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OC in three
Thanks to @illarian-rambling here and here, @mk-writes-stuff here and here.
Usually tried to do these one tag at a time because I love doing them, but I don't want to burn through everyone super quickly, and also my drafts are getting scary.
Rules: include three pictures that represent an OC - cite your sources and include image IDs to make your post accessible :)
Carmen Asghar (TSP)
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Other Carmen: OC in fifteen, OC Smash or Pass, Picrew, OC questionnaire, art
Other OC in three: Lexi, Maddie, Ash, Gwen, Noelle, Rose, Kelsey, Robbie, Akash, Jedi
Tagging softly @leahnardo-da-veggie @lesleymoonwriter @dyrewrites @starlit-hopes-and-dreams @elsie-writes @winterandwords @space-writes @cwritesfiction @somethingclevermahogony @lyraoctaviawrites @chauceryfairytales + ANYONE ELSE
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thelamentknight · 1 year
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My Twst OCs Masterlist (will be edited as I add info.
NRC
Heartslabyul:
Rosarine Lapin-Blanc
Savanaclaw:
Octavinelle:
Scarabia:
Ángel Iglesias
Hugo Asghar
Pomefiore:
Ignihyde:
Diasomnia:
MC:
Carmen Larimar
RSA
Curiousitea:
Rosailles:
Sirequiem:
Maharajani:
Pommiroir:
Jianlóng:
Ethereity:
MC:
Filip Clemantis
Other
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lauriera · 1 year
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Repost from @citylitproject • ✨Lifting As We Climb✨ Announcing the 20th (free) CityLit Festival in partnership with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra✨Chesapeake Shakespeare Company✨Busboys and Poets- Baltimore✨HEDGEBROOK✨- THREE DAYS: MARCH: 25, 28, 31 A literary celebration for readers & writers. A Literary feast is coming to Baltimore. ✨Hanif Abdurraqib ✨ Megan Milks✨Fatimah Asghar✨Lawrence Brown ✨Joy Harjo✨Patricia Smith✨ Jason Reynolds✨ Allen Xing (dancer extraordinaire) ✨Gayle Danley✨and in a special appearance Hedgebrook introduces ✨Carmen Maria Machado✨and so many more illustrious poets and writers we will name in these next few weeks. Daylong at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall on Saturday, March 25th: Tuesday, March 28 at Chesapeake Shakespeare Theater: Friday. March 31 at Busboys and Poets - Baltimore. Visit citylitproject.org under Events. Keep checking back for updates. There is so much more coming including a love note to the Baltimore literary community by way of THREE sessions of The Writer’s Room with four of our special guests. You gon want to be there. Jus sayin’. ✨✨💜 (at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqDO9WdOCdq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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junesprout · 2 years
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💫54321 challenge💫 thank you @thebookishvalentine for tagging me!! I’ve seen this around recently and thought it would be funnnn ☄️five books I’ve loved recently ohhhh this is hard! I love so many books!! - if they come for us (fatimah asghar) - machine (susan steinberg) - woman, eating (claire kohda) - out of body (jeffrey ford) - sisters (daisy johnson) 🌊four auto-buy authors this is hard because I only really buy books from thrift stores and am a huge library nerd. so I’m going to say four authors I found and then automatically borrowed all their books from the library - maria carmen machado - patti smith - kris bertin - joan didion 🌈three genres I love poetry, mystery, literary fiction 🌻two places I love to read my comfy orange chair + my garden 🌅one book I promise to read soon okay east of eden has been haunting me from my bookshelf for years so I better read it soon!! 🌷people I’m tagging🌷 @onsafsshelf @suppoetry @hernovelshelves @ellyleaff @cassyslibrary @rainy_dayreads @readingdemia @mirdsbooks but also if I didn’t tag you and you see this, please feel free to do it and also tag me!! 🌻p.s. swipe for poem #8 of #hotpoetsummer (at Abbotsford, British Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgCVfmvrTQF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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ragingbookdragon · 3 years
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All It Takes Is One
Batbrother x Batfamily One-Shot
Word Count: 810 Warnings: Explicit Language, Mentions of Assault and Past Assault
Author's Note: This piece does contain references to assault. If that is a triggering topic, please do not read this. -Thorne
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He thumbed the speaker button, before grabbing the controller once more, elbowing his brother in the ribs in hope to get the lead in the race. “What’s up, Esme? Find a new venomous snake down there in Texas?”
Captain.
Something in her voice made his hands still and he looked down at the phone, ignoring how his vehicle crashed into a wall. “What’s wrong?”
It’s…it’s Carmen. Something’s happened to her.
His brows furrowed and he felt the weighted gaze of his family on him, though he paid them no mind, concerned about his honorary niece. “Carmen? I thought she was stationed in Oceana.”
She came home on emergency leave two weeks ago. Something was wrong with her, but she wouldn’t tell me until now.
“What happened?”
(Y/N)…oh God…her CO, he—
(Y/N) felt anger flush through him and he stood, tossing the controller to Dick as he grabbed the phone, demanding, “Give me his name.”
Carter. Carter Hallen.
“Where is Hallen now?” he asked.
Still on base at Oceana, though his credit card transactions say he’s about to make a run for it. We’ve got two days at least. (Y/N), if he gets into the wind…
“I’m not going to let that happen,” he promised, looking out the window at the sun setting; he hummed. “It’s seven right now. Call Walker and Nakamoto. I’ll call Asghar to come get you and bring you here.” (Y/N)’s voice quieted. “Has she told command yet?”
No. Her CO’s captain at that squadron. She talks and she’ll get drowned out by everyone in it.
“Then we’ll step in.” he started towards his bedroom. “I’ll start looking into things. See how many more.”
…Thank you, Captain.
“Always.”
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He waited until the plane was out of sight before getting back in the car; Dick had driven with him. it was odd, from the few days (Y/N) and his squad were in Gotham, they’d gotten along well with his siblings.
“So,” Dick started. “It’s over now?”
He shrugged, pulling off the airfield. “Oceana Naval Command will receive the evidence of his victims within the night. Nakamoto will make sure they’re taken care of and not shoved into backwater channels.”
Dick nodded. “And the body?”
(Y/N) frowned. “Will be dumped in waters that the US has no jurisdiction over.” He drove along the dark road, eventually ending up on a spot overlooking Gotham City. (Y/N) got out of the car and sat on the hood, quietly watching the bright city.
Dick joined him and after a few moments, he murmured, “You don’t have to tell me, (Y/N)…but something tells me you took this case a little personally.”
He said nothing, merely watching the city until he found his voice. “When I was seventeen, back before the whole government super soldier program, I used to serve with a team out of Afghanistan. Good squad. It’s where I met Esmeralda.” Kicking the dirt he said, “The CO of that particular compound liked to keep his soldiers under his thumb.” (Y/N) frowned. “I was one of them.”
