Verse Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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This week's featured playlist comes from @ChristineSHou's new collection, The Joy and Terror Are Both in the Swallowing ( @AfterHours_Ltd ), which Diana Khoi Nguyen calls "explosively frontal." Read our excerpt here: https://t.co/NwLTgRxI3X https://t.co/G6TmRfutVA

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Red juice I threw the book down Furious! Poetry you’re a ripening disease Grind write the dead —Hoa Nguyen @peacehearty https://t.co/aDrf6Li5Kj

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On Ghinwa Jawhari's BINT, @ThrityUmrigar writes, "each poem acts as a meditation on the power and limits of language. The silence between each word is often as devastating as Jawhari’s words themselves." Read our excerpt here: https://t.co/ZPSyr8ZPGb @RadixMedia https://t.co/V6Mdm8vfFc

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This week's playlist comes from Aeon Ginsberg's Greyhound, focusing on "the ethical and moral movements taken by singular bodies and the communities made up of those bodies." Read our excerpt here: https://t.co/PKUoLGLHKM @aeonfx @Noemi_Press https://t.co/WKV5sS4ULx

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𝘐’𝘮 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯’ 𝘶𝘱 𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 to jailbreak Cousin (everybody named 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥) – Kemi Alabi from "Against Heaven" (with “Goin’ Up Yonder” and Louise Glück’s Nobel Prize speech) @kemiaalabi @graywolf https://t.co/M0K99zneYF https://t.co/ghoxgena1K

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I can pray to God in America, but not Allah. I wouldn’t know what words to say in American. I can learn the Quran in between, but still think that loving is a lie. And it works, I’m here. —Hajjar Baban @alreadyfounded https://t.co/8c0pfhTax6

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"I wanted to take Orkney into space because small languages and small places are rarely imagined in futurity" This week's featured playlist comes from @HJosephineGiles 's Deep Wheel Orcadia, a sci-fi novel in verse translated into English from Orcadian https://t.co/Z1jJ0vg4ry https://t.co/u15bOvBnWE

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Irene Lee describes Amanda Monti's Mycelial Person as "a collection of spores touching at my hand - like something gooey tracking through the pages. I’ve never smelled so much in a book." Read our excerpt here: https://t.co/oG2O9L2KyT @VAPoetry https://t.co/O03l7tCWyJ

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"The tree is a poem and, like him, an intelligence that hurries to its feet, erect." This week's playlist features Michelle Gil-Montero's translation of Edinburgh Notebook by Valerie Mejer Caso: https://t.co/xhxyBCkiSH @NPropio @MichelleGilMon1 @action__books https://t.co/kqcK86KzB9

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Read Kyle Carrero Lopez's "Black Erasure" and four more poems from Muscle Memory in this week's featured playlist: https://t.co/LqBwiIiWxD @kylecarrerolo @pankmagazine

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