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@chenchenwrites
traveling poet • 2 books @boaeditions • chapbook @ghostcitypress • editor @underblong & @olicketysplit • faculty @necmfa1 • abolish the police & free palestine
let me stay tender-hearted, despite despite despite
🧵Palestinians have sounded the alarm for months over the Israeli-engineered famine starving Gaza’s residents. Support Palestinians on the ground who are keeping each other alive ➡️
as i get older, nice weather is really something precious, something to enjoy, and something to talk about. like yes, this is a big deal. this sun, this light breeze. this is big.
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being a poet:
one of the greatest pleasures in life is just being so annoying
But how does everyone *not* keep an inventory of 15-20 languages they truly plan on learning? —Day Heisinger-Nixon, from “In an Ecosystem, Everything Has a Name”
i was always a gay boy, wasn’t i? so, i was recently asked for photos from my childhood for a poetry-related thing, & i had my mom send me a bunch. this one’s from a family trip to hong kong when i was 3. thanks, mom, for dressing me exactly how i would always dress myself. 💛❤️
my favorite topic of conversation is poetry. like, i'm not kidding! i want to talk about poetry on a friday night! i will! also, i love talking about food while eating different food
and this fine-spun white sadness Federico García Lorca, tr. Christopher Maurer
singing “Torn” by Natalie Imbruglia last night at karaoke was a necessary kind of healing
I am not a saint Because I keep trying to be a sound, something You will remember Once you’ve lived enough not to believe in heaven. —Jericho Brown, from "Deliverance"
… Is it enough That the dish of milk is set out at night, That we think of him sometimes, Sometimes and always, with mixed feelings? —John Ashbery, from “At North Farm”
The soul must be experienced to be achieved. If you love me as much as you say you love me, stay. Let us make a place of that ripeness the soul speaks about. —Linda Gregg, from “God’s Places”
