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hua xi @huaxi.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

i wrote a new poem about a cardboard box!! from the spring/summer issue of house house magazine 📦 🌸:

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 25/05/2026

The first 2 days of our general manuscripts call yielded 56 submissions. The summation of fiction is in high supply, with poetry and CNF to follow. These numbers have increased since, so get in early for a swifter response. Thank you for considering Thirty West! thirtywestph.com/submit

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hua xi @huaxi.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

feminist discourse is so interesting when it's between women and about who u can really trust

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Sanna Wani @sannawani.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

PLEASE SHARE! I am raising funds for a dear friend and member of the literary as well as arts communities. $5 and $10 goes a long way! Reshares even further! We are just $800 from our goal and my hope is bluesky can take us the rest of the way. 💛💛💛 chuffed.org/project/1299...

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hua xi @huaxi.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

so into this painting of a bath today

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hua xi @huaxi.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

we should be spelling everything this way

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Annia Ciezadlo @anniaciezadlo.com · 19/12/2024

Deadline soon!

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look at this absolute unit @absoluteunits.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

look at this absolute unit.

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hua xi @huaxi.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

here is my new poem in The Paris Review, about a toilet www.theparisreview.org/poetry/8360/...

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

this is the funniest thing in the world to me though

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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

obsessed with this painting by Hélène Delmaire, which inspired this ekphrastic poem from We Contain Landscapes. it’s a sonnet that breaks off, with fewer syllables at the last line, bc the speaker is crying. how to surrender to grief while refusing to be subsumed by it? WCL is forthcoming in March 🌀

Self-Portrait as Hélène Delmaire's Painting of a Woman in the Bathtub

whose face you cannot see. Head to knees,
back bare, shoulders sloped toward shadow.
I bow to the ache. Surrender in
the color between greens: my thinking
serpentine: cinching the waist of the world.
The bathwater is still, but the walls
are moving. When two paths cross, the colors
bleed. Muddied pinks, burst of rivered yellow.
Winter in the plains. How when spring came,
it was earned. I am listening for
the echo of a bell beneath my tongue.
The condition of woman is to stay.
The condition of woman is to grieve.
Weeping, I refuse—

Painting by Hélène Delmaire of a woman in a bathtub, whose face you cannot see

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Derrick Austin @paradiselaust.bsky.social · 17/07/2023

"Lilting" from my book Tenderness

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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Join poets, publishers & readers from around the world for 24hr Global Reading for Freedom of Expression & in Solidarity with Palestine & Lebanon Fri. 29 Nov From 5pm EET / 3pm UK Live stream: m.youtube.com/watch?v=RxJN...

Pale yellow flyer: 29 - 30 Nov. 2024 (2nd iteration) Global Reading for Freedom of Expression and in Solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon. 24 Hours, starting at 17.00 Palestine time.

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

okay here it is: a big thread of small businesses & artists who sell beautiful things. if I can vouch personally for quality (from previous orders) I will include that. I'll try to include shop location, too. if you want to buy presents that are original AND non-corporate, here you go!

this is an unrelated photo of my wall many years ago that I'm just putting in to get the post more visibility. there's a bulletin board with photos, postcards, and notes, a few framed images, a stem of lantern plant, dowels with rolls of washi tape, and a shelf with books.

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Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Applications for our 2025 Margins and Open City Fellowships are NOW OPEN to NYC tristate area-based Asian American & Asian diasporic writers through December 15! ✨ Share this with the writers in your community! Learn more and apply at aaww.org/fellowships.

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Shout out to buildings for keeping us dry when it’s raining!

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Timothy Yu @timpanyu.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Here’s the new edition of my poetry collection 100 Chinese Silences, recently reissued by the wonderful open-access publisher punctum books. Order the paperback or download the free e-book here: punctumbooks.com/titles/100-c...

