Justin Aoba
@justinaoba.bsky.social
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poetry editor: identitytheory.com
hybrid editor: bleatingthingmagazine.com
a guy at: syzygyworkshop.org/slow-orbit
extimateothers.com
poetry editor: identitytheory.com
hybrid editor: bleatingthingmagazine.com
a guy at: syzygyworkshop.org/slow-orbit
extimateothers.com
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Justin Aoba
@justinaoba.bsky.social
· Feb 24
"Virginia seemed like always night." — SYZYGY
SYZYGY is a writing workshop and publication founded by the Heung Coalition.
syzygyworkshop.org
Now in Slow Orbit: a David Lynch sonnet by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social
"As much as I love the fields, the cedars, the creek I grew up beside, the land is death-haunted in Virginia, and that violence is overwhelmingly colonial."
syzygyworkshop.org/virginia-see...
"As much as I love the fields, the cedars, the creek I grew up beside, the land is death-haunted in Virginia, and that violence is overwhelmingly colonial."
syzygyworkshop.org/virginia-see...
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A year later, I still think I wrote the single best take on Han Kang’s Nobel win. I especially loved taking this essay away from the New York Times and the Atlantic and giving it to @wasafirimag.bsky.social
We Have Arrived: Anton Hur on Han Kang’s Nobel Win
In this moving and revealing essay…
www.wasafiri.org
November 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
A year later, I still think I wrote the single best take on Han Kang’s Nobel win. I especially loved taking this essay away from the New York Times and the Atlantic and giving it to @wasafirimag.bsky.social
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Happening tomorrow afternoon (Sunday)! We hope you can join us to benefit Indigenous communities in Western Alaska. 🌱💚
ALOCASIA is honored to be holding two virtual readings to benefit the Western Alaska Relief Fund, to support Indigenous communities impacted by Typhoon Halong.
There is a suggested $10-25 donation.
We hope to see you there, and hope you'll spread the word!
Find out more: bit.ly/linkedhearts...
There is a suggested $10-25 donation.
We hope to see you there, and hope you'll spread the word!
Find out more: bit.ly/linkedhearts...
November 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Happening tomorrow afternoon (Sunday)! We hope you can join us to benefit Indigenous communities in Western Alaska. 🌱💚
Please continue sharing & signing:
"Both Senior Editors of our award-winning magazine The Margins are being laid off as of November 14. . . The Margins staff will be down to one, and the Workshop’s union . . . will be effectively destroyed."
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"Both Senior Editors of our award-winning magazine The Margins are being laid off as of November 14. . . The Margins staff will be down to one, and the Workshop’s union . . . will be effectively destroyed."
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
An Open Letter from Concerned AAWW Staff and Union
LAST UPDATED 11/20: To add your name to this letter, please use this form. See the list of signatories. UPDATES THE BOARD HAS REFUSED ALL OUR DEMANDS. WE ARE STILL IN CONVERSATION WITH THEM. KEEP TH...
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November 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Please continue sharing & signing:
"Both Senior Editors of our award-winning magazine The Margins are being laid off as of November 14. . . The Margins staff will be down to one, and the Workshop’s union . . . will be effectively destroyed."
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
"Both Senior Editors of our award-winning magazine The Margins are being laid off as of November 14. . . The Margins staff will be down to one, and the Workshop’s union . . . will be effectively destroyed."
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
A small poem of mine is up at @proteanmag.com. Thanks to Poetry Editor Dominick Knowles.
proteanmag.com/2025/11/20/c...
proteanmag.com/2025/11/20/c...
Central Administration Integrates a Dependent Territory • Protean Magazine
Poet Justin Aoba's "Central Administration Integrates a Dependent Territory" moves through the brutalities of state-formation and collapse, illuminating "fissures / read by the scraping of tremulous f...
proteanmag.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
A small poem of mine is up at @proteanmag.com. Thanks to Poetry Editor Dominick Knowles.
proteanmag.com/2025/11/20/c...
proteanmag.com/2025/11/20/c...
