I had way too much fun writing up 10 small press poetry books I enjoyed this year. Drumroll please! 🧵 necessarymess.wordpress.com/2024/12/30/r... - ThreadSky

chiaradilello.bsky.social • 153 days ago

I had way too much fun writing up 10 small press poetry books I enjoyed this year. Drumroll please! 🧵
https://necessarymess.wordpress.com/2024/12/30/recommended-reading-2024/

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djvorreyer.bsky.social•152 days ago

Love this list... Many new ones for me to pick up. Thanks for sharing!

chiaradilello.bsky.social•152 days ago

Glad to hear it! Thanks for reading 😊

hanvanderhart.bsky.social•152 days ago

These are such gorgeous readings and selections, Chiara 🙏💜💜 So generous, insightful, and deep-hearted. What a gift. 📚✨✨

chiaradilello.bsky.social•152 days ago

Thanks, Han! That means a lot 💜💙💖

hanvanderhart.bsky.social•153 days ago

Oooh running PO errands for @riverriverbooks.bsky.social and can’t wait to read!!!

chiaradilello.bsky.social•153 days ago

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/

chiaradilello.bsky.social•153 days ago

Killing It (Gaia Rajan) is a chapbook-length refutation of the violence of expectations. In Rajan’s visceral poems, “The girl I was supposed to be stands behind me / with the posture of a guillotine.” @blacklawrence.bsky.social 3/

chiaradilello.bsky.social•153 days ago

A Geography That Does Not Hurt Us (Carla Sofia Ferreira): How many collections can engage with colonizer ancestry AND include a fantastic poem about the gay love of Sesame Street’s Bert and Ernie? Get you a poet who can do both. @riverriverbooks.bsky.social 4/

chiaradilello.bsky.social•153 days ago

Mother of Other Kingdoms (@kaicoggin.bsky.social)
Coggin’s poems paint a detailed picture of life with her “more-than-human children.” I love the space her poems make for mothering beyond the biological: “It’s not that I can’t have children / It’s that I already do.” @smallharborpub.bsky.social 5/

chiaradilello.bsky.social•153 days ago

No Rest (Jason Koo) is a unique, idea-packed collection. The longform couplet-based poems collide art & philosphy with the everyday: “When is the last time I felt the earth?” the speaker asks just before “I was inserting a Taco Bell Burrito Supreme / into my mouth.” (Diode Editions) 6/

chiaradilello.bsky.social•153 days ago

Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (Emilia Phillips)
Their way of writing about gender is one of my favorite things. In their poems, as in life, gender is fun/awkward, cringey/sexy, confusing & joyful. “MY GENDER / Is a tree falling in a forest / with no one around to hear it." @uakronpress.bsky.social 7/

lesannsai.bsky.social•151 days ago

thank you for this thoughtful review! cheers to quiet radicalism 🤍

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