#the poetry foundation

[heavenlyyshecomes]

via jdgtraner & _vajra

#felt i should share bc many people here frequent the site #the poetry foundation #palestine #mine #ok 2 rb

[stratospheric-bebop]

— The Uses of Intelligence, by Caroline Kizer, 1959.

#I really loved this one... gave me such a more fond and expanding perspective of intelligence. #One of my favorite things I've read this month. #So many intellects exists; and yet their attitude towards it can entirely rearrange what intelligence even means- #-and how it takes form. Either in their life or to them or their work and arts. Etcetera... #I've never really thought about intelligence within the context of your attitude towards it and how you specifically equip it; we're sort- #-of taught that intelligence is amalgamated all into this one thing but it's often much broader than that in practice. #And that's just so fascinating... WHATTT! #poetry #the uses of intelligence #caroline kizer #the poetry foundation #quotes #excerpts #words #philosophy #writing #intelligence #poetry on tumblr #poetry on intelligence

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

I went onto the Poetry Foundation's website, looking for one of my favorite Emily Dickinson poems.

I found this article on their homepage. It's the introduction to a curated collection of disability and crip aesthetics poetry. The collection was started in 2017, and they'll continue adding to it through the end of this year (2023).

#the poetry foundation #disability poetics #Zoeglossia #online poetry collection

[thoughtportal]

"Pity me not because the light of day"

By Edna St. Vincent Millay

#poem #poetry #the poetry foundation #Edna St. Vincent Millay

[dumpsterfireofsubtext]

The New Religion - Chris Abani

#ss from: #the poetry foundation #this distance I keep is not divine #Bea core #wheheheheh #such an incredible poem #one of my absolute favourites of All Time #I always always come back to this one #poetry #faves #Chris abani #the new religion

[daughter-of-winterfell]

Poetry Foundation Poem of the Day: 125 years ago today, Bram Stoker’s horror novel Dracula was published.

#poetry #The poetry foundation #Dracula

[goldencrownofsorro]

#audre lorde #movement song #the poetry foundation #poem #poetry

[inkskinned]

in internet posts it is easy to cut them out of your life. they are hurting you! they aren't listening to you!

they held your hair back. they lent you lipstick. they held your hand at the train station and got you home safe. they rounded on your bully, got loud, said get fucked, spitting-mad in your defense.

they also cut the hair off again. told you that you should really think twice before wearing something like that. took you for granted. took your insecurities and threw them in your face again.

you know logically it should be easy. all the internet advice comments always read it will feel better. like an equation - if a person is rotten, you just remove them. you pull the tooth that's hurting.

but it was never a big flare-up moment. you don't live in a sitcom. they never tried to take your boyfriend or steal from your apartment. they showed up to birthdays and they wrote songs about you and bring you water without you asking. once you found out they carry an emergency inhaler for you, even though you haven't had an asthma attack in years - just in case.

where is the line? people fuck up. sometimes they fuck up badly. sometimes people have raw personalities, like a powerline, and being around them is dangerous. addicting. sometimes they can't help themselves, but you know they're trying. sometimes they are just rough-around-the-edges. sometimes they don't even realize how they sounded when they said that. sometimes it's just - you've both loved each other for so long now, the way this thing hurts goes back to the root.

and that's the fucked up part. you have pushed your fingers against the sweetheart of memory. things these days are electric, tense, harrowing. they didn't used to be. there were a lot of good days in there. sometimes you want to just close your eyes and say can this be over yet? do we still need to be fighting?

doing that would give up any chance you get of getting an apology, but you don't always know that you need an apology, you love them. once they flaked on your birthday party. once they told you to get over it, people are always dying. they also let you crash on their couch for a week after the breakup, handfeeding you when you were so sad you couldn't eat. they are also judgmental about everything, occasionally react to banal statements with an attitude that is weird and fiery. they also love you like a lighthouse sometimes, so strong they cut the storm like lightning.

but the problem is that you might be storm. you might be the thing that needs breaking. what if you are two forces who are desperately, horribly drawn to each other, shaped by the other person's passions, and both good for each other and bad in equal measure.

what if you're both just people, and you're no saint neither.

just cut them off! swallowing the saltwater, you catch yourself in the mirror. you've been shaking more than usual. there's an ache in you that is oblique, loud, impossible to soothe. is this what it looks like? when life is "easier"?

your mouth will always have a hole, is the thing, if you remove the tooth.