His younger brother’s eyes widened. “You never told me.”
(Y/N) shrugged. “Didn’t want to. I was ashamed to admit I’d been taken advantage of by a superior officer…by someone I trusted to watch my six.”
“It wasn’t your fault, (Y/N). Nor is there any shame in admitting it.”
“I know that now,” he agreed. “And if I could do things over again, I probably would’ve come forward.” He gazed into the distance, voice rather firm. “All it takes it one person. And then another and another. Because they’re not scared of them anymore. They know they’re not alone.”
“Does anyone else know?” he shook his head and Dick looked at him. “Did you ever tell dad?”
(Y/N) shook his head. “No. Esmeralda is the only person besides you now who knows. It’s…not exactly a part in my life I like returning to, even if it’s to help another person.” He sighed. “That being said…I’d help anyone I knew with whatever fallout came from their own personal battle.”
“Like Carmen,” Dick surmised and (Y/N) nodded.
“Carmen’s a damn good sailor. Good AM. She might decide to accept an honorable discharge, but I hope with the proper help and treatment, she’ll stay in and keep serving. The Navy can use her skills.” He shook his head. “I just wish I could’ve done something more for her though. Killing the bastard and bringing justice to everyone else doesn’t seem like enough. I—I need to do something else.”
“Then you can help me,” Dick answered and (Y/N) turned, looking at him with a level of surprise, but also knowing, and Dick fell silent, shifting closer to him to rest his head on his brother’s arm. “When I was back in Blüdhaven a few years ago, there was this woman—Tarantula and we worked together a few times…”
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luthienne · 4 years
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books published in the last 30 years that you'd recommend? i feel like ive hit a wall recently and can't find anything to read
 a few selections that i could hardly put down:
min jin lee, pachinko
annie hartnett, rabbit cake
julia armfield, salt slow
carmen maria machado, in the dream house: a memoir
madeline miller, circe
celeste ng, little fires everywhere
catherynne m. valente, the bread we eat in dreams
carole maso, the art lover
arundhati roy, the god of small things
mahtem shiferraw, your body is war
danusha laméris, bonfire opera
dulce maría loynaz, absolute solitude
louise glück, averno
camille rankine, incorrect merciful impulses
a few selections that i am currently reading:
ocean vuong, on earth we’re briefly gorgeous
helen oyeyemi, gingerbread
jesmyn ward, sing, unburied, sing
valeria luiselli, tell me how it ends: an essay in forty questions 
lesley nneka arimah, what it means when a man falls from the sky
fatimah asghar, if they come for us
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cld-n · 2 years
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Currently Reading: Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado, Old School by Tobias Wolff & You're the Only One I've Told by Dr. Meera Shah
Books I've Read in 2022
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
Consent: A Memoir by Vanessa Springora
The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir by Andre Leon Talley
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Asghar and Zahra by Sameer Rahim
Body Tourists by Jane Rogers
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
White Tears, Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad
Bunny by Mona Awad
If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
Kokomo by Victoria Hannan
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
My Body by Emily Ratajkowski
Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados
The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
Upgrade by Blake Crouch
Fangirls: Scenes from Modern Culture by Hannah Ewens
Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
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boysaints · 4 years
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Poems about Mothers & Motherhood by POC
ok this is mostly just a resource for me because i’ve been trying to write about my relationship with my mother & consequently ended up reading a lot of poetry about motherhood but i thought i’d share with the class so enjoy!!
1. My Mother, My Mother by Luther Hughes
2. Knuckle Head by Teri Ellen Cross Davis
3. The Raincoat by Ada Limón
4. The Average Mother by Camille T. Dungy
5. What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black (Reflections of an African-American Mother) by Margaret Burroughs
6. June 4, 1974 by June Jordan
7. Ending the Estrangement by Ross Gay
8. Certainty by Sandra Lim
9. The Mothers by Robin Coste Lewis
10. The Daughter by Carmen Giménez Smith
11. Obedience, or the Lying Tale by Jennifer Chang
12. Manuela by Juan Delgado
13. A Practical Mom by Amy Uyematsu
14. Praise Song for Patricia Jabbeh Wesley by Tsitsi Ella Jaji
15. What Remains Two by Truong Tran
16. Smell Is the Last Memory to Go by Fatimah Asghar
17. Black, Poured Directly into the Wound by Patricia Smith
18. Imperatives for Carrying On in the Aftermath by Natasha Trethewey
19. Mom Betty Addresses the Nature of Proportion by Eileen R. Tabios
20. Dusk by Tracy K. Smith
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what are ur favorite reads from the year?
oh my goodness so many!!!! i love to yell about them though here goes:
fiction:on earth we’re briefly gorgeous by ocean vuongmarlena by julie buntinthe girls by emma clinea manual for cleaning women by lucia berlin (short stories)her body & other parties by carmen maria machado (short stories)friday black by nana kwame adjei-brenya (short stories)
nonfiction:the argonauts by maggie nelsonthey can’t kill us until they kill us by hanif abdurraqibi’ll be gone in the dark by michelle mcnamara
poetry:night sky with exit wounds by ocean vuongwind in a box by terrance hayesindictus by natalie eilbertif they come for us by fatimah asghara fortune for your disaster by hanif abdurraqibthis glittering republic by quenton bakerif my body could speak by blythe baird
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wildspringday · 4 years
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2020 reading list
hello lovelies! my goal is to read 52 books next year, written by authors that are women/poc/lgbt+. i would love some input for books to read, so if you have any recommendations, please send me an ask! here are the books i have on my list so far:
white teeth - zadie smith
the house of mirth - edith wharton
if beale street could talk - james baldwin
slouching towards bethlehem - joan didion
norwegian wood -  haruki murakami
the awakening - kate chopin
mrs. dalloway - virginia woolf
the brief wondrous life of oscar wao - junot díaz
exit west - mohsin hamid
americanah - chimamanda ngozi adichie
to the lighthouse - virginia woolf
the wind-up bird chronicle - haruki murakami
never let me go - kazuo ishiguro
pride and prejudice - jane austen
little women - louisa may alcott
jane eyre - charlotte bronte 
the handmaid’s tale - margaret atwood 
wuthering heights - emily bronte 
one hundred years of solitude - gabriel garcí­a márquez 
beloved - toni morrison
one day we’ll all be dead and none of this will matter: essays - scaachi koul
the feminine mystique - betty friedan
bad feminist - roxanne gay 
trying to float: coming of age in the chelsea hotel - nicolaia rips
what is not yours is not yours - helen oyeyemi 
boy, snow, bird - helen oyeyemi
on beauty - zadie smith 
her body and other parties - carmen maria machado
the paper menagerie - ken liu
homegoing - yaa gyasi
the mothers - brit bennett 
little weirds - jenny slate
the sympathizer - viet thanh nguyen 
between the world and me - ta-nehisi coates
the farm - joanne ramos 
long live the tribe of fatherless girls - t kira madden
good talk - mira jacob
women talking - miriam toews
the new me - halle butler
the affairs of the falcóns - melissa rivero
gingerbread - helen oyeyemi
queenie - candice carty-williams
normal people - sally rooney 
trick mirror: reflections on self-delusion - jia tolentino
severence - ling ma
with the fire on high - elizabeth acevedo
frankly in love - david yoon
emergency contact - mary h.k. choi
the library of lost things - laura taylor namey 
the remains of the day - kazuo ishiguro
barracoon: the story of the last “black cargo” - zora neale hurston
heart berries - terese marie mailhot
if they come for us - fatimah asghar
the poet x - elizabeth acevedo
the girls - emma cline
the fire next time - james baldwin
the female persuasion: a novel - meg wolitzer
circe - madeline miller
when katie met cassidy - camille perri
laura & emma - kate greathead
the great believers - rebecca makkai
so far so good - ursula k. le guin
play as it lays - joan didion
manhattan beach - jennifer egan
modern lovers - emma straub
if not, winter: fragments of sappho - sappho
i might regret this: essays, drawings, vulnerabilities, and other stuff - abbi jacobson 
paperback crush: the totally radical history of ‘80′s and ‘90s teen fiction - gabrielle moss
conversations with friends - sally rooney 
julie the maniac: a novel - juliet escoria 
brazen: rebel ladies who rocked the world - pénélope bagieu
choose your own disaster - dana schwartz
passing - nella larsen
awayland: stories - ramona ausubel
wide sargasso sea - jean rhys
if, then: a novel - kate hope day 
the mandarins - simone de beauvoir 
the dreamers: a novel - karen thompson walker
pulp - robin talley 
the care and feeding of ravenously hungry girls - anissa gray 
the murmur of bees - sofía segovia
blue nights - joan didion
autobiography of red - anne carson
swing time - zadie smith 
the source of self-regard: selected essays, speeches, and meditations- toni morrison
i’ll give you the sun - jandy nelson
the ninth hour - alice mcdermott
girls burn brighter: a novel - shobha rao
red at the bone - jacqueline woodson
costalegre - courtney maum
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books I read in 2019 (not including rereads, favorites are bolded!)
Come Close - Sappho
Shanghai Baby - Wei Hui
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - Pablo Neruda
Bad Feminist: Essays - Roxane Gay
The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir - Jenifer Lewis
Sula - Toni Morrison
Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America - ed. Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel - Alexander Chee
Night Sky With Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong
If They Come For Us - Fatimah Asghar
Heart Berries: A Memoir - Terese Marie Mailhot
Less - Andrew Sean Greer
The Astonishing Color of After - Emily X.R. Pan
Goodbye, Vitamin - Rachel Khong
Darius the Great is Not Okay - Adib Khorram
Exit West - Mohsin Hamid
Homegirls and Handgrenades - Sonia Sanchez
Heavy: An American Memoir - Keise Laymon
All You Can Ever Know - Nicole Chung
Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri
The Wife Between Us - Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
The Way You Make Me Feel - Maureen Goo
A Very Large Expanse of Sea - Tahereh Mafi
Water By the Spoonful - Quiara Alegría Hudes
I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé - Michael Arceneaux
Bury It - Sam Sax
White Dancing Elephants - Chaya Bhuvaneswar
Pulp - Robin Talley
Shit is Real - Aisha Franz
Silencer - Marcus Wicker
Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale - Belle Yang
Bestiary: Poems - Donika Kelly
Monster Portraits - Sofia Samatar
No Matter the Wreckage - Sarah Kay
Violet Energy Ingots - Hoa Nguyen
Olio - Tyehimba Jess
The Kane Chronicles: The Serpent’s Shadow - Rick Riordan
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé - Morgan Parker
Nylon Road: A Graphic Memoir of Coming of Age in Iran - Parsua Bashi
The Wedding Date - Jasmine Guillory
Fruit of the Drunken Tree - Ingrid Rojas Contreras
An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
Family Trust - Kathy Wang
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture - ed. Roxane Gay
Little & Lion - Brandy Colbert
A Girl Like That - Tanaz Bhathena
Suicide Club: A Novel About Living - Rachel Heng
The Disturbed Girl’s Dictionary - NoNieqa Ramos
My Old Faithful: Stories - Yang Huang
Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan
Girls Burn Brighter - Shobha Rao
Moon of the Crusted Snow - Waubgeshig Rice
Kingdom Animalia - Aracelis Girmay
Happiness - Aminatta Forna
Devotions - Mary Oliver
The Proposal - Jasmine Guillory
The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang
When Katie Met Cassidy - Camille Perri
Heads of the Colored People - Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Friday Black: Stories - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Word is Murder - Anthony Horowitz
Miles from Nowhere - Nami Mun
The Lost Ones - Sheena Kamal
All the Names They Used for God - Anjali Sachdeva
Confessions of the Fox - Jordy Rosenberg
Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir - Padma Lakshmi
On the Come Up - Angie Thomas
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali - Sabina Khan
See What I Have Done - Sarah Schmitt
Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - Erika Sánchez
For Today I Am A Boy - Kim Fu
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings - Joy Harjo
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us - Hanif Abdurraqib
Mongrels - Stephen Graham Jones
If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America - Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson
The Gilded Wolves - Roshani Chokshi
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before - Jenny Han
The Perfect Nanny - Leila Slimani, translated by Sam Taylor
The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel
Things We Lost in the Fire - Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell
Sunburn - Laura Lippman
The House of Impossible Beauties - Joseph Cassara
Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi
A Private Life - Chen Ran, translated by John Howard-Gibbon
Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster - Stephen L. Carter
Undead Girl Gang - Lily Anderson
They Both Die at the End - Adam Silvera
The Friend - Sigrid Nunez
Severance - Ling Ma
Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery & Murder - ed. Licoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto
Mapping the Interior - Stephen Graham Jones
Give Me Some Truth - Eric Gansworth
How to Love a Jamaican - Alexia Arthurs
All of This is True - Lygia Day Peñaflor
Swimmer Among the Stars - Kanishk Tharoor
The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 7: Mothering Invention - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie
This is Kind of an Epic Love Story - Kheryn Callender
Gingerbread - Helen Oyeyemi
Where the Dead Sit Talking - Brandon Hobson
The Ensemble - Aja Gabel
My Education - Susan Choi
More Happy than Not - Adam Silvera
Nobody Cares: Essays - Anne T. Donahue
Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22 - Marinaomi
Oculus: Poems - Sally Wen Mao
Let’s Talk About Love - Claire Kann
History is All You Left Me - Adam Silvera
