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"[Cha] was interested in deep, long scales of human time. "
In belated honor of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's birthday (March 4, 1951), revisit "Dictee's Pictures," by Spencer Lee-Lenfield, in #TheMargins. πΌοΈβοΈ
https://aaww.org/dictees-pictures/
Weβre pleased to announce the Sarkisian Workshop Series: Can Storytelling Save Us? βοΈ
π Learn more about the six writing workshops, brought to you by IALA, @miznaarabart.bsky.social, @aaww-nyc.bsky.social & the Sarkisian Foundation for the Arts and Engineering: bit.ly/SWS26
"the rock salt was not afraid of being sea-run"
Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Ars Poetica: Poetry as Lotβs Wife Who Looked Back at the Burning Cities" by Ammara Younas, in #TheMargins. ππͺ¨
aaww.org/ars-poetica-poetry-as-lots-wife-who-looked-back-at-the-burning-cities/
I havenβt shared too much poetry recently - Iβve learned that Iβm not someone who writes very much during crisis, amidst grief. but I have a new one, one of my only new ones, in @aaww-nyc.bsky.socialβs gorgeous new folio edited by Megan Pinto and Kiran Bath π©·
aaww.org/then-the-lak...
Can the reject condition be elevated into art? Spencer Quong considers this in his review of Tony Tulathimutte's story collection, Rejection.
π Read new criticism in #TheMargins at https://aaww.org/the-rejection-trap/
"the most dangerous emergency at sea is fire"
Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Give Me Rough Seas" by Seema Jilani, in #TheMargins. ππ₯
https://aaww.org/give-me-rough-seas/
"Iβd still leave slices of bitter melon behind in my bowl, but the aunties/ would overlook it."
This week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "If They Had Named Me Marion," is by Jia-Rui Cook, whose debut poetry collection just won the 2025 Philip Levine Prize! π₯³ π¦ͺ
https://aaww.org/if-they-had-named-me-marion/
"Tongue tamer, lip purser, performance is/ what you were born for."
Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Ode to α" by April Lim, in #TheMargins. π¨π
https://aaww.org/ode-to-%e1%9e%94/
"Forgetfulness is a type of ingratitude,/ Remembrance a form of prayer."
Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Write in Blood" by Yahia Lababidi in #TheMargins. π§ͺπΏ
https://aaww.org/write-in-blood/
We're thrilled to announce that Tina Chang, Khaled Hosseini, Eugene B. Redmond, and Jordan Pavlin (@aaknopf.bsky.social) will be honored by Poets & Writers at our 2026 Gala on March 23. Congratulations to these exemplary literary citizens! Learn more about our honorees: at.pw.org/Gala26PR
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"Grief never leaves / the way the body holding it does."
Read today's #PoetryTuesday piece, "I didn't apologize to the well" by Alexa Luborsky, in #TheMargins.ππ
https://aaww.org/i-didnt-apologize-to-the-well/
"I stand unheeded, imaginary, / indistinguishable from air."
Read our first #PoetryTuesday piece of the new year, "A Korean Woman Walks Into a Bar in Chicago" by Sara Verstynen, in #TheMargins. ππ¬οΈ
https://aaww.org/a-korean-woman-walks-into-a-bar-in-chicago/
"Aren't all governments/ made up by men of/ might?"
Read two new poems by Rona Luo, "How To Evaluate A Family Genealogy" and "Men of Might", in #TheMargins' #PoetryTuesday column. ππ²
https://aaww.org/two-poems-by-rona-luo/
"your hate unstoppers my spirit. it drifts above my head like a / chandelier."
Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "street smart sunshine" by Michelle Chen, in #TheMargins. πβ
https://aaww.org/street-smart-sunshine/
Feeling so happy and grateful because @aaww-nyc.bsky.social's The Margins has nominated my piece, Unholy, for a Pushcart Prize. :) <3
aaww.org/unholy/
"With me, there is always a high horse you can dangle/ your feet from." π
Read this week's #PoetryTuesday poem, "The Long Revolution" by Bella Zhou, in #TheMargins. π
https://aaww.org/the-long-revolution/
"Iβm alive and I have an appetite / for longing. So let them all in: the birds, / the strays. Even the / things that buzz / in my ear. "
From "Flight Path" by ASU English alum @susanpoet.bsky.social. Read the whole poem @aaww-nyc.bsky.social The Margins: ow.ly/wgmy50XyqHe #ASUHumanities
"our mother tells us:
once there was an autumn. once there was a spring.
once i was a young woman in a big city"
Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "kestane kebap" by Z. Yasmin Waheed, in #TheMargins. ππ
https://aaww.org/kestane-kebap/
"She spoke of the war years./ Discovering the ways a body could rewrite itself after/ its becoming."
Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "1947" by Amrita Chand, in #TheMargins. πΎπ
https://aaww.org/1947-poem/
"Through the warmth of old Beiping recipes, I hope to honor the joy in our inheritance and share the comfort they brought to me."
New in our Transpacific Literary Project, Ge Fang translates two essays by Liang Shih-chiu on a few favorite Chinese snacks. π¬π₯
https://aaww.org/tlp-tastes-of-beiping/
"There is no living in the/ afterlife, grammar corrects me." ποΈ
Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Where are you from?" by Tran Tran, in #TheMargins.
π https://aaww.org/where-are-you-from/
"Get out of the ring, or youβll die in pain | Lumuwas ika o magraan dagos"
Read βA Omegang Babayi,β or βThe Omega Woman,β written by and translated from Bikol by Francisco V. PeΓ±ones, Jr., in #TheMarginsβ latest folio, OSIPON! β€οΈβπ₯π΅π
https://aaww.org/osipon-omegang-babayi-omega-woman/
βin my girlhood, there was no love without sacrifice.β
Read two new poems from Kimberly Nguyen in our #PoetryTuesday column, βdodging the bulletβ and βgoogle search: do abusers know they are abusive.β ππ
β more in #TheMargins: https://aaww.org/two-poems-by-kimberly-nguyen/
Join us on November 23 for our annual publishing conference, PAGE TURNER, featuring a day of stacked panels on navigating the literary and publishing industry as writers of color.
https://aaww.org/curation/pubcon25/
We're so excited to be presented OSIPON, the newest folio from #TheMargins! Featuring poetry, fiction, and literary criticism, Osipon is a folio of six pieces from the Bikol region of the Philippines. π΅π
READ THE FOLIO β€οΈβπ₯ https://aaww.org/tlp-osipon/
"In the dream where you are still alive, you keep reincarnating:"
Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Aubade with American Dream" by Ela Kini (@elakini.bsky.social), in #TheMargins. βοΈ
aaww.org/aubade-with-...
"Safety is a body with/ a place to hide in."
Read "Safety Pin" by Luisa A. Igloria (@thepoetslizard.bsky.social), new in our #PoetryTuesday column in #TheMargins. π§·
aaww.org/safety-pin/
Our History Brings Us Here: A Reading and Conversation with Rhoni Blankenhorn, Luisa Igloria, and Michelle PeΓ±aloza | @aaww-nyc.bsky.social
Date: October 8, 2025 | 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM ET
Type/Location: Virtual
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"I know something about the nation from the way/ it resembles a body that could split another body."
Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "With these crows for hands, I caress a flower" by Yunkyo Moon-Kim, in #TheMargins. π¦ββ¬π·
aaww.org/with-these-c...
"Today I long for your sand-white shore, the crash of tides against my skin, my body floating on your salt-crusted surface." π
Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, βBirth Countryβ by Nghiem Tran, in #TheMargins.
aaww.org/birth-country/