Nate
he/they // mfa student // loser // poems findable
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[Not loaded yet] - "The naked human body is the grave in blossom; it is both / sad & instructive." Larry Levis in "Sleeping Lioness"
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- "but hope? / No highway" 👏 @amorak.bsky.social
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- Restriction isn't good enough. Reassigment and retirement isn't good enough. Abolition and trials.
- Reposted by NateNuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position
- Reposted by NatePreventing ICE from murdering civilians could have a chilling effect on future presidents’ ability to terrify the nation with a secret police force.
- Reposted by NateThe Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution states, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation..."
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- Rejections need to be less effusive. I can't tell what is tiered and what isn't.
- I've either finally broken free from my crippling caffeine withdrawals, or the decaf I had this morning was, in fact, caf.
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- ugh i hate AI and applying for these jobs rather be a fish
- Reposted by Nate30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
- “ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’” www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
- Reposted by Nate“Chaos is how we know we're in love.” Truly an honor to have two short love poems in the new issue of The American Poetry Review. Here’s one —
- Reposted by NateZelensky on Venezuela: “About Venezuela? How should I respond to that? Well, what can I say? If… If it is possible to act with dictators like this, it means the United States knows what to do next. Thank you” Omg I love it.
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- I got my first journal acceptance on Christmas day last year. Since then, I've sent out roughly 110 submissions. ~25 are still pending, 10 have been accepted, and 73 have been rejected. Being an artist is actually wonderful, despite the mania of publishing.
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- "Here’s room for us here for now and now is enough let us fit our bodies together let us balance our weight against each other let us hold on even as the wind rises." ❤️
- "This poet does speak to the precarity of it all: writing, and loving, and living," our host Maggie Smith shares in today's episode of The Slowdown, number 1412. Read "Ledge (ars poetica) (love poem) (true story)" by @amorak.bsky.social: bit.ly/4aQfUrK
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- Reposted by NateJust saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University. We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish
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- Reposted by NateOne of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
- "So a poet, no matter what [their] subject may be, and no mater what the landscape, goes "beyond society." And so this is what happens at the moment of writing: the wave takes the shape of the fire. What is "out there" moves inside. The poet becomes threshold." -Larry Levis
- merry christmas to me... almost two hundred dollars spent on only two phd apps :)))
- Reposted by Nateit's a mistake to compare the cost of your newsletter or podcast to a cup of coffee. that cup of coffee is the best treat i'm allowed to have every single day. no podcast is comparable to the beverage that justifies staying alive. instead market your newsletter as two thirds of a sweetgreen salad
- a crumb of energy to finish these finals, please
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- Reposted by NateHappy 10-year anniversary of Whale Road Review! Thank you to all who have contributed and to the peer reviewers who have spent countless hours reading and shaping this journal with me. Here’s another fantastic winter issue that we’re excited to share! www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-41
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- writing essays is weird because it is almost like an exercise in further convincing yourself that you are right about something... or surprisingly, horrifyingly wrong
- Reposted by NateI wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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- reading a very good poem leaves me feeling like there is an empty space at the back of my throat that can't be filled, that some worldly wind has chosen that poem, that moment, to pass through me. poet shit but the coolest feeling. must figure out how to create this at the close of my own poems.
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- slowly working my way through Larry Levis' The Afterlife
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- when he goes down, and he will, there will be music in American streets. in so many languages. and we will disempower his enablers and his shadows, too
- "the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation" -cd wright
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- so if anyone wants to read about my time as a TFA corps member in the Delta, I have a CNF piece in the Rumpus about... everything, kind of
- hello the first poem I took to my first workshop has been accepted into the afterlife. you can read it here www.thefourthriver.com/o16-poetry/2...
