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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) 🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈
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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

submitted 144 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 151 days ago • 1 comment

it was a delight to review poetry apps for this year’s NEA fellowships. congrats to this impressive bunch! 💐 www.arts.gov/impact/liter...

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my campaign platform is that I believe the world will heal itself once granta reopens for poetry subs

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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...

submitted 155 days ago • 1 comment

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

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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-...

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I swallow my subtweets like air

submitted 178 days ago • 0 comments

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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An appetizer to start off my (your) morning. Poem by Leslie Sainz from the Fall-Winter 2023 volume of american poets (poets.org). #poetry

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this conversation is scripture

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hopelessly in love with the cover of our winter issue

submitted 187 days ago • 0 comments

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...

submitted 192 days ago • 0 comments

Announcing our 2024 Pushcart Prize nominations: Congratulations to Imad Rahman, Laura Schmitt (@schmittpod.bsky.social), Daniel Borzutzky, Fay Dillof, Ben Miller, & Kyle Minor!

submitted 193 days ago • 1 comment

"Poetry comes out of nothing. Read the nothing." —Renee Gladman, CALAMITIES

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sean singer

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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. newenglandreviewsubscriptions.submittable.com/submit/b278d...

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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...

submitted 206 days ago • 0 comments

now that we're all mostly here can we please start circulating better poems

submitted 207 days ago • 5 comments

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...

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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...

submitted 646 days ago • 0 comments

i'm going on tour for HAVE YOU BEEN LONG ENOUGH AT TABLE, which releases from @tinhouse.bsky.social on september 26! miami, nyc, boston, portland, pittsburgh, madison & other lovely cities—come thru for poems & tears. & feel free to jump on this train & book me for the winter, spring, & beyond 🤍

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