Opposite of Always - Justin A. Reynolds
The Crown Ain’t Worth Much - Hanif Abdurraqib
The Weight of Our Sky - Hanna Alkaf
If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi - Neel Patel
Girls of Paper and Fire - Natasha Ngan
What if It’s Us - Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
The Map of Salt and Stars - Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard - Lesléa Newman
The Big Smoke - Adrian Matejka
Dissolve - Sherwin Bitsui
The Woman Next Door - Yewande Omotoso
The Refugees - Viet Thanh Nguyen
White Tears - Hari Kunzru
Electric Arches - Eve Ewing
The Black Maria - Aracelis Girmay
Bloodchild and Other Stories - Octavia Butler
Soft Science - Franny Choi
The White Card - Claudia Rankine
Mad Honey Symposium - Sally Wen Mao
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls - Anissa Gray
Next: New Poems - Lucille Clifton
The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems 1987-1992 - Audre Lorde
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems - Nikki Giovanni
The Arab of the Future - Riad Sattouf
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side - Eve L. Ewing
Gruel - Bunkong Tuon
Marriage of a Thousand Lies - SJ Sindu
Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler
Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning - Alice Walker
That Kind of Mother - Rumaan Alam
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows - Balli Kaur Jaswal
Hera Lindsay Bird - Hera Lindsay Bird
Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams
And Still I Rise - Maya Angelou
The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead - Chanelle Benz
Everyone Knows You Go Home - Natalia Sylvester
Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems - June Jordan
The 100* Best African American Poems (*But I Cheated) - ed. Nikki Giovanni
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 - P. Djèlí Clark
Bury My Clothes - Roger Bonair-Agard
Selected Poems - Langston Hughes
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Sonata Mulattica - Rita Dove
Winnie - Gwendolyn Brooks
Bicycles: Love Poems - Nikki Giovanni
The Black God’s Drums -  P. Djèlí Clark
Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos - Lucy Knisley
Annie Allen - Gwendolyn Brooks
Parable of the Talents  - Octavia Butler
After Disasters - Viet Dinh
Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir - Liana Finck
Teeth - Aracelis Girmay
A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks - Angela Jackson
Peluda - Melissa Lozada-Oliva
A Map to the Next World - Joy Harjo
Magical Negro - Morgan Parker
Corpse Whale - dg nanouk okpik
Hawkeye: Volume 1 - Matt Fraction
Cenzontle - Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine
Selected Poems - Gwendolyn Brooks
She Had Some Horses - Joy Harjo
The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hope - ed. Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall
Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories - Nichelle Nichols
The Past and Other Things that Should Stay Buried - Shaun David Hutchinson
Difficult Women - Roxane Gay
The Woman Who Fell From the Sky - Joy Harjo
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays - Esmé Weijun Wang
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest - Hanif Abdurraqib
The Frolic of the Beasts - Yukio Mishima
Hawkeye Omnibus - Matt Fraction
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations - Mira Jacob
Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope - Karamo Brown
Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
When My Brother Was an Aztec - Natalie Diaz
Toxic Flora: Poems - Kimiko Hahn
Virgin - Analicia Sotelo
Easy Prey - Catherine Lo
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me - Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell
Saints and Misfits - S.K. Ali
Intercepted - Alexa Martin
Love from A to Z - S.K. Ali
Gemini - Sonya Mukherjee
The Atlas of Reds and Blues - Devi S. Laskar
My Brother’s Husband Vol. II - Gengoroh Tagame
Black Queer Hoe - Britteney Black Rose Kapri
Internment - Samira Ahmed
Dothead: Poems - Amit Majmudar
With the Fire On High - Elizabeth Acevedo
Sabrina & Corina: Stories - Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Milk and Filth - Carmen Giménez Smith
The Key to Happily Ever After - Tif Marcelo
If You’re Out There - Katy Loutzenhiser
Farewell to Manzanar - Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
New Poets of Native Nations - ed. Heid E. Erdrich
Bodymap: Poems - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Wolf by Wolf - Ryan Graudin
Tell Me How It Ends - Valeria Luiselli
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah
Down and Across - Arvin Ahmadi
The Tradition - Jericho Brown
About Betty’s Boob - Vero Cazot and Julie Rocheleau
Fake It Till You Break It - Jenn P. Nguyen
Storm of Locusts - Rebecca Roanhorse
Silver Sparrow - Tayari Jones
Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors - Sonali Dev
Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes, Pranks - Justin Chin
When I Grow Up I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities - Chen Chen
The New Testament - Jericho Brown
Fumbled - Alexa Martin
If It Makes You Happy - Claire Kann
Brave Face - Shaun David Hutchinson
Words in Deep Blue - Cath Crowley
Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Anger is a Gift - Mark Oshiro
The Bride Test - Helen Hoang
Not Your Backup - C.B. Lee
Prelude to Bruise - Saeed Jones
The Night Wanderer: A Graphic Novel - Drew Hayden Taylor and Michael Wyatt
Naturally Tan - Tan France
Bloom - Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau
Like a Love Story - Abdi Nazemian
I’m Afraid of Men - Vivek Shraya
Juliet Takes a Breath - Gabby Rivera
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
Let Me Hear a Rhyme - Tiffany D. Jackson
I Wanna Be Where You Are - Kristina Forest
Hurricane Season - Nicole Melleby
Split Tooth - Tanya Tagaq
Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Love and Food - ed. Elsie Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond
The Night Tiger - Yangsze Choo
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls - T Kira Madden
Miracle Creek - Angie Kim
Ayesha at Last - Uzma Jalaluddin
Shout - Laurie Halse Anderson
The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal if You Hear Me - ed. Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo
The Tenth Muse - Catherine Chung
This Place: 150 Years Retold - various authors
Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens - Tanya Boteju
Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For) - Ella Risbridger
Library of Small Catastrophes - Alison C. Rollins
Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune - Roselle Lim
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America - Darnell L. Moore
The Book of Delights - Ross Gay
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton
Speak No Evil - Uzodinma Iweala
How We Fight White Supremacy - Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin
A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend - Emily Horner
Here and Now and Then - Mike Chen 
The Ghost Bride - Yangsze Choo
Red White and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
Becoming - Michelle Obama
The Wedding Party - Jasmine Guillory
Magic for Liars - Sarah Gailey
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer - Michelle McNamara
Brain Fever - Kimiko Hahn
Life on Mars - Tracy K. Smith
Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler - Juan Felipe Herrera
