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November 15, 2024 at 5:30 AM
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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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🌟 Announcing Law@theMargins New Series: Law + Liberation

🎙️ Law + Liberation is a public education series uplifting the voices of those on the frontlines of change, centering the wisdom of communities most impacted by injustice. Follow us on Instagram www.instagram.com/lawatthemarg...
October 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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"I’ve watched his heavy accent cleave a soldier into two, then four with every ق."

Read today's #FlashFictionFriday piece, "Lush" by leena aboutaleb, in #TheMargins. 🐍
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Lush
Men love anything that shines.
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March 21, 2025 at 6:06 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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"hungry / we paw each other good"

Read Aishvarya Arora’s poem, “T4T,” in MEHFIL, the latest folio in #TheMargins edited by Rajat Dayal Singh, with art by Jasjyot Singh Hans. 🌈

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T4T
we shudder red
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June 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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In the latest installment of our Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities column, Salonee Bhaman interviews Nina Sharma on her essay collection, THE WAY YOU MAKE ME FEEL!

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May 31, 2024 at 6:53 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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“It might be that simple: the wish to be someone else, only the product of a punishment for being someone at all.”

New in #TheMargins, Owen Park writes about artist #OscaryiHou, self-portraiture, and post-representation. 💫

🐎 Read "Versions of Oscar": aaww.org/versions-of-...
Versions of Oscar
Oscar yi Hou doesn’t represent you.
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January 27, 2025 at 6:47 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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“In other words, Palestine is not a test for, say, a once-again revolutionary Asian American politics but rather, as Seikaly puts it, a ‘shared possibility across difference.’” 🍉

Read more from Najwa Mayer and Randa Tawil in a new essay on #TheMargins.🌟
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February 3, 2025 at 7:30 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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Announcing #TheMargins’ nominees for Best Literary Translations 2026, an annual anthology by @deepvellum.bsky.social, guest edited this year by Arthur Sze. Good luck to all the nominated translators and writers! ✨

Read these pieces & more at aaww.org/the-margins/ 💞
January 21, 2025 at 7:16 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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"Developers measured cane fields we gazed upon from backs of trucks as if/ our kingdom that could never be changed."

Read two poems by Lark Omura, “Welcome to Pāʻia” and “Lei La the canoe speaks,” in #TheMargins’ Poetry Tuesday section. 🌺
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January 21, 2025 at 10:05 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. 🐝⛅

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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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“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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November 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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"Dusk. I am drunk by the fence
that lines the east,
my sleeves filled with delicate fragrance."

Read "醉花陰" or "Drunk in the Shade of Flowers" by Li Qingzhao in #TheMargins, translated from Chinese by Wendy Chen. 🌙

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醉花陰 | Drunk in the Shade of Flowers
莫道不銷魂 | Don’t say I’m not overcome with feeling.
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March 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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"Between the seventies and nineties, Mott Street was feared. It was home to the Ghost Shadows Gang, or 鬼影幫, 'gwaiyingbong'."

Chloe K. Li explores her family's intertwined history with NYC's Chinatown in "The Gangs of Chinatown" for #TheMargins' Open City column. 🏮
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The Gangs of Chinatown
In the Chinatown of my mother’s youth, everyone knew everyone.
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May 14, 2025 at 4:12 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