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Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh @artichokeheart.bsky.social · 2d

This week in Atlanta: I'm delighted to be reading from unMothered, unTongued, winner of the AWP Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction, newly released from @ugapress.bsky.social, this Thursday, October 9, at 7:00 p.m., at the Emory Bookstore (First Floor).

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Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh @artichokeheart.bsky.social · 7d

I'm back from the Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival in Frostburg, MD, where I had such a wonderful time! Grateful, too, for the upcoming venues that will be hosting me as unMothered, unTongued continues to make its way into the world.

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Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh @artichokeheart.bsky.social · 19d

I'm excited to be giving the kickoff reading for the Indie Lit Festival on September 26, at Main Street Books, 2 East Main Street in Frostburg, MD. This will be my first reading out for unMothered, unTongued, newly released from @ugapress.bsky.social !

www.frostburg.edu/center-for-l...

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Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh @artichokeheart.bsky.social · 23d

Today is the official release day for unMothered, unTongued!!!

Order from @ugapress.bsky.social here:
www.ugapress.org/978082037443...

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Koss (she/they/Aquarian) @kossworks.bsky.social · 25d

So happy to have placed 3rd in Midway Journal's Contest! Congratulations to the other winners, and big thanks to @artichokeheart.bsky.social Ralph Pennel, Suzanne Richardson, and all of the editors. Look forward to reading the winners and the issue in October!

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Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh @artichokeheart.bsky.social · Aug 28

My parents' anniversary was August 6, the tenth anniversary of tHiroshima, the day my mother aid she "drop the bomb" on her parents. I write about this in my essay, "The Atomic Age," from unMothered, unTongued:

Order here, from @ugapress.bsky.social:
www.ugapress.org/978082037441...

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Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh @artichokeheart.bsky.social · Aug 24

So grateful for my conversation with Charles K. Carter as part of the #SundaySweetChats series, Season 3, Episode 4, which premieres on YouTube today (and will be available for viewing after premiere), August 24th, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time!

Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbvz....

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Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh @artichokeheart.bsky.social · Aug 21

Tonight (Thurday, 8/21/25)! 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time! I'll be reading via Zoom for the Phosphorescence Contemporary Poetry Series, presented by The Emily Dickinson Museum with Cathy Linh Che and Monica Ong! Click below to register:

emilydickinsonmuseum.org/phosphorescence-august-2025

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Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh @artichokeheart.bsky.social · Aug 18

The first copy of my book, unmothered, unTongued, arrived this weekend and I'm absolutely thrilled! Immense gratitude to the team at @ugapress.bsky.social for their stunning work: the covers, the interior, the paper . . . all so lovely

Order/preordering link below:
www.ugapress.org/978082037441...

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Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh @artichokeheart.bsky.social · Aug 12

A link for 30% off list price for unMothered, unTongued by Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh below:

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · Jul 30

It's here! My proof is here! Cover reveal for Unrivered, coming from @sundresspub.bsky.social. Pre-orders begin August 26, and I'll be sharing blurbs and links over the few weeks.

Unrivered by Donna Vorreyer at the bottom of a nubbed linen background with a collaged figure of a woman in blues and bits of red and black with curved pieces flowing from her hands, beneath her feet, and behind her head.

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Koss (she/they/Aquarian) @kossworks.bsky.social · Jul 30

Humbled and honored to be on the shortlist for the Lammy's. Thank you, @diodeeditions.bsky.social, editors, and @lambdaliterary.org and the judges. Blown away! And thanks to everyone who has supported my book and writing! Congrats to all the finalists also!❤️

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Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴) @travisclau.bsky.social · Jul 30

Columbus folks: it would mean the world to me to see you at the launch reading of What's Left Is Tender on 8/18 at 7 PM at Prologue Bookshop.

A translucent white and green flyer that features the cover of my new collection of poems, What's Left Is Tender (which depicts bearded man floating in water beside a lotus) and the following text:

WHAT'S LEFT IS TENDER
TRAVIS CHI WING LAU
BOOK LAUNCH

Featuring special guests Michael Leong & Mandy
Shunnarah

7PM MONDAY, AUGUST 18
AT PROLOGUE BOOKSHOP

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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · Jul 30

Read this beautiful interview with @kalekim.bsky.social in the International Examiner, where she discusses her inspiration for Mele and encouraging words for aspiring poets. 💛💜💛💜

iexaminer.org/northwest-ba...

