Celinda Olive

A lifelong dream fulfilled: having a little book of poems out there in the wild. For anyone struggling, may it be a pinprick of solace. #depression #poetry #chapbook t.ly/GLUMU

@shemaiahng I read this during the MFA program and ended up sobbing the whole night. onbeing.org/poetry/and-i-w…

I need a new marvelous poem to take space in my mind. What do you have for me? Please include links so we can easily look it up :)

Me surveying the horror that is the first draft of my novel

A.R. Ammons:

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From AI controversies to BookTok's enduring influence to scandals in the online writing community, publishing took us on a rollercoaster ride in 2024. What's next? Here are my best guesses for what we’ll see in the book publishing industry in 2025: 🧵

“If the day clouds over, / go on anyway / regardless.” — Ko Un

Li-Young Lee, “Restless” you can’t love except by remembering

battle sequences in the Mahabharata are some of the best in epic poetry because everybody knows each other already, grew up together, in some cases love or revere each other. it's all intensely personal. emotional, not just physical, violence. not us versus them, us versus us

"At the end of my suffering there was a door." The Wild Iris • Louise Glück

@FawnPoet Not me already scanning my first draft for this 😭🤣🤡

Final Draft be like...🤣🤣🤣

Thomas Transtromer

@AmitMajmudar All too true 😭

pursuing a literary career in prose and verse simultaneously

The Wexford Carol, one of the oldest surviving Christmas carols. Thought to have been written in Ireland in the 12th century but the melody may be much older, originally sung to celebrate the winter solstice. Happy solstice from the west of Ireland

@shemaiahng This sounds wonderful, Shemaiah 🤍

When you are an artist who is not part of the “club” it grows tiring to have to promote yourself all the time. I do notice those who only take from the literary community and do not uplift others. In 2025 I want to create a community of fostering and uplifting artists.

I love the phrase "the negative of night." Mark Strand:

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