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude - Ross Gay
Tentacle - Rita Indiana
Hapa Tales and Other Lies: A Memoir About the Mixed Race Hawai’i That I Never Knew - Sharon Chang
Loose Woman - Sandra Cisneros
Duende - Tracy K. Smith
Mostly Dead Things - Kristen Arnett
1919 - Eve L. Ewing
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge
Negroland - Margo Jefferson
For Black Girls Like Me - Mariama J. Lockington
Super Extra Grande - Yoss
Home Remedies - Xuan Juliana Wang
You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain - Phoebe Robinson
An Anonymous Girl - Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
The Abundance - Amit Majmudar
I Shall Not Be Moved - Maya Angelou
Helium - Rudy Francisco
Teaching My Mother to Give Birth - Warsan Shire
Tomie - Junji Ito
Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay - Phoebe Robinson
This Time Will Be Different - Misa Sugiura
Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu - Junji Ito
Stag’s Leap - Sharon Olds
Black Card - Chris L. Terry
It’s Not Like It’s A Secret - Misa Sugiura
Washington Black - Esi Edugyan
From Here To Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death - Caitlin Doughty
I’m Telling the Truth, But I’m Lying: Essays - Bassey Ikpi
A House of My Own: Stories from my Life - Sandra Cisneros
The Terrible - Yrsa Daley-Ward
The Black Tides of Heaven - JY Yang
The Red Threads of Fortune - JY Yang
Little Fish - Casey Plett
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion - Jia Tolentino
The Black Condition ft. Narcissus - Jayy Dodd
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
Dealing in Dreams - Lilliam Rivera
The Tiger Flu - Larissa Lai
The Island of Sea Women - Lisa See
America is Not the Heart - Elaine Castillo
Feel Free - Zadie Smith
Walking on the Ceiling - Aysegul Savas
My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education - Jennine Capo Crucet
The Unpassing - Chia-Chia Lin
Maurice - E.M. Forster
Permanent Record - Mary H.K. Choi
The Downstairs Girl - Stacey Lee
Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey - Jackie Kay
The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You - Dina Nayeri
I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up - Naoko Kodama
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann
Ordinary Light - Tracy K. Smith
Cantoras - Carolina De Robertis
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan
How to Be Remy Cameron - Julian Winters
The Marriage Clock - Zara Raheem
Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems - Jennifer S. Cheng
Where Reasons End - Yiyun Li
Pet - Akwaeke Emezi
Meddling Kids - Edgar Cantero
A Lucky Man - Jamel Brinkley
Maiden, Mother, Crone: Fantastical Trans Femmes - ed. Gwen Benaway
What is Obscenity? The Story of a Good for Nothing Artist and her Pussy - Rokudenashiko
The Umbrella Academy Vol. III: Hotel Oblivion - Gerard Way
Who Put This Song On? - Morgan Parker
The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays - Wesley Yang
Wave - Sonali Deraniyagala
Love War Stories - Ivelisse Rodriguez
Baby Teeth - Zoje Stage
A Fortune for Your Disaster - Hanif Abdurraqib
Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers - Jake Skeets
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen - Jose Antonio Vargas
The Marrow Thieves - Cherie Dimaline
Polite Society - Mahesh Rao
Patron Saints of Nothing - Randy Ribay
The Body Papers: A Memoir - Grace Talusan
A Woman is No Man - Etaf Rum
Travelers - Helon Habila
Trust Exercise - Susan Choi
The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides
The Intuitionist - Colson Whitehead
A People’s History of Heaven - Mathangi Subramanian
The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
This is Paradise: Stories - Kristiana Kahakauwila
Brood - Kimiko Hahn
Don’t Look Now - Daphne du Maurier
How We Fight for Our Lives - Saeed Jones
I Hope You Get This Message - Farah Naz Rishi
Unmarriageable - Soniah Kamal
Bad Endings - Carleigh Baker
The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick - Mallory O’Meara
Shapes of Native Nonficton: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers - ed. Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton
Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass - Mariko Tamaki
Even the Saints Audition - Rachel Jackson
Slay - Britney Morris
#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women - ed. Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale
The Starlet and the Spy - Ji-min Lee
North of Dawn - Nuruddin Farah
Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water - Cameron Barnett
They Called Us Enemy - George Takei
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, and Advice for Living Your Best Life - Ali Wong
The Right Swipe - Alisha Rai
Full Disclosure - Camryn Garrett
Searching for Sylvie Lee - Jean Kwok
Gideon the Ninth - Tasmyn Muir
Stubborn Archivist - Yara Rodrigues Fowler
The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 8: Old is the New New - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie
Never Grow Up - Jackie Chan
“All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans - Roxanna Dunbar-Ortiz
In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado
Blame This on the Boogie - Rina Ayuyang
It - Stephen King
Sea Monsters - Chloe Aridjis
My Fate According to the Butterfly - Gail D. Villanueva
The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 9: “Okay” - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie
The Deep - Rivers Solomon
I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World - Kai Cheng Thom
Mooncakes - Suzanne Walker
BTTM FDRS - Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore
Hot Comb - Ebony Flowers
Notes from a Young Black Chef - Kwame Onwuachi
Bunny - Mona Awad
The Twisted Ones - T. Kingfisher
Shuri, Vol. 1: The Search for Black Panther - Nnedi Okorafor
I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir - Malaka Gharib
Thick: And Other Essays - Tressie McMillan Cottom
Royal Holiday - Jasmine Guillory
Boxers - Gene Luen Yang
Saints - Gene Luen Yang
Fox 8 - George Saunders
The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa
Last Day - Domenica Ruta
Wakanda Forever - Nnedi Okorafor
The Revisioners - Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
The Future of Another Timeline - Annalee Newitz
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir - Samra Habib
Somewhere in the Middle: A Journey to the Phillipines in Search of Roots, Belonging, and Identity - Deborah Francisco Douglas
Crier’s War - Nina Varela
Something in Between - Melissa de la Cruz
The Secrets We Kept - Lara Prescott
The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir - Ernestine Hayes
One of Us is Lying - Karen M. McManus
Piecing Me Together - Renee Watson
Binti - Nnedi Okorafor
The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
Recursion - Blake Crouch
Supper Club - Lara Williams
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Five lines tag
Thanks @dyrewrites for the tag!
Rules: find five lines based on the prompts you're given, then change ONE of the prompts at the end!
A line about a weapon
From The Secret Portal Part One
Kwasiyaa watched the battle begin to disappear, and glimpsed her sister locked in a one-on-one struggle with a tall figure, dwarfing Atsila by comparison. From here, Kwasiyaa could make out the figure pulling out something bright, holding it steady and out of Atsila’s sight. Kwasiyaa squinted, trying to figure out what it was, but before she could, her sister’s body convulsed as the light was jammed into her stomach.
