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Jay Gao

5 months

got my author copies yesterday 🥹 these pamphlets are gorgeous, i love them so much. all my thanks to the amazing @Outspoken_Press and @Anthony1983 🌳

Jay Gao

@Jay_Gao_

5 months

just landed in london on publication day of 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘬, 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘚𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳. immensely proud to share this pamphlet with my UK friends and to be part of @Outspoken_Press . if you like trees, consider ordering a copy? would mean the world: 🌲

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1 year

@kycarrerolopez interdisciplinary king

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6 months

Ilhan Omar just rocked up to the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia 🇵🇸

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1 year

excited to delve into this new book of Black poets, poets who are out of print, lesser-known, ignored by the academy etc.

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1 year

buy me a drink first before you call me something so intimate as [SubmitterFirstName] [SubmitterLastName]

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Jay Gao

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2 years

working on a new long poem and accidentally formatted the line-spacing to be zero. i am quite into the resulting image... 👀

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Jay Gao

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2 years

neither an emerging poet nor an established poet but a secret third thing i.e. a poet writing prose (derogatory)

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Jay Gao

@Jay_Gao_

1 year

so i know there's this *other* book prize happening today BUT before then, i'm so happy that 𝐼𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑢𝑚 has won the @EnglishAssoc 's 2023 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize! 🎉 huge thank you to @DerynRJ , Sarah, Michael, and to @Carcanet for believing in this book!

Carcanet Press

@Carcanet

1 year

We're thrilled to announce that Jay Gao has won the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize for his outstanding debut collection, Imperium! 🎉 Congratulations Jay 🥳 @Jay_Gao_ @EnglishAssoc Read the full announcement:

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Jay Gao

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10 months

taking courses in contemporary poetry is just reading dictee then zong then dictee over and over

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Jay Gao

@Jay_Gao_

11 months

from Clifton's The Book of Light

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Jay Gao

@Jay_Gao_

1 year

Still can't really believe this but delighted to reveal that my book IMPERIUM ( @Carcanet ) is a winner of both an Eric Gregory Award and a Somerset Maugham award! ⭐️ Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to the judges and to the @Soc_of_Authors ! 💘

Society of Authors

@Soc_of_Authors

1 year

✨Today is the day!✨ The #SoAwards are here. Congratulations to all of our winners, runners-up and shortlistees. We can't wait to celebrate with you this evening at Southwark Cathedral, and at home. See the full list of award winners here:

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Jay Gao

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2 years

not to be dramatic but genuinely stressed at how i'm going to study without access to z library... 😭

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Jay Gao

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6 months

signs at the rally on the second lawn here at columbia. thinking about all the groups of people who’ve come out these last two days to show true support and solidarity with palestinians

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Jay Gao

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2 years

just got kicked out of a building by anne carson ama

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Jay Gao

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8 months

from Renee Gladman's One Long Black Sentence (2020) + response by Fred Moten: 'What if discontinuity is more of a bend than a break?'

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Jay Gao

@Jay_Gao_

3 years

It’s happening! Delighted to share the news that my debut poetry book IMPERIUM is being published this August 2022 by the brilliant @Carcanet . 😭

The Bookseller

@thebookseller

3 years

. @CarcanetPress has landed Radical Normalization and Imperium, the debut collections from @Jay_Gao_ and @tropicalties , described as "compelling" and "ingenious", respectively! More here:

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Jay Gao

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6 years

@brandonlgtaylor I've met a few male writers who openly acknowledge they don't read women but think somehow by knowing it and ironically going 'LOL' means that absolves them? Em, like no.

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Jay Gao

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2 years

So I graduated from my MFA two weeks ago and just received my diploma today. A bit anticlimactic considering all the stress about moving to the US, Covid etc. Not sure I'll go to the ceremony in May so taking a hot moment, now, here, to celebrate myself these last two years 🙌

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Jay Gao

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7 months

obsessed with this photo of MMB!!

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Jay Gao

@Jay_Gao_

6 months

Hamilton Hall at Columbia University has been liberated tonight 🇵🇸🇵🇸

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Jay Gao

@Jay_Gao_

11 months

hi ~ more details soon but v excited to be publishing a poetry chapbook with the brilliant @poetryonl next year. this will be my first US-book and i couldn't be happier to have the chance to share my work over here 🌿🌿

2024 poetry.onl Chapbook Series Fellowship Announces Finalists and Winner — Poetry Online

Congratulations to Fellowship Winner: Rob Colgate for "Feeble." And finalists selected for publication: Samantha Leon for "Mapping Desires" & Jay Gao for "Bark, Archive, Splinter."