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bad writing can lowkey be beautiful. not because the language is beautiful but because bad writing can reveal things about the writer that "good writing" would know to conceal or distract from. sometimes when reading bad writing I feel a terrible, thrilling closeness to the author.
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
bad writing can lowkey be beautiful. not because the language is beautiful but because bad writing can reveal things about the writer that "good writing" would know to conceal or distract from. sometimes when reading bad writing I feel a terrible, thrilling closeness to the author.
Is there a socially acceptable way to signal that I am not available to receive short form video content? Neon sign or public crashout seem a bit garish
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Is there a socially acceptable way to signal that I am not available to receive short form video content? Neon sign or public crashout seem a bit garish
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One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
Still relevant today
anybody else been moved to tears to write a poem and then you read back the draft and it might as well say cheeseburger, medium fries, coke no ice
November 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Still relevant today
Rereading sho yamagushiku's Shima
Pic sucks cuz my phone is falling apart 🙈
Pic sucks cuz my phone is falling apart 🙈
November 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Rereading sho yamagushiku's Shima
Pic sucks cuz my phone is falling apart 🙈
Pic sucks cuz my phone is falling apart 🙈
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Want to honor Alice Wong and her work? Wear a damn mask!
November 15, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Want to honor Alice Wong and her work? Wear a damn mask!
I am beginning to respond to things
November 15, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I am beginning to respond to things
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Sameer Project’s Give Warmth campaign is up. Pls read, give, and stay tuned for additional ways to give !
maurafinkelstein.substack.com/p/give-warmt...
maurafinkelstein.substack.com/p/give-warmt...
November 15, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Sameer Project’s Give Warmth campaign is up. Pls read, give, and stay tuned for additional ways to give !
maurafinkelstein.substack.com/p/give-warmt...
maurafinkelstein.substack.com/p/give-warmt...
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Some (more) ANMLY news (deep lore)! Our amazing Asst. Fiction Editor jonah wu will be stepping up as Fiction Co-Editor w/ current Co-Editor Kathy Henion! Meanwhile, Addie Tsai will be stepping away as Fiction Co-Editor, but staying on as our Fiction Editor-At-Large (and Features & Reviews Editor!)
October 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Some (more) ANMLY news (deep lore)! Our amazing Asst. Fiction Editor jonah wu will be stepping up as Fiction Co-Editor w/ current Co-Editor Kathy Henion! Meanwhile, Addie Tsai will be stepping away as Fiction Co-Editor, but staying on as our Fiction Editor-At-Large (and Features & Reviews Editor!)
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ANMLY #41 is here! We’re thrilled to share new translations, fiction, a double issue of poetry, CNF, with a folio on autistic protest poetry!
>>> anmly.org/ap41 And we're open for new work until February 1
>>> anmly.submittable.com
>>> anmly.org/ap41 And we're open for new work until February 1
>>> anmly.submittable.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
ANMLY #41 is here! We’re thrilled to share new translations, fiction, a double issue of poetry, CNF, with a folio on autistic protest poetry!
>>> anmly.org/ap41 And we're open for new work until February 1
>>> anmly.submittable.com
>>> anmly.org/ap41 And we're open for new work until February 1
>>> anmly.submittable.com
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An Ohio University professor was removed from teaching a MFA class a day after returning home from an Israeli prison where he was detained upon being illegally abducted from the flotilla.
His students [solidarity!] walked out on the replacement prof in protest.
www.dispatch.com/story/news/s...
His students [solidarity!] walked out on the replacement prof in protest.
www.dispatch.com/story/news/s...
October 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
An Ohio University professor was removed from teaching a MFA class a day after returning home from an Israeli prison where he was detained upon being illegally abducted from the flotilla.
