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Audre Lorde’s “The masters tools will never bring down the masters house” gotta be one of the most misquoted and misapplied quotes of all time. 🧵 (1/16)

Favorite poems that are one long sentence? Please and thank you!

So good! And perfect for the start of new poems this fall semester.

Any recs for poetry books on the climate crisis?

Paul Valery said the first line of a poem is like finding a fruit that has fallen from a tree; the poet’s task is to create a tree from which this fruit can fall.

Best books about grief and grieving? Not self-help/pop psych stuff. Classics. Poets. Essays. Would especially love anything that lets history and politics in or considers grief over the loss of ideals/ideas as well as individuals.

I wish it were possible to rly convey this to non-creatives: It’s not just about having enough time to write (or sculpt, or compose, or whatever). It’s about having enough time to quiet your mind first. That part is the hardest.

Oh wow, a new poetry thread EVERY day?! These are wonderful, thank you Joseph Fasano

Friends, these journals take submissions in November: 32 Poems - 32poems Agni - AGNI Bennington Review - Bennington Review Cutbank - CutBank Ploughshares - Ploughshares Poetry Northwest - Poetry Northwest Poet Lore - Poet Lore The Southern Review - The Southern Review

dear writers! do you have favorite craft lectures / interviews / art talks on youtube that you could point me to? i return to jorie graham’s on description lecture often, and am eager for more!

suggestions for poems with titles that are place names?

I may have asked this here before, but who are some poets who are rejecting/critiquing/problematizing simile and metaphor in their work? I can think of Solmaz Sharif, Douglas Kearney…who else?

For those who don’t believe in being pushing for acceptances by “tiered” journals largely for the status/career blah blah, what litmags would you be elated for an acceptance just because you love what they do?

Earlier this week, Creative Nonfiction’s founding editor, CEO, and board president, Lee Gutkind, sent an update alluding to some changes at CNF. What he didn’t mention: the entire staff is gone. *THREAD*

I put a whole lot into this essay and I wish more people would read it. On wanting to live: ti.me/3W7qCPO

Amazing news from the Guyana Prize for Literature! ANTIMAN was on the shortlist for nonfiction and CUTLISH won SECOND PLACE in poetry! To be seen in Guyana (and to have both of these books acknowledged) is a dream and I am so humbled!

What, in your opinion, is the most beautiful print literary journal, design-wise.

This is me reciting a poem I wrote in a form I invented. #duplex