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hannah cohen

@hcohenwriter

2 years

and you could have it all my empire of Bert

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5 years

when editing, you can delete words 95% of the time. You don’t need em. Just delete your entire manuscript, turn off your laptop, walk outside & find a bog, let the peat reclaim you under its mossy blanket

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whenever people ask me what my poetry’s about

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3 years

don’t let the poets see this

Weird Animals

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3 years

Butterflies drink turtle tears which provides them with salt- a behaviour known as lachryphagy. (Photo: Pete Oxford)

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6 years

first rule of poets club: there is no club. Just write poems and uh don’t be rude to people and maybe if we all chip in, we can get some sweet leather jackets

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2 years

@blgtylr Dakota unfortunately has the face of someone who has seen a cell phone

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1 year

@AnjaliEnjeti Looking forward to the Samuel L Jackson adaptation of this whole saga 😭😂

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3 years

people after you tell them you write poetry

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1 year

happy 32 to me 🤗

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hannah cohen

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4 years

reflecting on this poem by @ilya_poet again and again and again

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hannah cohen

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4 years

writing poetry is just rearranging the same words about the only two topics you ever write

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hannah cohen

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3 years

i mean, also yes

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hannah cohen

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4 years

rude that no one has offered me a book deal after all the work I’ve done not writing, not querying agents, not researching publishers and not submitting work

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hannah cohen

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1 year

“emerging poet” “midlife poet” “dormant poet” what are we, cicadas?

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hannah cohen

@hcohenwriter

2 years

I’m an english major but at least I never awarded my boyfriend a poetry prize for a contest that i was judging

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hannah cohen

@hcohenwriter

6 years

oh yeah i'm an emerging poet. emerging from the underground and screaming in the late hours. i'm actually a cicada

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hannah cohen

@hcohenwriter

3 years

a while back i wrote this poem using the twitter bios from the weird guys who follow me. this one’s for SmithMicheal99764093

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hannah cohen

@hcohenwriter

1 year

excited to announce that I received a hour long residency fellowship from the local tire and auto shop to finish reading a book today. oil changed, free wifi, and my tires got rotated. writers conferences could never

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3 years

when people assume that all poetry is 100% based on real life events

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1 year

this Law & Order SVU screenshot lives rent free in my head

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hannah cohen

@hcohenwriter

3 years

did a cat write this

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@Reductress

3 years

This Subscription Service Will Send You an Empty Box So You Get the Serotonin from Receiving a Package:

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hannah cohen

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3 years

reminder that some of the best poems being published right now AREN’T in “established” “literary” print journals but in online spaces where editors and readers who traditionally aren’t represented in The Poetry™️ are platforming some amazing writers without institutional backing

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hannah cohen

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3 years

too many songs about romantic love and not enough songs about two besties killing an abusive husband named Earl

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1 year

mods asleep time to post the best poetry meme i ever made

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3 years

the CDC announced that you should give poets all your money

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hannah cohen

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4 years

I think about this reductress headline at least 78 times a day

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hannah cohen

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6 years

an emerging writer's contest with a $24 fee is perhaps, uh, not very kind to "emerging" writers eh

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1 year

don’t let the poets see this

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@Rainmaker1973

1 year

How photographer Jarlath Flynn saw a murmuration pass in front of the Moon and captured 60,000 swooping starlings taking the shape of a leaping hedgehog in the dim night sky [source, read more: ]

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5 years

me, with two English degrees: is it drank or drunk

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1 year

don’t tell the poets

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1 year

A rare spot-less giraffe has been born at a Tennessee zoo. It is believed to be the only known solid-colored reticulated giraffe in the world.

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hannah cohen

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8 months

being a poet in the 1800s was so much better than being a poet now. You write one banger ode about an urn or some choleric woman, die at 25, and people still talk about you 200 years later. Jealous

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hannah cohen

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4 years

sorry boss can't work today, gotta let the soft animal of my body love what it loves

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hannah cohen

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2 years

@TheLincoln this every day

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5 months

mom can you pick me up it’s embarrassing to be a poet rn

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hannah cohen

@hcohenwriter

3 years

reading a poem you’ve never read before

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hannah cohen

@hcohenwriter

6 years

reasons to support chapbook presses: - you're buying chapbooks by writers who often aren't represented in mainstream/bigger presses - your $$ goes a long way into supporting a community - chapbooks are cool af - uh i love chapbooks so just buy 'em

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7 years

reading thru @samsax1 ’s madness and this poem just. stops me.