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Jay Gao

@Jay_Gao_

1 year

very happy to be joining @PoetryFound as one of their new readers for Poetry magazine! 📚

Poetry Foundation

@PoetryFound

1 year

We’re thrilled to announce new members of the @poetrymagazine team! 🎉 Please join us in welcoming Cindy Juyoung Ok as host of the Poetry Magazine Podcast and five new magazine readers!

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Jay Gao

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1 year

this clifton poem breaks me every time

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Jay Gao

@Jay_Gao_

6 months

What are some great essays on the archive / archival poetics / going through the archive? Interested in academic papers/chapters, NF/CNF, lyric essays, op-eds. Along lines of Derrida, Hartman, Brent Edwards's 'Taste of the Archive'...

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Jay Gao

@Jay_Gao_

2 years

can't believe i've just been spending my life *not* knowing Cy Twombly did a series of ten paintings inspired by the Iliad, titled 'Fifty Days at Iliam' (!) i'm obsessed by these

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Jay Gao

@Jay_Gao_

6 months

here's the gorgeous Giuseppe Penone-inspired cover of my UK pamphlet 𝐵𝑎𝑟𝑘, 𝐴𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑣𝑒, 𝑆𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 coming in May from the amazing @Outspoken_Press - can't wait to share what i've been working on 🌲🪵

Out-Spoken Press

@Outspoken_Press

6 months

👀Cover reveal 👀 BARK, ARCHIVE, SPLINTER by @Jay_Gao_ "How might the figuration of trees deform language?" Forthcoming 23 May - Pre-orders up soon

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2 years

This is not a drill !!!

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Jay Gao

@Jay_Gao_

1 year

RIP Louise Glück

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Jay Gao

@Jay_Gao_

2 years

**25th August 2022** Very excited to share the covers for IMPERIUM ( @Carcanet ), designed by Andrew Latimer, featuring Louis le Brocquy plus blurbs from Fiona Benson and Will Harris ( @soshunetwork ). The pre-order link is also now live:

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Jay Gao

@Jay_Gao_

2 years

‘I wish I could ask the plants to teach me the right words.’ 🌱 Learning all the right things from Mei-mei Berssenbrugge tonight.

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Jay Gao

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2 years

question for annie ernaux fans: if you were teaching her work as part of a class and wanted to introduce students to the genre of women's autobiography/autofiction, what essays/theory would you pair with her? 🤔

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Jay Gao

@Jay_Gao_

8 months

so my second full-length book—The Dead One—was a finalist for the 2023 @nightboatbooks poetry prize, which is a wonderful surprise! 🌲🎊 congrats to all the finalists & winners, especially the icon @gregorspamsa ! can't wait for your book 🪲

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Jay Gao

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3 years

I do miss Edinburgh—but looks like I'll be staying in the US for a few more years... Excited to share that I'll be starting @Columbia in September as a PhD student in the @EnglishColumbia department! It's been a long road to get here, but eager to see what New York offers. 🙏

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Jay Gao

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1 year

Kim: I am writing to a child who lives 3000 years in the future. A ghost reader. Beyond space and time. In total awe of seeing two of my greatest poetic inspirations read: @DonMeeChoi and @PoetKimHyesoon . A beautiful evening for words, wounds, wings. 🪽🪽

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Jay Gao

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1 year

anyway, now is a good time to remember Bhanu Kapil quoting NourbeSe Philip as saying: 'The purpose of avant-garde writing for a writer of colour is to prove you are human.' as in: it's clear so many of you don't know what or who you are talking about

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imagine putting yr whole whatever into writing a book only for it to lose a prize to an "AI chapbook" lmaoooo i would be irate

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Jay Gao

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9 months

very excited to have my next (uk) poetry pamphlet be coming out with @Outspoken_Press alongside Fady and @azad_ashim and others later this year 🪻🪻

Out-Spoken Press

@Outspoken_Press

9 months

⚫️ Announcing our 2024 poetry list ⚫️ It's a privilege to be publishing work by > Fady Joudah, > @azad_ashim , > @Jay_Gao_ , > Rebecca McCutcheon, > Rojbîn Arjen Yigit, and > Juana Adcock ( @jennivora )

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Jay Gao

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5 months

just landed in london on publication day of 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘬, 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘚𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳. immensely proud to share this pamphlet with my UK friends and to be part of @Outspoken_Press . if you like trees, consider ordering a copy? would mean the world: 🌲

Bark, Archive, Splinter by Jay Gao — Out-Spoken

How might the figuration of trees deform language?

