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Patrycja

@patrycjasara.bsky.social
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author of We Contain Landscapes (Tin House, March 2025) 🖤 patrycjasara.com

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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Today’s poem is selected by Patrycja Humienik (@patrycjasara.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry.
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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
6 months of We Contain Landscapes (@tinhouse.bsky.social) 🌀 grateful for every reader (text below is an excerpt from a review in Poetry Northwest)
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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
DIGITAL REVIEW COPIES FOR THE HUNGERING YEARS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ INTERVIEWERS/REVIEWERS/BOOKFLUENCERS/BOOKSELLERS/ETC. PLEASE READ MY POETRY BOOK
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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Patrycja Humienik 💙 from WE CONTAIN LANDSCAPES (Tin House) Day 11 - #SealeyChallenge @patrycjasara.bsky.social @sealeychallenge.bsky.social
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—
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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
come write with me this Saturday, 11am-12.30pm CT. this is a generative writing session exploring the idea of devotion <3 no one turned away for lack of funds. sign up & more info at: bit.ly/devotiondropin
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Devotion: A Generative Writing Session
Saturday, August 9th 11am-12.30pm CT "Devotion is full of arrows." —Joanna Klink What is devotion? What are you devoted to? What do you want to be devoted to? This is a 1.5 hour generative session. ...
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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
putting together lists of folks to send digital review copies of my book to !!! let me know if you're interested in checking it out for review / interview / otherwise... will probably be available in september
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Open Books: A Poem Emporium @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Wow! We're up to 175 participants & more than $10k in pledges/direct contributions! Let’s keep the momentum going ❤️‍🔥 You can still join the #sealeychallenge Poetry Pledge Fundraiser for Gaza, as a participant or sponsor, at any time. Details here: mailchi.mp/openpoetrybo...
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Jarrett @darkwebtofu.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
From @patrycjasara.bsky.social’s We Contain Landscapes, Day 3 of my Sealey Challenge
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Patrycja Humienik @patrycjasara.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social
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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
“A child is the wrong technology for dreaming.” —Patrycja Humienik in WE CONTAIN LANDSCAPES (Tin House) 💙 @patrycjasara.bsky.social
An Anchor Is an Argument

Growing up, I despised the metronome, its insistence on orderly time, the lie.

Counting the seconds between flash & stampede in my childhood bed-storms full of horses.

A woman in the night must be sensitive to sound in case the sound has a motive.

Anchor is an argument.
A child is the wrong technology for dreaming.

I play Comptine d'un autre été
whenever I come across a piano.

