round-up: 10/19

reading recs, quotations, tweets, & more

Happy Tuesday, folks!

Here’s what I have for you today:

• Housekeeping

• Love letters

• To read

• Quotations

• Tweets

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Housekeeping:

I’m going to keep saying this until 10/30. I have a lil pop-up in Berkeley, CA happening then. I’ll be selling some great stuff (as will the other vendors!) & will be dressed as Joan Jett. Please come in costume & be my friend.

Also:

Publishing Poems: An Easy Guide remains free. You can download it here.

Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

all, i gave my submission guide a lil visual upgrade. as usual, the e-book is free to download on my website & useful, i think, to poets at different stages of their submission journeys. anyways like i said it's free

bit.lyPublishing PoemsA 46-page e-book containing everything I’ve learned about publishing poems — with my work published/forthcoming in journals like Ploughshares, Guernica, AGNI, Copper Nickel, The Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, and Crazyhorse.(If you have any trouble ord…

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Love letters:

Hi. I love y’all.

Peatsmoke Journal @PsmokeJournal

✨ Peatsmoke Issue 8 goes live tomorrow! ✨ A final teaser of some of the phenomenal artwork featured in this Fall 2022 issue. 🎨 "Playa Viva" by Cyndi Gusler “Seminole Lullaby” by Despy Boutris “Gold Mind” by @Fancille_Art “Heart of the Warren” by @darkreconstruct

🎃 Lane Fields (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴 @yourfriendlane

Last thing! Endless gratitude to @itsdbouts and @The_West_Review for the second Pushcart nom I received for 2021. The care and support so many people (too many to list) have afforded me and my work with in the past couple of years will always mean the world to me. Thank you all.

Luke Johnson @Lukesrant

When is some smart person in California, our motherland, going to book @itsdbouts @Dare_Williams13 & muah for a reading? 1. We’re hot 2. Our lyric verve is yum 3. We’re hot 4. I’m a master whistler 5. We’re hot

Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy

I'm a little behind on my @pshares reading but I just read some knockout poems by @itsdbouts, @FoustRebecca, @letbirds, and @rosswhite in the Winter 2021-2022 Issue. Ask your local library to subscribe so you can read them too . . . bit.ly/3eDo63S #litmag #LitCitizen

Peatsmoke Journal @PsmokeJournal

Issue 8 art spotlight: “Seminole Lullaby” by Despy Boutris @itsdbouts Despy Boutris's writing has been published in Copper Nickel, Guernica, Ploughshares, Crazyhorse, Agni, and elsewhere. Currently, she serves as Editor-in-Chief of The West Review.

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To read:

• Stories of Bill Murray Terrorizing Celebrities Are Spreading Like Wildfire¹

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Quotations:

i hesitate

i know i will

before holding your hand

before kissing your cheek

in public

and for all of that i’m so sorry

all i want to do is move straight

towards your body

my arm your shoulder

my lips your cheek

but i let strangers pull me back

-Laura Buccieri

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There are no unsacred places;
There are only sacred places
And desecrated places.

-Wendell Berry, How to be a Poet

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My investment in the community is very important to the work.

-Catherine Opie

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The underlying basis of all my work has been about the structure of urban and suburban space, and about how communities begin to form.

-Catherine Opie

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I wanted to do […] portraits […] [because] I was getting really tired of the various magazines that were coming out about body modification, where nobody cared about the people, and also nobody had any formal concerns. It was all just to document it in very basic ways, like the nipple with the ring going through it, the penis with whatever, and the representation of it was just all fragmented. It was all about the body, but I wanted it to be about the person as well.

-Catherine Opie

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I am a big old pervert. I like things that supposedly aren’t within the norm.

-Catherine Opie

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I’ve always been interested in being in some way an archeologist or anthropologist. I think of all this stuff as artifacts.

-Catherine Opie

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I’m always trying to make a home for myself, but I can never quite figure out how.

-Catherine Opie

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I got to a point where I had to stop being so out with my body. I started to feel vulnerable.

-Catherine Opie

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Tweets:

Aileen Weintraub @AileenWeintraub

Got all dressed up for a nice dinner and instead spent the eve in the ER in Spain with my kid who is fine now but the point is they gave me a list of meds and told me it would be expensive and I asked how much and they said between 2 & 10 Euros each and I laughed and laughed

ziwe @ziwe

throw every christopher columbus statue in the ocean and let that dizzy bitch think he discovered atlantis

John Legend @johnlegend

Weird how all these “free, independent thinkers” always land at the same old anti blackness and anti semitism.

Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

i love (read: hate) how right-wingers wake up & think "ah, what a great day to terrorize ppl"

Katey Linskey @katey_linskey

grateful this near & dear one found a poem in Last Stanza Poetry Journal. thank you for the inspiration @queerpoetics 🌿

evil slate @PleaseBeGneiss

doctor’s offices are always like “you better get here 30 min early istfg” and then give you a form you’ve filled out a dozen times so you can wait an hour after your appointment for the doctor to walk in hit your knee and then sprint away for $50

arabelle sicardi 英梅 @arabellesicardi

Was in the sea earlier today and a whale came up for air a few meters from me. Intrusive thoughts have nothing on watching a large mammal emerge from the abyss beneath you

#ACAB @OLAASM

#ACAB Daily Digest (October 17, 2022)🧵: Alex Mingus. Legend status. [St. Paul, MN]

anarcho-raccoonist @shanthropology

Free yourselves from the “leftist” organization industrial complex. Just get into mischief with your friends.

jesse @yummygoth

i.. do not... MISS HER!!! [my telekinesis throws everything around the room and when the dust settles it is in the shape of a portrait of her] FUCK

ely kreimendahl @ElyKreimendahl

I feel so bad for queer girls allergic to cats. like how are you gonna get pussy if you’re allergic to pussy

Stephanie “stay thicc, eat the rich” Savicki @stephanie_pdx

I don’t know what I expected out of this Monday morning news cycle but it definitely wasn’t Jason Sudeikis having a mental breakdown over Olivia Wilde making some kind of magical affair salad

Tyler Coates @tylercoates

i distinctly remember olivia wilde telling variety a month ago that "only women come in my movie" (the women, by the way, are being held against their will in a virtual reality setting by men, so, uh...)

Variety @Variety

Olivia Wilde Says ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ Sex Scenes ‘Overshadowed’ Film, Slams Media Firestorm: ‘We Didn’t Sign Up for a Reality Show’ https://t.co/9cVuFNJgLC

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That’s all for today. Hope you’re having a great week!

Please buy things so that I can pay my rent. Love you.

-Despy Boutris
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1. We knew this already, but it’s still disappointing.