Read IALA 2023 Creative Writing Grant winner Alexa Luborsky's latest poem, "I didn't apologize to the well," published in the @aaww-nyc.bsky.social magazine, The Margins. ✍ Check it out: bit.ly/4noMuFC

Six years ago George Floyd's murder sparked a revolution. Or rather, the fire was always there. Thank you @ninasharmawriter.bsky.social and @aaww-nyc.bsky.social. #AAPIMonth #allyship #BlackLivesMatter www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9D1...

If the Revolution has Come by Quincy Scott Jones

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"For those encountering the Saami family, the experience often feels like entering a shared memory space." In our latest Open City piece, Sadaf Padder traces how the vocal tradition of khayal is finding new life in NYC through the Saami family. 💨🍵 https://aaww.org/carrying-on-the-khayal-tradition/

"what transpired back and forth/ between her resigned chin and his optimistic gaze in that/ moment" Read two poems by Preeti Vangani from her collection Fifty Mothers, out last month from @RiverRiverBooks, shared in #TheMargins. ✨🚞 https://aaww.org/two-poems-by-preeti-vangani/

"[Cha] was interested in deep, long scales of human time. " In belated honor of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's birthday (March 4, 1951), revisit "Dictee's Pictures," by Spencer Lee-Lenfield, in #TheMargins. 🖼️⚖️ https://aaww.org/dictees-pictures/

Dictee’s Pictures 

What the mysterious images of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s seminal work might tell us about her life.

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We’re pleased to announce the Sarkisian Workshop Series: Can Storytelling Save Us? ✍️ 📚 Learn more about the six writing workshops, brought to you by IALA, @miznaarabart.bsky.social, @aaww-nyc.bsky.social & the Sarkisian Foundation for the Arts and Engineering: bit.ly/SWS26

"the rock salt was not afraid of being sea-run" Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Ars Poetica: Poetry as Lot’s Wife Who Looked Back at the Burning Cities" by Ammara Younas, in #TheMargins. 🌕🪨 aaww.org/ars-poetica-poetry-as-lots-wife-who-looked-back-at-the-burning-cities/

I haven’t shared too much poetry recently - I’ve learned that I’m not someone who writes very much during crisis, amidst grief. but I have a new one, one of my only new ones, in @aaww-nyc.bsky.social’s gorgeous new folio edited by Megan Pinto and Kiran Bath 🩷 aaww.org/then-the-lak...

Then the Lake Shifts

the peaks of this memory sharpen

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Can the reject condition be elevated into art? Spencer Quong considers this in his review of Tony Tulathimutte's story collection, Rejection. 🌟 Read new criticism in #TheMargins at https://aaww.org/the-rejection-trap/

The Rejection Trap

On Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection

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"the most dangerous emergency at sea is fire" Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Give Me Rough Seas" by Seema Jilani, in #TheMargins. 🌊🔥 https://aaww.org/give-me-rough-seas/

"I’d still leave slices of bitter melon behind in my bowl, but the aunties/ would overlook it." This week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "If They Had Named Me Marion," is by Jia-Rui Cook, whose debut poetry collection just won the 2025 Philip Levine Prize! 🥳 🦪 https://aaww.org/if-they-had-named-me-marion/

If They Had Named Me Marion

But I came into the world with this full head of hair.

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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. 💨🐀 https://aaww.org/ode-to-%e1%9e%94/

Ode to ប

How your sound fills/ pockets.

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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. 🧪📿 https://aaww.org/write-in-blood/

Write in Blood

The punishment of the oppressor is that they are denied poetry.

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We're thrilled to announce that Tina Chang, Khaled Hosseini, Eugene B. Redmond, and Jordan Pavlin (@aaknopf.bsky.social) will be honored by Poets & Writers at our 2026 Gala on March 23. Congratulations to these exemplary literary citizens! Learn more about our honorees: at.pw.org/Gala26PR

"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.👔🌖 https://aaww.org/i-didnt-apologize-to-the-well/

"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/

"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/

"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/

Feeling so happy and grateful because @aaww-nyc.bsky.social's The Margins has nominated my piece, Unholy, for a Pushcart Prize. :) <3 aaww.org/unholy/

Unholy

All plugged up with wood, I feel like a bastardized Pinocchio.

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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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"I’m alive and I have an appetite / for longing. So let them all in: the birds, / the strays. Even the / things that buzz / in my ear. " From "Flight Path" by ASU English alum @susanpoet.bsky.social. Read the whole poem @aaww-nyc.bsky.social The Margins: ow.ly/wgmy50XyqHe #ASUHumanities

Flight Path

I’m alive and I have an appetite/ for longing.

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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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"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/

"Through the warmth of old Beiping recipes, I hope to honor the joy in our inheritance and share the comfort they brought to me." New in our Transpacific Literary Project, Ge Fang translates two essays by Liang Shih-chiu on a few favorite Chinese snacks. 🍬🥛 https://aaww.org/tlp-tastes-of-beiping/

Tastes of Beiping

Selections from Essays from a Cottager’s Sketchbook 雅舍小品

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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. 🌟 https://aaww.org/where-are-you-from/

“Where are you from?”

I repeat, there is no leaving in the afterlife

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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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“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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Join us on November 23 for our annual publishing conference, PAGE TURNER, featuring a day of stacked panels on navigating the literary and publishing industry as writers of color. https://aaww.org/curation/pubcon25/

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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"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. ☁️ aaww.org/aubade-with-...

Aubade with American Dream

you are only a persimmon strandedon a rowboat sinking, ocean slipping solemn against your wrinkled skin.

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