Jessica Nirvana Ram
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🇬🇾| she/her | MFA @UNCW | IN THE AFTERMATH ( @prismaticapress , 2024) | PREORDER NOW: EARTHLY GODS ( @VariantLit , 2024)
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GUESS WHATS AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER!!!!!! That’s right, my debut poetry collection Earthly Gods!!!! It would mean the world to me if you would preorder this book y’all. Here’s what some brilliant writers had to say about this collection
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We’re teaching poetry workshops in the local school district and their evals are killing me im gonna weep
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I GOT A POETRY ACCEPTANCE!!! FOR ONE OF MY NEW POEMS!!! AHHHHHH
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@penhoIder
yes !!!!! after my assault he said “let’s agree to not talk about this to anyone” and my personal essay about it just got accepted for publication so that’s that, they don’t get to hold any power over us
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I am once again writing poems I cannot read in front of my parents
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MY CHAPBOOK IS GETTING PUBLISHED I ACTUALLY CRIED READING THE ACCEPTANCE EMAIL IVE BEEN TRYING TO PLACE IT FOR SO LONG
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if yall can make bible references in your poems that expect me to know them then I will reference Hindu gods and offer no explanation and you will accept it
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Y'all I just got a short story acceptance from
@PassagesNorth
????? MY FIRST FICTION PUBLICATION IS COMING OUT WITH PASSAGES NORTH IN 2024???? I'M GONNA COMBUST I CAN'T BELIEVE IT
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Okay y’all I can finally share the news: I’ve been selected to be the 2022-23 Stadler Fellow in Literary Arts Administration at Bucknell University!! I still can’t quite believe it but I’m over the moon to be joining such a brilliant community this fall!!
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there was a time where I used to think certain things weren’t significant enough to be worthy of a poem but nowadays I much more live by the philosophy that everything is worthy of being made into a poem nothing is too small or mundane it’s all life
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Announcement: my debut poetry collection is forthcoming with
@VariantLit
!! IM GONNA HAVE A BOOK YALL CAN YOU BELIEVE IT I SURE CAN’T
Say hello to the newest additions to the Variant family: MJ Gomez, Todd Dillard, Ian Powell-Palm, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Ben Kline, Robin Rahija, and Jessica Ram!
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sent my poem to my mother and she called me and was like “you pay attention to things” and I was like well, yes, that is in fact a large part of being a poet
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opens book, reads one poem, has to put book down to write a poem
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I walked into the CVS today and immediately the worker standing there went “oh my god you’re gorgeous” and I’m like blushing and she continues with “you literally took my breath away” and then the older lady next to her nods and goes “very beautiful” and I’m trying not to sob
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YALL I GOT A
@havehadhavehad
ACCEPTANCE IM ACTUALLY SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS SORRY TO MY NEIGHBORS
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I love reading a book of poems that forces me to put it down because it inspired a poem
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I get that I write confessional poetry, I understand that I’m giving people access to a part of me, but knowing my poetry doesn’t mean you know me in any real capacity, that’s still a curated image and I wish people would remember that who someone is online is not who they are
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so grateful to be recognized like this!!! I never win things!!
THRILLED to announce our 2022 Prairie Schooner prize winners! For more details about the awards, writers, and their winning pieces, visit:
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I just doubled over into full body sobs because I got into Tin House???? For their summer workshop??? Is this real??? I think I’ve reread the email ten times just to make sure I wasn’t imagining it holy shit yall excuse me while I run around my apartment in disbelief
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as a poet I should be living in a cottage in the woods not going to work, I’d like a refund
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it’s my birthday!!! how am I 27!!! where did the time go!!!! so much has happened in the last year I can’t even fathom what’s to come. dear universe, I’m ready for anything, bring it on ✨
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My undergrad poetry professors are going to be teaching my debut collection to their students next year, I literally couldn’t have dreamt of this I’m gonna sob
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I can finally share with y’all the cover for my debut collection of poetry coming out with
@VariantLit
! Earthly Gods released in September and I can’t wait to get this book into y’all’s hands 🫶🏾
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I love that emerging writer contests exist but I really would love for the entry fee for all of them to not be $20 a pop
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FIRST POEM ACCEPTANCE OF 2024 WAS A DOUBLE ACCEPTANCE !!!!!!!
