teja sudhakar

some of u guys need to be in the top 0.05% listeners of God

“As an immigrant with a mostly fraught relationship to language, especially to my mother tongues, I think it was so important for me to be given permission to play. I feel so lucky that my first experience with poetry was one that prioritized joy and catharsis.” —Teja Sudhakar (@tejaaaaas), 2024 @POETSorg Aliki Perroti & Seth Frank Most Promising Young Poet Award winner news.iu.edu/college/live/n… @IUBloomington

@spaghettiutopia yes pls

anyone want to trade our unpublished full-length poetry manuscripts and talk about them in not exactly in a workshop way but like in a constructive this is what it makes me feel way? would that be fun

@Puneet_Dutt @POETSorg @IUBloomington thank you so much!!🥹❤️

@POETSorg @tejaaaaas @IUBloomington So impressive congratulations!!! @tejaaaaas this is huge!

Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 University & College Poetry Prizes, which are part of @POETSorg's annual suite of literary prizes honoring the work of poets at all stages of their careers: poets.org/academy-americ…

@susanlleary thank you!!!❤️❤️

@tejaaaaas Congratulations! 🎉

oh hey! that’s me :-)

@tega_chovwen thank you tega!!!

@tejaaaaas congratulations!

@tejaaaaas @IUBloomington Natasha Trethwey, @POETSorg Chancellor & former U.S. Poet Laureate, selected Teja Sudhakar as the winner of the 2024 Aliki Perroti & Seth Frank Most Promising Young Poet Award. Read the full citation here: poets.org/academy-americ…

Didn’t quite know what to expect for my first tin house workshop, and was quite honestly blown away by the generosity & kindness I found—grateful, grateful, grateful. Safia is a force. These poets, all of them, a life gift ❤️‍🔥

We are so excited to have Jos as our poetry workshop leader this summer! To learn more about her book feeld, read her interview here: pleiadesmag.com/an-interview-w…

Teja and I are so touched by your wishes. 5 years ago, we vowed to make each other feel special on our birthday every year, and we can’t thank you enough for helping us continue that. To those who have made our 23rd most special, Happy New Year. We hope 2024 is as lovely as you.

I am the only Palestinian American serving in Congress, and my perspective is needed here now more than ever. I will not be silenced and I will not let anyone distort my words. I’m from Detroit, where I learned to speak truth to power, even if my voice shakes.

@YaminipPathak @FrontierPoetry thank you!!! i miss you so much🥺

@tejaaaaas @FrontierPoetry Yay! Congrats!

@druwalker94 omg🥺🥺 miss u andrew!!

@Blue_Margaritas MISS U SM🥹

Yes @tejaaaaas !!

@gisselleyepes watching it right now😢

CW: addiction/overdose My brother was smart as hell & struggled with addiction. Deepest love to @IndianaReview 4 featuring our collaborations in their folio of work by incarcerated writers—his journal entries, my poems. He died a week after being released. I miss him like hell.

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@spaghettiutopia it comes back??🥹

i have to be honest. i had almost no hope for my writing career while i was in my mfa. now that it's over, hope has been coming back to teach me how to have it. not hope in any material thing. hope in loving the work. hope in the work loving me back.