#danez smith

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LOVE AS VIOLENCE VS LOVE AS SOFTNESS

Ada Limon, The Good Fight // Mary Oliver, West Wind // Danez Smith, Bare // Sappho, Fragment 58.25-26 // Mitski, I Don’t Smoke // Ashe Vernon // Hozier, Cherry Wine // Shauna Barbosa, GPS // Richard Siken, Little Beast // Chen Chen, Summer [The sunflowers fall…] // Warsan Shire // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

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[havingapoemwithyou]

my poems by Danez Smith

[typewriter-worries]

i want to live on his tongue, build a home of gospel

Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems, Dulce María Loynaz, tr. by James O’Connor ( @feral-ballad ) | Farewell, Arthur Hacker | Death Wish, Josh Alex Baker | L’Amore, la Morte e Il Sogno, Roberto Ferri | The Torn-Up Road, Richard Siken | The Fall (detail), Alan Stephens Foster | The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar, Danez Smith | Scene of Deluge (detail), Joseph-Désiré Court

[feral-ballad]

Danez Smith, from Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems; “summer, somewhere”

[Text ID: “i woke up knowing / your hands / were once the only place in the / world.”]

[llovelymoonn]

favourite poems of july

knar gavin strindberg grey

dahlia ravikovitch the love of an orange (tr. chana bloch)

danez smith summer, somewhere

hannah gamble your invitation to a modest breakfast: “your invitation to a modest breakfast”

claire schwartz lecture on the history of the house

joseph brodsky collected poems in english, 1972-1999: “a part of speech”

ralph angel twice removed: “alpine wedding”

bob hicok insomnia diary: “spirit ditty of no fax-line dial tone”

caleb klaces language is her caravan

philip good & bernadette mayer alternating lunes

hester knibbe light-years (tr. jacquelyn pope)

tracy k. smith life on mars: “the universe as primal scream”

rigoberto gonzález other fugitives and other strangers: “the strangers who find me in the woods”

stephen edgar murray dreaming

james schuyler other flowers: uncollected poems: “light night”

amy beeder because our waiters are hopeless romantics

diane seuss backyard song

tomás q. morín love train

safiya sinclair the art of unselfing

carol muske-dukes skylight: “the invention of cuisine”

peter gizzi the outernationale: “vincent, homesick for the land of pictures”

william matthews selected poems and translations, 1969-1991: “onions”

c.k. williams butcher

mark mccloskey the smell of the woods

jennifer chang the age of unreason

richard blanco city of a hundred fires: “contemplations at the virgin de la caridad cafeteria, inc.”

bob hicock the pregnancy of words

j. allyn rosser impromptu 

carl phillips then the war

stephanie young ursula or university: “essay”

gloria e. anzaldúa the new speakers

kofi

[derangedrhythms]

I know, I’m strange, too much light makes me nervous

Danez Smith, from I'm Going Back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense

[votive]

— Danez Smith, Bare

Excerpts from: Don't Call Us Dead

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William Shakespeare // pinterest // Feel Good (2020-2021) cr. Joe Hampson & Mae Martin // Natalie Diaz These Hands, If Not Gods // Sandra Cisneros Woman at Hollering Creek: Stories; "Never Marry a Mexican" // Holland NUMBER BOY // Richard Siken Crush // 스물다섯 스물하나 Twenty-Five Twenty-One (2022) dir. Jung Ji-hyun // Sappho // Dodie She // Maureen Seaton Furious Cooking; "Swan Lake" // unknown // Frank Ocean Forrest Gump // แปลรักฉันด้วยใจเธอ I Told Sunset About You / I Promised You the Moon (2020-2022) dir. Naruebet Kuno & Tossaphon Riantong // Danez Smith Recklessly (via @tendermimi)

[thebookquotes]

I am not magic enough. I’ve tried, but I’m just flesh, blood yet to spill.

Danez Smith, from Short Film

[weltonboys]

danez smith

[araekniarchive]

as something holy

Danez Smith, The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar

Jorge Luis Borges, The Meeting in a Dream

Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

Hozier, Take Me to Church

Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

John Keats in a letter to Fanny Brawne, c. October 1819

Tosca, Ho Amato Tutto (trans. from Italian)

Richard Siken, Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out

Lord Alfred Douglas, Two Loves

Zolita, Holy

Ethel Cain, Sun Bleached Flies / @toothachebench​

Mabel (2016–), Episode 22: Eternal Return

Fall Out Boy, Church

Sarah Kane, Phaedra’s Love

Sappho (attrib.)

Richard Siken, Saying Your Names

Dante Émile, After Abel

Mary Lambert, She Keeps Me Warm

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Natalie Diaz, These Hands, If Not Gods

Danez Smith, The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar

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[havingapoemwithyou]

in lieu of a poem, i’d like to say by Danez Smith

[typewriter-worries]

It's world poetry day so here are some of my favorite poems:

Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert

What the Living Do by Marie Howe

Night Walk by Franz Wright

Crossword by Lloyd Schwartz

The Great Fires by Jack Gilbert

Love Train by Tomás Q. Morín

Divorced Fathers and Pizza Crusts by Mark Halliday

Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo

in another string of the multiverse, perhaps by Michaella Batten

acknowledgments by Danez Smith

Death Wish by Josh Alex Baker

San Francisco by Richard Brautigan

How to Watch Your Brother Die by Michael Lassell

You Are the Penultimate Love of My Life by Rebecca Hazelton

On Political(ized) Life by Kanika Lawton

All the Dead Boys Look Like Me by Christopher Soto

It Was the Animals by Natalie Diaz

In Time by W.S. Merwin

It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off by Hanif Abdurraqib

Dear Life by Maya C. Popa

I Could Touch It by Ellen Bass

To The Young Who Want To Die by Gwendolyn Brooks

Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds by Ada Limón

[torsamors]

I’m going back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense - Danez Smith

[text id: O California, don't you know the sun is only a god / if you learn to starve for him? I'm bored with the ocean

I stood at the lip of it, dressed in down, praying for snow / I know, I'm strange, too much light makes me nervous

at least in this land where the trees always bear green. / I know something that doesn't die can't be beautiful.

Have you ever stood on a frozen lake, California? / The sun above you, the snow & stalled sea- a field of mirror

all demanding to be the sun too, everything around you / is light & it's gorgeous & if you stay too long it will kill you

& it's so sad, you know? You're the only warm thing for miles / & the only thing that can’t shine. :end id]