Mara

my poem in @foglifterpress’s newest issue 🥹

Paul Celan said that the poem was no different from a handshake... The handshake is our decided ritual of both asserting (I am here) and handing over (here) a self to another. Hence the poem is that—Here. I am here. —Claudia Rankine, from Don't Let Me Be Lonely

― Sylvia Plath

Bowled over by the organizing (by writers, all of whom had a lot to lose) that made this possible.

@temim Lake Pleiad 🥲

Do you have a favorite Vermont swimming hole? Bonus points if you tell me what you love about it.

Happy first day of spring from Virginia Woolf 🌷

I’m an Indigenous woman of Anishinaabe territory, being sued for $4M, facing 1 yr jail for locking to a CAT machine at Mountain Valley Pipeline, which would serve Elbit Systems. Our peoples will *never* die. We are the land, the land is us. We stand with you, relatives ✊🏽❤️ #IWD

My cousin got her first period while forcibly displaced in a tent in southern Gaza. Her mother spent two days looking for sanitary pads & painkillers amid israel’s genocide & blockade of aid supplies. For International Women’s Day, call out feminists who are silent on Palestine.

Big thanks to @mara_beneway for coming on our final episode of season 9 to discuss Florida Weird, zines in general, and her near-future plans! floridabookclub.com/episode-notes/…

In our thousands, in our millions… March 2, 2024. Washington Sq Park, NYC. LIFT THE SIEGE ON GAZA NOW 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

If we can afford war, we can afford reparations. If we can afford war, we can afford Medicare for All. If we can afford war, we can afford universal childcare. If we can afford war, we can afford college for all. If we can afford war, we can afford universal basic income.

127 children killed per-day in Auschwitz in 5 years. 139 children killed per day in Gaza in 135 days. Just like there can be no justification for the Holocaust, there can be no justification for the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. Both deserve the same condemnation.

How must I disrupt my own life to counter the disruptive violence of the world?

the degradation of language, to say anything but children—💔 what do we do with this english?

My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral poets.org/poem/my-face-i…

Sublime, indifferent, it is present, it will not respond. It is encompassing, it will not minister. Meaning, it will feed you, it will ravish you, it will not keep you alive. - Louise Gluck, "The Sensual World"

@which_is_to_say @TheBoiler_ Gorgeous

My second poem from the new issue of @TheBoiler_, "On Dissociation," after the incomparable Marie Howe (writing this wrecked me but the last 3 lines = one of my favorite things I've ever written 🐈) theboilerjournal.com/2023/12/27/len…