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Ben Purkert @benpurkert.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

this M.A. Vizsolyi poem has haunted me for years, never more than now

I don’t believe the old when they walk
By me holding hands how can they love
Each other’s bodies when the young
Girl with breasts as soft & bouncy as
The breasts of stars walks past them in a tank
Top they smile at her this happened
Today I was upset I asked them about her
They didn’t notice the girl I was
Upset I asked if they had any
Identification they looked down & shook
Their heads I arrested them both they
Were sent to separate prisons my name
Is radko yakovich Soviet guard
Budapest October 15 1968

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hua xi @huaxi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

a zine of beautiful illustrations i just bought

face dripping into another face sketch in charcoal

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Good evening yall, we will be posting upcoming workshops and ways to plug in soon but for now please turn your attention to the Refaat Alareer camp run by the Sameer Project! It’s proving much needed medical and mental health care for those in GZ: tinyurl.com/sameerproject-central

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The Refaat Alareer Camp - by The Sameer Project

The Sameer Project, a grassroots aid organization led by four Palestinians in the diaspora, is proud to announce our first tent encampment project that provides shelter and specialized support to disp...

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Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Line Drawing/Grid/Text(ile), Variation, Layered Print on Hahnemühle Textured Paper

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Jack Saebyok Jung 정새벽 @daybreakjung.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Kim Chong-sam belonged to a generation of poets who came of age during the Korean War. Unlike some of his contemporaries who were drawn to cutting-edge poetic forms and maximalism, Kim Chong-sam was drawn to silence, and his poems were characterized by absences and excisions.

ink wash painting

cow is drinking water
and grandmother places her hand on its nape.
This day again
we have spent together,
each of our feet swollen,
each of us lonely,

Poem by Kim Chong-sam (1921-1984)
Translated by Jack Jung

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hua xi @huaxi.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

some of my 35mm photos from the underground bookstore in nanjing

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Ben Purkert @benpurkert.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I'm not big on happy / motivational poems, but I do love poems that point toward unseen sources of light. I need that right now, more light. Anyway, I'll be sharing some over the next few days/weeks, if that's appealing. To start, here's "Everything Lies in All Directions" by @huaxi.bsky.social 🌿

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hua xi @huaxi.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

a new poem published in the yale review..

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hua xi @huaxi.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

i wish a little bird would come in through my window

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hua xi @huaxi.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

made a batch of these postcard sized prints! available for $4 each ✨

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jojo Lazar @poetesss.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

@huaxi.bsky.social's interview w/ John West is live on @anmlymag.bsky.social! "John West’s Lessons and Carols is a book of experimental and genre-defying fragments that chronicle the author’s relationship to addiction, beauty, faith, literature and his new daughter." -Hua Xi tinyurl.com/JohnWestInt

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Poetic Conversations: Text as Music ~ Interview with John West

John West’s Lessons and Carols is a book of experimental and genre-defying fragments that chronicle the author’s relationship to addiction…

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John West @johnwest.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

thank you, @huaxi.bsky.social for this interview with @anmlymag.bsky.social. It was, as always, a blast talking to you! medium.com/anomalyblog/...

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hua xi @huaxi.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

they cancelled her exhibition, but samia halaby's work is beautiful and meaningful and deserves to be shared www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/a...

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hua xi @huaxi.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

i'm really interested in the history of paper lately

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

today, Devin Kelly’s Ordinary Plots newsletter (a highlight of my Sundays!) is on the opening poem from Light-Up Swan (@ornithopterpress.bsky.social)—Devin is an incredibly careful & thoughtful reader, & I’m so grateful he turned his eye & ear to this poem! ordinaryplots.substack.com/p/tom-snarsk...

Tom Snarsky’s “The Star-Field Paintings”
Thoughts on a way of seeing.
DEVIN KELLY
DEC 24

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The Star-Field Paintings

I’m here to mail a letter
It will kill me but I don’t mind

I just assumed
Corinthians were flowers

One kind of pain can hide […]

from Light-Up Swan (Ornithopter Press, 2021)
I have admired Tom Snarsky’s work for a long, long time. This is the first poem from his book, Light-Up Swan. He has a second book, Reclaimed Water, which came to me in the mail the other day after I ordered it, and which I sat with for a long time, smiling mostly, smiling at the charm and absurdity and love and observance at the heart of it.

I hope that the final lines of today’s poem made you do something with your chest or your mouth or your heart. By that I mean — gasp, or skip a beat, or suck in a bunch of air and hold it in your body before letting it out slowly, shaking your head, smiling, and looking up at the stars a little differently.

