Nicholas Yingling
Poet. Author of THE FIRE ROAD (Barrow Street 2024): barrowstreet.org/press/product/the-f…
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- "When I say land sometimes I mean belief. When I say ocean I mean all the rest unarticulated with the mouth's profane shape" -Amanda Hawkins from WHEN I SAY THE BONES I MEAN THE BONES @wapress.bsky.social
- "I was often told to smile by complete strangers as if a six-year-old girl in patched bellbottoms & a Mork & Mindy t-shirt wasn't cheerful enough" - @majda.bsky.social from IN THE HOUSE OF MODERN UPBRINGING FOR GIRLS @wapress.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Nicholas YinglingOur spring issue is live: sixthfinch.com Featuring @meganalpert.bsky.social @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social @timothyliupoet.bsky.social @thatjanemorton.bsky.social @katnuernberger.bsky.social @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social @dustinkpearson.bsky.social @dia-roth.bsky.social @pagestar.bsky.social and more
- Grateful to @sixthfinch.bsky.social for publishing two of my poems. Check out the whole issue here: sixthfinch.com/mainspring25...
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- "We blend bone meal with soil at the base of rosebushes, tendering roots with the dust of other lives" - @rholanderpoet.bsky.social from UNCERTAIN ACROBATS
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- "No lungs, no heart, no breath- irresistible now, what might you see? A bird's dying shudder or lovers knotted in a plotline of release? You're an example now of nothing, a fountain of nowhere-" -Susan Rich from BLUE ATLAS @redhenpress.bsky.social
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- "Now we are splayed out like dummies in the mud, like shot soldiers, like angels telling lies about the stars." -Joe Wilkins from PASTORAL, 1994 @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
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- "Give the termites your worry / about affording the rent. They too / are saying, eat / the rich." - @stevenleyva.bsky.social from THE OPPOSITE OF CRUELTY
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- "How he unhooked the curtains and wrapped me, naked, in what light they still held" - @meganmerchant.bsky.social from HORTENSIA, IN WINTER
- "What you taste with abandon even God cannot take from you" -Chris Abani from SMOKING THE BIBLE @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
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- "In his bath my son looks half- drowned, lying so still, his hair a scarf of weed, his eyes closed, and only the water breathing." -Catherine Barnett from INTO PERFECT SPHERES SUCH HOLES ARE PIERCED @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social
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- "if not to sleep, then to obey the dark" - Jenny George from AFTER IMAGE @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
- Spending my holiday with these lovely essays by @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social
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- "where you awoke last night to find the fabric of space wrinkled / like the bridge above your nose" - @rubenq.bsky.social from BRUTAL COMPANION
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- "box trucks and networks can be so lonesome, so owned. & I am alone tonight, trying to remember that we don't want what we think we want." -Rosie Stockton from PERMANENT VOLTA
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- "I am the body next to but unlike yours. You already know me. You already know what I'm made of." -Rachel Zucker from MUSEUM OF ACCIDENTS
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- "It all exists, but we may need to soften our bones to be born into it. Think dew on the sea, think hammered gold, think zygote. We may have to be both borne and boat." -Claire Wahmanholm
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- "Not All Kindnesses Are Futile Which is the opposite of saying people are proof of God" - @susanlleary.bsky.social from DRESSING THE BEAR.
- "It Is Like the baby's shock at first light, weeping. The metaphors for panic dissatisfy me" -Cindy Juyoung Ok from WARD TOWARD
- "You can't behead eternity— so we scratch its surface. And by surface I mean your skin" -Alisha Dietzman from SWEET MOVIE
- "In some ways so glorious is the world I forget / how terrible it is" -Melissa Crowe from LO
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- I have a book of poems out today. Very grateful to Barrow Street Press and the poets, all literary heroes of mine, who were kind enough to blurb it. ❤️
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- "She wrote that an enlarged mind is no use and muttered over her dead friend. She could nut mutter over me, unborn: a fire not yet in her eye." - @jessicacuello.bsky.social from YOURS, CREATURE
- "As the baby pulled the cold air into her lungs, I saw a nurse take her tiny foot, press it into a pad of blue ink, and write with her body her body" -Carolina Hotchandani from THE BOOK EATERS
- "In the kitchen, a cure of honey curls over what rot hasn't won yet." - @rachelsedelman.bsky.social from DEAR MEMPHIS @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
- "By the time the angels intervened the ache had long fled the fields, irretrievable by then" -Sarah Ghazal Ali from THEOPHANIES
- "Each syllable holds hours Each letter: minutes, moments— Time is a child a black child playing tag with their shadow" -Kweku Abimbola from SALTWATER DEMANDS A PSALM
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- "[T]he average unwitting taxpayer spends $1,087 per year on weapons contractors" & "Aspiration Boeing. You too can produce / scholars rational as ash, ashes." - Richard Hamilton from DISCORDANT, including hybrid essay "Object."
- Barrow Street @ AWP
- My book has a cover, thanks to photographer Kevin Cooley. You can preorder it if you're into poems about wildfire, anorexia, and other ways to disappear: barrowstreet.org/press/produc...
- Looking for recommendations: what are some of your favorite wintry reads?
- Every poet needs a Veronica Cartwright from Body Snatchers.
- Thank you to Crab Creek Review for publishing two of my poems. Wishing everyone a safe new year.
- TWO MEN CRY by Mario Chard.
- Was feeling miserable. Then the new Idaho Review arrived with a note saying hi to my dog and I just started weeping.
- Big thank you to Ocean State Review for featuring one of my skinny sonnets (and a little commentary): oceanstatereview.org/2023/12/20/n...
- "I don't think they'll find the new weaving" - Osip Mandelstam (translated by Brown and Merwin)
- "There are other ways of knowing, too, and rather than contradict one other, they can deepen and complicate the nature of truth itself. " Great interview with Mary Peelen, author of Quantum Heresies.
- My marvelous editor @rrothenberg.bsky.social has been nominated for a Pushcart. The poem: phoebejournal.com/pastoral-fra...
- "You can’t include everything: even the zygote can be only glanced at in order to fit the agate, the rainforest, the picture frame, the yolk of the robin’s egg dripping from blue jay’s beak." Absolutely killer work from Claire Wahmanholm.
- Dear poets, UC Davis is hiring: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06029?fbc...