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Out-Spoken Press

@Outspoken_Press

5 months

Happy Publication Day to @Jay_Gao_ — 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘬, 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘚𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 is out today! An ecopoetic experiment, 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘬, 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘚𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 brings together intimacies of wood, race, desire, via a poetics of grafting. Orders:

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Jay Gao

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2 years

'These sentences—they—will begin having already been sentences somewhere else, and this will mark their afterlife, and this will be their debut' Obsessed with these prose architectures from Renee Gladman's PLANS FOR SENTENCES ( @WavePoetry ).

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Jay Gao

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2 years

very delighted to be shortlisted for the Oxford Poetry Prize! in gorgeous company 💙

Oxford Poetry

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2 years

✨Announcing the shortlist for the 2022 Oxford Poetry Prize, judged by Emily Berry!✨

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2 years

Today is the official publication day for IMPERIUM! 🥹 I'm also taking time to celebrate and reflect on 3 years since my first pamphlet. It's been quite the journey: 🏝️ IMPERIUM @Carcanet 🌊 TRAVESTY58 @spamzine 📜 KATABASIS @poetrybusiness 🐲 WEDDING BEASTS @bittermelonpoem

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Jay Gao

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1 year

‘The poet is the antagonist of linearity. The diaspora poet is born an antagonism.’ — Momtaza Mehri ( @RuffneckRefugee ), from Bad Diaspora Poems 🔥🔥

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6 months

absolutely psychotic behaviour for columbia to start building stuff for graduation right after they invited NYPD to raze the Gaza Solidarity Encampment and arrest students 💀💀

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Jay Gao

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2 years

In spite of governmental collapse, one piece of good news is that I won this year’s @DesperateLit short fiction prize! 😱 Huge thanks to the judges @AntonHur @badaude Natasha Brown and Ottessa Moshfegh! 🎉🍾 And to Terry and the entire DL team. Third time is the charm!

Desperate Literature

@DesperateLit

2 years

The WINNER & Runners-up of our 2022 Prize for Short Fiction Jay Gao ( @Jay_Gao_ ), twice shortlisted in past years, with 'THE BARON AND HIS VOLCANO' 'a vertiginously nested mystery story about narrative itself’ — @badaude Full info: 1/3

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6 months

so fucking proud to stand in solidarity here at columbia. students turned out all day and night and continue to do so. power to the people and to the gaza solidarity encampment 🇵🇸✊

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2 years

🎄 some of my top reads of 2022: - THE VERTICAL INTERROGATION OF STRANGERS, Bhanu Kapil - COLD ENOUGH FOR SNOW, Jessica Au - STEAL AWAY, C.D. Wright - PUNKS, @jstheater - THE EMIGRANTS, W.G. Sebald - ON WALKING ON, Cole Swensen

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6 months

this is columbia 🇵🇸❤️

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1 year

Okay fingers crossed for a Can Xue, Yoko Tawada, Adonis, Kim Hyesoon, Bei Dao, Fleur Jaeggy, Mathias Énard, Dionne Brand, António Lobo Antunes, Nicole Brossard, Anne Carson (🫣), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, László Krasznahorkai, or Karen Tei Yamashita Nobel win.

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2 years

Very tickled by the annotation / close reading from a previous reader in this library book. ♓️

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5 months

going to read my little ernaux book and mentally check out of life rn 🌞

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4 months

a belated happy no longer being in my ‘late twenties’ to me 😇

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6 months

Not sure what to say to my fellow PhD students who are actively choosing to dissociate themselves from ‘politics’, Palestine, protesting. Do ya’ll not see the videos from Emory or Austin? Your fantasy for ‘tenure track’ will not protect you from the cops. Get a fucking grip.

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2 years

surprise from the postie today to see the printed copies of IMPERIUM arrive (!!!) i love these little babies 🥹 you can pre-order them here:

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2 years

obsessed with Apichatpong Weerasethakul picking texas chain saw massacre and mad max fury road for this

Sight and Sound magazine

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2 years

Over 2,000 ballots, for your perusal All the votes from our critics’ and directors’ Greatest Films of All Time polls are now available to browse online #SightAndSoundPoll

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1 year

ecopoetry in the uk

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1 year

send us your poems! 😡

POETRY magazine

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1 year

Submissions to POETRY are now open! 📝

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2 years

incredibly excited to be spending the next week writing at the Civitella Ranieri residency! feels like a dream to be living in a turret in a 15th-century castle... huge thanks to @DesperateLit for organising this as part of their prize! 🏰

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1 year

dreamt I was organising a pub quiz around Keats and every question was 'so what's inside this urn???'

