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Worked on a lil revision of a poem I drafted about a week ago, spun it into a lil 1-page folded-zine. Pretty cute. Fresno Poem My biology: default. Cloy where I've divinated motherhood As tongue. This new I Tongues me, make A poem but I am bound Fresno-bound & pact-bound Bound Limp Mijo, He, & Rudy Braided, tonguing Me against a lip. Roda Avelar es una poeta diseñadora de Fresno, Ca.…
What little I had in me today has gone to reading these four collections for the Sealey Challenge: - OUR EARLIEST TATTOOS BY PETER TWAL - THROWN IN THE THROAT BY BENJAMIN GARCIA - QUAKER GUNS BY CAROLINE KNOX - FLOOD SONG BY SHERWIN BITSUI Focusing on reading these was the best way I could have dealt with the crash-out I've been teetering on. Feel a little bit recalibrated. More soon :) LINKS OUR…
For day one of this year's Sealey Challenge, I re-read Travesty Generator by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram. It's been at least 4 years since I read it last, back when I had a sort of flimsy sense of being a poet. I don't think I fully internalized everything it said back then, and bet that if I were to come back to it again, I'd still feel the same. What is said in this book feels massive. Noemi Press,…
Poetry Zine created by the Poet Roda Avelar
1. Inside Out 2 This movie pissed me off for its under-utilization of AYO EDIBIRI. 2. Longlegs The best part of this movie is at the very beginning, but it was so effective I was disturbed and afraid for the entire run time. 3. Matilda I really should be rewatching this every year, a perfect, nostalgic romp! 4. Pokémon Detective Pikachu Justice Smith is a cutie-patootie and my favorite Pokémon,…
Maybe it's the current state of the country, or maybe I really really love art, or maybe it's the spell finally taking hold, but I watched/read/played/listened-to so much this month. I think I'm in an osmosis-forward point of time, where I feel so excited and encouraged by all the good art I've spent time with. I've been writing a long poem I'm calling CREATURE POEM or CRIATURA for now, which has…
The last few years have been rough for me. Writing through the worst times has helped a lot. So, last month, I set out to write one poem a day for the whole month, and working on designing a "chapbook"/home for the poems along the way. This is the result of that, mostly unedited and kinda chaffa lol, but it's here and I wanna celebrate the effort/time I put into making it. :) So I present to you…