Leslie Sainz
@lesannsai.bsky.social
author of HAVE YOU BEEN LONG ENOUGH AT TABLE (Tin House, 2023), NEA fellow, managing editor of New England Review (she/her) 🇨🇺🏳️🌈
there is a direct correlation between how many selfies someone posts to promote their forthcoming book and how little I want to read their forthcoming book
January 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
there is a direct correlation between how many selfies someone posts to promote their forthcoming book and how little I want to read their forthcoming book
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I am gonna post my APR review of Jason Koo’s latest, but I want to make something clear first. I will never ever participate in circle jerk literary culture. it’s anti-intellectual for friends to write about how great their friends are and call it a review.
January 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I am gonna post my APR review of Jason Koo’s latest, but I want to make something clear first. I will never ever participate in circle jerk literary culture. it’s anti-intellectual for friends to write about how great their friends are and call it a review.
it was a delight to review poetry apps for this year’s NEA fellowships. congrats to this impressive bunch! 💐
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Meet the Creative Writing Fellows
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January 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
it was a delight to review poetry apps for this year’s NEA fellowships. congrats to this impressive bunch! 💐
www.arts.gov/impact/liter...
www.arts.gov/impact/liter...
my campaign platform is that I believe the world will heal itself once granta reopens for poetry subs
January 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
my campaign platform is that I believe the world will heal itself once granta reopens for poetry subs
i'm editing NER's new online craft series!
writers, translators, critics—send me essays that illuminate the infinite possibilities beneath questions of style, time, sound, risk, genre, etc.
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writers, translators, critics—send me essays that illuminate the infinite possibilities beneath questions of style, time, sound, risk, genre, etc.
newenglandreview.submittable.com/submit/31775...
Introducing Staging Style: A Quarterly Online Craft Series
We are seeking brief essays, 900-2,000 words, that trouble the conventional prescriptiveness of “craft." Edited by Leslie Sainz.
Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis. Learn more: newenglandreview.submittable.com/submit/31775...
We are seeking brief essays, 900-2,000 words, that trouble the conventional prescriptiveness of “craft." Edited by Leslie Sainz.
Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis. Learn more: newenglandreview.submittable.com/submit/31775...
January 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
i'm editing NER's new online craft series!
writers, translators, critics—send me essays that illuminate the infinite possibilities beneath questions of style, time, sound, risk, genre, etc.
newenglandreview.submittable.com/submit/31775...
writers, translators, critics—send me essays that illuminate the infinite possibilities beneath questions of style, time, sound, risk, genre, etc.
newenglandreview.submittable.com/submit/31775...
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Have You Been Long Enough at Table (@lesannsai.bsky.social) is a multifaceted, in-depth engagement with history, lineage & memory. There is a quiet radicalness in witnessing all the complications and choosing oneself: “I stopped anticipating needs and set the table for one.” @tinhouse.bsky.social 2/
December 30, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Have You Been Long Enough at Table (@lesannsai.bsky.social) is a multifaceted, in-depth engagement with history, lineage & memory. There is a quiet radicalness in witnessing all the complications and choosing oneself: “I stopped anticipating needs and set the table for one.” @tinhouse.bsky.social 2/
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i love the yearly countdown...but i also recognize that it can happen offline, as the work does
December 29, 2024 at 3:53 PM
i love the yearly countdown...but i also recognize that it can happen offline, as the work does
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A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein
December 29, 2024 at 3:15 AM
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein
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"A soft, internal machine becomes softly blank, receding, not. Into the vast space of not enters pain."
From the essay "Adjacency, or, Words for Pain" by Gabeba Baderoon, new in our winter issue (45.4) and now available to read online.
www.nereview.com/vol-45-no-4-...
From the essay "Adjacency, or, Words for Pain" by Gabeba Baderoon, new in our winter issue (45.4) and now available to read online.
www.nereview.com/vol-45-no-4-...
