cydni thompson!
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poet! currently @ Queens College MFA • poems in SUNHOUSE Lit, trampset, Bear Review, No, Dear
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September 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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oh no...
OH NO!!!
rest in peace, nikki giovanni... 💔💔💔💔
OH NO!!!
rest in peace, nikki giovanni... 💔💔💔💔
December 10, 2024 at 2:57 AM
oh no...
OH NO!!!
rest in peace, nikki giovanni... 💔💔💔💔
OH NO!!!
rest in peace, nikki giovanni... 💔💔💔💔
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The world has lost a beautiful soul.
Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
Well-known Virginia Tech professor dies at 81
Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
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December 10, 2024 at 3:01 AM
The world has lost a beautiful soul.
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kinda super in love with the first poem in couplets by maggie millner
November 28, 2024 at 7:29 PM
kinda super in love with the first poem in couplets by maggie millner
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Day 1: I can write.
Day 2: I write.
Day 3: I just read, I don't write.
Day 4: I cannot write.
Day 5: To hell with writing.
Day 6: Burn the books! Burn the books!
Day 7: I'm beginning to write again.
Different shades of madness one encounters in this writing journey.
Day 2: I write.
Day 3: I just read, I don't write.
Day 4: I cannot write.
Day 5: To hell with writing.
Day 6: Burn the books! Burn the books!
Day 7: I'm beginning to write again.
Different shades of madness one encounters in this writing journey.
November 28, 2024 at 6:32 AM
Day 1: I can write.
Day 2: I write.
Day 3: I just read, I don't write.
Day 4: I cannot write.
Day 5: To hell with writing.
Day 6: Burn the books! Burn the books!
Day 7: I'm beginning to write again.
Different shades of madness one encounters in this writing journey.
Day 2: I write.
Day 3: I just read, I don't write.
Day 4: I cannot write.
Day 5: To hell with writing.
Day 6: Burn the books! Burn the books!
Day 7: I'm beginning to write again.
Different shades of madness one encounters in this writing journey.
“Discipline is only good for the dispensing of punishment. Art’s great obligation is to its own liberty, and by demonstration, the realization of ours. It is not an exercise any more than making love or dying can be practiced.”
dean young (again)
dean young (again)
November 20, 2024 at 1:49 PM
“Discipline is only good for the dispensing of punishment. Art’s great obligation is to its own liberty, and by demonstration, the realization of ours. It is not an exercise any more than making love or dying can be practiced.”
dean young (again)
dean young (again)
“People search for poems when the occasion demands, when emotions requires the ritualized and/or raw powers of poetry. Curse and blessing […] that is where our poetry is, in the human pang.“
dean young
dean young
November 20, 2024 at 1:48 PM
“People search for poems when the occasion demands, when emotions requires the ritualized and/or raw powers of poetry. Curse and blessing […] that is where our poetry is, in the human pang.“
dean young
dean young
“You can reduce anything to a number and reduce any number / to a name.”
“Disease Map” by Mary-Alice Daniel
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“Disease Map” by Mary-Alice Daniel
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Excerpt: Mass for Shut-Ins by Mary-Alice Daniel
DISEASE MAP
It's about my aunt getting tuberculosis.
Outbreak in her village is Devilry after 1 death – Risk at 10.
You can reduce anything to a number and elevate any number
to a name: Pande...
brittlepaper.com
November 20, 2024 at 1:42 PM
“You can reduce anything to a number and reduce any number / to a name.”
“Disease Map” by Mary-Alice Daniel
brittlepaper.com/2023/04/exce...
“Disease Map” by Mary-Alice Daniel
brittlepaper.com/2023/04/exce...
mary alice daniel from Mass for Shut-Ins
November 17, 2024 at 10:56 PM
mary alice daniel from Mass for Shut-Ins
another from cravens’ pleasure principle…again. again i tried to free my mind
November 16, 2024 at 9:00 PM
another from cravens’ pleasure principle…again. again i tried to free my mind
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Life is short. Write that novel. Paint that painting. Try new recipes. Learn black magic. Go into the forest at night. Summon a demon. Earn that demon's trust. Become best friends with it. Brag to everyone else about your new cool demon best friend. Knit that sweater.
November 15, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Life is short. Write that novel. Paint that painting. Try new recipes. Learn black magic. Go into the forest at night. Summon a demon. Earn that demon's trust. Become best friends with it. Brag to everyone else about your new cool demon best friend. Knit that sweater.
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What if we get off everything and just start reading?
November 15, 2024 at 3:20 PM
What if we get off everything and just start reading?
Yusef Komunyakaa
November 15, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Yusef Komunyakaa
from pleasure principle by madeleine cravens
November 15, 2024 at 1:55 PM
from pleasure principle by madeleine cravens
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GET ALL OF YOUR VACCINES NOW PEOPLE.
November 14, 2024 at 9:39 PM
GET ALL OF YOUR VACCINES NOW PEOPLE.