J. Mae Barizo
@jmaebarizo
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Poet, librettist, etc. Author of Tender Machines @TupeloPress The Cumulus Effect @FourWayBooks MFA Faculty @newschoolwrites Very Libra
Joined June 2009
I wrote a poem about grief, desire and recording the goldberg variations during mercury in retrograde and it's in poem-a-day this morning. very grateful
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life is merely to ovum and sperm and where those two meet and how often and how well and what dies there. She was a poet. A poem by Renée Nicole Macklin Good https://t.co/5QjB0hJ5Wh
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On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin
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Happy birthday Sylvia Plath. Here she is in Court Green with her children in April 1962, less than a year before she died. I like to think of her happy like this, picking daffodils
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Experience @philipglass’ Symphony No. 3, never before heard at Carnegie Hall, interspersed with original poetry by prize-winning poet @jmaebarizo. The program also features Robert Schumann’s timeless Symphony No. 4. 10/23, 7:30pm, @carnegiehall TICKETS: https://t.co/R92qPG60qj
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(7/61) “In the other memory the severed arm speaks. / In the other memory it is as silent as snow.” —@jmaebarizo, “New York” (The Cumulus Effect) @FourWayBooks #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
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for @MinorLits a conversation about what we want, expect and hope for when we read novels including contributions from J. Mae Barizo, Nancy Freund, Greg Gerke, Daniel Kennedy, Ben Libman, Alvin Lu, Mikra Namani, Lisa Robertson, Ryan Ruby and more ... https://t.co/75Y76vV7v8
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We could not be happier! Hugely proud of both Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi. Thank you to the judges and to all of you who have supported HEART LAMP. What a night!
We're delighted to announce that the winner of the #InternationalBooker2025 is Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi. Here's everything you need to know about the book: https://t.co/wPRGqgrQyc
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Overjoyed to see Palestinian poet and writer Mosab Abu Toha—who has faced threats and intimidation—win a Pulitzer for his powerful commentary on Gaza. Huge congratulations @PulitzerPrizes
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A bird was making its nest. In the dream, I watched it closely: in my life, I was trying to be a witness not a theorist. —Louise Glück, from "Nest"
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“I only name what I love. I only name what’s worth naming.” - Roland Barthes, 30 March 1977
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For all the Columbia and Barnard students expelled today ❤️🔥 https://t.co/P706fIblH2
Read June Jordan’s “Notes of a Barnard Dropout” and then read it again.
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“we, however, are going through hell, oblivion” Friederike Mayröcker tr. by Alexander Booth
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“The moral component of history, the most necessary component, is simply a single question: When it mattered, who sided with justice & who sided with power? What makes moments such as this one so dangerous, so clarifying, is that one way or another everyone is forced to answer”
Can't express how excited I am to share today's conversation with Omar El Akkad, about a book I'll surely be thinking alongside for a long time. A map, a guide, a thinking through, and a breakup letter with the American dream. Audio📻🔥: https://t.co/0cP5TDI07E
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"The sound filled out that solitude to which the tone gave rhythm ahead of time." -Raymond Quineau, from A Hard Winter
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I have been collecting Musil's descriptions of his struggles with writing. They are marvelous, Here are some of them (link in reply).
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The main thing is that you should never let yourself be swayed by public opinion, that you should go your own way unwaveringly, in life as in art, allowing yourself to be distracted neither by failure not acclaim. - Gustav Mahler to Alma, 16 Dec 1901
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