#spilled ink #warm up #writeblr #this is about someone specific but feel free to blorbo on main. #tbh this is familial for me so that is an element but it's also about childhood best friends #and probably about ur enemies to lovers blorbo #(but i want to specifically say if ur partner is like this. not necessarily a good partnership lol.) #(the dynamics at play in familial/friend relationships feel equally important and in some ways are HARDER to escape. #bc we can see that this is a potentially toxic romantic foundation. #but in family ? ...... it's toxic and it doesn't stop u from loving them. bc u always have. #and i think that makes it harder. by a lot. which is what this is referencing). #but genuinely and really truly forever feel free to tag ur potentially toxic enemies to lovers on this and all my poetry #here i'll do one for u - adora & catra :x

[fiercynn]

poetry outlets that support a free palestine

after finding out that the poetry foundation/POETRY magazine pulled a piece that discussed anti-zionism because they "don't want to pick a side" during the current genocide, i decided to put together a list of online outlets who are explicitly in solidarity with palestine where you can read (english-language) poetry, including, except where otherwise stated, by palestinian poets!

my criteria for this is not simply that they have published palestinian poets or pro-palestine statements in the past; i only chose outlets that, since october 7, 2023, have done one of the following:

published a solidarity statement against israeli occupation & genocide

signed onto the open letter for writers against the war on gaza and/or the open letter boycotting the poetry foundation

published content that is explicitly pro-palestine or anti-zionist, including poetry that explicitly deals with israeli occupation & genocide

shared posts that are pro-palestine on their social media accounts

fyi this is undoubtedly a very small sample. also some of these sites primarily feature nonfiction or short stories, but they do all publish poetry.

outlets that focus entirely on palestinian or SWANA (southwest asia and north africa) literature

we are not numbers, a palestinian youth-led project to write about palestinian lives

arab lit, a magazine for arabic literature in translation that is run by a crowd-funded collective

sumuo, an arab magazine, platform, and community (they appear to have a forthcoming palestine special print issue edited by leena aboutaleb and zaina alsous)

mizna, a platform for contemporary SWANA (southwest asian & north africa) lit, film, and art

the markaz review, a literary arts publication and cultural institution that curates content and programs on the greater middle east and communities in diaspora

online magazines who have published special issues of all palestinian writers (and all of them publish palestinian poets in their regular issues too)

fiyah literary magazine in december 2021, edited by nadia shammas and summer farah (if you have $6 usd to spare, proceeds from the e-book go to medical aid for palestinians)

strange horizons in march 2021, edited by rasha abdulhadi

the baffler in june 2021, curated by poet/translators fady joudah & lena khalaf tuffaha

the markaz review has two palestine-specific issues, on gaza and on palestinians in israel, currently free to download

literary hub featured palestinian poets in 2018 for the anniversary of the 1948 nakba

adi magazine, who have shifted their current (october 2023) issue to be all palestinian writers

outlets that generally seem to be pro-palestine/publish pro-palestine pieces and palestinian poetry

protean magazine (here's their solidarity statement)

poetry online (offering no-fee submissions to palestinian writers)

sundog lit (offering no-fee submissions to palestinian writers through december 1, 2023)

guernica magazine (here's a twitter thread of palestinian poetry they've published) guernica ended up publishing a zionist piece so fuck them too

split this rock (here's their solidarity statement)

the margins by the asian-american writers' workshop

the offing magazine

rusted radishes

voicemail poems

jewish currents

the drift magazine

asymptote

the poetry project

ctrl + v journal

the funambulist magazine

n+1 magazine (signed onto the open letter and they have many pro-palestine articles, but i'm not sure if they have published palestinian poets specifically)

hammer & hope (signed onto the letter but they are a new magazine only on their second issue and don't appear to have published any palestinian poets yet)

if you know others, please add them on!

