#Daniel Blokh

[sentientsky]

on fire. on the flame and the wretched ash it leaves behind

Unloving the Knife - Lilith Kerr // "A Burning Hill" - Mitski // me (some painting i did a while ago) // “What Fire Trucks Stop For and What They Don’t" - Daniel Blokh // "Free" - Florence + The Machine // "When Rome Falls" - Yves Olade // screencap from "The End" - The X-Files // "The Slaughterhouse" - Yves Olade // "Goodbye, My Danish Sweetheart" - Mitski // "Block Me Out" - Gracie Abrams // me // "The Slaughterhouse" - Yves Olade // screencap from "Hayloft II" mv // "Tattvamasi, You Are That" - Rajiv Mohabir // "Funeral Pyre" - Julien Baker // "Angel of Death" - Manchester Orchestra // “A Woman / Dirge for Wasted Children” - Audre Lorde // "1987" - Paul Guest // screencap from "Burn Your Village" mv - Kiki Rockwell // "Symptom" - Yves Olade // "Take Me To War" - The Crane Wives

[sporadiceagleheart]

Here's my Tribute edit for the angels in heaven Semina Mary Halliwell, Saffie-Rose Brenda Roussos, Lily Peters, Olivia Pratt Korbel, Elizabeth Shelley, Sara Sharif, Charlotte Figi, Jersey Dianne Bridgeman, Sidra Hassouna, Sloan Mattingly, Audrii Cunningham, Athena Strand, Athena Brownfield, Macie Hill, Ava Jordan Wood, Skylar Annette Neese, Rachel Joy Scott, Hannah Louise Scott, Charlotte Bacon, Charlotte Louise Dunn, Riley Faith Steep, Jayce Carmelo Luevanos, Jailah Nicole Silguero, Louis XVII, Shirley Temple, Baby LeRoy, Baby Peggy Montgomery, Peggy Cartwright, Darla Jean Hood, Jean Darling, Peaches Jackson, Mary Ann Jackson, Dorothy DeBorba, Mary Kornman, Mildred Kornman, Lucy Morgan, Lily Rose Diaz, Colby Curtin, Jaquita Mack, Bella Bond, Opal Jo Dace Jennings, Amber Rene Hagerman, Jessica Rekos, Benjamin Wheeler, Allison Wyatt, Bella Edwards, Natalia Victoria Wallace, Sherin Mathews, Caylee Marie Mastin, Amanda Todd, Heather O'Rourke, Judith Barsi, Maria Agnes Virovacz Barsi, Michelle B. Norris, Anna D. Crnkovic, Irmgard Christine Winter, Rosalie Avila, Ashawnty Davis, Emily Grace Jones, Catherine Violet Hubbard, Norah Lee Howard, Sarah Payne, Alicia Lynn Clark, Tristyn Bailey, Aubreigh Paige Wyatt, Phoebe Prince, Gabriella Green, Millie Drew Kelly, Emilie Parker, Jack Pinto, Noah Pozner, Avielle Richman, Caroline Previdi, Daniel Barden, Olivia Engel, Josephine Gay, Dylan Hockley, Madeleine Hsu, Makenna Lee Elrod, Eliahna Torres, Nevaeh Bravo, Layla Salazar, Jackie Cazares, Tess Marie Mata, Maite Rodriguez, Alexandria Rubio, Destiny Norton, April Jones, Anissa Jones, April Marie Tinsley, Deborah Bricca, Rylie Nicholls, Moa Leontine Björk, Mercedes Losoya, Sidra twin sister, Emily Wilding Davison Statue, Emily Hope Mason, Emily Grace Leeann Akers, Emily Ann Bryant, Emily Kate Elise Conatzer, Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Ruby “Charlie” Emily, Judy Garland, Mary Pauline “Paulina” Olin, Edward Maitland Grover, John Orville Wright, Star Hobson, Breanna Leigh Rehbein, Nathan Luis Almaraz, Frank Nitti, Gonda Blindeman, Israel Blasbalg, Hedy Blum, Svetlana Blokh, Peter Blödy, Debora Rachel Sara Gertrud Bloch, Saszi Bodnar, Kuki Bodnar, Cato Rachel Boas,

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#red light

[kavikshiraj]

No one knows our bones but us. The way they rattle when they hear the wind winding away. The way they shiver with the rising tide.

Weight, by Daniel Blokh, published in The Adroit Journal

[lifeinpoetry]

I’m burning or made of fire. I’m still young. I don’t want your saving.

I don’t want to be put out yet. I close the windows

and pray in the fumes. Red light / red light /

                                                                 red light.

— Daniel Blokh, from “What Fire Trucks Stop For and What They Don’t,” published in Yes Poetry

[yespoetry]

Daniel Blokh: What My Body Knows And What It Doesn't

What Fire Trucks Stop For and What They Don’t

 What my body knows and what it doesn't.