A sad line
From The Secret Portal Part Two (Gwen POV)
Lexi paused from texting, finally looking up at me. “You’re the one who got her dust all over yourself. Why aren’t you feeling bad about not being able to grab her in time? She literally slipped between your fingers, and you don’t even seem that broken up about it! How can you sit there with your boyfriend and pretend things are alright when one of our friends is gone and it’s your fault!? How does guilt not plague your mind when your sleep?” Lexi was breathing heavily, obviously shaking as she tried to hold back tears, her face contorting to control herself. Yes, her words hurt, but I figured out who they were really directed at. “You blame yourself for not being able to reach out for her,” I whispered.
A line with taste
From The Secret Portal Part Two (Carmen POV)
A sickening feeling pierced my stomach as we tumbled through the shadows. I couldn’t see anything. I was only aware of Atsila’s hand gripping mine tightly. I hated the dark. The shadows. The isolation. But Atsila was there, not letting go. I suddenly lurched forward, as if I was in a transport that suddenly jolted to a halt. I collapsed into Atsila’s arms, almost pulling her over due to our height difference. She steadied me and helped me to stand up straight. “I’m going to be sick,” I said suddenly and threw up over the nearest bush. I straightened up and turned to Atsila. “Thanks,” I said, the taste of bile still in my mouth.
A line that is whimpered
From The Secret Portal Part One (Jedi POV) - CW: parental abuse via fantasy violence
“I told your mother you should go to a school of nullocks like yourself.” “I’d like that,” I said, hoping agreeing would help. “I would rather not get bullied.” My father stepped into the room, keeping the door open. As he neared my bed, I sank further into the pillow. He leaned over me, his arm on the other side of the bed, trapping me. I found myself staring into his gray eyes—the only feature we shared. “Agreeing with me now, boy? Trying to get on my good side?” “No,” I said, voice small. “I just happened to agree with you.” He stood up straight. He raised his hand, and that same sharp, burning pain was felt in my head. “Stop,” I whimpered, pressing my hands to my temples. “If you’re getting bullied at school, we should toughen you up.”
A funny line
From The Secret Portal Part Two (Lexi POV)
“Lexi!” I looked up to see Akash waving me over. Gwen, Hye-Jin, and Noelle shared the table with him. “If the total nerds are boring you, come join us!” Maddie waved a mocking “bye,” which Ash and Robbie immediately joined in on before returning to their conversation. I grabbed my planner, smiled, and went, “Bye, nerds,” as I stood and went to the others, joining them at the round table they were based at. “What are we talking about here?” I asked as I sat between Akash and Noelle. “If you were a worm, how long would you be?” Akash asked. I couldn’t hold back the laugh that escaped me. “What?” “We were not discussing that,” Noelle said, but I could tell she was amused.
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A sad line
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can you recommend poets that are women of color to support pls!
I had to physically tell myself no! after this started turning epically long. A few women of color poets to consider and some of their poems and books that I’ve enjoyed or wish I had right now.
Women of color poets that will be published in 2019
Morgan Parker —Magical Negro (Tin House Books) is forthchoming and There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce (Tin House Books) is a favorite
Franny Choi —  Soft Science is forthcoming but she also published Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press) in 2017
Sally Wen Mao —Oculus and I’ve been eager to read her earlier Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books)
Omotara James —Mama Wata (Siren Songs / Civil Coping Mechanisms) is forthcoming and 2018′s Daughter Tongue (New-Generation African Poets) (Akashic Books) was one of the main reasons I bought the chapbook box set
Eve L. Ewing —1919 (Haymarket Books) is forthcoming and Electric Arches (Haymarket Books) is a favorite.
Camonghne Felix — Build Yourself a Boat (Haymarket Books) and I loved her set of poems in Winter Tangerine’s Lineage of Mirrors.
Hala Alyan— The Twenty-Ninth Year (Mariner Books)
Women of color poets that have been or will be published in 2018
Fatimah Asghar —If They Come for Us (One World) is one of my favorites of 2018
Kristin Chang — Past Lives, Future Bodies (Black Lawrence Press) was an instant preorder
Leila Chatti — Tunsiya/Amrikiya (Bull City Press) and Ebb (New-Generation African Poets) (Akashic Books) are both some of my favorites of 2018
Shauna Barbosa —Cape Verdean Blues (University of Pittsburgh)
Tiana Clark — I Can’t Talk about the Trees Without the Blood (University of Pittsburgh)
Simone Person —her book of short stories Dislocate is forthcoming from Honeysuckle Press but she’s also written poetry, especially loved this set of poems in Menacing Hedge)
Jody Chan —haunt (Damaged Goods Press) was an instant preorder, her haunting poem unpacking was in BOAAT Press’ May/June issue)
Raquel Salas Rivera —Lo terciario / The Tertiary (Timeless, Infinite Light)
Joan Naviyuk Kane —  Sublingual (Finishing Line Press)
Kanika Lawton — both Loneliness, and Other Ways to Split a Body (Ghost City Press) and Wildfire Heart (The Poetry Annals) are wonderful (and free!), you can choose to tip on the former.
Adeeba Shahid Talukder — What Is Not Beautiful (Glass Poetry Press) 
Nichole Perkins — Lilith, but Dark (Publishing Genius Press) got a 5/5 from Roxane Gay so that has piqued my interest
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza —Outside Of The Body There Is Something Like Hope (Big Lucks) is a limited run chapbook that I’ve set multiple reminders for (the 22nd!) though if you want the accompanying shirt it’s only on sale through the 21st.
Jerika Marchan — SWOLE (Futurepoem) has me intrigued because it’s from Futurepoem and because it was on SPD’s bestsellers list.
Sneha Subramanian Kanta — synecdoche (The Poetry Annals) and Prosopopoeia (Ghost City Press) are free (!), you can choose to tip on the latter.
Talin Tahajian —the smallest thing on earth (Bloom Books)
Britteney Black Rose Kapri — Black Queer Hoe (Haymarket Books). The buzz around this book has been pretty high so I preordered.
Zaina Alsous — Lemon Effigies (Anhinga Press)
Aimee Nezhukumatathil — Oceanic (Copper Canyon Press)
Jenny Xie — Eye Level (Graywolf Press)
Ada Limón — The Carrying (Milkweed Editions) was so beautiful I bought the audiobook after reading the ebook on Scribd.
Analicia Sotelo — Virgin (Milkweed Editions)
Jennifer Givhan—Girl with Death Mask (Indiana University Press)
Emily Jungmin Yoon — A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco)
Jennifer S. Cheng —Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems (Tarpaulin Sky Press)
Gwen Benaway — Holy Wild (Bookth*g). I’ve been reading her recent essays, her forthcoming poetry collection will be my introduction to her poetry.
