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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · 10d

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 · 20d

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 · Aug 28

DIGITAL REVIEW COPIES FOR THE HUNGERING YEARS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ INTERVIEWERS/REVIEWERS/BOOKFLUENCERS/BOOKSELLERS/ETC. PLEASE READ MY POETRY BOOK

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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · Aug 12

thank you for reading ! 💕

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · Aug 12

Patrycja Humienik 💙

from WE CONTAIN LANDSCAPES (Tin House)

Day 11 - #SealeyChallenge

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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 · Aug 4

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

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 · Jul 13

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 · Aug 2

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 · Aug 3

From @patrycjasara.bsky.social’s We Contain Landscapes, Day 3 of my Sealey Challenge

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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · Aug 4

thank you for reading 😍

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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · Aug 4

thank you!!😍

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · Jul 29

Patrycja Humienik

@patrycjasara.bsky.social
@tinhouse.bsky.social

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · Jul 3

“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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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · Jun 30

thank you!! 😍

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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · Jun 28

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 · Jun 18

This poem by @aireadee.bsky.social lifted me this morning on its Icarus wings.

"Light refracts my name in
dialect only moths comprehend."

Altitude

Icarus, he advised, heed the warning: don’t fly

poets.org

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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · Jun 11

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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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Jun 11

If you're working on a local mutual aid project, an organizing project etc... Saturday will be a terrific recruitment day. If you attend one of the mobilizations, bring info about your work. Make sure it has contact info.

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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · Jun 7

whew do i know the feeling. sending love ✨

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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · Jun 7

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 · May 28

“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.

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 · May 17

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...

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 · May 20

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 · May 11

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...

Against the Encroaching Greys

I wake up and join the struggle

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Sanna Wani @sannawani.bsky.social · May 5

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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