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"For those encountering the Saami family, the experience often feels like entering a shared memory space." In our latest #OpenCity piece, Sadaf Padder traces how the vocal tradition of #khayal is finding new life in NYC through the #SaamiBrothers. 💨🍵 aaww.org/carrying-on-the-kha…
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"what transpired back and forth/ between her resigned chin and his optimistic gaze in that/ moment" Read two poems by Preeti Vangani (@Pscripturient) from her collection Fifty Mothers, out last month from @RiverRiverBooks, shared in #TheMargins. ✨🚞 aaww.org/two-poems-by-preeti…

Two Poems by Preeti Vangani

“Placebo” and “Party Ghost”

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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. 🖼️⚖️ aaww.org/dictees-pictures/

Dictee’s Pictures 

What the mysterious images of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s seminal work might tell us about her life.

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"the rock salt was not afraid of being sea-run" 🪨 Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Ars Poetica: Poetry as Lot’s Wife Who Looked Back at the Burning Cities" by Ammara Younas (@_ammarayounas), in #TheMargins. 🌕 aaww.org/ars-poetica-poetry-…
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It is a small thing to write about being a daughter of the refugee diaspora at such a grim time. But then I think, my family didn’t cross oceans just for me to remain silent. Thank you @aaww for amplifying our stories.
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"the most dangerous emergency at sea is fire" Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Give Me Rough Seas" by Seema Jilani (@SeemaJilani), in #TheMargins. 🌊🔥 aaww.org/give-me-rough-seas/
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Can the reject condition be elevated into art? Spencer Quong considers this in his review of Tony Tulathimutte's story collection, "Rejection". 🌟 Read new criticism in #TheMargins at aaww.org/the-rejection-trap/
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"the most dangerous emergency at sea is fire" Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Give Me Rough Seas" by Seema Jilani (@SeemaJilani), in #TheMargins. 🌊🔥 aaww.org/give-me-rough-seas/
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"I’d still leave slices of bitter melon behind in my bowl, but the aunties/ would overlook it." Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece by Jia-Rui Cook (@funjiable), whose debut poetry collection just won the 2025 Philip Levine Prize, in #TheMargins! 🥳 🦪 aaww.org/if-they-had-named-m…
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"Tongue tamer, lip purser, performance is/ what you were born for." Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Ode to ប" by April Lim, in #TheMargins. 💨🐀 aaww.org/ode-to-ប/
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RT @YahiaLababidi: #Poetry is what happens to prose at boiling point 🔥 aaww.org/write-in-blood/?fbc… @aaww

Write in Blood

The punishment of the oppressor is that they are denied poetry.

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RT @YahiaLababidi: Thank you, very much for sharing my new aphorisms 🙏🏼
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"Forgetfulness is a type of ingratitude,/ Remembrance a form of prayer." Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Write in Blood" by @YahiaLababidi, in #TheMargins. 🧪📿 aaww.org/write-in-blood/
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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 (@thebigluborsky), in #TheMargins.👔🌖 aaww.org/i-didnt-apologize-t…
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"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. 💎🌬️ aaww.org/a-korean-woman-walk…
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"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. 🐋🌲 aaww.org/two-poems-by-rona-l…
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"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. 🐝⛅ aaww.org/street-smart-sunshi…
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"With me, there is always a high horse you can dangle/ your feet from." 🌊 Read this week's #PoetryTuesday poem, "The Long Revolution" by Bella Zhou, in #TheMargins. 🍃 aaww.org/the-long-revolution…
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"I’m 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 Susan Nguyen. Read the whole poem in The Margins (@aaww): ow.ly/6O9k50XyqHc #ASUHumanities

Flight Path

I’m alive and I have an appetite/ for longing.

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"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. 🌃🍁 aaww.org/kestane-kebap/
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"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. 🌾🌙 aaww.org/1947-poem/
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