Carmen Giménez Smith — Cruel Futures (City Lights Publishers)
Tarfia Faizullah — Registers of Illuminated Villages (Graywolf Press)
Nabila Lovelace — Sons of Achilles (YesYes Books)
Noor Hindi —  Diary of a Filthy Woman (Porkbelly Press)
Women of color poets that were published in 2017 or earlier
Mahogany L. Browne — Kissing Caskets (YesYes Books) and I loved her poem    ^^^Crownedin BOAAT Press.
Victoria Chang — Barbie Chang (Copper Canyon Press) but what I’ve really been enjoying is her recent OBIT series.
Eunsong Kim —Gospel of Regicide (Noemi Press)
Erika L. Sánchez —Lessons on Expulsion (Graywolf Press) is a favorite. 
Natalie Wee — Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines (Words Dance Publishing) is a favorite.
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal — Beast Meridian (Noemi Press)
Rachel McKibbens —  blud (Copper Canyon Press)
Leila Ortiz — Girl Life (Recreation League) & A Mouth Is Not a Place (dancing girl press). Loved her poem “I’m an Apocalyptic Puta” in The Felt.
Sennah Yee — How Do I Look? (Metatron)
Jennifer Maritza McCauley — Scar on/Scar Off (Stalking Horse Press)
Natalie Diaz —When My Brother Was an Aztec (Copper Canyon Press) is a favorite but I also really loved “Skin Light” and her collaboration with Ada Limón. She’s also been curating a poetry series New Poetry by Indigenous Women over at Literary Hub.
Melissa Lozada-Oliva —  peluda (Button Poetry)
Darshana Suresh —Howling at the Moon (Platypus Press)
Venetta Octavia — Prelude to Light (Platypus Press), The Alchemy of Smallness, and Sky-Doctrine
Jennifer Chang — Some Say the Lark (Alice James Books)
Layli Long Soldier — WHEREAS (Graywolf Press)
Other Women of Color Poets
Jessica Abughattas —  12 Palestinian Writers Respond to the Ongoing Nakba
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gianssnow · 4 years
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Bilancio cinematografico del decennio
Un decennio si è chiuso, sempre che si sia della scuola di pensiero secondo cui gli anni '10 vanno dal 2010 al 2019 e non dal 2011 al 2020. Poco male, perché la lista che qui presenterò ha più buchi di uno scolapasta, causa mancata visione di tantissime opere, e verrà perciò rivista molte e molte volte: è solo una fotografia di fine decennio. Il criterio è banalissimo, e ha l'implacabilità della matematica: i film migliori sono quelli a cui ho dato come voto 10 o 9, i peggiori quelli a cui ho attribuito un voto da 0 a 5. Pare essere stato un decennio eccellente per il cinema d'animazione, mentre fra i film inguardabili non manca mai l'apporto insostituibile del cinema indipendente e della fantascienza pretenziosa, e anche il genere drammatico non sembra godere di ottima salute, contaminato e corrotto dalla modernità. Ma bando alle chiacchiere e si parte!
I film migliori:
Still Life (Gran Bretagna - 2013) - Drammatico - di Uberto Pasolini. Voto: 10
Toy Story 3 - La grande fuga (USA - 2010) - Animazione - di Lee Unkrich. Voto: 10
Inside Out (USA - 2012) - Animazione - di Pete Docter e Ronnie Del Carmen. Voto: 10
Interstellar (USA - 2014) - Fantascienza - di Christopher Nolan. Voto: 10
La mia vita da zucchina (Svizzera - 2016) - Animazione - di Claude Barras. Voto: 9
Ready Player One (USA - 2018) - Fantascienza - di Steven Spielberg. Voto: 9
Madre! (USA - 2017) - Orrore - di Darren Aronofsky. Voto: 9
Rango (USA  - 2011) - Animazione - di Gore Verbinski. Voto: 9
Little Sister (Giappone - 2015) - Famiglia - di Hirokazu Koreeda. Voto: 9
La La Land (USA - 2016) - Musicale - di Damien Chazelle. Voto: 9
The Hateful Eight (USA - 2015) - Western - di Quentin Tarantino. Voto: 9
Sette minuti dopo la mezzanotte (USA - 2016) - Fantastico - di Juan Antonio Bayona. Voto: 9
La storia della principessa splendente (Giappone - 2013) - Animazione - di Isao Takahata. Voto: 9
Revenant (USA - 2015) - Avventura - di Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Voto: 9
La grande bellezza (Italia - 2013) - Drammatico - Di Paolo Sorrentino. Voto: 9
I film peggiori:
L’ora più buia (Gran Bretagna - 2017) - Biografico - di Joe Wright. Voto: 5
Il passato (Francia - 2013) - Drammatico - di Asghar Farhadi. Voto: 5
Al di là delle montagne (Cina - 2015) - Drammatico - di Jia Zhangke. Voto: 5
Dogman (Italia - 2018) - Drammatico - di Matteo Garrone. Voto: 5
Drive (USA - 2011) - Crimine - di Nicolas Winding Refn. Voto: 5
Loveless (Russia - 2017) - Drammatico - di Andrey Zvyagintsev. Voto: 5
I Saw the Devil (Corea del Sud - 2010) - Azione - di Jee-woon Kim. Voto: 5
Animali notturni (USA - 2016) - Drammatico - di Tom Ford. Voto: 5
Veronica (Spagna - 2017) - Orrore - di Paco Plaza. Voto: 5
Re della terra selvaggia (USA - 2012) - Avventura - di Benh Zeitlin. Voto: 5
Adaline - L'eterna giovinezza (USA - 2015) - Sentimentale - di Lee Toland Krieger. Voto: 5
Super 8 (USA - 2011) - Fantascienza - di J. J. Abrams. Voto: 5
Alice in Wonderland (USA - 2010) - Fantastico - di Tim Burton. Voto: 5
Blade Runner 2049 (USA - 2017) - Fantascienza - di Denis Villeneuve. Voto: 4.5
Arrival (USA - 2016) - Fantascienza - di Denis Villeneuve. Voto: 4.5
Il club (Cile - 2015) - Drammatico - di Pablo Larraìn. Voto: 4.5
Cold War (Polonia - 2018) - Sentimentale - di Pawel Pawliwowski. Voto: 4
Stray Dogs (Taiwan - 2013) - Drammatico - di Tsai Ming-liang. Voto: 4
Frances Ha (USA - 2012) - Drammatico - di Noah Baumbach. Voto: 3
Tre manifesti a Ebbing, Missouri (USA - 2017) - Drammatico - di Martin McDonagh. Voto: 4
It Follows (USA - 2014) - Orrore - di David Robert Mitchell. Voto: 4
Rapunzel (USA - 2010) - Animazione - di Nathan Greno, Byron Howard. Voto: 4
J. Edgar (USA - 2011) - Biografico - di Clint Eastwood. Voto: 4
Non-Stop (USA - 2014) - Azione - di Jaume Collet-Serra. Voto: 4
Midsommar (USA - 2019) - Orrore - di Ari Aster. Voto: 4
Quella casa nel bosco (USA - 2011) - Orrore - di Drew Goddard. Voto: 3
Manchester by the Sea (USA - 2016) - Drammatico - di Kenneth Lonergan. Voto: 3
Camera Obscura (USA - 2017) - Orrore - di Aaron B. Koontz. Voto: 3
Take Shelter (USA - 2011) - Drammatico - di Jeff Nichols. Voto: 3
Coherence (USA - 2013) - Fantascienza - di James Ward Byrkit. Voto: 2
12 anni schiavo (USA - 2013) - Biografico - di Steve McQueen. Voto: 2
Senza lasciare traccia (USA - 2018) - Drammatico - di Debra Granik. Voto: 1
