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J. Mae Barizo

@jmaebarizo.bsky.social

author of tender machines (2023). poet, essayist, post-disciplinary

165 Followers  |  18 Following  |  4 Posts  |  Joined: 11.10.2023  |  1.668

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The cover of J. Mae Barizo’s The Cumulus Effect: a photograph of a rumpled blanket and sheets on a bed in blue light

The cover of J. Mae Barizo’s The Cumulus Effect: a photograph of a rumpled blanket and sheets on a bed in blue light

(7/61) “In the other memory the severed arm speaks. / In the other memory it is as silent as snow.” — @jmaebarizo.bsky.social, “New York” (The Cumulus Effect) @fourwaybooks.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets

07.08.2025 23:24 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I’m late but this essay is wonderful. A meditation on refusing to relinquish joy as much as it is about anything else

16.07.2025 23:25 — 👍 64    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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Remembering #EricGarner, sharing this poem by Ross Gay, posted by poet Othuke Umokoro, from TwX:

17.07.2025 22:04 — 👍 30    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
What do we want in a novel?
YouTube video by minor literature[s] What do we want in a novel?

A conversation about what we want, expect and hope for when we read novels

including contributions from J. Mae Barizo, Nancy Freund, Greg Gerke, Daniel Kennedy, Ben Libman, Alvin Lu, Mikra Namani, Lisa Robertson, Ryan Ruby and more

youtu.be/kmP-ku2Ty0U

28.06.2025 06:03 — 👍 28    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 4
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Cloud Pantoum A poem for Sunday

"Tell me that you do not think of me, that you / have forgotten the wild proscenium of cloud, / how bodies affix and then elide, the sky’s / stenography."

Read a new poem by J. Mae Barizo:

26.01.2025 20:33 — 👍 87    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 0
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"We felt an ache we realized was happiness, almost unbearable."

From @jmaebarizo.bsky.social's book, Tender Machines.

Published by @tupelopress.bsky.social: bookshop.org/a/862/9781946482846

#poem #books #writing

26.06.2025 18:27 — 👍 23    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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From @jmaebarizo.bsky.social's book, Tender Machines. Available from the wonderful @tupelopress.bsky.social: bookshop.org/a/862/978194...

#poetry #jmaebarizo #books

16.02.2025 17:55 — 👍 21    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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Cloud Pantoum A poem for Sunday

a lovely, playful poem by @jmaebarizo.bsky.social:

"Tell me that you do not think of me, that you / have forgotten the wild proscenium of cloud, / how bodies affix and then elide, the sky’s / stenography."

www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

27.01.2025 14:05 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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From @jmaebarizo.bsky.social's book, Tender Machines: bookshop.org/a/862/978194...

#poem #poetry #books #jmaebarizo #writing

22.01.2025 18:22 — 👍 22    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0
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Etel Adnan

09.01.2025 02:13 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Brian Teare

02.12.2024 02:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“A strange time, isn’t it?”

Franz Kafka, 1902

02.12.2024 02:33 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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jean valentine

23.11.2024 01:19 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Hey poets! Check out BERNADETTE MAYER's list of poetry experiments/prompts. Blow your mind and never be stuck again: www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Maye...

21.11.2024 19:32 — 👍 253    🔁 88    💬 12    📌 17

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