Chelsea Dingman
@ChelsDingman
Author of Thaw (@ugapress 2017 National Poetry Series) Through a Small Ghost (@ugapress 2020) I, Divided (@lsupress 2023) PhD @ualberta Poetry ed @sweetliterary
It’s the official publication day for this little book! The last year has held so many new things that I have no words for. I’m so grateful to @ugapress & all who made this possible. 🖤
Jill Osier ♥️ “…the day / a world // slipping through its own hands.”
“oh god it’s wonderful / to get out of bed / and drink too much coffee / and smoke too many cigarettes / and love you so much” — Frank O’Hara . . . This poem appeared in Lunch Poems by Frank O’Hara, published by City Lights Books, 1964. Shared here with deep gratitude.
I will say this once again: if someone’s “safety” or “security” requires the mass extermination of a people, then their safety is a genocidal ideology rooted in exceptionalism. It is incompatible with a shared future for humanity.
This morning, all I want is to look unharmed, to know you were meeting me at the mouth of this world. A poem of longing for this day in this world. (From MAKING A LIVING from @Milkweed_Books)
Today’s Featured Poem: “#blessed” by @rosi_ruth from Making a Living published by @Milkweed_Books Read here: poems.com/poem/blessed-2/
Young up-and-coming broadcasters/comms... An opening in Swift Current for the @SCBroncos has been posted: chl.ca/whl-broncos/em…
It’s a good feeling to have my book shortlisted for The Derek Walcott Prize 😍. Also, it’s not too late to get a copy from @OrisonBooks!
Congratulations to Hussain Ahmed, whose collection BLUE EXODUS has been shortlisted for The Derek Walcott Prize, awarded by @arrowsmithpress! The winner will be selected by Ishion Hutchinson & announced in October. Read the announcement at arrowsmithpress.com/walcott.
I need you the way astonishment, which is really just the disruption of routine, requires routine. —Carl Phillips, former Chancellor, born #OTD in 1959 poets.org/poem/western-e…
That is 600,000 people!
#BREAKING One-third of Gaza's population has not eaten in several days, WFP report shows
“The elegies began writing themselves.” A poem by Mary Biddinger.
Starvation, once in motion, even after food & medical care become availabe, remains irreversible for so many of its victims. It's a greater sin than the sin itself to be have spoken only after the sight of skin-on-bones killed Palestinians. An unforgiveable "theology of empire."
“Your your voice had to be that ‘40s wartime voice” A poem by Jean Valentine.
“This is a manmade and politically motivated starvation of a people.”
In #Gaza, people are being starved. Families can’t find flour. People are going without meals for days. Prices have increased by over 4,000 %. The Israeli Authorities have banned 🛑UNRWA from bringing food into Gaza for over 4 months. This is a manmade and politically…