Adjacency, or, Words for Pain
From the age of nine, I started to be not where I was from, where people shout in the streets, where the accent is flat, flet, plat, as the place. The more educated I became the more I sounded like…
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December 19, 2024 at 4:53 PM
"A soft, internal machine becomes softly blank, receding, not. Into the vast space of not enters pain."
From the essay "Adjacency, or, Words for Pain" by Gabeba Baderoon, new in our winter issue (45.4) and now available to read online.
www.nereview.com/vol-45-no-4-...
From the essay "Adjacency, or, Words for Pain" by Gabeba Baderoon, new in our winter issue (45.4) and now available to read online.
www.nereview.com/vol-45-no-4-...
I swallow my subtweets like air
December 18, 2024 at 5:55 PM
I swallow my subtweets like air
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It’s always a thrill to get contributor’s copies in the mail, especially when the story’s new home is as cool as @newenglandreview.bsky.social. Many thanks to Carolyn Kuebler, @lesannsai.bsky.social, and the rest of the team, for saying yes to that bit of darkness.
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December 16, 2024 at 5:32 PM
It’s always a thrill to get contributor’s copies in the mail, especially when the story’s new home is as cool as @newenglandreview.bsky.social. Many thanks to Carolyn Kuebler, @lesannsai.bsky.social, and the rest of the team, for saying yes to that bit of darkness.
📚✒️🐕
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this conversation is scripture
In a new Behind the Byline interview, staff reader C. Rees talks with NER 45.3 poet francine j. harris about sonic mapping, the human and the humane, and the poet's responsibility to the endangered.
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francine j. harris
Photo of francine j. harris courtesy of the author Staff reader C. Rees talks with NER 45.3 poet francine j. harris about sonic mapping, the human and the humane, and the poet’s responsibilit…
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December 11, 2024 at 3:37 PM
this conversation is scripture
hopelessly in love with the cover of our winter issue
We're elated to reveal the artwork for our winter 2024 issue (45.4): OPEN SHOP by Derry Ainsworth.
From now until December 19, take advantage of our holiday rates & snag a print or e-book subscription at a 20% discount.
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From now until December 19, take advantage of our holiday rates & snag a print or e-book subscription at a 20% discount.
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December 9, 2024 at 3:14 PM
hopelessly in love with the cover of our winter issue
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In a new Behind the Byline interview, NER managing editor Leslie Sainz (@lesannsai.bsky.social) talks with author Jessica Treadway about distillation, first-person narration, conscious and unconscious influences, and her short story "Tribute" from issue 45.3.
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Jessica Treadway
NER managing editor Leslie Sainz talks with author Jessica Treadway about distillation, first-person narration, conscious and unconscious influences, and her short story “Tribute” from …
sites.middlebury.edu
December 4, 2024 at 3:34 PM
In a new Behind the Byline interview, NER managing editor Leslie Sainz (@lesannsai.bsky.social) talks with author Jessica Treadway about distillation, first-person narration, conscious and unconscious influences, and her short story "Tribute" from issue 45.3.
sites.middlebury.edu/newenglandre...
sites.middlebury.edu/newenglandre...
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Announcing our 2024 Pushcart Prize nominations:
Congratulations to Imad Rahman, Laura Schmitt (@schmittpod.bsky.social), Daniel Borzutzky, Fay Dillof, Ben Miller, & Kyle Minor!
Congratulations to Imad Rahman, Laura Schmitt (@schmittpod.bsky.social), Daniel Borzutzky, Fay Dillof, Ben Miller, & Kyle Minor!
December 3, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Announcing our 2024 Pushcart Prize nominations:
Congratulations to Imad Rahman, Laura Schmitt (@schmittpod.bsky.social), Daniel Borzutzky, Fay Dillof, Ben Miller, & Kyle Minor!
Congratulations to Imad Rahman, Laura Schmitt (@schmittpod.bsky.social), Daniel Borzutzky, Fay Dillof, Ben Miller, & Kyle Minor!
"Poetry comes out of nothing. Read the nothing."
