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Despy Boutris
Aug 2, 2022
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Happy Tuesday, folks!

Here’s what I have for you today:

  • Housekeeping

  • What I’ve been thinking about

  • Opportunities

  • To read

  • Quotations

  • Call to action

  • Tweets


Housekeeping:

I have been having a really great time making necklaces. Here are a few of them:

They’re all available to purchase for $15 USD at All Swarm Co. International shipping available!

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What I’ve been thinking abt this week:

  • How gay art nouveau is, like, by design (mwahahaha)

  • These Anne Carson lines

  • how close self-sabotage can be to self-preservation


Here are some selfies:

dbouts
A post shared by @dbouts

Opportunities:

Poets & educators:

Frontier Poetry seeks “highly qualified writers to write editorial feedback to our submitters. The hours per month are self-determined, but can range from 10 – 50+ hours.” (Via Twitter, I’ve ascertained that “as of right now, there is no fixed deadline as we are accepting Guest Editor applications on a rolling basis; however that might change. Guest editors are compensated $25 USD per completed editorial letter.”)

I did this for two years & it was a great way to supplement my grad school stipend.

Fiction writers:

“The Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions at Baruch College, City University of New York, invites applications from experienced creative writers for a full-time, tenure-track position as an assistant professor, starting Sept. 1, 2023. The successful candidate will have several years’ experience as a professional creative writer, evidenced by published short work in recognized literary journals or other noted periodicals, or at least one book published by an established trade, independent, university or regional press. Proficiency in fiction-writing and one other creative-writing genre — such as film writing, literary nonfiction, memoir, or fiction podcasting — is required. We are not seeking a poet.”

A queer/trans Arab anthology:

Send us up to 4 poems, or 6 pages, as well as up to 2,500 words for fiction or creative nonfiction. Translation from Arabic-English is welcome! Please submit .doc or .docx files. PDFs will be accepted if you are submitting visual poems. As the anthology editors, we care about showcasing work by queer and/or trans Arab writers or Arabophone writers, whether or not the work is about being queer and/or trans and Arab or Arabophone. We are much less interested in submissions that rely heavily on identity tropes or that cater to outside audiences in an explainy or didactic manner unless it is being done in a fresh way. Please do not send us work that is transphobic, queerphobic, racist, anti-Black, anti-Indigenous, ableist, fatphobic, etc. If you’re unsure, get someone to read it beforehand. (Pays $200)

One more:

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Alphabet Box (submissions open Aug. 1st) @alphabet_box
Starting today, Alphabet Box is accepting submissions for Issue 5. We award a minimum $25 USD honorarium to our featured #writers. Guidelines at: AlphabetBox.com #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #creativewriting #flashfiction @itsdbouts @TejaswineeRC @SamuelSamba10
alphabetbox.comAlphabet Box
2:32 AM ∙ Aug 2, 2022
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Writer drama:

Why is this saga (& all of Ana’s sagas) so ….. wild?

A new Jumi Bello article. Everything’s sad.

Note:

I have a lot to say abt this article & situation & will say it, but not today.

In the meantime, I’ll just reiterate

the fact that publishing & being successful in this field is really difficult. A great way to ensure that your work is taken seriously, though, is to know how to write a strong cover letter, bio, and formatting your poems appropriately.

With that in mind:

My e-book Publishing Poems: An Easy Guide is now *free* to download for the foreseeable future. You can access it here. Love you.

download now


To read:

  • How the anti-aging industry turns you into a customer for life


Quotations:

I had known the pain, and survived it. It only remained for me to give it voice, to share it for use, that the pain not be wasted.

-Audre Lorde


I would lie if I did not also speak of loss.

-Audre Lorde


I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

-Audre Lorde


What I most regretted were my silences.

-Audre Lorde


We all shared a war against the tyrannies of silence.

-Audre Lorde


I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.

-Audre Lorde


For to survive in the mouth of this dragon we call america, we have had to learn this first and most vital lesson—that we were never meant to survive.

-Audre Lorde


I want to write about the pain.

-Audre Lorde


Call to action:

Share a poem you love on social media. Tag the poet. Say something nice.

Here, for example, is a poem I shouted-out a few weeks ago:

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Despy Boutris @itsdbouts
once again i am screaming over @nlvaldezpoet’s “preparing the body”
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4:43 PM ∙ Jul 13, 2022

Tweets:

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Despy Boutris @itsdbouts
adding an anti-acknowledgments section to my book & listing everyone who was mean to me
7:56 PM ∙ Jul 31, 2022
518Likes47Retweets
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Bull City Press 🐂 @BullCityPress
"Two tickets to Tennessee, because I’ve never been to Tennessee, and what even is in Tennessee?" @itsdbouts from BURIALS #Inch50 bullcitypress.com/product/burial…
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9:00 PM ∙ Jul 29, 2022
9Likes1Retweet
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SA Smythe @essaysmythe
Is the ‘post’ in ‘post-pandemic’ the same as the ‘post’ in ‘postcolonial’? In this essay, I will…
2:45 PM ∙ Aug 1, 2022
10,578Likes1,503Retweets
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Gretchen Felker-Martin @scumbelievable
At this point I don't think it's unreasonable to see tenderqueers as a passively fascist fifth column within broader queer culture.
3:18 AM ∙ Aug 1, 2022
1,322Likes109Retweets
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cyree jarelle @cyreejarelle
the idea that it’s ableist to criticize someone for working at lockheed martin is absurd disability justice is anti-war and anti-imperialism or it is nothing
7:56 PM ∙ Jul 31, 2022
10,668Likes1,018Retweets
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Rio @riomat7
gonna start asking straight couples if they’re friends or siblings as reparations
9:34 PM ∙ Jul 29, 2022
1,538Likes127Retweets
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Prime Minister DJ Cthulhu 🐙🎧 @RealDJCthulhu
IMPORTANT: How to be a trans ally while also buying Hogwarts Legacy 🧵 1. Don’t buy it. /fin
12:38 AM ∙ Jul 31, 2022
49,279Likes6,912Retweets
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Pyrrhica posts cats @memesiwish
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11:32 AM ∙ Jul 30, 2022
409,625Likes37,762Retweets
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Michael Metivier @grouse_hollow
Kasey Jueds, Martha Silano, Despy Boutris, Mark Wunderlich in convo with Mary Ruefle, and so many more. Such a special issue of @BennReview
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11:32 AM ∙ Jul 29, 2022
29Likes5Retweets
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Simone Biles @Simone_Biles
little miss traumatized by her olympic experience
5:45 PM ∙ Jul 28, 2022
193,155Likes4,453Retweets

That’s it for today! Be safe out there!

-Despy Boutris
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