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how do y’all have full time jobs and cook meals and be a person all at once
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the poet / the poem
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any excuse to post this dress again
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Additional good news I’m allowed to share now: my chapbook “in the aftermath” is officially forthcoming with
@porkbellypress
!!!!!!! When I tell you I CRIED when I found out?? This chapbook means so much to me I’m honored it’s found a home with such a loving press
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so some news:
@TheSchooner
just awarded me the Jane Geske Award for my poems published in their most recent issue—I hadn’t had a chance to share them bc the issues have been held hostage at my parents house but here they are!! what a day!!!
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MY BOOK HAS AN ISBN NUMBER I MIGHT ACTUALLY CRY
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I wrote this poem about two months after I was diagnosed bipolar, I finally had the language to name this thing I’d experienced and I’d already written a self portrait as depressive episode so it only made sense to write its partner. Thanks to
@WhaleRoadReview
for publishing it✨
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the best green I’ve ever worn
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remember when I said I had some exciting news? this is it!!!!!! I’m so thrilled to be joining the
@HoneyLiterary
masthead—I admire this community so much and I can’t wait to champion your work in this position. get ready to send me your work y’all!!!! 🫶🏾✨
HEY HIVE!!!! It’s time to announce our new masthead members ❤️🔥
🪼✨🍯 The incomparable Jessica Nirvana Ram (
@jessnirvanapoet
) is our NEW Director of Sticky Fingers!!! Let’s give her our biggest Honey applause 🐝✨✨
Jess, we are so excited and honored to work with you!!! 💘💘💘
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Y’all ready? I’ve been offered a Graduate Teaching Assistantship at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington as I pursue an MFA in Poetry starting this fall. Fully funded first year, recurring stipend. I’m going to get a masters degree, IM GOING TO GET A MASTERS DEGREE !!!!
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dear god I wrote a poem for the first time in months
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grading is tiring I’m sorry I assigned anything
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applying to things I don’t think I’m good enough for !!!! because delusion is the only way to succeed sometimes !!!
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I published two poems today!!! I wish more people would read them!! I would be so very grateful!!! thanks!!! They’re my last tweets and linked in my bio!!!
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Y'ALL I JUST GOT THREE POEMS ACCEPTED AT ONE MAG IM GONNA GO SCREAM OUTSIDE AT THE MOON REAL QUICK
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a year from now she’s gonna be a whole physical book !!!!! insane to even conceptualize
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it’s giving nick miller actually
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next year the goal is to take more pictures
it's the last month of the year, quote with your favorite pictures of yourself this year.
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have I been writing a poem a day for april? yes. are they any good? absolutely not
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I’ve been writing in a new voice these last six months. The first line of this poem came to me while I was driving home from therapy two months ago and then it sort of just, happened. All my love to
@Heroin_Chic_Mag
for publishing it in their newest issue. ✨
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I’ve had thirteen poems published this year!!!! Which is a significant jump from last year’s five
BRAG ABOUT SOMETHING YOU’RE PROUD OF ACCOMPLISHING IN 2023 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
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will never understand how a tweet announcing I got a publication gets 400 likes but when the actual pub comes out it will struggle to be seen lol Twitter why u like this
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hello! do you want to review a debut collection!! full length or chapbook! do you have a pitch for a review or have you written the review??? I would love to have you submit to Sticky Fingers over at
@HoneyLiterary
I really want to use this space to highlight BIPOC work! submit!
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I had to pull my chapbook from a press due to atrocious editor negligence and it is, disheartening bc this chapbook could have been pubbed already but I let it get held hostage for almost two years because I wanted to give people grace and now I’m just back to square one
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the wildest thing about AWP for me was people coming up and saying they loved my work like??? I think sometimes the work is out in the world and I can’t see who is reading it or if anyone is reading it but I have real readers!!!!!!!!! people waiting for my book!!!! unbelievable
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Now that I’ve informed my current employers I can announce: I’ll be returning to the
@StadlerCenter
in January as their new Publicity and Outreach Manager! I’m so excited to be returning to the arts admin field and working amongst writers again!!!!
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happy coming out day!! I’m bisexual!! My parents still do not know!!! But everyone else does!!!