—Renee Gladman, CALAMITIES
—Renee Gladman, CALAMITIES
December 1, 2024 at 4:46 PM
"Poetry comes out of nothing. Read the nothing."
—Renee Gladman, CALAMITIES
—Renee Gladman, CALAMITIES
which poets are doing delightful and ghastly things with the villanelle?
November 25, 2024 at 8:14 PM
which poets are doing delightful and ghastly things with the villanelle?
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This holiday season, give the gift of worldliness and exceptional literature at a price that doesn't break the bank.
From now until Dec 19, gift or receive 4 print issues of NER for just $29, or an e-book subscription for only $26.
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From now until Dec 19, gift or receive 4 print issues of NER for just $29, or an e-book subscription for only $26.
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November 25, 2024 at 3:05 PM
This holiday season, give the gift of worldliness and exceptional literature at a price that doesn't break the bank.
From now until Dec 19, gift or receive 4 print issues of NER for just $29, or an e-book subscription for only $26.
newenglandreviewsubscriptions.submittable.com/submit/b278d...
From now until Dec 19, gift or receive 4 print issues of NER for just $29, or an e-book subscription for only $26.
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3 signed copies of HYBLEAT & many other books worth your time are available for purchase through the brew & forge book fair
this year all proceeds support the addameer prisoner support and human rights association
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this year all proceeds support the addameer prisoner support and human rights association
www.brewandforge.com/product-page...
November 20, 2024 at 5:14 PM
3 signed copies of HYBLEAT & many other books worth your time are available for purchase through the brew & forge book fair
this year all proceeds support the addameer prisoner support and human rights association
www.brewandforge.com/product-page...
this year all proceeds support the addameer prisoner support and human rights association
www.brewandforge.com/product-page...
now that we're all mostly here can we please start circulating better poems
November 19, 2024 at 5:46 PM
now that we're all mostly here can we please start circulating better poems
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Only a few more weeks until we publish ✨Have You Been Long Enough at Table, the debut poetry collection by @lesannsai.bsky.social !
Check out the praise this collection has already received!
✨Read more + pre-order: bit.ly/HaveYouBeenL...
Check out the praise this collection has already received!
✨Read more + pre-order: bit.ly/HaveYouBeenL...
September 12, 2023 at 5:29 PM
Only a few more weeks until we publish ✨Have You Been Long Enough at Table, the debut poetry collection by @lesannsai.bsky.social !
Check out the praise this collection has already received!
✨Read more + pre-order: bit.ly/HaveYouBeenL...
Check out the praise this collection has already received!
✨Read more + pre-order: bit.ly/HaveYouBeenL...
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Love seeing both
⚡ Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine
and
⚡ Have You Been Long Enough at Table by @lesannsai.bsky.social
on Lambda Literary's list of the 💛 Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books for September!
lambdaliteraryreview.org/2023/09/sept...
⚡ Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine
and
⚡ Have You Been Long Enough at Table by @lesannsai.bsky.social
on Lambda Literary's list of the 💛 Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books for September!
lambdaliteraryreview.org/2023/09/sept...
September 7, 2023 at 4:40 PM
Love seeing both
⚡ Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine
and
⚡ Have You Been Long Enough at Table by @lesannsai.bsky.social
on Lambda Literary's list of the 💛 Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books for September!
lambdaliteraryreview.org/2023/09/sept...
⚡ Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine
and
⚡ Have You Been Long Enough at Table by @lesannsai.bsky.social
on Lambda Literary's list of the 💛 Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books for September!
lambdaliteraryreview.org/2023/09/sept...
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MAS Latinx writers to follow!!
@itoromo.bsky.social @boriscrito.bsky.social @ladeziree.bsky.social
@lesannsai.bsky.social
@profstalina.bsky.social
@julianbanuelos.bsky.social
@sgpoet.bsky.social
@itoromo.bsky.social @boriscrito.bsky.social @ladeziree.bsky.social
@lesannsai.bsky.social
@profstalina.bsky.social
@julianbanuelos.bsky.social
@sgpoet.bsky.social
September 12, 2023 at 4:52 PM