Dora Prieto

Never would've thought I'd do a masters, let alone an MFA, and now I can't imagine it being any other way. Thanks to everyone who encouraged me along the way 🌹

Thank you @cbcbooks for choosing my poem "Girls of the Now" alongside the work of many poets I admire!! cbc.ca/books/literary…

@Perez_Writes Let's not forget who started the term Latinx—it wasn't lib academics, it was queer immigrants. Every time someone says "nobody uses Latinx," they're using the same flawed approach that the gov does: we aren't a monolith, so it's way beyond deciding what the "right" terms are.

The obsession with "identity" and made up words disgusts normal people on a visceral level. Lib academics get off on it, but everyone else hates it. Hispanics don't even identify as "hispanic." Nevermind latinx. They identify as Cuban or Puerto Rican or Dominican, etc.

New poem out in the fall issue of @maisonneuvemag 🤲🏼🪽

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Diane Seuss!!! MODERN POETRY has been longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry 🎉🎉🎉 @dlseuss @nationalbook nationalbook.org/2024-national-…

Love this hermit crab poetry form and want to try it! Asiya Wadud's "No Knowledge is Complete Until it Passes Through my Body"

One thing about poets is that we WILL bend punctuation, like in this delightful "deal with it" comma moment Day 26 Sealey Challenge: Asiya Wadud's "No Knowledge is Complete Until it Passes Through my Body" (which is btw delightful, gorgeous)

"I speak a language no known mother tongued" Sealey Challenge day 24: @bronwentate's The Silk the Moths Ignore ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Diomío Azucena totally sounds like little wet bell !!! Day 11 Sealy Challenge: Cenzontle by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo (And there are so many other pages that are such latinx poet brilliance, I just chose this one bc I find it hilarious and true to a way only poets can do)

A funky and intense read, Xanax Cowboy by Hannah Green. Loved the speaker and voice in a way that was also a dagger to the heart (and if u know me u know this all I want from literature / love to cry) Sealy challenge day 8 ☀️

appreciating a well-placed "fuck" in a poem: "I call you about Venus,/ hottest planet, dense as fuck" Day 7 Sealey Challenge: Megan Fernandes, "I Do Everythjng I'm Told"

@Vanessid Vancouverrrr I wish 😢😩

I realized today I LOVE to lmfao with poetry, but it's actually never a lol bc it's always an interior cackle and it's my favourite way to laugh!!!! Sealy day 5: Natalie Shapero 🪽🪽🪽 @natalieshapero

Sealy Challenge day 4: Our Echo of Sudden Mercy by @HariAlluri. Feeling the quotidian tenderness and soft pleas for water, grief, longing...

being a poet is so silly because i do feel like i am showing people my soul (ew) and it’s just unbearable but it’s the only thing i know how to do and it means so much to me and if only i could get it all down just right

I am so honoured to work with Sonnet on my manuscript — thank you writers' trust and @sonnetlabbe for choosing my work!!

"Dora Prieto’s youthful, worldly verse offers a sparkling example of what poetry can do right now." @SonnetLAbbe has selected @DoraJPrieto as her 2024 WT Poetry Mentee writerstrust.com/Mentorship #WTMentorship #canlit

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory. —Louise Glück, from "Nostos"