12/10: round-up

Happy Friday, folks!

Here’s what I have for you today:

• Housekeeping

• Resources

• What I read last week

• Quotations

• Tweets

Onward!

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Housekeeping:

As always:

I’m selling 5 books for $30 to raise funds for The West Review’s contributors. Free shipping. You can tell me what you’re looking for or let me surprise you. They’re generally brand-new to lightly-annotated by yours truly. I will also include stickers or a lil zine, if I remember.

Alternately,

you can receive a surprise book in the mail every month for $10 monthly. FUN!!!!

What else?

1) Ugly Duckling Presse shared my review of Saretta Morgan’s Feeling Upon Arrival on their Instagram, which was sweet.

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You can read the full microreview here.

& you can read the full chapbook here.

2) Also I got my first-ever essay accepted by one of my favorite journals & am a puddle about it. I’m so happy.

Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

just got my first essay acceptance .................. why am i cryign

3) I’m (e-)tabling at the East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest, so it’s a great time to remind you that a) I make zines and b) you can buy them!

They’re all on sale today through Monday.

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Resources:

Open markets:

16 Literary Magazines Accepting New Writers - Paying markets

A hot take from Sarah Manguso:

The fastest way to revise a piece of work is to send it, late at night, to someone whose opinion you fear. Then rewrite it, praying you’ll finish in time to send a new version by morning.

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What I’m reading

What I read last week:

• “Messy Bedrooms: Dodie Bellamy’s Gospel of Excess,” Leslie Jamison

• Poetry is Not a Project, Dorothea Lasky

• 300 Arguments, Sarah Manguso

What I’m reading next week:

• The entirety of Ugly Duckling Presse’s free online chapbook archive. Discovering it has made me happier than anything else maybe ever.

Other recommendations:

May Swenson, always.

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Quotations:

You might as well start by confessing your greatest shame. Anything else would jsut be exposition.

-Sarah Manguso

I want to preserve my old longings.

-Sarah Manguso

I was afraid of my feeling. It was more powerful than God. If we’d ever spoken it might have burned the whole place down.

-Sarah Manguso

I want to shed my fears one by one until there is nothing left of me.

-Sarah Manguso

Poetry has everything to do with existing in a realm of uncertainty.

-Dorothea Lasky

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Tweets:

matt @mattxiv

y’all are so worried about keeping the christ in christmas that u forgot to keep the christ in christian. smh

dana with a d @terriblytrans

lesbian sex is dangerous because you're like okay let's be quick and then all of a sudden it's three am

Devon Price @drdevonprice

peppering words like "ichoate" and "snarls of hair" into my writing like i think i'm joanna newsom

Teen Vogue @TeenVogue

"The idea of trying to direct in the future excites me." 😍tnvge.co/6NKQI1T

tnvge.coZendaya Wants to Make a “Love Story About Two Black Girls”In a new feature with Interview magazine, Zendaya opened up about “Euphoria” some of her dream projects.

b. r. @thebryreed

may we never confuse luxury for liberation. may our connections deepen so much that folks know we cannot vacation ourselves out of the imperial core’s violence.

blue @SERPENTINEWHORE

yt non binary tme ppl will scream “i don’t owe anyone androgyny!!!!” til they bust a lung & they’re right! but they also need to accept that ppl assuming that they’re cis(het), on top of being yt, protects them frm a world of shit that’s literally k_lling trans (esp tma) poc

Sonia Weiser @weischoice

in lieu of an end of the year accomplishment list, allow me to present a taxonomy of my most self destructive episodes...

AJ Soprano’s xl coal chamber hoodie @tacobellaswan

@brrratfink @bimbotheory @daemonumx Ariana grande fans Raccoons 🤝 Emotionally charged and escalated defense of garbage

New York Post @nypost

Pope Francis says extramarital sex sins aren't that 'serious' trib.al/jGcr1b5

Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

why when a person with a doctorate asks to be called "doctor" everything's fine & dandy but when i, with my master's degree, ask to be called "master" i'm being "creepy" & "need to leave the mcdonald's playplace"

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Have a good weekend!

-Despy

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