This question always in the back of my head like a stove

I can’t turn off. What it knows: her hand against it. 

The spider creep slow, nails cold, alarm blaring. Fire truck & skin & skin &

it’s ridiculous, but her hand seems to be made of wheels.

Her hand is feeding me my own blood, my own skin

& skin never runs out. Her hand has miles and miles to go

to destination. She smiles openmouthed, like she knows what my skin hides

and what to cook it into, what temperature. Like she knows every nerve’s secret

before I see it, knows what my body is and what it isn’t. Fire truck,

fire truck, I’m burning or made of fire. I’m still young. I don’t want your saving.

I don’t want to be put out yet. I close the windows

and pray in the fumes. Red light / red light /

red light.

This poem was originally published at SUSAN / The Journal.

Daniel Blokh is a 16-year-old American writer of Russian-Jewish descent, living in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the author of the memoir In Migration (BAM! Publishing 2016), the micro-chapbook The Wading Room (Origami Poems Project 2016), and the chapbook Grimmening (forthcoming from Diode Editions). His work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing awards and the Foyle Young Poet awards, and has appeared in DIALOGIST, Permafrost, Blueshift, Cleaver, Gigantic Sequins, Forage Poetry, Avis, Thin Air, Cicada, and more.  He's bad at taking naps, which sucks, because he really needs a nap right now.

[susanthejournal]

TWO POEMS / Daniel Blokh

WHAT FIRE TRUCKS STOP FOR AND WHAT THEY DON’T What my body knows and what it doesn't. This question always in the back of my head like a stove I can’t turn off. What it knows: her hand against it. The spider creep slow, nails cold, alarm blaring. Fire truck & skin & skin & it’s ridiculous, but her hand seems to be made of wheels. Her hand is feeding me my own blood, my own skin & skin never runs out. Her hand has miles and miles to go to destination. She smiles openmouthed, like she knows what my skin hides and what to cook it into, what temperature. Like she knows every nerve’s secret before I see it, knows what my body is and what it isn’t. Fire truck, fire truck, I’m burning or made of fire. I’m still young. I don’t want your saving. I don’t want to be put out yet. I close the windows and pray in the fumes. Red light / red light /                                                                         red light. TO THE TOAD I HID IN MY ROOM FOR A NIGHT My son, that evening, I imagined lifetimes with you. My hands, cold and unwashed from carrying the wet green secret of you, left stains of dirt under my pillow. I didn’t notice. I drifted off, thinking I heard you singing from the cramped shoebox I turned into a home for you, stuffed with grass and dirt. I thought you could mistake our house for a country. My son, maybe home is easier said than done. Maybe the shoebox had a hole. Maybe the holy hymnal sound I heard was only the screen door squeaking open, the sound of your body lifting as my mother lowered the wet green secret of you to the soft ground, the sound of next morning’s loss already creeping in. ⁂ Daniel Blokh is a 16-year-old American writer of Russian-Jewish descent, living in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the author of the memoir In Migration (BAM! Publishing 2016), the micro-chapbook The Wading Room (Origami Poems Project 2016), and the chapbook Grimmening (forthcoming from Diode Editions). His work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing awards and the Foyle Young Poet awards, and has appeared in DIALOGIST, Permafrost, Blueshift, Cleaver, Gigantic Sequins, Forage Poetry, Avis, Thin Air, Cicada, and more. He's bad at taking naps, which sucks, because he really needs a nap right now.

[girlundrowned]

i got waitlisted for the adroit mentorship program :( do u know how common it is for people to get off the waitlist? this program is my dream

hi there. i’m so sorry to hear that—unfortunately, as i don’t work directly with program admissions, i’m not sure how often people get off of the waitlist.

i want to emphasize that the applicant pool for adroit’s mentorship program is incredibly large, & there are many, many brilliant writers that the program is unable to accept. if you’re still eligible to apply next year, i’d encourage you to try again. also: if, by chance, you write poetry, i (& more importantly, kathryn hargett, aidan forster, erin o’malley, & daniel blokh !!) will be a mentor this summer at venus magazine’s summer poetry workshop. if you’d like to work with us, we’d love to see your application.

finally, while adroit is lovely, it’s not the only program of its kind out there, nor is it the only way to improve your writing. i am sending you all my love—it hurts to be turned away from somewhere you adore, & i’m truly sorry about this. but i hope that you remember how good you are. in the face of all this. of everything.

[poetryhouses]

STORE: Buy Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3 or a bundle of all three!

To purchase any back volumes from the Pittsburgh Poetry Houses, please email sarahbbeddow@gmail.com.

Volume III: 40 poems printed individually on quarter sheets of card stock with an illustrated cover exclusive to the volume, all bound with a neon gumband.  