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BITCH BOTH MY PANEL PROPOSALS FOR AWP WERE ACCEPTED IM OVER THE MOON RN
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I know we’re not supposed to put faith into institutions to have morals but like seeing so many places that say they understand the importance of poetry in the world choose to take a neutral stance in an active genocide when they of all people know the power of words really hurts
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hey y'all so I was waiting quietly in the wings until I made it onto the masthead but I'm super excited to announce that I've joined
@BarrenMagazine
as their Submissions Manager! I'm so pumped to get started and to be part of this beautiful collection of humans
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JUST GOT A POEM ACCEPTANCE FROM
@olicketysplit
!!!!! COULD CRY MIGHT CRY WOW this made my whole week
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BROKE THE POEM HIATUS AND WROTE A POEM TONIGHT WE LOVE TO SEE IT
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made mini cheesecakes for my office potluck today arent they cute !!!
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“The body of the boy lies on the asphalt like a paper clip.
The body of the boy lies on the asphalt
like the body of a boy.”
@ilya_poet
’s Deaf Republic is going to sit in my throat for weeks I can already feel it, god if you haven’t read this yet you really need to
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this is hands down one of my best poems lyrically like some of these lines??? what was I on??? all my thanks to
@havehadhavehad
and
@dorothykchan
for giving me my first skull with this pub back in 2021 💀
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struggling with a poem, but blissfully, because at least there is a poem with which to struggle
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this is the first poem in my full length collection, Earthly Gods, that’s coming out in September 2024. all my love to
@haydensferryrev
for giving it a home two years ago and for pairing it with this stunning artwork—I hold this poem really close to my heart 🫶🏾✨
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Uber: what brought you to town
me: writing conference!
Uber: oh what do you write?
me: poetry!
Uber: *silence for the rest of the ride*
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first flight read, I have the urge to write so many things after finishing this collection, how stunning
@dlseuss
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it’s raining and gloomy today so I pulled out the yellow
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poets: at what point in your career do you get an agent why does it feel like poetry agents appear out of thin air and like the process to get one is a mystery
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So excited to be back on this team!!!
Welcome to
@jessnirvanapoet
! We’re so thrilled to have Jess on the team as our new Publicity and Outreach Manager!
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so I found out last night my poem is going to be published in Barrelhouse’s next issue and I’ve been infinitely sobbing because this is the first actual thing I’ve published since graduating and I’m just, in so much shock y’all
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y’all I just got the final cover art for my book and I nearly started crying it’s perfect
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went outside today, got Dunkin’ Donuts, talked to friends I love, tried to make today okay, if you see this though I would love to see your favorite meme or a picture of your pets thank you
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stressing about the downfall of Twitter because this is where my writing community is and I was fully relying on it to organize a book tour and sell my book next year and the chance that I may not have it??? is devastating
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anyways we’ll still be reading the statement at our panels thanks is that not the bare minimum
Hey
@awpwriter
what is this garbage? This is such a hostile response, and against what? A statement being read? Who are the communities “rightfully feeling particularly threatened and unsafe”? Name them! Who does this obvious attempt to suppress free speech actually aid?
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I just received life changing news and I think I’m going to combust ????
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First ever AWP panel was a hit, great turnout, great conversation, so happy we were able to do this !!
@suz_poet
@YesAurielle
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hi if any of my Twitter mutuals would be interested in doing a zoom reading this fall as a part of my book tour plz let me know so I can keep you in mind while planning
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So, I got a job. And... they’re sending me to Provence, France for three months!!! I leave at the end of this month (so like in two weeks it’s wild), I’ll be helping with their cooking school as well as writing for their food/travel site! This is literally a dream! I can’t wait!
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presenting: my first published queer poem!! am I a little nervous about this one, maybe, am I proud of it? yes
"When I tell my mother I’d been hit on three times / during my trip to NY, she is pleased." Thank you so much to
@jessnirvanapoet
for her visceral poem "November 2022" that is now up on our website to view as part of our summer issue - !
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did we absolutely body a panel on sex & shame???? you bet we did
@k_ivertown
@samforbreakfast
@TaylorByas3
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sometimes I wanna tweet out my old pubbed poems so new people can see them but I feel weird !!!! about self promoting!!!! but I just want people to read my work!!
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Before I pulled it since it’s getting published with
@VariantLit
my manuscript was named a finalist for the National Poetry Series and listen, I am honored to share space with some of these names—congratulations to the winners!
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I would like to note that the two poems I wrote on my flight to AWP have both been picked up for publication
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in november my department nominated my poem to be considered in the AWP Intro Journal Project and I am in a whole lotta shock and awe to announce that I was one of the winners?? the chaos of the world makes this feel so unreal but I’m so grateful, LOOK AT THIS THATS MY NAME
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first book of 2023, this collection resonated so hard with me, I am truly blown away by some of these poems
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