Patrycja
@jej_sen
author of WE CONTAIN LANDSCAPES (@Tin_House, forthcoming March 2025) • editor @seventhwavemag • daughter of Polish immigrants
COVER REVEAL(!) for We Contain Landscapes out March 18, 2025 with @Tin_House my book is available for preorder(!) wherever you buy books. many people to thank & much to tell you in the coming seasons. for now, check out this gorgeous cover & TH page<3 tinhouse.com/book/we-contai…
Someday soon, what’s been obvious to so many of us from the beginning will be understood by everyone: that if a city can be reduced to rubble with its people held captive inside, if they can be starved in full view of the world, everything is permitted, and this threatens us all.
grateful for print media keeping on despite 🖤 poems from We Contain Landscapes in the latest issues of BRINK & @WestBranchMag
Patrycja Humienik 💙 “A child is the wrong technology for dreaming.” from WE CONTAIN LANDSCAPES (Tin House) @jej_sen
10 collections from 2025 we can’t stop thinking about ✨📚 @yo_adrianididit / @JoseHernandezDz / @jej_sen / @Tin_House / @CopperCanyonPrs / @sarabandebooks / @KyleMarbut / @nicholls_evan / @FutureTenseBook
“Is it not my purpose to see where, exactly, laughter has rivered around the eyes I adore?” — Patrycja Humienik . . . This poem appeared in We Contain Landscapes by Patrycja Humienik, published by Tin House, 2025. Shared here with deep gratitude.
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“The moral component of history, the most necessary component, is simply a single question: When it mattered, who sided with justice & who sided with power? What makes moments such as this one so dangerous, so clarifying, is that one way or another everyone is forced to answer”
Can't express how excited I am to share today's conversation with Omar El Akkad, about a book I'll surely be thinking alongside for a long time. A map, a guide, a thinking through, and a breakup letter with the American dream. Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar-e…
A massive supermarket strike is brewing, with 150,000 workers moving toward a walkout. 56,000 workers in Washington, Idaho and Oregon have voted to authorize strikes at Albertsons and Kroger. Grocery workers across Colorado have also authorized a strike, and more could follow.
if you're in/near Philly, i'll be there next Tuesday 6/17! reading at this poetry salon & fundraiser for Palestine with @miaadrikang & Tamiko Beyer, with the 5-3-5 series. rsvp here: tinyurl.com/3wkp85zd (also reading in NYC on 6/13 Brooklyn Poets 7pm & 6/16 KGB 730pm 🖤)
tomorrow is the last day to register for this generative class i’m teaching in person at @BrooklynPoets on Sunday, 6/15. come write & read with me! more details here: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/on-…
Minneapolis! reading from WCL (@Tin_House) alongside brilliant poets @caesarah_, @tagreathouse & Tarik Dobbs tonight at @Milkweed_Books’ Open Book, 6pm CT 🖤
grateful to @caesarah_ for this conversation in @BOMBmagazine about We Contain Landscapes (@Tin_House) ♥️our friendship in poems began years ago on twitter, reading early drafts of each other's books bombmagazine.org/articles/2025/…
“Amidst the reckless pace of an increasingly urgent world, I’m interested in the pause a question makes possible. Poetry lives there.” —Patrycja Humienik Writer Sarah Ghazal Ali interviews WE CONTAIN LANDSCAPES (@Tin_House) author Patrycja Humienik. tinyurl.com/33ksku72
Tonight! Tonight!
Seattle launch for We Contain Landscapes (@Tin_House) Wednesday 5/21! 7pm at Common Objects, ft 12 dreamy poets reading a poem each. grateful to be back in the PNW where i wrote much of this book 🖤 free rsvp: tixtree.com/e/we-contain-l…
Seattle launch for We Contain Landscapes (@Tin_House) Wednesday 5/21! 7pm at Common Objects, ft 12 dreamy poets reading a poem each. grateful to be back in the PNW where i wrote much of this book 🖤 free rsvp: tixtree.com/e/we-contain-l…
"Poetry is so common hardly anyone can find it." - Alice Notley (1945-2025)
Join us for our next Reading Series on Friday, June 13th, featuring poets @jej_sen, t’ai freedom ford & @arianareines! Free and open to the public, the event will also be livestreamed via Zoom. tickettailor.com/events/brookly…
The @whitneymuseum cancelled a performance mourning the genocide in Gaza—No Aesthetic Outside My Freedom, by Noel Maghathe, Fadl Fakhouri, Fargo Tbakhi, scores by Natalie Diaz, Christina Sharpe, me—saying that it "valorized specific acts of violence" t.ly/92aDK