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@hcohenwriter

4 years

why spend 20k on poetry discourse in grad school when you could just look at this graph for free

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hannah cohen

@hcohenwriter

6 years

me: *reads a poem with unique formatting and spacing* ugh this is so cool me: *indents one line* TOO MUCH TOO MUCH oh my GOD what even IS THIS

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hannah cohen

@hcohenwriter

3 years

bank account: $1400 poetry contest: $1,401 fee

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3 years

fiction writers are something else entirely but in poet land we literally had a girl plagiarize several poets and then tattoo the evidence on her own skin, in bubble letters. mess mess mess

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hannah cohen

@hcohenwriter

3 years

*ts eliot zooms by on his skateboard* April is the coolest month

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hannah cohen

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1 year

oh my god writers we get it, you’re blessed, you’re thrilled, you’re amazed, you’re honored, you’re surprised, you’re excited, you’re delighted, you’re enthralled, you’re happy, you’re grateful, you’re present, you’re leaving, you’re going, you’re gone

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1 year

no poetry allowed on THIS flight

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@hcohenwriter

2 years

is this from end of evangelion

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1 year

is anyone else experiencing wild af dreams lately? not nightmares, but just unhinged, hyper realistic dreams? trying to see something

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@hcohenwriter

5 years

Reminder that you are still a writer even if you: - don’t have a degree - have a family/are a primary caretaker - have health issues - don’t have a IRL writing community - haven’t written in a day/month/year/decade You’re only not a writer if you say you are not a writer ⚡️

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6 years

Logging into twitter dot com as a poet

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5 years

me whenever someone asks me to do something at work

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hannah cohen

@hcohenwriter

3 years

novelists writing poems: I watched a bird fly across an ocean. My father died last week. poets writing novels: The bird is my father. He died last week. I see him fly across an ocean.

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hannah cohen

@hcohenwriter

4 years

to my fellow white poets: please stop writing white savior poems, it’s not the time or place to center yourself

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@hcohenwriter

4 years

it’s so Kafkaesque how Orwellian this all is

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hannah cohen

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3 years

wild that poetry publishing hasn’t changed since uh, 1814. still gotta wait 9 months for some guy named Lord Chas, Esq to read your pamphlet and send you a rejection letter. by then you’re languishing in a sanitarium or worse, married

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hannah cohen

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2 years

people say poetry will save us but there’s also fascists & bigots writing poetry too

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hannah cohen

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6 years

Tell a writer you love them today. That their work is important and dear and special to you. Whether you’ve met them outside of the internet or not ❤️

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hannah cohen

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7 years

reboot of dead poets society w/ everyone reading poems from their iPhones

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hannah cohen

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5 years

me: works on a poem for years, gets one like me: tweets out dumb shit in my head, gets reply guys & a sense of general dissatisfaction with my life choices

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hannah cohen

@hcohenwriter

3 years

to my gen x colleagues: y'all. you can let go of double spacing after a period. it's ok. I'm giving you permission to stop. get some help. be free.

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hannah cohen

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3 years

so wild that in the past 3 months, i’ve landed a better paying job, entered a loving relationship, got some lit mag acceptances, and picked up a freelance gig. i feel hopeful and happy after literal months of swamp-like depression. things can & will change.

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hannah cohen

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11 months

poet math is making $10 dollars from the sale of one book but spending $500 on submission & contest fees

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hannah cohen

@hcohenwriter

6 years

lord please grant me the strength & confidence of a white male poet asking a magazine to consider him for a pushcart in his cover letter

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hannah cohen

@hcohenwriter

5 years

“I know you rejected my poetry submission the last six times but maybe you’ll like this one?”

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5 years

potential AWP 2020 panels: - Please I Just Want To Go Home: Writers Who Want To Go Home - Yes, I Spent My Book Advance on a West Elm Coffee Table - A Bunch of Guys That Say They’re Feminists Talk About Like, How Women Are Bitches - There’s No Money in Poetry, Really, I Mean It

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2 years

this took 0.00004 brain cells to tweet and it’s still better than anything i’ve written in 6 months

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@hcohenwriter

6 years

here’s a tweet to remind you that you’re still a writer even if you’re not touring/in academia/a teacher/have a book/writing anything.

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@hcohenwriter

4 years

@SheRatesDogs this dude

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@hcohenwriter

5 years

how poems are made

Bad Science

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5 years

If you don’t cry every day the unused tears will grow sour & flammable inside your head.