#poetry #free palestine #fuck you poetry foundation #palestinian poets series

[cupsofsilver]

Via Poetry Foundation

#the poetry foundation #poetry #poem #poets #Korean American #Ae Hee Lee #immigration #immigrants #poetrycommunity

[garadinervi]

Robert Edwards, Stand (in memory of Rachel Corrie), in Seeds of Fire: Contemporary Poetry from the Other USA, Edited by Jon Andersen, Smokestack Books, Middlesbrough, 2008, pp. 51-52

Plus: The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice

#graphic design #poetry #book #robert edwards #rachel corrie #the rachel corrie foundation for peace & justice #jon andersen #smokestack books #2000s

[sophiaphile]

"If You Are Over Staying Woke" by Morgan Parker

#poetry #if you are over staying woke #morgan parker #poetry foundation #willful ignorance #however you can live with yourself 🤢

[thoughtportal]

Zombie Apocalypse Now: The Making Of

By Cathy Linh Che

Cue soundtrack.

The undead include:

              my grandmother, my older sister,

              my uncle, who was a priest,

              four cousins, still children.

They eat the pomelos we set at the altar,

              all in a circle,

              peeling the membranes,

              dropping the segments into each other’s mouths.

I am the director.

The zombies don’t look like zombies.

Just my grandmother,

              unable to speak,

              the flies reanimating

              her body’s giving up.

Just my older sister, all grown now.

              She was a little VC sacrificed

              to show the depravity of war.

              She died and died and died again.

I yell, Cut!, and they ascend into heaven.

Makeup!  I call across the set.

I ask the artists to bruise the undead.

I provide a mood board, artist sketches

composed by my brother,

happy to paint again. It’s a family

production. My father fiddles

with the Super 8. He shakes his head

at the last reel: Too dark.

My mother in costume design,

her head down at the sewing machine,

a measuring tape hangs from the curtain.

She is burning incense,

pouring holy water into the iron.

She stitches the tatters and hand-hems the silk.

She is careful, but we are running low on time.

The light is starting to dim.

I call down my uncle, my cousins,

their faces at the side of the road—

the red terror, a tableau.

I tell them,

Here is the script. Act natural.

This is just like the story

of your lives.

View this poem online

#poem #poetry #the poetry foundation #apocalypse #zombies #war #Cathy Linh Che

[astrowitch]

Just realized that “Ozymandias” and “The Foundations of Decay” have very similar themes

#percy shelley #percy bysshe shelley #romanticism #romantic poetry #19th century literature #emo #alternative rock #alternative #mcr #gerard way #my chemical romance #2000s rock #alt rock #frank iero #mikey way #ray toro #lindsey way #the foundations of decay #ozymandias #swarm

[wotchergiorgia]

#poetry foundation #edgar allan poe #books #poets on poetry #poetry #poem #poesia #poets on tumblr #depressing poem #poetic #love poems #prose poem #writers and poets #romantic poetry #solitude #because there is a big difference between being alone and being lonely #alone with my thoughts #being alone #all alone #you are not alone #always alone #i can be lonely #i needed to share this #i needed to get this out there #inspiration #on writing #writer #writers on tumblr #and all I loved I loved alone

[rosedream]

“The Kiss” by Kurt Brown, from I’ve Come This Far to Say Hello: Poems Selected and New. Source: Poetry Foundation

#poem #poetry #Kurt brown #poetry foundation #poets on tumblr