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Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh
@artichokeheart.bsky.social
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(she/they) Biracial Nisei. Poet and writer. Editor. EIC South Dakota Review. Lover of cats and mollusks.
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artichokeheart.bsky.social
I'm SO looking forward to reading in support of unMothered, unTongued (@ugapress.bsky.social) via Zoom this Sunday afternoon, November 23, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

Link to register via EventBrite (and read bios/get more information) here: register: bit.ly/4nk33Rt
November 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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kossworks.bsky.social
Check out the latest issue of Midway Journal with Contest Results (my #CW crocodile piece placed third! woohoo!) Thank you, @oozannesay.bsky.social, @artichokeheart.bsky.social and Ralph Panell, and congrats everyone who won and is in the issue! midwayjournal.com/how-to-avoid...
October 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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kossworks.bsky.social
#CW piece... Very honored by this win and pub, and thank you again, @artichokeheart.bsky.social , @oozannesay.bsky.social and Ralph Pennel.

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Thank you @grantamag.bsky.social and @marinabenjamin.bsky.social for the great memoir workshop that birthed this.
October 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
artichokeheart.bsky.social
I'll be reading October 29, at 7:00 p.m. at The Heller Center (1250 N. Campus Heights Drive) in Colorado Springs for the UCCS Visiting Author Series to support my new book, unMothered, unTongued from @ugapress.bsky.social :

For more information call 719-255-6277 or email Heller@uccs.edu.
October 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
artichokeheart.bsky.social
My essay "The Unbearable Privilege of Breathing," written during the heart of COVID-19, is published in the latest Writer's Chronicle as a sneak peak for unMothered, unTongued, newly released from @ugapress.bsky.social.

writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-oct...
unMothered, unTongued
University of Georgia Press
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October 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
artichokeheart.bsky.social
This week in Atlanta: I'm delighted to be reading from unMothered, unTongued, winner of the AWP Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction, newly released from @ugapress.bsky.social, this Thursday, October 9, at 7:00 p.m., at the Emory Bookstore (First Floor).
October 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
artichokeheart.bsky.social
I'm back from the Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival in Frostburg, MD, where I had such a wonderful time! Grateful, too, for the upcoming venues that will be hosting me as unMothered, unTongued continues to make its way into the world.
October 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
artichokeheart.bsky.social
I'm excited to be giving the kickoff reading for the Indie Lit Festival on September 26, at Main Street Books, 2 East Main Street in Frostburg, MD. This will be my first reading out for unMothered, unTongued, newly released from @ugapress.bsky.social !

www.frostburg.edu/center-for-l...
September 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
artichokeheart.bsky.social
Today is the official release day for unMothered, unTongued!!!

Order from @ugapress.bsky.social here:
www.ugapress.org/978082037443...
September 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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kossworks.bsky.social
So happy to have placed 3rd in Midway Journal's Contest! Congratulations to the other winners, and big thanks to @artichokeheart.bsky.social Ralph Pennel, Suzanne Richardson, and all of the editors. Look forward to reading the winners and the issue in October!
September 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
artichokeheart.bsky.social
My parents' anniversary was August 6, the tenth anniversary of tHiroshima, the day my mother aid she "drop the bomb" on her parents. I write about this in my essay, "The Atomic Age," from unMothered, unTongued:

Order here, from @ugapress.bsky.social:
www.ugapress.org/978082037441...
August 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
artichokeheart.bsky.social
So grateful for my conversation with Charles K. Carter as part of the #SundaySweetChats series, Season 3, Episode 4, which premieres on YouTube today (and will be available for viewing after premiere), August 24th, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time!

Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbvz....
August 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
artichokeheart.bsky.social
Tonight (Thurday, 8/21/25)! 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time! I'll be reading via Zoom for the Phosphorescence Contemporary Poetry Series, presented by The Emily Dickinson Museum with Cathy Linh Che and Monica Ong! Click below to register:

emilydickinsonmuseum.org/phosphorescence-august-2025
August 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
artichokeheart.bsky.social
The first copy of my book, unmothered, unTongued, arrived this weekend and I'm absolutely thrilled! Immense gratitude to the team at @ugapress.bsky.social for their stunning work: the covers, the interior, the paper . . . all so lovely

Order/preordering link below:
www.ugapress.org/978082037441...
August 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
artichokeheart.bsky.social
A link for 30% off list price for unMothered, unTongued by Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh below:

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August 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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djvorreyer.bsky.social
It's here! My proof is here! Cover reveal for Unrivered, coming from @sundresspub.bsky.social. Pre-orders begin August 26, and I'll be sharing blurbs and links over the few weeks.
Unrivered by Donna Vorreyer at the bottom of a nubbed linen background with a collaged figure of a woman in blues and bits of red and black with curved pieces flowing from her hands, beneath her feet, and behind her head.
July 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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kossworks.bsky.social
Humbled and honored to be on the shortlist for the Lammy's. Thank you, @diodeeditions.bsky.social, editors, and @lambdaliterary.org and the judges. Blown away! And thanks to everyone who has supported my book and writing! Congrats to all the finalists also!❤️
July 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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travisclau.bsky.social
Columbus folks: it would mean the world to me to see you at the launch reading of What's Left Is Tender on 8/18 at 7 PM at Prologue Bookshop.
A translucent white and green flyer that features the cover of my new collection of poems, What's Left Is Tender (which depicts bearded man floating in water beside a lotus) and the following text: WHAT'S LEFT IS TENDER TRAVIS CHI WING LAU BOOK LAUNCH Featuring special guests Michael Leong & Mandy Shunnarah 7PM MONDAY, AUGUST 18 AT PROLOGUE BOOKSHOP
July 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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triohousepress.org
Read this beautiful interview with @kalekim.bsky.social in the International Examiner, where she discusses her inspiration for Mele and encouraging words for aspiring poets. 💛💜💛💜

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July 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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robmclennan.bsky.social
Éireann Lorsung, Pattern-book / @eireannmor.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social ;
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Éireann Lorsung, Pattern-book
BRAMBLE CUTTING Five-petaled, milk-white—say thin as milk , as wholesome:  pithy centres turn to pulp in July. All year, canes  ov...
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July 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
artichokeheart.bsky.social
So grateful for my poem "Sequelae: A Mapping / Jishin-no-ben" to be included in the new issue of @riseupreview.bsky.social alongside a wonderful array of terrific poets! Many thanks to Sonia Greenfield and the Rise Up Review team!

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July 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
artichokeheart.bsky.social
I'm thrilled (and nervous) to share the preorder link for my essay collection, unMothered, unTongued, winner of the AWP Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction, which will be released by @ugapress.bsky.social on September 15, 2025.

www.ugapress.org/978082037441...
unMothered, unTongued
unMothered, unTongued is a collection of lyric essays written from the liminal space of the in-between. These essays thread themselves around questions of la...
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July 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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susanlleary.bsky.social
I have a poem from my forthcoming collection with @triohousepress.bsky.social in the new issue of South Dakota Review! Thanks to @artichokeheart.bsky.social for including me! A stellar issue on Day 16 of National Poetry Month, friends! Oh! & I love this poem’s little nod to Bhanu Kapil! 💙
Holding My Skeleton to the Light It's possible I watched myself fleeing the alleyway, myself imagining a series of crueler injuries to the original wound. What would you say if you could? asks the poet. It's contextual! replies anyone without a clue. This can be a way of describing a metaphor or a way of describing psychology. This can also be helpful or not. Listen. When I thought you hadn't the desire to understand me, I hadn't the desire to be heard.
April 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
artichokeheart.bsky.social
Immense gratitude to the amazing Jillian Sico at The Press at Colorado College, who created this gorgeous letterpress broadside featuring an excerpt from the concluding short story Reveal Codes, "Space." <3
April 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
artichokeheart.bsky.social
I'm so happy to share the cover reveal for my book of lyric essays, whih was named winner of this years' Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction in the AWP Awards Series, forthcoming from @ugapress.bsky.social.
cover for unMothered, unTongued, a collection of lyric essays by Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh, with the image of a biracial girl with cacti in the background carrying a shotgun.
March 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM