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Christina Daub

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Poet, translator, cofounded The Plum Review, TPR reading series, Plum Writers Retreat, taught poetry & creative writing at George Washington U. MFA from UMD.

Joined June 2014
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A lot of people are under the mistaken impression that progress means advances in tech. Real progress is kids who are literate, free meals for public school students, a culture in which human art & poetry are celebrated. We're regressing rapidly & the only way forward is to read.
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“Isn't that / like us, going from place to / place, looking to be alive?” — Victoria Chang . . . This poem appeared in The Trees Witness Everything by Victoria Chang, published by Copper Canyon Press, 2022. Shared here with deep gratitude.
Passage by Victoria Chang Every leaf that falls never stops falling. I once thought that leaves were leaves. Now I think they are feeling, in search of a place— someone's hair, a park bench, a finger. Isn't that like us, going from place to place, looking to be alive?

ALT Passage by Victoria Chang Every leaf that falls never stops falling. I once thought that leaves were leaves. Now I think they are feeling, in search of a place— someone's hair, a park bench, a finger. Isn't that like us, going from place to place, looking to be alive?

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“I believe and interrupt my belief with doubt and interrupt my doubt with belief.” -- Denise Levertov
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C.T. Salazar@CTsalazar_28 Jul 2024
Once again thinking about these perfect two stanzas from Naomi Shihab Nye’s “Jerusalem”
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한 강 Han Kang – awarded the 2024 #NobelPrize in Literature – was born in 1970 in the South Korean city of Gwangju before, at the age of nine, moving with her family to Seoul. She comes from a literary background, her father being a reputed novelist. Alongside her writing, she has also devoted herself to art and music, which is reflected throughout her entire literary production.
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Maybe poems are just complications & yet you can't resist a little still life lit with grief & wonder. Violeta Garcia-Mendoza
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"Poems are a way to ask for what exists, to invite what wants to be visible." -- Yanyi, The Year of Blue Water
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“It begins with a word as small as the cry of Athena’s owl. An ache in the cage of breath, as when we say can hardly breathe. In sleep we see our name on a stone, for instance. Or while walking in the rain among graves we feel watched.” Carolyn Forché #poetry
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Grateful to be in this company—please read to learn what small presses have been going through this National Poetry Month, and donate to the crowdfunding campaigns as you can! 📚💙 electricliterature.com/23-sm…
23 Indie Presses to Support After the Close of Small Press Distribution - Electric Literature

23 Indie Presses to Support After the Close of Small Press Distribution - Electric Literature

These independent publishers play a vital role in shaping today's literary landscape. Here's how you can support them

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What do you want in your poems before you die? Gratitude to Charles Kell for including my answer in the Ocean State Review alongside Noah Falck, Jesse Lee Kercheval Rick Barot, Joe Hall, Jami Macarty, Ellen June Wright, Joseph Lease, and many more fine writers.
Before I Die I want my poems to include the beautiful everything. I want tugboats in there, & pelicans, diesel trains, & discos. I want a zebra. O hell I want the entire Bronx Zoo! Edward Hopper. A blue Pinto. Snow & maracas. I want every single bodega.

ALT Before I Die I want my poems to include the beautiful everything. I want tugboats in there, & pelicans, diesel trains, & discos. I want a zebra. O hell I want the entire Bronx Zoo! Edward Hopper. A blue Pinto. Snow & maracas. I want every single bodega.

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THANK YOU to those who amplify the posts of the #WritingCommunity. We've all seen the decline in views and engagement because of all the controversy here. To those remaining, it's more important than ever that we support fellow writers by liking and reposting each other’s work.
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To further ramp up the excitement of the upcoming European Writers' Festival on 18/19 May @britishLibrary, here's an interview I gave to @newgermanbooks new-books-in-german.com/tran…
Transformation: The European Writers’ Festival 2 – New Books in German

Transformation: The European Writers’ Festival 2 – New Books in German

New Books in German promotes German-language literature for translation into English

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Today @RiverRiverBooks we’re launching a kickstarter to help us get back on our feet after SPD’s closure. We have REWARDS, y’all! 📚💙 Check out River River Books: Poetry Distribution by Han VanderHart on @Kickstarter @amorak kickstarter.com/projects/han…
River River Books: Poetry Distribution

River River Books: Poetry Distribution

Help us ship poetry to independent bookstores, libraries, and readers.