His students [solidarity!] walked out on the replacement prof in protest.
www.dispatch.com/story/news/s...
His students [solidarity!] walked out on the replacement prof in protest.
www.dispatch.com/story/news/s...
Giving up on these poems 🗣💨
October 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Giving up on these poems 🗣💨
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Baek Sehee, the author of I WANT TO DIE BUT I WANT TO EAT TTEOKBOKKI has passed away. She was 35.
The Korean organ donation authority reports that Sehee saved five lives through her donation of her heart, lungs, liver, and both kidneys.
The Korean organ donation authority reports that Sehee saved five lives through her donation of her heart, lungs, liver, and both kidneys.
October 17, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Baek Sehee, the author of I WANT TO DIE BUT I WANT TO EAT TTEOKBOKKI has passed away. She was 35.
The Korean organ donation authority reports that Sehee saved five lives through her donation of her heart, lungs, liver, and both kidneys.
The Korean organ donation authority reports that Sehee saved five lives through her donation of her heart, lungs, liver, and both kidneys.
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COVER REVEAL!!! So excited to finally share the cover of Naming a Dying Thing with you all. You can preorder a copy from @yellowarrowpub.bsky.social
www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/store/p/nami...
www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/store/p/nami...
Naming a Dying Thing by Vic Nogay — Yellow Arrow Publishing
Like humid Ohio summers, often wistful and lovely, yet undeniably heavy, Naming a Dying Thing by Vic Nogay is a sticky collection. At times a confrontation, at others an abdication, the poems within t...
www.yellowarrowpublishing.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
COVER REVEAL!!! So excited to finally share the cover of Naming a Dying Thing with you all. You can preorder a copy from @yellowarrowpub.bsky.social
www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/store/p/nami...
www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/store/p/nami...
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new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity.
"To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."
"To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."
How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women
"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.
www.teenvogue.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity.
"To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."
"To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."
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Please come see @majda.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social Julia Kolchinsky read their new books for @notatawp.bsky.social on Tuesday, September 9th at 7pm.
Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nawp-a-rea...
Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nawp-a-rea...
September 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Please come see @majda.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social Julia Kolchinsky read their new books for @notatawp.bsky.social on Tuesday, September 9th at 7pm.
Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nawp-a-rea...
Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nawp-a-rea...
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Announcing Maya Salameh's third workshop for us💕
Cryptids and Creatures: Mythology in Poetry
October 4, online
Sign up here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/cry...
Cryptids and Creatures: Mythology in Poetry
October 4, online
Sign up here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/cry...
September 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Announcing Maya Salameh's third workshop for us💕
Cryptids and Creatures: Mythology in Poetry
October 4, online
Sign up here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/cry...
Cryptids and Creatures: Mythology in Poetry
October 4, online
Sign up here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/cry...
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I think this is a really great and important initiative but I think it'd be really important to be inclusive of poets, and also to get more translators of color and those from the global south involved. It would be great if the team can reach out and chat more
Hello, Bluesky! This is a weird day to go live with this project, but: this is an initiative to add a Translated Speculative Fiction category to the Hugo Awards. If you are a fan of global SF, and want to put some more "World" in "Worldcon", check out our site! Lots more to come.
translatedhugo.org
translatedhugo.org
The Translated Hugo Initiative
Putting the World in Worldcon
translatedhugo.org
August 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I think this is a really great and important initiative but I think it'd be really important to be inclusive of poets, and also to get more translators of color and those from the global south involved. It would be great if the team can reach out and chat more
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Thank you, kind folks, for using my tip jar. If you’d like to help with my internet bill, I would appreciate it. Otherwise, I’ll have my commissions sheet ready tomorrow. ko-fi.com/soniasulaiman
August 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Thank you, kind folks, for using my tip jar. If you’d like to help with my internet bill, I would appreciate it. Otherwise, I’ll have my commissions sheet ready tomorrow. ko-fi.com/soniasulaiman