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R. Quesada

@rubenq.bsky.social
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Forthcoming: 𝐵𝑟𝑢𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑜n, 2023 Barrow Street Editors Prize • 🇨🇷 🏳️‍🌈

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R. Quesada @rubenq.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
Thinking about title for my talk. Leaning toward something like Poetry in the Age of the Image…I might just fall into it.
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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 28/02/2024
In which I talk to a Mid-American Review editor about the value of local community.
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Featured Writer: Amorak Huey + Interview | Mid-American Review Blog
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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
Revisiting Sharon Olds's iconic poem "Satan Says" this week on the podcast, in a discussion that nerds out about metaphor, point of view, and casting off the hell that is shame. Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever poetry makes you horn-y.
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
the poet’s task (du Bouchet, tr. Young)
to measure
the blue unravelling.
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Erin Coughlin Hollowell @beingpoetry.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
Diane Seuss, this poem is haunting me. (Go get Diane’s new book Modern Poetry. Now.)
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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
Libraries are the glue holding us together.
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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
If you're anywhere near Pasadena, join us this Thursday evening at 6 p.m. for Golden Verse: A Poetic Homage to Friendship. There will be cheesecake! 😁 Location: 1540 Lincoln Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91103 www.eventbrite.com/e/golden-ver...
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R. Quesada @rubenq.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
In just a few weeks, I will be joining an exceptional group of poets at Baylor University's Beall Poetry Festival, a three-day event showcasing modern poetry through readings, discussions, and lectures. beall.artsandsciences.baylor.edu
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R. Quesada @rubenq.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. -Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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R. Quesada @rubenq.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
My family has roots in Toledo and it seems Cervantes may have been inspired by a great grandfather of mine.
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R. Quesada @rubenq.bsky.social · 02/03/2024
Thinking about seminar on prayer as revision. How to charm a draft toward music and clarity. Incense or patchouli required. This would be a small revision workshop for US-based and another for International writers.
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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 18/02/2024
Read this. Don’t ever forget it. poets.org/poem/yesterday
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Yesterday
My friend says I was not a good son
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R. Quesada @rubenq.bsky.social · 18/02/2024
I’m applying for an award given by the Modern Language Association for the publication of a literary work—Latinx Poetics—by scholars with no tenure, or in a non-traditional role. Hmm, I think I was unemployed when the book was published. I hope that qualifies.🤞🏼
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R. Quesada @rubenq.bsky.social · 18/02/2024
Embracing the vibrant spirit of renewal, families unite under the glow of lanterns and fireworks, welcoming prosperity and happiness in the Year of the Dragon. Happy Chinese Lunar New Year! 🧧 #chinesenewyear #dragon
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R. Quesada @rubenq.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
One of the most exciting poetry books I’ve read in a long time. Congratulations to Mandy Gutman-Gonzalez—this is a stunning poetry chapbook from End of the Line Press.
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R. Quesada @rubenq.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
In March, I'll be teaching two new courses for the Attic. Consider sharing or joining me! Learn more: atticinstitute.com/node/2587
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R. Quesada @rubenq.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
To those who act with kindness and contend with failures as an opportunity for grace and friendship, thank you. People like me with ADHD and anxiety will sometimes not meet your expectations but don't count us out. I love you.
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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
I am not trying to seduce you... Would you like me to seduce you? Is that what you're trying to tell me? breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com
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R. Quesada @rubenq.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
Had a convo with the managing editor of an established literary journal. We began discussing how ideal it would be if a wealthy literary organization acquired journals struggling to survive. Why not create a consortium to ensure the longevity of small magazines? 👀
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Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
The inaugural ✨Sarabande Prize in the Essay✨ is open to manuscript submissions through February 15! Just what exactly are we looking for when we say ✨ESSAY✨? Swipe for a breakdown! —> Learn more and submit at the link in our bio.
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R. Quesada @rubenq.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
Finding ways to use “inter alia” in casual conversations.
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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 14/01/2024
Tomorrow, get ready for a vexing story of sex, lies, and Prufcock er Prufrock. It's "Sex Lives of Poets," featuring T.S. Eliot.
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R. Quesada @rubenq.bsky.social · 14/01/2024
Poets and Writers! Join me at the following events for the AWP Conference in Kansas City.
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R. Quesada @rubenq.bsky.social · 28/12/2023
My manuscript is the 2023 Editors’ Choice: BRUTAL COMPANION! Coming in autumn 🍂 2024! I’m so happy to share in this honor with Carrie Bennett who is the winner of the 2023 Barrow Street Book Contest, chosen by Nathalie Handal for her manuscript, THE MOUTH IS ALS0 A COMPASS.
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R. Quesada @rubenq.bsky.social · 16/12/2023
Hello, Los Angeles! I missed you.
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R. Quesada @rubenq.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
Spent the day at Colorado College where I gave a reading and visited their Special Collections.
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R. Quesada @rubenq.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
Visited the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs.
Rocky formation landscape
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Kelly Cressio-Moeller @poetkellycm.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
Amazing poem from Ruben Quesada! poets.org/poem/east-wy...
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East of Wyoming, I Remember Matthew Shepherd
The night my father died, I sat on a stool
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JoelRGarza @joelrgarza.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
I almost forgot about this quick draft I wrote in a July 2022 workshop with Ruben Quesada The challenge? Capture a time of joy This one's for all the theater kids (& their parents) out there 🎭 middleagedmiddlechild.com/2023/12/06/t...
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theater kids.
Backstage, Rose Hall, Greenhill School. The doors are heavy, falling shut with a slow ease & finality. The space is sacred to some, to those who work it, to those who hope to cast the spell. Every the...
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