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"Tongue tamer, lip purser, performance is/ what you were born for."

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Ode to ប" by April Lim, in #TheMargins. 💨🐀

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Ode to ប
How your sound fills/ pockets.
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January 28, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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"Forgetfulness is a type of ingratitude,/ Remembrance a form of prayer."

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Write in Blood" by Yahia Lababidi in #TheMargins. 🧪📿

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Write in Blood
The punishment of the oppressor is that they are denied poetry.
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January 22, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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"Grief never leaves / the way the body holding it does."

Read today's #PoetryTuesday piece, "I didn't apologize to the well" by Alexa Luborsky, in #TheMargins.👔🌖

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January 13, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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"I stand unheeded, imaginary, / indistinguishable from air."

Read our first #PoetryTuesday piece of the new year, "A Korean Woman Walks Into a Bar in Chicago" by Sara Verstynen, in #TheMargins. 💎🌬️

https://aaww.org/a-korean-woman-walks-into-a-bar-in-chicago/
January 6, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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"Aren't all governments/ made up by men of/ might?"

Read two new poems by Rona Luo, "How To Evaluate A Family Genealogy" and "Men of Might", in #TheMargins' #PoetryTuesday column. 🐋🌲

https://aaww.org/two-poems-by-rona-luo/
December 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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"your hate unstoppers my spirit. it drifts above my head like a / chandelier."

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "street smart sunshine" by Michelle Chen, in #TheMargins. 🐝⛅

https://aaww.org/street-smart-sunshine/
December 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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"With me, there is always a high horse you can dangle/ your feet from." 🌊

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday poem, "The Long Revolution" by Bella Zhou, in #TheMargins. 🍃

https://aaww.org/the-long-revolution/
The Long Revolution
With me, there is always a high horse you can dangle your feet from.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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"our mother tells us:
once there was an autumn. once there was a spring.
once i was a young woman in a big city"

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "kestane kebap" by Z. Yasmin Waheed, in #TheMargins. 🌃🍁

https://aaww.org/kestane-kebap/
kestane kebap
how must it feel for my mother, watching?
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December 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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"She spoke of the war years./ Discovering the ways a body could rewrite itself after/ its becoming."

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "1947" by Amrita Chand, in #TheMargins. 🌾🌙

https://aaww.org/1947-poem/
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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"There is no living in the/ afterlife, grammar corrects me." 🕊️

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Where are you from?" by Tran Tran, in #TheMargins.

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“Where are you from?”
I repeat, there is no leaving in the afterlife
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November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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"Get out of the ring, or you’ll die in pain | Lumuwas ika o magraan dagos"

Read “A Omegang Babayi,” or “The Omega Woman,” written by and translated from Bikol by Francisco V. Peñones, Jr., in #TheMargins’ latest folio, OSIPON! ❤️‍🔥🇵🇭

https://aaww.org/osipon-omegang-babayi-omega-woman/
Osipon
Six pieces from the Philippines’ Bikol region
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November 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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“in my girlhood, there was no love without sacrifice.”

Read two new poems from Kimberly Nguyen in our #PoetryTuesday column, “dodging the bullet” and “google search: do abusers know they are abusive.” 💌💔

⭐ more in #TheMargins: https://aaww.org/two-poems-by-kimberly-nguyen/
Two Poems by Kimberly Nguyen
“dodging the bullet” and “google search: do abusers know they are abusive”
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November 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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We're so excited to be presented OSIPON, the newest folio from #TheMargins! Featuring poetry, fiction, and literary criticism, Osipon is a folio of six pieces from the Bikol region of the Philippines. 🇵🇭

READ THE FOLIO ❤️‍🔥 https://aaww.org/tlp-osipon/
Osipon
Six pieces from the Philippines’ Bikol region
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November 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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"In the dream where you are still alive, you keep reincarnating:"

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Aubade with American Dream" by Ela Kini (@elakini.bsky.social), in #TheMargins. ☁️

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Aubade with American Dream
you are only a persimmon strandedon a rowboat sinking, ocean slipping solemn against your wrinkled skin.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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"Safety is a body with/ a place to hide in."

Read "Safety Pin" by Luisa A. Igloria (@thepoetslizard.bsky.social), new in our #PoetryTuesday column in #TheMargins. 🧷

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Safety Pin
Safety is a body with a place to hide in.
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October 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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🌟 Announcing Law@theMargins New Series: Law + Liberation

🎙️ Law + Liberation is a public education series uplifting the voices of those on the frontlines of change, centering the wisdom of communities most impacted by injustice. Follow us on Instagram www.instagram.com/lawatthemarg...
October 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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"I know something about the nation from the way/ it resembles a body that could split another body."

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "With these crows for hands, I caress a flower" by Yunkyo Moon-Kim, in #TheMargins. 🐦‍⬛🌷

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With these crows for hands, I caress a flower
The body of wings breeds a body of wings
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September 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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"Today I long for your sand-white shore, the crash of tides against my skin, my body floating on your salt-crusted surface." 🌊

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, “Birth Country” by Nghiem Tran, in #TheMargins.

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Birth Country
Changeling, mythical animal, delighting in the chase
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September 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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"He couldn’t even pretend to live her fantasy, and I see it slipping past her every day."

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "A Bollywood Story" by Gauri Awasthi, in #TheMargins. 🧊

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A Bollywood Story
Even that night father refused to play the hero.
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September 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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"imagine setting down your burden
of questions & past harms. resting. basking."

New in #TheMargins' #PoetryTuesday column, read "therapy exercise // tension" by Genevieve Hartman. ⛅🍀

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therapy exercise // tension
tell me why the image of tree bark makes you cry
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September 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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"The Bajau think of homeland in terms of water, not land." 🌊

In a new multimedia essay in #TheMargins' translation column,
Judi Mae "JM" Huck considers Sama, a language spoken in the Southern Philippines, its indigenous culture, and childhood lullabies. 🎶🐟

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Reconnecting with the Sea, Reconnecting with My People
Of my two birth tongues, why had only one made the crossing?
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September 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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"Little deer in the meadow of the night, night was the name/ of your first friend"

Read this week's PoetryTuesday piece, "Nobody talks about the irises, so I give them to myself" by Rasha Abdulhadi, in #TheMargins. 🐍🪻

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Nobody talks about the irises, so I give them to myself
I remember you, small one, uncertain origin, lost home
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August 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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"Life was to be scrupulously documented, an archive to be mined for art."

@terrynguyen.bsky.social examines avant-garde video artist #ShigekoKubota & her autobiographical work. Read more from "Searching for Shigeko Kubota" in #TheMargins. 📹🖼️

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Searching for Shigeko Kubota
The avant-garde video artist created autobiographical work that dares you to look closer.
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August 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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"I am a hummingbird tongue, tucked to the back/ of my own skull."

Read today's #PoetryTuesday piece, "The landscape of your heartbeats, more than 1,000 beats per minute" by @betsyaoki.bsky.social, in #TheMargins. 🐝

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The landscape of your heartbeats, more than 1,000 beats per minute
I uncurl at the sight of you.
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July 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM