I got into her the same time I got into Ocean Vuong, so they’re linked in my mind! Her collection Soft Science is one of my favourite poetry collections, and her poem The World Keeps Ending and The World Goes On (from the same titled collection, excerpt below) is so good.
Mar 29, 2024
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i feel like i talk about this poetry collection sm but it just GOT TO ME
Oct 25, 2024
if you're trying to improve your craft through reading poetry, ocean vuong is your guy. my favorite poem of his is def "Wood Working at the End of the World" vuong also has this instagram story series about metaphors and it changed the way i went about writing metaphors forever. def check him out
May 4, 2024
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i think that jenny zhang is the first poet i read that made me go "ohhhhhhhh - i get it now." about poetry; i had always recognized the beauty of the language without understanding the stakes and naked human expression that language serves to meaningfully represent through it's beauty. some of my favorite works from her:
Poem: “Follow Him” By Jenny Zhang (buzzfeednews.com)
under the chiming bell by Jenny Zhang - Poems | Academy of American Poets
maybe it's because i read night sky with exit wounds very shortly after i got introduced to zhang's work but i always felt a sort of similarity between them, where vuong was concerned with reconciling the world they lived in and harmed them, zhang felt more concerned with keeping the score.
we got a movie discord we got a zine discord when's the poetry discord dropping...
Mar 29, 2024
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I am by no means traditionally religious, but I fully understand how being in the presence of beautiful stained glass can feel like being with god. ALWAYS stop off at a church on the way if you think it might have good stained glass. The bluebells in the bottom right corner of this made me loose my breath for a moment.
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I used to be envious of people who had “MySpace friends” or “tumblr friends”. Now I have PI.FYI friends. Thank you capyboppy for your lovely letter and this illustration of a capybara and a mouse with fruit on our heads, it made me weirdly emotional ❤️
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