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in which I melodramatically announce I no longer believe in epiphanies…thank you to @YaleReview for featuring my poem as their poem of the week!
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have mostly been staying off twitter dot com or whatever it's called now but my book has a front cover :') and a back cover :') and it comes out in slightly less than 2 months and you can preorder it below!
Off to print! TRUE MISTAKES by @lenamschmitt, finalist for the 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize.
Pre-order: uapress.com/product/true-mis…
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some thoughts on aaron schimberg's A DIFFERENT MAN and disability and getting stared at for @LAReviewofBooks
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Everyone else was wondering if Carrie was pregnant, but I couldn't help but wonder...
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still in shock that @pswordwoman selected my debut poetry collection TRUE MISTAKES to be published by @uarkpress this spring (and congratulations to the winner Greg Rappleye and other finalists @jkdpoetry & @johna_taylor, so excited to read your books!!)
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce that the 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize has been awarded to Greg Rappleye by series editor Patricia Smith! The finalists are Julia Kolchinsky, Lena Moses-Schmitt, and John Allen Taylor.
uapress.com/2025-mwpp-announ…
happy to have a new poem in @NarrativeMag 🪟🪟
Click here to read “Letter to Myself in the Future #15” by Lena Moses-Schmitt (@lenamschmitt): narrativemagazine.com/issues…
#NarrativeMagazine #sundayread #whattoreadtoday #weekendread #writingcommunity
literally in DISBELIEF we get to publish this book, i love it so much
The sublime! Transcendence! The fear that being human itself might mean feeling alone and unknowable! Deep sea diving!
Endless gratitude to @mwspence & Mackenzie Williams of @JanklowNesbit, the realest animals ❤️
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“Sharp and disarming.” @washingtonpost
“Hypnotic.” @TIME
“Dizzying and delightful.” @voguemagazine
“Magnetic.” @ELLEmagazine
“Stunning and surreal.” @latimes
“Arrestingly new.” @TheAtlantic
The Coin by Yasmin Zaher is out from @CatapultStory today!
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“It was a tragedy, but somehow I got lucky, I was redeemed by a good inheritance. If anyone can understand this, I know it’s you.” An excerpt from Yasmin Zaher's "The Coin." lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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Beautiful new essay by @yukiko_tominaga about writing between two languages, now live at @lithub
Grab a copy of her debut novel SEE: LOSS, SEE ALSO: LOVE out now from @ScribnerBooks 🎉🌟📚
lithub.com/between-languages…
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NBD just @LexiFreiman on @TheDailyShow tomorrow night!!! 😭
Tune in to watch her talk about The Book of Ayn (@CatapultStory) with @jordanklepper! TV baby!!
Switching things up to keep you on your toes: @jordanklepper is hosting Mon-Weds, and @jonstewart is on Thursday! Get tickets here: dailyshowtickets.com
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A STARRED review for The Coin from @PublishersWkly!
"A hypnotic debut... Zaher’s writing is deeply arresting... A tour de force." 💫
A TOUR DE FORCE! ✨ Coming from @CatapultStory July 9th! 🌟
publishersweekly.com/978-1-6…
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My chapbook, LANDSICKNESS, is here and she has a cover!💛✨
Thank you to @chenchenwrites for probably the nicest things anyone's ever said about my writing. And thank you, also from the bottom of my heart, to @tupelopress, for making it all happen💛
You can preorder it here! → press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books…
Cover by Allison O’Keefe💛 Photo by Jenna Garrett💛
canNOT wait to celebrate Shze-Hui's new book on May 9th at The Ruby in SF!! join us & rsvp here: lu.ma/t5s3hfak
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"The world became so loud."
@laurenmechling interviews @eliza5cool for @guardian about The Hearing Test, her "smart and slim novel about an artistic young woman who sustains hearing loss."
Out today from @CatapultStory!
theguardian.com/wellness/202…
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@danjonesnyt changed my life 8 years ago when he published my essay in @nytimes Modern Love. Surreal to hear him talk about it here - better than I ever could - for this 20th anniversary episode❤️
open.spotify.com/episode/0XJ…