Kendrick Loo

Also I was at the bird park today when this conversation happened.

Me: wow what a fat bird I love him!!
Friend: you can’t say that
Me: what do you want me to call that bird, plus-sized?

Read Alex Chee’s Queen of the Night and I immediately understood why he and Garth are friends now

Lord let me have the confidence of 2019 me, who posted with abandon because he used social media like a blog and not a professional networking tool.

Cover of Rust & Moth Winter 2023 issue, featuring a line of pickaxe heads exposed in shallow dirt, resembling a human spine.

Submissions are now open for our Spring 2024 issue! Help us welcome the coming year... we read through the 31st of December.

rustandmoth.com/submissions/

Achilles spends eight books (chapters) of The Iliad in his tent with Patroclus because he refuses to fight. I’m not Homer, I’m not Madeline Miller. I’m Saeed Jones and I’m here to remind you that Achilles and Patroclus were FUCKING. That tent smelled like sweat, moans and choices.

Thank you JD! It has been such a dream to edit this journal, to profile the poetry that I think excites me most in Singapore.

It's soooooo small and annoying. I hope your exam goes well, JD!

Maybe subscribe to our Substack column too, where the editors writes an introduction for each selected poem.

Writing these introductions have been a rare treat for me.

kopibreakpoetry.substack.com

Also should mention that the poetry journal I started with best friends Max Pasakorn and Topaz Winters is publishing its 10th poem on Friday!

The first nine poems can be read here: kopibreakpoetry.squarespace.com/journal

Sending out emails for work more like holding out my hand over an open candle flame and saying things like "YEOWCH" and "OUGH" but also going it must be Done.

Intervention – “Gaza as Site and Method: The Settler Colonial City Without Settlers” Nour Joudah, Department of Geography, UCLA; nourjoudah@ucla.edu [Gaza] … does not compel people to cool contemplation, but rather to explosion and a collision with reality. (Mahmoud Darwish) Year af...

This week in our grad methods class we're talking about bespoke methods - when subject matter, site, purpose, ethos, or some other factor necessitates a novel constellation of methods or the invention of new methods: cimsmethods.wordsinspace.net/2023/portfol...

I have to include this:

Korea’s got me so wild I’m ordering double shot coffee at 9pm and going to the skincare store with the family’s shopping list in hand.

Hooray!! We celebrate the small movements xx

Six months later, we can see that the effects of leaving Twitter have been negligible. A memo circulated to NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter, now officially renamed X, though traffic from the platform was small already and accounted for just under two percent of traffic before the posting stopped. (NPR declined an interview request but shared the memo and other information). While NPR’s main account had 8.7 million followers and the politics account had just under three million, “the platform’s algorithm updates made it increasingly challenging to reach active users; you often saw a near-immediate drop-off in engagement after tweeting and users rarely left the platform,” the memo says.

Note for the comms staffers out there weighing risk/benefits of continuing to give credibility to Twitter

I need your tolerance, some days my heart decides to start doing tap dance after just one coffee!

Is the heart still beating? I just had my afternoon cappuccino and finally reading a book I had on my TBR for ages

Tied up there with my mistaken sign off “all beset” which, in the context of work, is truly something

Texted a friend about a football team staying in the hotel and saying “I’ve seen so many boys in their heresies”. Serendipitous.

Thank you so much JD!! Slow and long writing is really one of my favorite ways to review

Get out of my way Mr Pilot I’m getting us to Qatar in record time 😤

Also before I forget — I reviewed Shangyang Fang’s Burying the Mountain, published with Copper Canyon Press, and it was nourishing to spend so much time with poetry again.

https://singaporeunbound.org/suspect-journal/2023/9/8/viewed-aslant

a new poem in the texas review's all poetry issue:

Excited to have a new poem up at Guernica Magazine!

Maybe I’ll fly the plane myself next since the airline is so understaffed. I’m filled with a terrible power brought on by 3am red eye flights.

Winging it in wild ways tonight by checking in my luggage without any help or external checks. Will my luggage arrive safely? Only god knows now.

Better pack sunblock because my poor partner will turn into a brisket if he forgets his

Packing my holiday read (Hanif Abdurraqib's A Little Devil in America) and mentally preparing myself for my partner's excitement at spending days on the beach

I want another 20 JD

There is a non-zero chance a store is playing Pink somewhere at all times in Melbourne. Why is she so popular here!!

The queueing is part of the experience etc etc etc