I play with feeling,
but I can never remember the ending.
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
10 collections from 2025 we can’t stop thinking about ✨📚 @yoadrianididit.bsky.social / @malarkeybooks.bsky.social / @josehernandezdz.bsky.social / @patrycjasara.bsky.social / @tinhouse.bsky.social / @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social / @sarabandebooks.bsky.social / @futuretensebooks.bsky.social
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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
This poem by @aireadee.bsky.social lifted me this morning on its Icarus wings. "Light refracts my name in dialect only moths comprehend."
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Altitude
Icarus, he advised, heed the warning: don’t fly
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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
We Contain Landscapes has been out for 3 months. grateful for the readers the book has found already & for readers to come. the publishing industry can give a false sense of urgency—means a lot if you’ve read WCL already & will continue to mean a lot if you read it another season, or years from now
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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
grateful for print media keeping on despite 🖤 poems from We Contain Landscapes in the latest issues of BRINK & @westbranchmagazine.bsky.social
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BOMB Magazine @bombmag.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
“Amidst the reckless pace of an increasingly urgent world, I’m interested in the pause a question makes possible. Poetry lives there.” —Patrycja Humienik Writer @sarahali.bsky.social interviews WE CONTAIN LANDSCAPES (@tinhouse.bsky.social) author Patrycja Humienik.
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BOMB Magazine | Patrycja Humienik by Sarah Ghazal Ali
The debut poet on secrets immigrant daughters keep and the obliterating lure of the internet.
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Brooklyn Poets @brooklynpoets.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Rivers at once ground and destabilize questions of time, movement, scale, interiority and collectivity. In this single-session, in-person workshop w/ Patrycja Humienik we'll explore what rivers can teach us about poetic image and write new work. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/o...
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On Rivers: A Generative Poetry Workshop — Brooklyn Poets
Rivers at once ground and destabilize questions of time, movement, scale, interiority and collectivity. In this single-session, in-person workshop we'll explore what rivers can teach us about poetic i...
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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
back in the PNW for the first time since i moved away 💚 it was a dream to read at Powell’s, especially with my artwife & @tinhouse.bsky.social pressmate, @gabriellebates.bsky.social. shoutout to our brilliant editor, Alyssa Ogi
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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Today's Featured Poem: "Against the Encroaching Greys" by C. D. Wright, from The Essential C.D. Wright, published by @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social. Read here: poems.com/poem/against...
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Against the Encroaching Greys
I wake up and join the struggle
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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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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
auctioning off signed copies of my chapbook + some out-of-print zines to raise funds for esims :) tinyurl.com/authors4esims
I could die today and live again, nothing here is correctly and it is delicious, & I was so young when I behaved 25
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Montserrat Andrée Carty @montseandree.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
New episode up with @gabriellebates.bsky.social & @patrycjasara.bsky.social ! This was such a special conversation on art, language and friendship ❤️. www.musingsoftheartist.com/episodes-2/g...
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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
"Magnolia" from WE CONTAIN LANDSCAPES by Patrycja Humienik (Tin House) @tinhouse.bsky.social See replies for my mini-review of this exquisite collection. #NationalPoetryMonth Day 28 💜 #poetrycollection #poetrycommunity #poetry
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Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
thank you to librarians, booksellers, interviewers&&. grateful for the love for WCL ( @tinhouse.bsky.social). book reviewers, it's not too late to review—i welcome honest engagement. tysm to every reader 🌀 (first photo thnx to poet juj e lepe)
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
@patrycjasara.bsky.social will be one of our guest writers for the Summer Creative Writing Institute!
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Patrycja Humienik on “Magnolia”
Poets and translators on their work.
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ArtfulTea @artfultea.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
12. Miss Violet Purple Tea & We Contain Landscapes by Patrycja Humienik from @tinhouse.bsky.social
Miss Violet Purple Tea & We Contain Landscapes by Patrycja Humienik
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 10/04/2025
@patrycjasara.bsky.social's poetry collection, We Contain Landscapes, asks, "How do we move beyond dominant paradigms — of ownership, of borders, of shame?"
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"I feared the door. Someone coming to take my parents away."
Poetry in We Contain Landscapes spotlights a child of formerly undocumented Polish immigrants.
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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
i’ll be at New Orleans Poetry Festival @nolapoetry.bsky.social for my first time this weekend! on a dance poetics panel & wandering about with copies of We Contain Landscapes 🖤 hope to see you there eating beignets, taking in poems, flowers in the air
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Erin L. McCoy @erinlmccoy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
“Do to me what sunlight does to a river.” I remember being absolutely floored by this @patrycjasara.bsky.social line when I first read it. Still floored, awed, enchanted. ☀️🌸
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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
On the new episode of Between the Covers🎙️✨ @davidnaimon.bsky.social talks to @patrycjasara.bsky.social about her debut poetry collection We Contain Landscapes which is haunted by questions of desire, borders, and the illusion of national belonging. 💜✨ 💜✨Listen now! bit.ly/BTCPatrycjaH...
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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
to be read by & in conversation with David Naimon is a dream. what a generous mind, and what a gift for literature this show is! i’ve long loved Between the Covers; grateful to join this archive of moving conversations 🌀
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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Excited to share my conversation with Patrycja Humienik (@patrycjasara.bsky.social) about her debut collection We Contain Landscapes. What does it mean to risk rupture for rapture, on the page, & in one's life? Audio📻🌊: tinhouse.com/podcast/patr... @tinhouse.bsky.social @zandoprojects.bsky.social
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Patrycja Humienik : We Contain Landscapes - Tin House
What does it mean to risk rupture for rapture, on the page, and in one’s life? Or for water to be one’s method, mode or muse? Are inherited forms (of womanhood, of sexuality, of national identity) a g...
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Moss @mosslit.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Amazing! Big congrats to Vol. 6 contributor @patrycjasara.bsky.social, whose brilliant collection was chosen as a "best new poetry book" by the NYPL. The list is an amazing resource if you happen to be looking for some poetry to read (and really, who isn't?)
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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
wow. immense respect for many of the poets on this list, for their work on the page & in relation. big gratitude that We Contain Landscapes is included here. thank you to the New York Public Library and love to libraries & librarians everywhere 🖤 trib.al/bSo0tEQ
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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
thank you so much to Poetry Daily for featuring “Borderwound” from We Contain Landscapes 🖤
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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Today's Featured Poem: "Borderwound" by Patrycja Humienik (@patrycjasara.bsky.social), from We Contain Landscapes, published by Tin House (@tinhouse.bsky.social). Read here: poems.com/poem/borderw...
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Borderwound
Great Polish poets were born in cities that no longer belong to Poland. Now Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine. My people claim the imagined place.
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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
tysm to everyone who bought We Contain Landscapes at AWP / came to the signing or a reading. @tinhouse.bsky.social sold out of WCL at the bookfair on Thursday(!)—if you didn’t get a chance to get a copy, consider ordering from Open Books: A Poem Emporium (or yr favorite bookstore). thank you!! 🌀
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Leila Lois @leilaboos.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Dance was one of my first loves, and dance and poetry are modes of inquiry I cannot exhaust. ~ @patrycjasara.bsky.social Love this interview by epistolary exchange 🤍 💌 electricliterature.com/patrycja-hum...
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Patrycja Humienik Explores the Tenderness and Tension of Being an Immigrant Daughter - Electric Literature
The poet shares the personal and creative journey behind her debut collection "we contain landscapes"
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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
signing copies of We Contain Landscapes at the bookfair, @tinhouse.bsky.social booth 1140 11am today 🌀📚
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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
"At what age / did you first hide / your truest feeling?" Congrats, @patrycjasara.bsky.social on this gorgeous debut, yes, WE CONTAIN LANDSCAPES @tinhouse.bsky.social 💜💙
WE CONTAIN LANDSCAPES by Patrycja Humienik, swirly purple and blue cover on blueish granite counterAcid Reflux

Did it make a home inside
your chest? What is the softest thing
you've ever held hostage? At what age
did you first hide your truest
feeling? What feeling then 
eclipsed the truer one?
Who did you blame?
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Erin L. McCoy @erinlmccoy.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
So grateful for this gorgeous delivery from @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social, and to finally get to hold my very own copy of @patrycjasara.bsky.social’s debut collection, WE CONTAIN LANDSCAPES. 😍😍
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Patrycja Humienik @patrycjasara.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger. —Adrienne Rich
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Ally Ang @theoceanisgay.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I loved getting to interview @patrycjasara.bsky.social about her gorgeous debut We Contain Landscapes (@tinhouse.bsky.social) especially because we conducted the interview via handwritten letters 💌 Check it out here!
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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Happy Pub Day!💜💙🤍 We Contain Landscapes: Poems by @patrycjasara.bsky.social is out today! "Sensual, ephemeral, dream-like…. a powerful debut.” —The Associated Press 💜Read more: bit.ly/WeContainLan...
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Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
USPS rules. Shkoyakh to dear @patrycjasara.bsky.social on her debut book! Thrilled to hold this tenderness.
Photo of two cursive written postcards and one book titled “We Contain Landscapes” by Patrycja Humienik. Book cover has purple and lavender pools of paint in swirling patterns.
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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
“Sensual, ephemeral, dream-like…. a powerful debut.” @apnews.com reviews 💙We Contain Landscapes by @patrycjasara.bsky.social ! apnews.com/article/cont...
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