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The bards are here. Presenting the poetry contributors for Issue 3, dropping this April. #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity #poetrytwitter #poetrylovers #PoetryMonth #poetry
The Hooghly Review Issue 3 Contributors Poetry (A-F) Abel Johnson Thundil | Akil Contractor Alka Balain | Allison Zaczynski Ankur Jyoti Saikia | Audrey T. Carroll Bethany Jarmul | Bex Hainsworth Brandon Shane | C.C. Apap Chandra Persaud | Christina Daub Danielle Lisa | Derville Quigley Deryck N. Robertson | Devjani Bodepudi Devon Neal | Diana Sanders | DS Maolalai Elizabeth Barton | Elizabeth Loudon Evgeniya Dineva Frances Klein

ALT The Hooghly Review Issue 3 Contributors Poetry (A-F) Abel Johnson Thundil | Akil Contractor Alka Balain | Allison Zaczynski Ankur Jyoti Saikia | Audrey T. Carroll Bethany Jarmul | Bex Hainsworth Brandon Shane | C.C. Apap Chandra Persaud | Christina Daub Danielle Lisa | Derville Quigley Deryck N. Robertson | Devjani Bodepudi Devon Neal | Diana Sanders | DS Maolalai Elizabeth Barton | Elizabeth Loudon Evgeniya Dineva Frances Klein

The Hooghly Review Issue 3 Contributors Poetry (G-Y) Grant Shimmin | Gretchen Filart Imogen Forster | James Lilliefors Janna Wilson | Jonathan Fletcher Julián Martinez | Justin Lacour Karl Koweski | Kate Porch | M.R. Mandell Mark J. Mitchell | Matthew Isaac Sobin Max Cavitch | Mona Mehas Nathanael O'Reilly | Nikita Deshpande Peter Lilly | Réka Nyitrai Ronita Chattopadhyay Sanjeev Sethi | w v sutra Yuan Changming

ALT The Hooghly Review Issue 3 Contributors Poetry (G-Y) Grant Shimmin | Gretchen Filart Imogen Forster | James Lilliefors Janna Wilson | Jonathan Fletcher Julián Martinez | Justin Lacour Karl Koweski | Kate Porch | M.R. Mandell Mark J. Mitchell | Matthew Isaac Sobin Max Cavitch | Mona Mehas Nathanael O'Reilly | Nikita Deshpande Peter Lilly | Réka Nyitrai Ronita Chattopadhyay Sanjeev Sethi | w v sutra Yuan Changming

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Seeing lit mags close after a year of running is triggering. Folks, it ain’t easy to run a lit mag, and the people that do it do it cause they love it. Support, read, buy, and Ko-fi as many lit mags as you can. The appreciation goes a LONG way. Seriously.
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Carla Sarett@cjsarett15 Feb 2024
A.E. Stallings @ae_stallings “Sounion” — If news is bad, it tracks you down. Don’t meet Catastrophe halfway, the steep what if.
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"In writing and ordering your poems, you are forging a self. Housing it in a stall of your own making. You are building a bearable myth. You are constructing, as much in your process as your product, some fragment of the everlasting." -- Diane Seuss
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Patricia Smith@pswordwoman6 Dec 2023
Advice for a student who has trouble titling poems. What's your secret?
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“Writing at every point is a leap into a complete unknown....At every point, you have the possibility of not being able to do it at all. You restart at every blank piece of paper. That's really exhilarating for me.” - Zadie Smith #Writer
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