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Some lady said this once & she also runs a global creativity school called @InSurrealLife & that school is having a session in January with Visiting Artists @DanezSmith & @sadqueer4life & @brittanyroger_ & if I were you I'd probably get in on that 🤷‍♀️❣️ 🕺✍️officialshira.com/insurreall…
When asked for poetry advice my usual response is: write as a return to the body, don't underestimate your regular way of saying things, if you want to dance a kite in the sky make sure there's a string tied to your wrist.
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just remembered that the only point of life is to love
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“I know there is a river somewhere, / lit, fragrant, golden mist, all that” — Molly Brodak . . . This poem appeared in The Cipher by Molly Brodak, published by Pleiades Press, 2020. Shared here with deep gratitude.
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The job of the poet...is to be 'a bane to the republic. Because the republic is built on a destruction of language. A kind of obliteration of language that will enable and excuse violence against bodies. My job is to interrogate and agitate that as often as I can.' Solmaz Sharif
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hello -- I have curated a poetry and music festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, which will be taking place in just a couple of weeks, and I'd love for you to join for whatever excites you. Tickets and info here: bam.org/poetry/2024/i-guess-…
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"Poetry is not about language, but about what happens when language gets impossible." - Alice Oswald
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I begin with love, hoping to end there. —Jericho Brown, from “Duplex”
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Tag a friend who has an amazing novella or poetry collection that should get published! Use the link in our bio for details. #poetrycollection #writerfriends #novella
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Nimrod International Journal is delighted to announce that our submission window will open November 1-30. Dust off your drafts or let the winds of inspiration take you somewhere new. We want to see your work!
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We’re open for submissions for Issue #31. Deadline to submit is December 1st. Send us your best prose, poetry, and hybrid work 🚀 hungermtn.submittable.com/su…
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All the moons of the year 2023
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C. S. Lewis, my favourite definition of friendship ever
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Kurt Vonnegut, go into the arts
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Happy birthday, dearest Mary Oliver. How you changed my life.  . . . This poem appeared in American Primitive by Mary Oliver, published by Back Bay Books, 1978. Shared here with deep gratitude.
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“a child is crying on a plane, devastated by the volume & velocity that leaving and returning requires” — @NifMuhammad, “There Are More Ways to Show Devotion” yalereview.org/article/hanif…
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Happy birthday, Mary Oliver: ✨
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meant to share this earlier, but i'm teaching for @Tin_House's winter online workshops (feb. 2025)! alongside some really cool writers! more info + apply by sept. 23: tinhouse.com/workshop/winter…
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It's brutal out here & one of my favorite small/huge things I get to do is email Surreal Scholars that they can take @InSurrealLife for FREE. You can still nominate someone in your life & make their day/millenium. & Yes, you can nominate yourself! 💌 officialshira.com/insurreall…
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This session of @InSurrealLife is BONKERS. @Nic_Sealey is back by popular demand. @burgissima has one of the most unique & guttural releases of the last year. I devoured Jeremy Michael Clark's debut in one sitting. Plus daily prompts. Plus community. I mean––?!?!?! Get into it!
Feelin' that back-to-school FOMO? Maaaaybe this is your sign to come learn (and play and create and laugh and cry and and and....) with all of us THIS OCTOBER!! Just look at this sweet line up of visiting artists! Register today: officialshira.com/insurreall…
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