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2 years

he’s a 10 but he’s also now an author… 😌 filled with so much gratitude towards my friends and the support yesterday night, celebrating our books with @a_pirmohamed and @ticecin . a really magical first night at @edbookfest ! 🎇

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1 year

girl dinner 💙💙

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1 year

forgot to post in august but happy one year birthday to this battered author copy 🎂 massive appreciation to everyone who's supported, read, reviewed this little thing. it really means the world, thank you 🏝️

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9 months

a few of my awp haul im most excited about

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8 months

gutted to hear the news of hejinian's death - her extraorindary poetry and essays have often felt like such a lighthouse whenever i've been lost

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10 months

'Always infinity extends from any individual life, but eternity is limited between one’s birth and one’s death.' —Hejinian, My Life

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1 year

coming june 2024 🕵️‍♂️

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6 months

Last night’s teach-in at #ColumbiaUniversity camp, under the moon, between Homer and Virgil, we saw the 2018 doc Between Two Crossings about restrictions of movement in Gaza. Both Palestinian directors Yassir Murtaja and Rushdi Al-Sarraj were killed by the Israeli occupation. 🇵🇸

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2 years

nearly missed my connecting flight lmao 🥲 but excited for the future as I finally head to New York today to start a new adventure … faithfully accompanied by my jean pocket’s admirable mission to rub out the coat of arms on my passport 🌚

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3 months

‘give grief its endless pasture’ ‘I do not accept this bell in me’ Cody-Rose Clevidence, from Aux Arc / Trypt Ich (2021, @nightboatbooks )

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1 year

really honoured to have Imperium ( @Carcanet ) part of this brilliant list along so many great poets and friends 😍🌟

English Association

@EnglishAssoc

1 year

The Michael Murphy Memorial Prize The English Association is pleased to announce the longlist of the seventh biennial prize of £1000 for a distinctive first volume of poetry in English published in Britain or Ireland, between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2022. #Poetry

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1 year

look at this cover! very excited to have a conversation with one of my poetry favs, Jenny Xie, in here. coming october! 🌟

Out-Spoken Press

@Outspoken_Press

1 year

📢 We’re delighted to share the cover of 🔵 STATE OF PLAY: Poets of East & Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation, edited by Eddie Tay & @jennywcreative 🔵 Forthcoming 12 October 2023 PRE-ORDER:

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2 years

face / body

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Face // Body

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👋 With much excitement I have a new pamphlet TRAVESTY58 coming out very soon from @spamzine ! This book contains my most recent work. It lays out a path for where I want my poetics to shift towards in relation to everything Sinophone, ecopoetical, and experimental...

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1 year

‘I’m left with enough grit to survive, but not enough to dissolve me.’ from CRUEL FUTURES by Carmen Giménez Smith ( @CityLightsBooks , 2018)

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5 months

it's true, all the toddlers in the playground are reading and talking about 𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒌, 𝑨𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆, 𝑺𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓 ( @Outspoken_Press ) w/ @victoriaadukwei 🫶

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3 years

This came as a wonderful surprise, and I couldn't be happier to have won this year's @TheLondonMag poetry prize. Thank you to @ianduhig @arshi_mona @Anthony1983 for judging!

The London Magazine

@TheLondonMag

3 years

The London Magazine is delighted to announce the winners of the annual #TLMPoetryPrize ! First place: 'Sky Soldier' by @Jay_Gao_ Second place: 'Turkish Delight' by @IsabelleBaafi Third place: 'Care for me like you would a leg injury' by @SafiyaKamaria

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1 year

is anyone planning on going to AWP 24 in Kansas City? trying to see if i can conjure together a panel if people are interested 👀 potential topics: asian diasporic; british lit; ecology; debut poets; experimental poetics; leaving AWP proposals to the last minute

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1 year

proud of the Columbia and Barnard faculty walking out to support censored student groups, academic freedom, and Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸

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7 months

my man absolutely smashed it out the fucking park [church] what an extraordinary vision to hear OSSIA. cannot wait for july 2024!

