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kenjicliu Kenji Liu discusses unraveling gender and race through #poetry in Where Does My Body Live? @bestampo #APAHM bit.ly/JL0DCl about 7 hours ago via TypePad Retweeted by BestAmPo
Other ‘Others’ on Otherness - Andre Yang [Asian Pacific American Heritage Month] bit.ly/JzYoYW about 23 hours ago via TypePad
Charles Bukowski: Woodcut by Loren Kantor bit.ly/Kg57VP 7:34 AM May 25th via TypePad
TheBarBook Julie Sheehan, Constituent Bartender: You Get What You Order bit.ly/LljZPF 8:25 PM May 24th via TypePad Retweeted by BestAmPo
Sherman_Alexie Hey Native writers, I'm editing an issue of Prairie Schooner featuring Indian writers. Send stuff ASAP to: alexieprairieschooner@gmail.com 9:03 PM May 21st via web Retweeted by BestAmPo and 158 others
kenjicliu A short recap of this week's Asian Pacific Islander American poet guest posts so far at @bestampo fb.me/P8ykxjyU 1:33 PM May 23rd via Facebook Retweeted by BestAmPo
nytimesbooks Dwight Garner reviews the "buzzing, flyspecked, fluorescent poems" in ALIEN VS. PREDATOR by Michael Robbins. nytimes.com/2012/05/24/boo… 2:27 PM May 23rd via web Retweeted by BestAmPo and 6 others
kenjicliu "To be a Sri Lankan writer sometimes means living in an exhale." - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha at @BestAmPo... fb.me/vujdgo9J 10:00 AM May 23rd via Facebook Retweeted by BestAmPo and 1 other
kathrynmaris 6. What is the etiquette for getting up from ‘savasana’ to rummage through your handbag for a Xanax? 2:22 AM May 23rd via web Retweeted by BestAmPo and 1 other
kathrynmaris 5. Bad 80s music blaring from somewhere. 2:21 AM May 23rd via web Retweeted by BestAmPo
kathrynmaris 4. Ditto the ‘corpse position’ [‘savasana’] 2:21 AM May 23rd via web Retweeted by BestAmPo
kathrynmaris 3. Observations like, ‘We do not know how many more breaths we have left’ can exacerbate an already-high awareness of one’s mortality. 2:20 AM May 23rd via web Retweeted by BestAmPo and 1 other
kathrynmaris 2. I will not go NEAR the attic. 2:19 AM May 23rd via web Retweeted by BestAmPo
kathrynmaris 1.Instructions like, ‘Empty your mind! Clear the attic! We have become like chickens with heads cut off!’ [mixed metaphors] 2:18 AM May 23rd via web Retweeted by BestAmPo
kathrynmaris Yoga: A Polemic, or Why Yoga Isn't For Me [in 7 tweets]. . . 2:18 AM May 23rd via web Retweeted by BestAmPo
@BananaKarenina Up next: Why was Homer's dawn "rosy-fingered"? 7:41 AM May 23rd via web in reply to BananaKarenina
kenjicliu Curating a week of APA poets guest blogging at @bestampo - here's my post: bit.ly/K3k8dD 1:05 PM May 20th via TypePad Retweeted by BestAmPo
bobbybaird Lots of ways to seek approval in this life, but after politics writing has to be our most expertly calibrated means to punish the impulse. 12:33 PM May 19th via Tweetbot for iOS Retweeted by BestAmPo
Kenji Liu, guest blogger May 20-26 bit.ly/L8sj4W 4:13 AM May 20th via TypePad
BOMBmagazine I know I’ve had moments where I’ve written a poem that horrifies me. . . —Matthea Harvey - ow.ly/b0kE5 6:25 AM May 19th via HootSuite Retweeted by BestAmPo and 8 others

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