Ghost Skin by Wren Hanks (poetry)

I went looking for my life in the woods like a bloodhound you don’t know what it is to have a story wrapped around you so tight

Jennifer Hanks, “gar child tells it in first-person,” published in The Boiler (via bostonpoetryslam)

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“To Bloom Not Bleed” Piece 2 of 3

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Help Jennifer Hanks attend the Lambda Literary Retreat

Writing community! Our friend Jennifer Hanks is attending the Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for the first time this summer and needs help raising the tuition. They are almost halfway there, and folks who can help by donating should check out this link: http://lambdaliterary.donorpages.com/WritersRetreat2016/JenniferHanks/

Their Bio:

Jennifer Hanks is the author of Prophet Fever (Hyacinth Girl Press) and a 2016 Lambda Emerging Writers Fellow. They were a finalist for Heavy Feather Review’s Double Take Poetry Prize, judged by Dorothea Lasky, and have two chapbooks, gar child (Tree Light Books) and Ghost Skin (Porkbelly Press), forthcoming in 2016. Their poetry and nonfiction appear or are forthcoming in Arcadia, Gigantic Sequins, Bone Bouquet, HOUSEGUEST, and elsewhere. The Chapbook Series Editor for Sundress Publications, they live in New Orleans with their fiancée and tweet @corsetofscales.

Find more of their poems here: http://azura09.tumblr.com/publications

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It’s not enough that a poem extol the virtues of survival and overcoming. What if the poet never overcomes? What if the poet hears the same bitter verdict when testimony after testimony has been given? What if that poet — and this is the ultimate emotional transgression that repels the reader who takes comfort in literature as forgiveness — still feels a shadow of hate and it is that hate that disfigures song into something broken? But see, the only way to get at that inalienable grief is to disfigure song.

Cathy Park Hong, “Against Witness,” published in Poetry (via shudderpup)

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Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

Jane Yolen (via quotemadness)

Source: quotemadness.com

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UNO CWW, here’s why I should be your 2016 MFA Prom King!

#UNO #shameless self promotion #Apocalypse Heartthrob

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Delicate Fish Paintings Express Artist Niharika Hukku’s Elegant Vision of the World

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Help Me Get to the Lambda Emerging Writers Retreat!

Hey all, I recently found out I’m a 2016 Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Fellow! It’s a fantastic opportunity, but I’ve had a very financially insecure year and am not in a position to pay the tuition fees on my own. Lambda Literary has set up a fundraiser page for me! Any help you could give would be much appreciated <3

#lambda literary #Emerging Writers #Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Fellow #fundraiser #lgbt #genderqueer #writing #poetry

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I find Humanity to be somewhat overrated.

Wren (via mysticknights)

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It’s not enough that a poem extol the virtues of survival and overcoming. What if the poet never overcomes? What if the poet hears the same bitter verdict when testimony after testimony has been given? What if that poet — and this is the ultimate emotional transgression that repels the reader who takes comfort in literature as forgiveness — still feels a shadow of hate and it is that hate that disfigures song into something broken? But see, the only way to get at that inalienable grief is to disfigure song.

Cathy Park Hong, “Against Witness,” published in Poetry (via shudderpup)