Preeti Vangani
@Pscripturient
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Poet. Author of Fifty Mothers (RiverRiver Books, 2026). Mother Tongue Apologize (2019). Teach @usfmfa. working on short story collection.
San Francisco, CA
Joined December 2009
My second collection of poems, Fifty Mothers, that weaves narrative and elegy for my gone mother, is now open for preorders! Big love to Han and @amorak at @RiverRiverBooks for believing in this work! https://t.co/GOmAyDAJ2b
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And to Aimee Nezhukumatathil & Jane Wong! I love that you felt the love in this book!
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With deep gratitude to Paisley Rekdal & Victoria Chang for spending time with my work, and these generous words of praise!
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I am teaching a half-day in person class on writing elegies with @leftmarginlit on January 10, 2026! Details here and registration is now open! https://t.co/lj97ZGsro3
leftmarginlit.org
As poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz writes, "The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved." This class will dive into the various poems that emerge from different kinds of loss, as well as the many...
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A posthumous and uncollected Charles Simic poem from the Spring 2023 issue of The Threepenny Review.
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“Huge and bright, over the black mountain.” A poem by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Judith Hemschemeyer.
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"the ruin of our garden / in the early dark of November" Jack Gilbert
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What if memory's just the dead, flourishing differently from how they flourished alive? —Carl Phillips, from “Stop Shaking”
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I'll be joining @ColeHenri for a conversation onstage following his reading at Green Apple Books on the Park this Wednesday at 7pm in celebration of his new book The Other Love. Please come; it's free and a great way to beat this heat. 😃❤️
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Tony Hoagland. From: Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty (Bloodaxe, 2010).
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Beautiful and badass new story from all time favorite writer @anniezaidi
https://t.co/k3MRs66tY2
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Another remarkable poem by Marianne Boruch, this one demonstrating Robert Pinsky's observation that "[h]er poems often give fresh examples of how rare and thrilling it can be to notice."
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One way to understand your own condition is to write something and spend a long time revising it. In revising you teach yourself. You find your own information buried in your body. It is still alive until you are not. --Fanny Howe, RIP
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