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7 months

excited for @JimSeoni tonight at the Poetry Project 8pm 🎼 🩶

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2 years

okay but the uk cover (left) is kind of serving 👀

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10 months

there's so much great nuanced writing here by Rachael in @TL_TH_ surrounding difficulty and class. i think this also goes some way to explain why certain UK poetry corners are so anti-theory, anti-academia in an increasingly cottage/tradcore way

Difficult and Bad — TL/TH

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8 months

you better not be serving cunt as a bricklayer on the cover of marx's grundrisse me:

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7 months

Notley: I don’t want to speak to the dead, I want to know how the dead speak to each other. (((paraphrase/misremembering/dreaming)))

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1 year

me in my undergrad language class next to the student who just turned 18 a few days ago 💀💀

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2 years

yet more unrealistic body standards for men 🙄

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4 months

what’s he cooking?!?! 👀

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6 months

NYPD entering Hamilton Hall through the window Columbia University

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10 months

🎄 some of my favourite reads in 2023: Autoportrait, Édouard Levé Penury, Myung Mi Kim The Weather, Lisa Robertson The Book of Light: Anniversary Edition, Lucille Clifton Ice, Anna Kavan Casting Deep Shade, CD Wright

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1 year

Okay, so I think I can share that I'll be heading to Community of Writers in June and then, in August, will be heading to Bread Loaf Writers' Conference as a Poetry Fellow! Excited to write, to meet poets, to see more of the US @commofwriters @breadloafwriter ☀️🚞🌲🍞

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1 year

back in the uk for a wee bit and catching up on some poetry reading: firstly, there's so much to love in @ZaffarKunial 's England's Green ('Foxglove Country', the long poems, the Brontë poems) but here's one that I particularly love

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3 years

Excited to be going to @Tin_House as a winter resident next year, where I'll be working on a fiction project! 🎉

Tin House

@Tin_House

3 years

A round of applause for @JayGYing and Samar Al Summary, who have been selected for our 2022 Winter Residency.

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1 year

cannot believe i'm seeing lillian yvonne bertram slander on my timeline 😤

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@Jay_Gao_

2 years

fur 🌸

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@Jay_Gao_

2 years

question for poets who are working/have worked on their second collection: what was important for you to learn or do as you moved from your first to your second book?

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@Jay_Gao_

6 months

proud to add solidarity from scotland here at columbia 🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Jay Gao

@Jay_Gao_

6 months

signs at the rally on the second lawn here at columbia. thinking about all the groups of people who’ve come out these last two days to show true support and solidarity with palestinians

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2 years

Who are some of your favourite Asian diasporic poets who are also translators and/or have written texts about translation? Thinking along the lineage of brilliant writers like @sawakonakayasu and @DonMeeChoi (and their UDP pamphlets!)

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@Jay_Gao_

1 year

had fun reading through @NewDirections 's short storybooks this week. if i were to rank them: dewitt > dazai > tawada > aira > krasznahorkai > lispector. 2 of these 6 books also do a delicious job at making fun of NY/NYers/Columbia grad students lol

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@Jay_Gao_

6 years

🌞 Summer 2018 mission: replacing disappointing men in real life with #womenintranslation fiction is honestly just the best decision.

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@Jay_Gao_

2 years

melting in the heat but some good news today! very honoured to be in the company of such a stellar and diverse shortlist 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✨

Edwin Morgan Trust

@EdMorganTrust

2 years

🎉We’re absolutely delighted to announce the #EMPA2022 shortlist, which represents some of Scotland’s most exciting emerging poets aged 30 & under: Nasim Rebecca Asl Titilayo Farukuoye Roshni Gallagher Jay Gao Alyson Kissner Iona Lee Michael Mullen Bibi June Schwithal ☀️🥂☀️🥂

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@Jay_Gao_

1 year

***stares in edward said****

Alex Kane

@alexbkane

1 year

NEWS: Columbia University is suspending Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) as official student groups through the end of the fall term.

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@Jay_Gao_

6 months

so does anyone know if ocean vuong was amongst the NYU faculty arrested last night by the NYPD?

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@bluejayverses

6 months

urgent words from ocean vuong's ig today

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11 months

What journals and magazines are open to ‘poetry’ submissions that, for what’s it worth, don’t look like or read like a typical poem? Where are people submitting for their weird, unusual, fragmentary, non traditional stuff? 🤔

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Jay Gao

@Jay_Gao_

2 years

had an absolute blast going to @VervePoetryFest for the first time. massive thanks to @stubartholomew and all the friends i managed to catch up with in birmingham 💜 incl @EduardoCCorral @kimmoorepoet @soshunetwork @jennywcreative @ZaffarKunial

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