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"Today is a good day, the first in a while,/ and I want to unbutton the sleeves of desire."

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Flight Path" by Susan Nguyen, in #TheMargins!
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November 26, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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Congratulations to Cathy Linh Che on the release of BECOMING GHOST, her latest poetry collection from
@wspbooks.bsky.social. 🩵

Read "'I love the smell of napalm...': Remix" and "Live-Stream" now, in #TheMargins' #PoetryTuesday column: aaww.org/two-poems-by...
Two Poems by Cathy Linh Che
“‘I love the smell of napalm…’: Remix” and “Live-Stream”
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April 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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"The way sunsets swiftly vanish—
you leave me gutted."

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "21 Emotions for my Catalyst" by Ha Kiet Chau, in #TheMargins.

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February 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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“The only/ whole things left are the tangled gold necklaces knotted/ with grief, chains my mother will not break.”

Read this week’s #PoetryTuesday piece, “Echo Body” by
@jennehsienpatrick.bsky.social, in #TheMargins.

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January 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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I want to taste love and pain
A broken mind is hard to frame
Even now as everything is falling
I still can't take the blame
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June 18, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Very grateful for this tender poem to be featured in The Margin’s #PoetryTuesday @aaww-nyc.bsky.social today and am honored to be able to share it here. ❤️
aaww-nyc.bsky.social Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · Jan 14
“The only/ whole things left are the tangled gold necklaces knotted/ with grief, chains my mother will not break.”

Read this week’s #PoetryTuesday piece, “Echo Body” by
@jennehsienpatrick.bsky.social, in #TheMargins.

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January 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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winter sunlight
an old spider-web strand
from pine branch to branch
Haiku from Land Shapes by Sherry Weaver with illustrations by Sylvia Van Strijthem tinyurl.com/y8fs9db9 #poetry #PoetryTuesday
October 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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"Your origin/ is like food, and food

mutates through cultural/ transmission."

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Baynte Nuybe (Veinte y Nueve)" by Rex Ybañez, in #TheMargins. 🔪
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January 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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"When I arrive for dinner, she is massaging/ her yellow-callused sole, little toe pink as a newborn."

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "When I Ask Ammā To Sponsor Me For Pride Run 10K" by Gayathiri Kamalakanthan, in #TheMargins. 🏃
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February 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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"Meanwhile, I relinquish my authority on feeling.
Meanwhile, love is making its way to me."

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "I Could Be So Good" by Evan Wang, in #TheMargins. ✨🫴
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February 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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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. 💎🌬️

https://aaww.org/a-korean-woman-walks-into-a-bar-in-chicago/
January 6, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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Our #PoetryTuesday reading period has been EXTENDED, from December 15 to December 18! You have a few more days to share your work with our dear poetry editors, Emily Jungmin Yon and @skunkbabepoet.bsky.social!
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#poetrysubmissions #openreadingperiod
December 5, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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It feels really special for this poem to have found a home in @aaww-nyc.bsky.social's #TheMargins at the tail end of #aapiheritagemonth! Many thanks to the team for looking after this little zuihitsu on the Bosphorus 🕌🫖🌹🐈 #PoetryTuesday

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Bosphorus Approximations
Sometimes I wonder if belonging is to be approached gently, as if an abandoned thing.
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May 30, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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“I like you— like a tottering bowling pin.” 🎳

Read two poems by Shin Hae-uk, “Color” and “To a Friend Miss,” in #TheMargins for #PoetryTuesday, translated from Korean by Spencer Lee-Lenfield. 🎨
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March 26, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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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. 🐝⛅

https://aaww.org/street-smart-sunshine/
December 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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"How to stay soft? Is this the wrong question?"

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Pig Story" by
@asaldrake.bsky.social and Rhoni Blankenhorn, in #TheMargins. 🥭🐷

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Pig Story
God I loved every one of those pigs we ate.
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July 16, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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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. 🌾🌙

https://aaww.org/1947-poem/
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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"In this version, we’re both married. Happily."

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Oneiric Oneirically" by Tuhin Bhowal, in #TheMargins. 🚙💍
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Oneiric Oneirically
In this version, we’re both married. Happily.
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May 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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“One year in Beijing me & my roommate cycled through
every hospital in town for prescriptions." 💊

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, “Another Year” by
Ting Lin, in #TheMargins.
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May 14, 2024 at 9:27 PM
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"Safety is a body with/ a place to hide in."

Read "Safety Pin" by Luisa A. Igloria (@thepoetslizard.bsky.social), new in our #PoetryTuesday column in #TheMargins. 🧷

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Safety Pin
Safety is a body with a place to hide in.
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October 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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"do their protests/ sound out a future// we’ll be able to witness?" ⏳

Read two poems by Maw Shein Win, tr. from Burmese by Kenneth Wong, in today's #PoetryTuesday piece published in #TheMargins.
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December 3, 2024 at 7:25 PM
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"Since you just arrived from a grave, I know/ there is probably so much you can’t say."

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Letter to the Woman Who Kissed Me to Communicate" by Mark Kyungsoo Bias, in #TheMargins. 💋

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Letter to the Woman Who Kissed Me to Communicate
you lean into me as if to complete the fragment in/ my mouth.
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March 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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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. 🍃

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The Long Revolution
With me, there is always a high horse you can dangle your feet from.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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"There are few men who will communicate with you in all the languages you know."

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "The Men" by Ethan Luk, in #TheMargins! 🧥
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September 3, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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"I am learning to birth pearls from a dull knife."

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "DREAM DIVINATIONS OR TRANSLATING MY MERIDIANS INTO RITUALS" by Claudia Yang, in #TheMargins. 🔪☁️

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DREAM DIVINATIONS OR TRANSLATING MY MERIDIANS INTO RITUALS
I am learning to birth pearls from a dull knife.
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April 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM