benzz🏳️⚧️
@mercedesrodriguez.bsky.social
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benzz🏳️⚧️
@mercedesrodriguez.bsky.social
· Nov 16
my most recent and first ever pub, in wildness’ newest issue 💗
I’m so honored to have a poem in the Bellingham Review’s newest issue.
The poem borrows language from Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song.” :)
The poem borrows language from Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song.” :)
January 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I’m so honored to have a poem in the Bellingham Review’s newest issue.
The poem borrows language from Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song.” :)
The poem borrows language from Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song.” :)
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January 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Carl Philips (@cphillipspoet.bsky.social), "And If I Fall"
Light enters a cathedral the way persuasion fills a body.
Light enters a cathedral, the way persuasion fills a body.
Light enters a cathedral the way persuasion fills a body.
Light enters a cathedral, the way persuasion fills a body.
November 25, 2024 at 2:04 AM
Carl Philips (@cphillipspoet.bsky.social), "And If I Fall"
Light enters a cathedral the way persuasion fills a body.
Light enters a cathedral, the way persuasion fills a body.
Light enters a cathedral the way persuasion fills a body.
Light enters a cathedral, the way persuasion fills a body.
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Tonight at 8:30pm EST! 💞 link to reading in the thread
This Sunday! A reading to organize funds for Aline’s green card hearing! Please share and watch this space for how to tune in 💫
November 24, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Tonight at 8:30pm EST! 💞 link to reading in the thread
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I love a poem with couplets that have wild second lines. Give me "Everyday he ate the same breakfast: / fourteen love letters folded into paper airplanes" alllllll day. Business in the front, fantasy in the back. Little poetry mullets. Tiny tugboats dragging leviathans into the harbor.
November 20, 2024 at 2:02 PM
I love a poem with couplets that have wild second lines. Give me "Everyday he ate the same breakfast: / fourteen love letters folded into paper airplanes" alllllll day. Business in the front, fantasy in the back. Little poetry mullets. Tiny tugboats dragging leviathans into the harbor.
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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
www.brewandforge.com/product-page...
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...
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Can we just name the anxiety of being an working artist and watching platforms you deeply rely on to maintain a living possibly collapse?
November 19, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Can we just name the anxiety of being an working artist and watching platforms you deeply rely on to maintain a living possibly collapse?
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Thank you Eduardo Martinez-Leyva & @electriclit.bsky.social for featuring my debut poetry collection among these other Texas poets I admire. Check it out!
These poetry collections by BIPOC Texans are committed to revealing painful truths and uncovering beauty within them.
7 Poetry Collections by BIPOC Texas Writers - Electric Literature
Over a decade has passed since I traded the sunny, desert landscape of El Paso, Texas, for the vibrant chaos of East Coast city life. And no matter the distance, all roads lead back to Texas, my…
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November 18, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Thank you Eduardo Martinez-Leyva & @electriclit.bsky.social for featuring my debut poetry collection among these other Texas poets I admire. Check it out!
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Everything I learn about crows only increases my admiration for them
November 17, 2024 at 3:30 AM
Everything I learn about crows only increases my admiration for them
noooo that’s actually my emotional support sticky note
November 17, 2024 at 1:44 PM
noooo that’s actually my emotional support sticky note
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Matthew Olzmann reminding us we’re going to be ok:
November 17, 2024 at 1:59 AM
Matthew Olzmann reminding us we’re going to be ok:
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I love this Xin Qiji poem, translated by @chowleen.bsky.social
November 17, 2024 at 5:08 AM
I love this Xin Qiji poem, translated by @chowleen.bsky.social
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This new love poem by Nick Martino (just came out in Passages North) is so beautiful—perfect music
November 16, 2024 at 3:38 PM
This new love poem by Nick Martino (just came out in Passages North) is so beautiful—perfect music
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lovely timing that this conversation w/ the brilliant Kennedy C. of @theoffingmag.bsky.social is out now! sharing it here as an intro of sorts to my first book, my writing life, what inspires me and thoughts about poetry prizes! 🙏🏾🦋
theoffingmag.com/interviews/q...
theoffingmag.com/interviews/q...
Q&A with Ariana Benson, author of Black Pastoral - The Offing
Q&A - The Offing Magazine
theoffingmag.com
November 16, 2024 at 8:14 PM
lovely timing that this conversation w/ the brilliant Kennedy C. of @theoffingmag.bsky.social is out now! sharing it here as an intro of sorts to my first book, my writing life, what inspires me and thoughts about poetry prizes! 🙏🏾🦋
theoffingmag.com/interviews/q...
theoffingmag.com/interviews/q...
I will forever come back to this poem
November 17, 2024 at 12:07 AM
I will forever come back to this poem
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"It was in that hour that I became negatively capable. My life spiraled onward, and duende became my claim to an errant power."
This is an essay on my poem "Ballad," Keats's notion of Negative Capability, and Lorca's Duende, with a prompt and a link to the original poem. I'm happy to share it with you.
I Know You Know: Diane Seuss On “Ballad,” Negative Capability, and the Duende
Christ was laid out in a glass coffin, like Snow White. I visited and re-visited him. He looked so much like my father on his deathbed.
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November 11, 2024 at 7:02 PM
"It was in that hour that I became negatively capable. My life spiraled onward, and duende became my claim to an errant power."
my most recent and first ever pub, in wildness’ newest issue 💗
November 16, 2024 at 2:38 PM
my most recent and first ever pub, in wildness’ newest issue 💗
where’s my poetry communityyyy
November 16, 2024 at 2:29 PM
where’s my poetry communityyyy