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—Author once. Poet; traditional illustrator. He/Him. 18+

Lima, Perú
Joined November 2010
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“No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is.” - Eduardo Galeano
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Louise Glück 💙
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What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure. —Anne Carson, from “Wildly Constant”
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“Cesar Vallejo placed three dots in the middle of the line, as if language itself were not enough, as if the poet’s voice needed to leap from one image to another to make— to use TS Elliot’s phrase— a raid on the inarticulate.” - Ilya Kaminsky, “Osip Mandelstam: A Lyric Voice”
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Someone in hell is sitting beside you on the train. Somebody burning unnoticed walks past in the street. - Charles Wright, "The Choice"
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Replying to @TomSnarsky
@TomSnarsky #smallpoemsunday Carl Philips, “More Tenderly Over Some of Us Than Others”
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Hey, friends—something beautiful for your Saturday. Enjoy! flakphoto.news/p/maureen-dre…
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Anne Carson, with one of my all-time favorite opening lines and one of my all-time favorite closing lines.
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Natsume Soseki, tr. Soiku Shigematsu
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Jean Valentine, wow
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Mandelstam’s “Nowhere Air” as translated by Christian Wiman.
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My heart is moved by all I cannot save;
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Night Light is back from our brief summer hiatus, and we couldn’t be happier to be collaborating with @HessePress for a fantastic reading this Thursday!! feat. Spencer Eckart, Clare Kelly, @BurialMagazine, @TaylorNapolsky, & @eva_alter_poet — 🔗 below to register :)
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“Think of how puzzling a dream is.” - Wittgenstein
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We're halfway through September! Send us your best poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and translations before the month ends. kenyonreview.org/submit
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This is tonight!!!! Come for the amazing writers on this list and stay to win some great raffle prizes ❤️
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Sharing a PDF of Jean-Luc Nancy’s chapter, “Shattered Love”, because it is deserves so many readings. Link below.
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Hi. Submissions are still open. Send us your most playful, weird, erratic, and child-like words. [email protected]
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The Yale Review is now open for submissions! We're accepting poetry through Submittable, including a special call for ekphrastic poems. For nonfiction submissions and pitches, our guidelines have recently changed, so please read carefully: yalereview.org/submissions
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