That’s what those lines did for me.

Or about how another poem — “Confusion Matrix” — ends with these lines:

when I died
there was weeping
and inexpensive cake
Or, finally, about how another poem — “Prose Poem” — simply is these lines:

Another day in the ruinous world, eating
peanut butter off a knife.
Each of these moments — and, as well, the ending of today’s poem — does the work of poetic surprise, the delicate placement of the unexpected. I have never thought of a planet as a potentially quiet thing until I encountered such a description in a Tom Snarsky poem. I have never thought of a field of grass as a line of children waiting to ride an amusement park rollercoaster until I encountered such a metaphor in a Tom Snarsky poem. And I have never thought of the wind as a rollercoaster, or of the stars as a solution to the problem of the one and the many.

…Wonderment, astonishment, awe: we abandon such things for a more begrudging certainty as life pitter-patters its tepid pace across our days. If you treat a poem as a gift this morning, and the next, and the next — if you view a poem as someone’s generous offering of their own way of seeing, then you might claw back some of that astonishment you may have given away to the passing days. I give that astonishment away all the time. I find it hidden, little gift of it, inside the lines of poems, and on the sidewalks of cities, and scattered across fields, falling like leaves. Hidden, always, and then seen in what I am allowed to notice. And when you find that astonishment, gift that it is, you can follow the daily work of stars, or imagine again if someone is holding up the moon. You can talk to animals and whisper to the grass. You can be a little bit more fully alive within the tremendous fullness that this life offers us.

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hua xi @huaxi.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

sad to see that nothing was addressed in the final column, a section that ran for nearly a decade deserves more than a non-statement..

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hua xi @huaxi.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

i nominate peaches by jack black to win the oscars best original song of my heart 🫶

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hua xi @huaxi.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

my favorite poem by niina pollari

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hua xi @huaxi.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

aracelis girmay on student protests in the Stanford Daily

The Palestinian poet Hiba Abu Nada — all blessings and wildflowers to her name — was killed by an Israeli airstrike within days of writing the poem excerpted in the epigraph above. With these words, in the last days of her life, she protects the oranges and the shades of the clouds. Elsewhere, she blesses the children. She writes a future when even the dead will one day laugh, and with her language makes a refuge, a refusal and a shield. These are the words I think of when I meet the students in White Plaza or see their tents from a distance as I walk to meetings.

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hua xi @huaxi.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

in lieu of form emailing your representatives about a ceasefire, you can also consider writing and sending physical mail. send one to the district office and one to the DC office

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Stelliform Press @stelliform.press · 02/12/2023

If you are a BIPOC writer with any inclination toward submitting a novella, novel, short story collection, or comic with a speculative environmental focus, I am happy to chat about your submission via email (query@stelliform.press) and, whenever possible, extend deadlines. 3/5

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hua xi @huaxi.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

all the translations of james joyce's dubliners from all over the world

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hua xi @huaxi.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

Friday in Dublin - Poems Made by Walking Workshop! i hope to see you, rsvp here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/forms-and-featu…

Poems Made by Walking: Nov 17 - 11:00: Poetry Workshop at The Well Room, St. Patricks Campus

This workshop will look at poets who centered walking, including works by Antonio Machado, C.S. Giscombe, Richard Long and others. Then, we will make our own poems by walking around. It is part of The Spatial Poetry workshop series, a project by Hua Xi which explore the historical context around place naming and the ties between toponomy and poetry.

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hua xi @huaxi.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

if youre in dublin, pls say hi

i'll be going to Dublin for two weeks from Nov 15-30 with Poetry Ireland! it's my first time in Ireland!! i'll be staying at Trinity College. pls send me recommendations if youve been or if you're a poet or writer in Dublin, please say hi or invite me to your events ✨here are two events I'll be doing:

Nov 17 - 11:00: Poetry Workshop at The Well Room, St. Patricks Campus (will post poster soon)

Nov 21 - 18:00: Reading at Neill Lecture Theater, Trinity Long Room Hub with Éireann Lorsung and Majed Mujed

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