our Poetry Contest until the end of the month! Poets who have not published a book at the time of submissions can send us 3–5 poems, no longer than 10 pages. All guidelines below: kenyonreview.org/submit/poetry-…

I wrote a poem in response to a Taylor Swift poem with Matthew Zapruder (for the anthology Invisible Strings, edited by Kristie Frederick Daugherty), up on Parade today: parade.com/books/best-rea…

November 23

“I’m unhappy, mostly, when I’m not writing, unless I’ve just written something, in which case I’m euphoric because I don’t have to try and write something again.” —Louise Glück buff.ly/47LSE9u

Our new issue, AI FUTURES, is here. @evgenymorozov leads a forum with @audreyt @TerryWinograd @brianeno @schneierblog @bcmerchant @bigblackjacobin @dellsystem @sarahbmyers @ambaonadventure. Plus @sopgood @uhlily @jabirached_ @terrygtnguyen & more. bostonreview.net/memberships

Good morning, friends. Here's a poem from my new book, The Last Song of the World, which has just been released by @boaeditions.

Don’t forget to register for the 19th Draft Reading Series literary festival: Archive of Care. Please visit draftreadings.com to sign up and attend this virtual event. Thanks to @TorontoArts for funding this event.

THE WORLD IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE “if you don’t mind a touch of hell now and then” ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Women over 65 remember what it was like before Roe v. Wade became the law of the land. That's why they are voting for Kamala.

In the 8 years since the establishment of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, we have longlisted 122 titles from 29 languages. You can now browse and purchase titles from these lists in one place, all while supporting local bookshops: uk.bookshop.org/shop/WomenInTr…

Indigenous Peoples and #Canada have lost a champion. The #NFB mourns the passing of @Sensincmurr (1951-2024), former Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. His determination, wisdom & kindness will always be remembered → bit.ly/HtSMSdoc

“You have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.” ~ Flannery O’Connor thanks to @PoetNotRockStar