GHOSTROOTS is here! I have feelings! Mama, look, I've emerged! 🐣 Thank you, Renée Zuckerbrot, Nneoma Amadi-obi & W. W. Norton & Company for guiding my first book out. Thank you to everyone who's read and about to read, for being gracious with your time and bandwidth in this strange world. 🐐🧣❤️

pick up this glittering glamour of a book in your local bookstore today!!!

for Verso Books online i wrote about book publishing and the labor that makes it happen versobooks.com/blogs/news/bad…

We are pleased to announce Epiphany is open for submissions for our 2024 Fall/Winter print issue in the categories of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, translation, and art. Our submission window closes July 8th at 11pm. We look forward to reading your work! epiphanyzine.com/features/submi…

when I need to procrastinate I come here and scroll until the words "I hate everyone" come out of my mouth and then I know it's time to go back to work

Just realized the spines of the New Directions reissues spell out “SEBALD”

so proud to see a dear friend and another Brooklyn Writing MFA alum winning the swamp pink prize!

For today’s June 4th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, the minjiandanganguan has published a curators letter listing its holdings (all free) of material about that event—now 35 years in the past but still crucial for understanding today’s China. minjian-danganguan.org/notes/%E5%85%A…

Gaza, Palestine, 1993.

For The New Yorker, I spoke with scholars, organizers, artists and protestors in the Chinese diaspora who paint a picture of how the acts of dissent by their predecessors inspired them to search for voices and communities of their own. bit.ly/3KEIz4T

Isabella Hammad on pro-Palestine speech, the politics of language, and the war on Gaza go.nybooks.com/4bYmcn0

Shattering. We bear responsibility for this world.

i wanted to read this novel even when it was just an idea floating around in Everything, Heavy Pepper's wild mind!

Please support the GoFundMe for East Bay Booksellers-- this amazing bookstore was destroyed by a fire this morning. gofundme.com/f/support-east…

a poem in Poetry Daily today! here are some notes i wrote on it and a poem by yau ching about popcorn

📢 Announcement! Graywolf Press will hold an open submission period for contemporary poetry in translation from 11/11 to 11/15. Complete details and instructions here: graywolfpress.org/about-us/submi…

So long as that woman from the Rijksmuseum in painted quiet and concentration keeps pouring milk day after day from the pitcher to the bowl the World hasn’t earned the world’s end. —Wisława Szymborska’s “Vermeer” (tr. Clare Cavanagh & Stanisław Barańczak)

We are pleased to announce Epiphany is open for submissions for our 2025 Fresh Voices Fellowship! We're accepting submissions until Nov. 1st. No fee to apply. We encourage writers who work outside the traditional literary and academic systems to apply: epiphanyzine.com/features/submi…