Featuring poems by: Jessica Goodfellow, Lynn Wagner, Kas Leet, Jennifer Kulbeck, Andrea Janov, John Reinhart, Nsai Temko, Aimee Mackovic, Bria Davis, Abby Chew, Amy Lee Heinlen, Ralph Stevens, Jaila Brentley, Reed Redmond, Kevin Casey, Zachary Kluckman, Margaret Bashaar, Sidney Wollmuth, Frank Modica, Mike Good, Phyllis Wax, Josephine Squillante, Wendy Scott, Louise Robertson, Mercedes Lawry, Stephanie Malley, Barbara Ruth, Andrea Blythe, Ayame Hairston, Allison Adair, Ayesha Chatterjee, Malcolm Friend, Julie Marquez, Skylar T., Sharon Suzuki-Martinez, Nancy Reddy, paulA neves, J.L Von Ende, Kara Knickebocker, and Karen Rigby. Covers by: Albert Zhang, Madison Wise, Nsai Temko, and Robert Lehew.

Volume II: 32 poems printed individually on quarter sheets of card stock with an illustrated cover exclusive to the volume, all bound with a neon gumband.  

Featuring poems by: Andrianne Dao, Lori Gravley, Karen Hart, Prerna Bakshi, Larisa Harriger, Ellene Glenn Moore, Ziggy Edwards, Zoe Stephan, Cameron Barnett, Alison Prine, Jeffrey Kuhn, Maria Davila, Sheila Squillante, Jennifer Hambrick, Sheila Wellehan, Shenu Kathymoon, Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet, Hannah Craig, Neely Woodroffe, Holly Burdorff, Maureen McGranaghan, Candice Geary, Laryssa Wirstiuk, Mike Yim, Laura Lovic-Lindsay, Bella Carlino, Eileen Murphy, Eric Paul Shaffer, Bruce Robinson, Judith R. Robinson, Gabriella Alexis, and Conrad Geller. Covers by: Hassan Rollins, Jazmirr Cook, Corinne Gamble, and Linus Pietrusza.

Volume I: 36 poems printed individually on quarter sheets of card stock with an illustrated cover exclusive to the volume, all bound with a neon gumband. 

Featuring poems by: Angele Ellis, Anna Leahy, Arlene Weiner, Brianna Pike, Suzen Richardson, Daniel Blokh, David Forman, Ellen Kombiyil, Emily Nigra, Erin Taylor, Ethan Brouder, Farah Ghafoor, Jazlynn Houston, Jeff Hoffman, Jennifer MacBain-Stephens, Kelly Scarff, Lauren Bingham, Leah Mueller, Lori Wilson, Margot Douaihy, Marie Vibbert, Meghan Tutolo, Melissa Frederick, Michalle Gould, Miriam Bird Greenberg, Natalia Holtzman, Rachel Davis, Randi Ward, Robin Turner, Scott Thomas Outlar, Shannon Connor Winward, Shannon Sankey, Sherrell Wigal, Tamar Reed, Tammy Bendetti, and Timeka Thompson. Covers by: Suzen Richardson, Paige Norman, Khristian McLemore, and Paul Rusinko.

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NEW YORK  | 5 high schoolers chosen as National Student Poets

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NEW YORK  | 5 high schoolers chosen as National Student Poets

NEW YORK  — Five teenagers have been selected National Student Poets, a program that will have them serve as ambassadors at everything from literary readings to community service.

The poets include Alexandra Contreras-Montesano, from Burlington, Vermont, and Heather Laurel Jensen of Mesa, Arizona. National Student Poets, founded in 2011, is administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the nonprofit Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. Each poet will receive a $5,000 “academic award.”

Other students cited Wednesday were Darius Atefat-Peckham of Interlochen, Michigan; Ariana Smith of Las Vegas; and Daniel Blokh of Birmingham, Alabama. Applicants were 10th and 11th graders who had received top honors in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

“Throughout the year, the poets will serve as literary ambassadors and will share their passion for poetry and the literary arts with their communities and at libraries and museums throughout their regions,” the program’s coordinators announced Wednesday. “This will be done through service projects, workshops, and public readings.”

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden will help preside over an Aug. 30 ceremony with the poets at the Library of Congress. The students, chosen from thousands of applicants, also will meet privately with U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith.

“The National Student Poets are representatives of language at its best: seeking discovery, forging new modes of meaning, singing the particular music of this very moment,” Smith said in a statement. “They remind us how much poetry continues to matter, and how much we need what poetry fosters, which is care, belief, courage and empathy.”