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hannah cohen

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6 years

don’t really know where people get the idea that depression = unlimited material for poems because being in my current depressive episode I just feel sick and want to sleep all the time 🤷‍♀️

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@hcohenwriter

5 years

me, 11 years old reading Harry Potter: I identify with Hermione! She’s smart and a bookworm like me! me, now: I wanna be Hagrid

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5 years

reading the literary canon like

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5 years

this has nothing to do with the fact I spent twenty minutes on Wikipedia looking up bog bodies

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3 years

@vanjchan i….,,. this isn’t a clickhole meme

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hannah cohen

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6 years

can’t believe this text on my yogurt is better than any poem I’ve ever written

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hannah cohen

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5 years

creative nonfiction is basically writing fanfiction about your life, send tweet

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hannah cohen

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5 years

honestly I’d watch Patrick Stewart pick grapes for an hour

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hannah cohen

@hcohenwriter

4 months

haven’t submitted creative work in a hot minute. Where are we poets sending work, and what lit journals haven’t crashed and burned

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hannah cohen

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4 years

wonder if there’s a support group for therapists who have poets as their patients

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4 years

I want what they have

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hannah cohen

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5 years

hey writers, drinking coffee is not a personality trait

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2 years

‼️‼️my second poetry chapbook YEAR OF THE SCAPEGOAT is finally here 😇📣🎊🎉🥳👏🍾🙌 @glass_poetry

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hannah cohen

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6 years

hi uh, I've been struggling with a bad bout of depression lately, esp. when it comes to submitting work to magazines and journals. in all honesty, I'm pretty burned out on the whole process rn & just wanted to say that it's sometimes good for your health to not send work out!

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hannah cohen

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5 years

me: there’s no such thing as a bad poem also me: *reads a bad poem* this is a bad poem

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hannah cohen

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3 years

Found out today I didn’t get the poetry fellowship grant I applied for and not gonna lie, I’m crushed. However, I’m proud of myself for applying and making it far enough for the big panel review. just sharing my L’s out there since we all receive rejections.

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6 years

me reading a good poem

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5 years

can’t believe that my full length poetry collection wasn’t on the longlist for the national book award just because it doesn’t exist yet smh

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5 years

some #AWP19 tips: - don’t touch or hug people without their permission, pls - don’t force yourself to buy a book/journal copy/trinkets just bc someone at a booth asked - stay hydrated - it’s ok to spend an afternoon or evening in your hotel room - always carry snacks

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hannah cohen

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5 years

Unfriendly reminder that POETRY published a poem with Black Sun imagery and rather than apologizing, gave that poet more space to “explain” his poem. As I learn more about the Christchurch shooting in NZ, I haven’t forgotten the editorial silence.

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hannah cohen

@hcohenwriter

3 years

@blgtylr looking forward to your UK counterpart, Brandon Seamstress

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2 years

poets

Reductress

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2 years

Why I Quit My Job to Focus on Being Nostalgic Full-Time:

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hannah cohen

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6 years

just remember it’s okay if you can’t write a poem every day this April for #NationalPoetryMonth and you’re not any less of a poet if you don’t write anything this month or next month or this entire year 💫

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6 years

me @ the poetry reading: wow. amazing. i am inspired. i cannot wait to bring this energy to my own poetry writing. i can see clearly now. me after the reading, staring at an empty word document: poems???? what is

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hannah cohen

@hcohenwriter

6 years

finally, back to the real poetry drama. Garamond always sucked, long live Georgia

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1 year

@amykaycannon he’s clearly concerned about the gardener’s lack of effort in mulching

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1 year

my parents at 31: married, have a three bedroom house on two salaries, a whole kid, savings me at 31: what if I started a youtube channel

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hannah cohen

@hcohenwriter

6 years

been playing a ton of smash bros lately and really wish there was a literary figures/poets version. can ya imagine Emily Dickinson fighting idk Plath or Basho.

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hannah cohen

@hcohenwriter

5 years

Stop talking trash about poetry movements and groups! Imagism is CLEAR Romanticism is POIGNANT Confessionalism is DEEP Metaphysical poetry is FANTASTIC Beat Generation New York School is VIVID

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hannah cohen

@hcohenwriter

3 years

HEY good news: my second poetry chapbook Year of the Scapegoat is forthcoming from @glass_poetry ❤️ I’m thrilled to be returning back to the press that truly changed the game for me 🤠

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hannah cohen

@hcohenwriter

5 years

YALL MY POEM JUST GOT SELECTED FOR A LOCAL POETRY FESTIVAL HERE AAHHH

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hannah cohen

@hcohenwriter

5 years

thinkin bout the time a guy flirted with me & then mailed me his short story & it was so bad I never talked to him again

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