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he/she/they | writing something like a memoir or an essay collection. sometimes a poet. Read me (to filth?) in Split Lip Mag, swamp pink & more!

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Congratulations on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY! Contributors @maxpasakorn.bsky.social and @officialmchangpoet.bsky.socialโ€ฌ both have chapbooks listed in New Delta Review's Chapbook Competition Shortlist!

25.05.2025 13:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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no I am not at AWP (& honestly the FOMO is SO REAL) but I somehow received this very special message from THE JANE WONG whose Tin House memoir I absolutely DEVOURED like a chicken wingโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ courtesy of Shze-Hui Tjoa who introduced me to Jane as her biggest fan in Singaporeโ€ฆ

30.03.2025 06:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

my poem has been nominated for Best New Poets!!!!! ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ

24.03.2025 13:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you're wondering whether you should promote your book or your latest publication now with all the chaos, the answer is yes. We need your words. We need to flood the channels with art and literature. So go for it, friends.

03.02.2025 21:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3710    ๐Ÿ” 548    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 110    ๐Ÿ“Œ 36
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Fresh off the press: FOUR new poems about my hometown, all titled โ€œBangkok, Thailandโ€ in The Seventh Waveโ€™s community anthologies!! Thank you my editor Para for your keen eye loving and editing these poems with me!! Read them at theseventhwave.org/publication/...

04.02.2025 01:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The first ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY of the month brings us an interview ๐Ÿฅฐ Contributor @recycledgiraffe.bsky.social interviewed Anton Hur about TOWARD ETERNITY for @wwborders.bsky.social . Enjoy this conversation on exploring possibility: https://buff.ly/42B43tL

02.02.2025 14:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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have some new poems dropping tomorrow!! so, as a little teaser, hereโ€™s a very relevant screenshot from Finnish Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

02.02.2025 15:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A poem about queer joy reprinted in an anthology from my Alma mater. Inspired by Franny Choiโ€™s โ€œScience Fictionโ€. I also love dissing poor innocent straight people. ๐Ÿ˜† #FuckAroundandFindOut

23.01.2025 12:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Woke up this morning to a beautiful rejection email for my poetry chapbook andโ€ฆ Iโ€™m so ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ I was about to abandon this project but now I guess I MUST continue writing it!!!

22.01.2025 09:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

conservatism (the overreliance on familiarity) stems from fear, especially when the stakes for one's choices are high. the way to overcome that fear is not (just) risk assessment, but trust. trust that after the choice, it would be better. that's liberty.

28.12.2024 10:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

constantly reminding myself the world is much bigger than i think it is

18.12.2024 18:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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just updated my website (maxpasakorn.works) with a forthcoming publication from The Seventh Wave and I'm so happy I wrote four poems with the same damn title cause this listing got me laughing to myself!! (Shoutout to Para my amazing editor for editing these poems!)

11.12.2024 12:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Im suddenly craving kimchi

11.12.2024 11:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Way to go, Split Lip FAM! Congrats to @sfmontgomery.bsky.social @aniokevincent.bsky.social @claudiamonpere.bsky.social @kimmagowan.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social @brijohnson.bsky.social @cdeskilson.bsky.social @katedoyle.bsky.social @toddedillard.bsky.social @abbiekiefer.bsky.social & many more!

10.12.2024 16:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My mother passed when I was a teenager and I completely get that feeling. The first time we have to confront death makes us realise how much life we have left, regardless of how much life weโ€™ve already been through.

11.12.2024 04:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

500+ stretches my stamina quite a bit and rarely I could go for longerโ€ฆ

10.12.2024 13:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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05.12.2024 19:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

I find that the best books are the ones where you can see sentences sommersaulting words on a page like theyโ€™re flipping soufflรฉ omeletsโ€ฆ every single page, every single sentence.

10.12.2024 12:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This ironically has been the year I found poetry again. Even if the poems arenโ€™t perfect.

10.12.2024 08:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

anal sex is so overrated like gimme cuddles and kisses and maybe a bit of oral anyday

08.12.2024 06:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Ars Poetica
by Aracelis Girmay

May the poems be 
the little snailโ€™s trail. 

Everywhere I go, 
every inch: quiet record

of the footโ€™s silver prayer.
	I lived once. 
	Thank you. 
	It was here.

Ars Poetica by Aracelis Girmay May the poems be the little snailโ€™s trail. Everywhere I go, every inch: quiet record of the footโ€™s silver prayer. I lived once. Thank you. It was here.

one of my favorite, favorite short poems

06.12.2024 21:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 112    ๐Ÿ” 34    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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To the young who want to die.

07.12.2024 01:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 58    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

gosh i really need to pursue the creative writing opportunities in the US. i just need to. Singapore is not only dry but too interpersonally political. Miss maam I'm gonna write about d*ck and c*ck in my poems and the people here write about Thursday afternoons and elderly care.

07.12.2024 16:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My boyfriend and I holding space for Thai iced tea

07.12.2024 12:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Gosh when life is this depressing all I wanna do is escape into books but when I try to read I get distracted by how depressed I am

06.12.2024 01:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Finished Jane Wongโ€™s memoir last night and I was crying-laughing my way to sleep. Itโ€™s so beautiful, like looking into a mirror of my own life, and Iโ€™m sad I canโ€™t experience it for the first time again.

03.12.2024 04:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

omg my first chapbook is really basically sold out after a yearโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ˜ญ I gotta work on my next BOOK already!

02.12.2024 06:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Twitter is basically the used condom of social media.

02.12.2024 00:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27378    ๐Ÿ” 2978    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1202    ๐Ÿ“Œ 301

Every day Iโ€™m collecting little things that I can eventually weave into a lyric essay

02.12.2024 05:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Would love to be part of this! (SLM contributor here)

01.12.2024 16:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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