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By Associated Press

[sporadiceagleheart]

Semina Mary Halliwell, Saffie-Rose Brenda Roussos, Lily Peters, Olivia Pratt Korbel, Elizabeth Shelley, Sara Sharif, Charlotte Figi, Jersey Dianne Bridgeman, Sidra Hassouna, Sloan Mattingly, Audrii Cunningham, Athena Strand, Athena Brownfield, Macie Hill, Ava Jordan Wood, Skylar Annette Neese, Rachel Joy Scott, Hannah Louise Scott, Charlotte Bacon, Charlotte Louise Dunn, Riley Faith Steep, Jayce Carmelo Luevanos, Jailah Nicole Silguero, Louis XVII, Shirley Temple, Baby LeRoy, Baby Peggy Montgomery, Peggy Cartwright, Darla Jean Hood, Jean Darling, Peaches Jackson, Mary Ann Jackson, Dorothy DeBorba, Mary Kornman, Mildred Kornman, Lucy Morgan, Lily Rose Diaz, Colby Curtin, Jaquita Mack, Bella Bond, Opal Jo Dace Jennings, Amber Rene Hagerman, Jessica Rekos, Benjamin Wheeler, Allison Wyatt, Bella Edwards, Natalia Victoria Wallace, Sherin Mathews, Caylee Marie Mastin, Amanda Todd, Heather O'Rourke, Judith Barsi, Maria Agnes Virovacz Barsi, Michelle B. Norris, Anna D. Crnkovic, Irmgard Christine Winter, Rosalie Avila, Ashawnty Davis, Emily Grace Jones, Catherine Violet Hubbard, Norah Lee Howard, Sarah Payne, Alicia Lynn Clark, Tristyn Bailey, Aubreigh Paige Wyatt, Phoebe Prince, Gabriella Green, Millie Drew Kelly, Emilie Parker, Jack Pinto, Noah Pozner, Avielle Richman, Caroline Previdi, Daniel Barden, Olivia Engel, Josephine Gay, Dylan Hockley, Madeleine Hsu, Makenna Lee Elrod, Eliahna Torres, Nevaeh Bravo, Layla Salazar, Jackie Cazares, Tess Marie Mata, Maite Rodriguez, Alexandria Rubio, Destiny Norton, April Jones, Anissa Jones, April Marie Tinsley, Deborah Bricca, Rylie Nicholls, Moa Leontine Björk, Mercedes Losoya, Sidra twin sister, Emily Wilding Davison Statue, Emily Hope Mason, Emily Grace Leeann Akers, Emily Ann Bryant, Emily Kate Elise Conatzer, Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Ruby “Charlie” Emily, Judy Garland, Mary Pauline “Paulina” Olin, Edward Maitland Grover, John Orville Wright, Star Hobson, Breanna Leigh Rehbein, Nathan Luis Almaraz, Frank Nitti, Gonda Blindeman, Israel Blasbalg, Hedy Blum, Svetlana Blokh, Peter Blödy, Debora Rachel Sara Gertrud Bloch, Saszi Bodnar, Kuki Bodnar, Cato Rachel Boas, Aleksander “Sandor” Braun, Bela Brager, Mirjam Anna Bosman, Gyorgi “Agnes” Boskovitz, Robert Alexander Bos, Chaim Borichanski, Aniko Bohm, Viliam “Vili” Braun, Pali Braun, Klari Braun, Karola Braun, Alfred Aharon Braun, Sima Braynina, Lyubov Braynina, Henia Brezniak, Vera Miriam Brichta,

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NEW YORK  | 5 high schoolers chosen as National Student Poets

New Post has been published on https://is.gd/S84gRI

NEW YORK  | 5 high schoolers chosen as National Student Poets

NEW YORK  — Five teenagers have been selected National Student Poets, a program that will have them serve as ambassadors at everything from literary readings to community service.

The poets include Alexandra Contreras-Montesano, from Burlington, Vermont, and Heather Laurel Jensen of Mesa, Arizona. National Student Poets, founded in 2011, is administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the nonprofit Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. Each poet will receive a $5,000 “academic award.”

Other students cited Wednesday were Darius Atefat-Peckham of Interlochen, Michigan; Ariana Smith of Las Vegas; and Daniel Blokh of Birmingham, Alabama. Applicants were 10th and 11th graders who had received top honors in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

“Throughout the year, the poets will serve as literary ambassadors and will share their passion for poetry and the literary arts with their communities and at libraries and museums throughout their regions,” the program’s coordinators announced Wednesday. “This will be done through service projects, workshops, and public readings.”

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden will help preside over an Aug. 30 ceremony with the poets at the Library of Congress. The students, chosen from thousands of applicants, also will meet privately with U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith.

“The National Student Poets are representatives of language at its best: seeking discovery, forging new modes of meaning, singing the particular music of this very moment,” Smith said in a statement. “They remind us how much poetry continues to matter, and how much we need what poetry fosters, which is care, belief, courage and empathy.”

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By Associated Press