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Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh @artichokeheart.bsky.social · Jul 30

Likewise! <3

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · Jul 30

Éireann Lorsung, Pattern-book / @eireannmor.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/07/eire...

Éireann Lorsung, Pattern-book

BRAMBLE CUTTING Five-petaled, milk-white—say thin as milk , as wholesome: pithy centres turn to pulp in July. All year, canes ov...

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Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh @artichokeheart.bsky.social · Jul 30

So grateful for my poem "Sequelae: A Mapping / Jishin-no-ben" to be included in the new issue of @riseupreview.bsky.social alongside a wonderful array of terrific poets! Many thanks to Sonia Greenfield and the Rise Up Review team!

www.riseupreview.org/lee-ann-rori...
#ResistanceIsFertile

Lee Ann Roripaugh

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Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh @artichokeheart.bsky.social · Jul 17

I'm thrilled (and nervous) to share the preorder link for my essay collection, unMothered, unTongued, winner of the AWP Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction, which will be released by @ugapress.bsky.social on September 15, 2025.

www.ugapress.org/978082037441...

unMothered, unTongued

unMothered, unTongued is a collection of lyric essays written from the liminal space of the in-between. These essays thread themselves around questions of la...

www.ugapress.org

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · Apr 16

I have a poem from my forthcoming collection with @triohousepress.bsky.social in the new issue of South Dakota Review! Thanks to @artichokeheart.bsky.social for including me! A stellar issue on Day 16 of National Poetry Month, friends! Oh! & I love this poem’s little nod to Bhanu Kapil! 💙

Holding My Skeleton to the Light

It's possible I watched myself fleeing the alleyway,
myself imagining a series of crueler injuries to the original wound.
What would you say if you could? asks the poet.
It's contextual! replies anyone without a clue.
This can be a way of describing a metaphor
or a way of describing psychology. This can also be helpful
or not. Listen. When I thought you hadn't the desire to understand me, I hadn't the desire to be heard.

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Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh @artichokeheart.bsky.social · Apr 19

Immense gratitude to the amazing Jillian Sico at The Press at Colorado College, who created this gorgeous letterpress broadside featuring an excerpt from the concluding short story Reveal Codes, "Space." <3

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Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh @artichokeheart.bsky.social · Mar 22

I'm so happy to share the cover reveal for my book of lyric essays, whih was named winner of this years' Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction in the AWP Awards Series, forthcoming from @ugapress.bsky.social.

cover for unMothered, unTongued, a collection of lyric essays by Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh, with the image of a biracial girl with cacti in the background carrying a shotgun.

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · Jan 30

For today's #YearOfTheSnake thread, we focus on #snake -themed #poetry, like this aptly named collection by @artichokeheart.bsky.social with themes of transformation, mixed-race female identity & #JapaneseMythology

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#AsianAmericanLiterature #AmericanLiterature #LunarNewYear

Holding the book "Year of the Snake" by Lee Ann Roripaugh in front of a red wall. Above the book is a yellow drawing of a snake

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · Feb 11

Today's Featured Poem:

"#meteorology" by Lee Ann Roripaugh (@artichokeheart.bsky.social), from #stringofbeads, published by Diode Editions.

Read here:
poems.com/poem/meteoro...

#meteorology – Poetry Daily

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Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh @artichokeheart.bsky.social · Feb 11

In the midst of awfulness, I'm super grateful to have this wintry mix of linked tanka, #meteorology, from my chapbook #stringofbeads (Diode Editions, 2023) featured on @poetrydaily.bsky.social today! Click on link below to read! poems.com/poem/meteoro...

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Virginia Quarterly Review @vqr.bsky.social · Dec 11

Read Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh (@ArtichokeHeart.bsky.social)’s new poem “Decadence: A Mapping / Jishin-no-ben” from our Fall issue: www.vqronline.org/fall-2024/po...

Decadence: A Mapping / Jishin-no-ben

You think of fin de siècle decadence: perversity, death, decline, and decay—the rise of the monstrous

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