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mini gift guide, what i'm reading, tweets, etc.

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Happy Friday & welcome to my *third* newsletter this week! I promise to let up now. Back to my M/F schedule.

Here’s what I have for you today:

  • Housekeeping

  • In review

  • Mini gift guide

  • What I’m reading

  • Quotations

  • Tweets

  • Resources

  • Prompts


Housekeeping:

As always, if you’re from the US, you can snag 5 books for $30 from my website.

Alternately, you can subscribe to receive a book in the mail every! single! month!

& yes, I make hand-cut collages. They’re one-of-a-kind & always under $15.


In review:

This week’s posts:

beauty and terror (on poetry & being human)
round-up: 1/24
Happy Monday, all. Today’s newsletter is a quickie because I didn’t do anything intellectual this weekend. I’m practicing ““““rest”””””. I don’t really know how to do that, so it’s going about as well as can be expected. Here’s what I have for you today…
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3 years ago · 1 like · Despy Boutris
beauty and terror (on poetry & being human)
on stamina
Hi. Friday newsletter coming to you early because I’m bored at work & want attention. SO! Here’s what I have for you today: Housekeeping Resources On stamina What I’m reading Quotations Tweets…
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3 years ago · Despy Boutris

Gifts for the gays in your life:

  1. This sticker (by Audrey Gidman, no less! Read their stunning poem in TWR.)

  2. This ring

  3. These earrings

  4. This sticker set

  5. This sticker

  6. This zine

  7. This pin

  8. This patch (bought this version for someone I was dating last year)

  9. This print

  10. This bumper sticker


What I read last week:

  • A Very Hard Year: Looking back at 2021, Roxane Gay

  • 20 Famous Writers on Being Rejected

What I want to read:

  • On the Importance of Knowing Your Worth As a Writer, Down to the Dollar

I’m also really excited to read The myth of the lone creative genius, which I anticipate has a lot in common with my own thinking. You might read that and then my post:

beauty and terror (on poetry & being human)
on showing your work, etc.
Happy Monday, all! Here’s what I have for you today: Housekeeping On showing your work What I read last week Quotations A question Tweets…
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4 years ago · Despy Boutris

Quotations:

I know how lucky I am but luck is powerless in the face of grief.

-Roxane Gay


Tweets:

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Despy Boutris @itsdbouts
i love not supporting problematic editors. i love not promoting their journals. it is free and very easy to do
4:52 PM ∙ Jan 27, 2022
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brittany spanos @ohheybrittany
screaming at the last line of this
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1:12 AM ∙ Jan 26, 2022
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arabelle sicardi 英梅 @arabellesicardi
today is a good day to pre-order books, barnes and nobles is running a 25% off discount on preorders right now. pre-orders help debuting authors A LOT
9:48 PM ∙ Jan 26, 2022
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matt @mattxiv
american education system is failing us
9:06 PM ∙ Jan 26, 2022
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Sonia Weiser @weischoice
My brother just got married but I almost have 20k followers so I think I'm the one who's most loved here.
5:41 PM ∙ Jan 27, 2022
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matt @mattxiv
just learned born to die turns TEN today… shaking crying screaming projectile vomiting
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4:42 PM ∙ Jan 27, 2022
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hotmessbian 👩🏿‍🤝‍👩🏽 @hotmessbian
looking to have a bit of homoerotic tension. serious inquiries only.
9:54 AM ∙ Jan 27, 2022
21Likes4Retweets
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Diana Rose, starpoet @ddamascenaa
the embarrassing agony of having needs
3:15 AM ∙ Jan 26, 2022
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Naz @nazzobetweeting
modern day dating is making out at a bar one night and then just watching each other's instagram stories everyday until you die
6:13 PM ∙ Jan 27, 2022
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🚣‍♂️ @daveloach2
i love how insane everyone is becoming
10:45 PM ∙ Jan 26, 2022
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Despy Boutris @itsdbouts
every time i meet a pretty girl:
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2:59 AM ∙ Jan 28, 2022

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