Biancaneve (USA - 2012) - Commedia - di Tarsem Singh. Voto: 1
Si accettano miracoli (Italia - 2015) - Commedia - di Alessandro Siani. Voto: 0
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"Campeones" de Javier Fesser se lleva el Goya a la mejor película
Sevilla, 2 feb (EFE).- "Campeones", de Javier Fesser, se ha alzado esta noche con el Goya a la mejor película en la 33 edición de los Premios de la Academia de Cine: "antes se llamaba discapacitados intelectuales a estas personas y ahora se les llama campeones", ha asegurado su director al recoger el premio. El filme, que acaparaba once nominaciones, se ha impuesto a sus contrincantes: "El reino" de Rodrigo Sorogoyen; "Carmen y Lola" de Arantxa Echevarría; "Entre dos aguas" de Isaki Lacuesta y "Todos lo saben", dirigida por el iraní Asghar Farhadi. Fesser, que ha bromeado sobre lo difícil que ha sido abrir los sobres agradeciendo en primer lugar el premio a "superglue" por "patrocinar los sobres de la entrega", ha dedicado el galardón "al equipo que tan precioso recuerdo nos ha dejado a todos". "Cuando empezamos a sumergirnos en el universo de las personas con discapacidad intelectual había una denominación para ellos de 'discapacitados intelectuales' y luego 'personas con discapacidad intelectual' y más tarde 'personas con capacidades diferentes' y ahora 'campeones', personas que son capaces de luchar por todos aquello que aman", ha subrayado el director. A continuación han subido todos los protagonistas al escenario y José de Luna, que interpreta al "jugador" Juanma, ha dicho que estaba "de verdad emocionado", ha dado las gracias a Sevilla y a la película: "que la gente sepa que podemos trabajar en el mundo del cine". Esta historia de superación y de reivindicación de la diferencia, con un elenco de actores con distintos tipos de discapacidad, ha sido también la película más taquillera del año en España con una recaudación de 19 millones de euros y 3,2 millones de espectadores. Además, fue el título elegido por los académicos para representar a España en la carrera hacia los Óscar, aunque ya se ha quedado fuera. Javier Gutiérrez interpreta al segundo entrenador de un equipo de baloncesto de primera división que, tras provocar un accidente de tráfico borracho, es condenado a hacer un servicio a la comunidad, entrenar a un equipo de discapacitados. El equipo de la película "Campeones" tras recibir el Goya a la Mejor películ durante la gala de entrega de los Premios Goya 2019. EFE El director Javier Fesser (d) y los productores de la película "Campeones" tras recibir el premio a "Mejor película", durante la gala de entrega de los Premios Goya 2019, que se celebra esta noche en el Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos de Sevilla. EFE
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Everything I read in 2018
I read the following books in 2018, in chronological order.
Books with an asterisk(*) particularly affected me. My top five-ish are: Alice Notley -- The Descent of Alette, Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- Interstices, Kiki Petrosino -- Witch Wife, Terrance Hayes -- American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, Selah Saterstrom -- Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics, and Ottessa Moshfegh -- My Year of Rest and Relaxation.
This year, I also read a lot for Inverted Syntax, a new literary journal for which I’m an editor.
See jesicacarsondavis.net for previous years.
Full list ——————————
Arundhati Roy -- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Barbara Mauriello -- Making Memory Boxes Richard McGuire -- Here Tana French -- The Secret Place Dylan Krieger -- Giving Godhead Roberto Bolaño -- The Savage Detectives Renee Gladman -- Newcomer Can’t Swim Melissa Kwasny -- Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950 Philip K. Dick -- Ubik Paula Hawkins -- Into the Water Jean Valentine -- Shirt in Heaven Alex Lemon -- Feverland Sawnie Morris -- Her, Infinite Don Delillo -- White Noise *Selah Saterstrom -- Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics Gregory Dowling -- Ascension Elizabeth Robinson -- Rumor CAConrad -- While Standing in Line for Death Renee Gladman -- Prose Architectures Ellen Bryant Voigt -- Headwaters CAConrad -- YOU DON'T HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE MY NEMESIS Tana French -- The Trespasser Donna Tartt -- The Little Friend *Rachel Cusk -- Outline Taisia Kitaiskaia -- Literary Witches Tara Nolan -- Raised Bed Revolution Sarah Waters -- The Little Stranger Halle Butler -- Jillian Meg Wolitzer -- The Wife Michelle Tea -- Modern Tarot Courtney Weber -- Tarot for One Bethany C. Morrow -- Mem *Samantha Hunt -- The Seas Rosalie Knecht -- Who Is Vera Kelly? *jamie mortara -- some planet Christina Dalcher -- Vox Jennifer Egan -- Look at Me Peter Frase -- Four Futures: Life After Capitalism Carmen Maria Machado -- Her Body and Other Parties Fatimah Asghar -- If They Come for Us Laura Lippman -- Every Secret Thing Allison E. Joseph -- Corporal Muse Jessica Knoll -- Luckiest Girl Alive Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English -- Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers Alexander Chee -- How to Write an Autobiographical Novel Ilene Rosen -- Saladish *Kiki Petrosino -- Witch Wife Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett -- Good Omens *Terese Marie Mailhot -- Heart Berries Dorothea Lasky -- Milk *Rebecca Makkai -- The Great Believers Timothy Snyder -- On Tyranny Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Poetry as Insurgent Art Monica McClure -- Tender Data *Alice Notley -- The Descent of Alette J. T. Ellison -- Lie to Me Yoel Hoffmann (Ed.) -- Japanese Death Poems *Ottessa Moshfegh -- My Year of Rest and Relaxation Sherwin Bitsui -- Dissolve *Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- Interstices Diane di Prima -- The Poetry Deal Megan Abbott -- The Fever Karen Auvinen -- Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living *Modern Women -- Many Moons 2018 Vol 2: July - December Nicolai Houm -- The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland *Terrance Hayes -- American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
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