Jarrett Moseley
@darkwebtofu
Gratitude List (Bull City Press, 2024) //Poems: @Pshares, @AGNImagazine, @POETSorg @BaltimoreEditor, @WaxwingMag, etc.| Tin House ‘23
I have 5 poems in this issue—including this, one of my favorites I’ve ever written and which I’ve been trying to place for years. Check out the rest of the issue & great poets in it below—
Our new issue is officially live! Please read and share these wonderful pieces! waxwingmag.org
This bill is despicable, and more proof that our legislators only see human beings in the abstract—so many will suffer because they have no spines
One of the most brutal days in American history, on the brink of 17M losing Medicaid, 3.2M losing SNAP, massive wealth transfer to billionaires, 20x expansion of ICE. But @NAAhq (landlord lobby) takes a victory lap, calling this cruel bill a "95% win for the housing industry."
Tree Heads reunite
Ildikó Enyedi's 'SILENT FRIEND' will premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Starring Tony Leung and Léa Seydoux, the film tells three stories connected to a tree over a period of time in years 1908, 1972 and 2020.
One day I’ll write a book of essays about all of the insane people I dealt with while working at a call center for a university’s billing and payment office
Submissions to Shō Poetry Journal are always free for Native American and Indigenous Canadian poets. Details: shopoetryjournal.submittable.com Cover Art from "In Gilded Walls" by Tanya Rastogi, Shō No. 6 (Winter 2024/25)
Wow—I’m truly honored (and shocked)! My manuscript Rehumanization Litany received an honorable mention for the VU Literary Prize. So grateful for this recognition. Huge congratulations to Melissa Range and all the other semifinalists!
... I love this life, I whisper into my doctor’s stethoscope so she can hear my heart. My heart, an heirloom I didn’t inherit until I thought I could die. —Andrea Gibson, RIP (from the second half of this stunning poem, "In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice...")
Eric Garner was killed on this day in 2014. If I ever get to teach a class on how to write about other people, this would be the first piece we would look at.
You gave me grief, and how to grieve. -Rebecca Lindenberg, from Love, An Index
that car battery had the opportunity to do the funniest thing imaginable
Andrew Cuomo just posted this video on threads with no caption.
One of the most important parts of creating art is Going On A Walk
Thank you CVS for sending a letter to my dad’s house saying I need to fill my PrEP
On a train, thinking about these two sections from Ocean Vuong’s poem Not Even This
Dimitrov breaking Sinner in the first set??? Djokovic/Alcaraz 3rd consecutive Wimbeldon final incoming....
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Sick and injured patients in the hospitals are also starving. chuffed.org/project/136892…. After being hit by shrapnel, or undergoing surgery, or suffering from illnesses, these cases have no nutritional support and no strength for their bodies to heal. As they are fighting hard to…
Any time I see liberals blaming Kamala critics for the horrors of this administration it’s really appalling. It’s the Democrat’s responsibility to field a candidate that can win, not the people’s responsibility to lie down and not speak about about what’s wrong w that candidate