#natalie scenters-zapico

[llovelymoonn]

favourite poems of october

joseph brodsky collected poems in english, 1972-1999: “the hawk’s cry in autumn”

natalie diaz it was the animals

ruth stone as real as life

muriel rukeyser the collected poems of muriel rukeyser: “käthe kollwitz”

naomi shihab nye grape leaves: a century of arab american poetry: “making a fist”

larry levis elegy: “elegy with a chimneysweep falling inside it”

emily berry arlene and esme

erika meitner copia: “yizker bukh”

aracelic girmay sister was the wolf

joshua beckham take it: “[dark mornings shown thy mask]”

dana levin you will never get death / out of your system

delmore schwartz summer knowledge: selected poems (1938-1958): “darkling summer, ominous dusk, rumorous rain”

matthew olzmann mountain dew commercial disguised as a love poem

ghazal (@dobaara) my anger and loneliness are lovers

nikki allen search party: names for my mother

ellora sutton (newborn)

emily skaja letter to s, hospital

benjamín naka-hasebe kingsley born year of the uma

hieu minh nguyen litany for the animals who run from me

brandy nālani mcdougall he mele aloha no ka niu

ai vice: new and selected poems: “cuba, 1962″

gig ryan civil twilight

troy osaki o heat we protest

nick carbó andalusian dawn: “directions to my imaginary childhood”

chen chen i’m not a religious person but

sally wen mao oculus: “anna may wong stars as cyborg #86″

srikanth reddy voyager: “book three: 19″

golden & when they come for me (reprise)

natalie scenters-zapico notes on my present: a contrapuntal

evan knoll blood makes the blade holy

jesús papolete meléndez hey yo! yo soy!: 40 years of nuyorician street poetry a bilinguial edition: “of a butterfly in el barrio or a stranger in paradise”

kofi

#tbr #poems #poetry #poem list #poem #poet #poets #ruth stone #muriel rukeyser #naomi shihab nye #larry levis #joshua beckham #dana levin #delmore schwartz #emily skaja #evan knoll #matthew olzmann #troy osaki #nikki allen #ellora sutton #chen chen #golden #natalie scenters-zapico #srikanth reddy #hieu minh nguyen #ai #joseph brodksy #aracelis girmay #natalie diaz #jesús papolete meléndez

[v-at-midnight]

There Is a Bird in My Mouth

Natalie Scenters-Zapico

I found it on your belly, and caught it with two fingers. I kept the bird on a little perch behind my ear.

I plucked its feathers, stuffed them against my jaw like chewing tobacco, and spit the black threads

into a styrofoam cup. One night the bird died. Crushed beak, split bone—we did it. Your heart

jealous, my body disgusted by the taste of seed and bark— we didn’t want the bird.

We did it over dinner, you reached into my memory by placing a finger

in my ear. I placed a hand in your mouth to catch the bird and we smashed it

together. This is simple, we did it and spoke of it with ease. Through the memory, we killed

the bird that was never ours. Now we’ve become bird butchers, you say

and throw the bird’s limp body in the trash. I reach to clasp your face, but have lost

both my hands. Each finger disappeared into your pupils, our little black cruxes.

#poetry #dark poetry

[sixtyfivehundredinvisiblebirds]

What I read in 2023

2023 Either/Or- Elif Batuman Arcadia- Lauren Groff The Buddha in the Attic- Julie Otsuka Monsters- Claire Dederer Also a Poet: My father, Frank O’Hara and me- Ada Calhoun Bodywork- Melissa Febos Vanishing Fleece- Clara Parkes The Idiot- Elif Batuman Syllabus- Lynda Barry The Women’s House of Detention- Hugh Ryan Saving Time- Jenny Odell Sag Harbor- Colson Whitehead (re-read, very happily) All Night Pharmacy- Ruth Madievsky Moby Dick- Herman Melville Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow- Gabrielle Zevin Mare’s Nest- Holly Mitchell Lima :: Limón- Natalie Scenters-Zapico Heliopause- Heather Christle The Changeling- Victor LaValle The Secret History- Donna Tartt Punks: New and Selected Poems- John Keene Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers- Jake Skeets Togetherness- Wo Chan Soundmachine- Rachel Zucker Superdoom- Melissa Broder Philomath- Devon Walker-Figueroa Exiles of Eden- Ladan Osman NSFW- Isabel Kaplan Junk- Tommy Pico Draw Me After- Peter Cole O- Zeina Hashem Beck The Interestings- Meg Wolitzer Civil Service- Claire Schwartz My Education- Susan Choi Without Protection- Gala Mukomolova Mothman Apologia- Robert Wood Lynn A Nail the Evening Hangs On- Monica Sok The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On- Franny Choi Space Struck- Paige Lewis The Underground Railroad- Colson Whitehead Bliss Montage- Ling Ma Our Spoons Came from Woolworths- Barbara Comyns Garments Against Women- Anne Boyer Don’t Let Me Be Lonely- Claudia Rankine (reread) Present Tense Machine- Gunnhild Øyehaung, tr. Sophie Hughes Celestia- Manuele Fior, tr. Jamie Richards Night Bus- Zuo Ma, tr. Orion Martin Nightbitch- Rachel Yoder Boundless- Jillian Tamaki Your black friend and other strangers- Ben Passmore Library of Small Catastrophes- Alison C. Rollins Nerd: Adventures in fandom from this universe to the multiverse- Maya Phillips Desperate Characters- Paula Fox The Bird King- G. Willow Wilson Alienation- Inés Estrada The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop- Felicia Rose Chavez The Year of Blue Water- Yanyi Pale Colors in a Dark Field- Carl Phillips I Remember- Joe Brainard Manywhere- Morgan Thomas Obit- Victoria Chang Memorial- Brian Washington Girlhood- Melissa Febos Hot and Bothered: what no one tells you about menopause- Jancee Dunn

#what i read #2023

[bravecitizen]

Natalie Scenters-Zapico in a letter to Dana Levin

#b sides #on writing

[jodidion]

I bled until my body felt familiar and foreign, like the country the boy had taken me to— an open wound I would desire all my life.

Natalie Scenters-Zapico in “The Verging Cities”

#words #quotes #poetry #Natalie Scenters-Zapico #the verging cities #excerpts

[autochromeplates]

I'd rather stay in bed wearing fur, watching documentaries about Dior.

Natalie Scenters-Zapico / My Gift

#Natalie scenters-zapico #my gift #poetry #poet #poets #poems #poem #literature #lit #fragment #writing #quote

[theblackestofsuns]

Angelica Alzona’s illustration for Dan Chiasson’s review of the poetry of Natalie Scenters-Zapico in this week’s New Yorker magazine.

#Angelica Alzona #Great Illustration #Dan Chiasson #Natalie Scenters-Zapico #The New Yorker Magazine

[seekingstars]

Lima-Limón:: Infancia - Natalie Scenters-Zapico

#poetry #Natalie Scenters-Zapico

[poetryfoundation]

#ICYMI The 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows have a special folio in the December 2018 issue of Poetry! Exciting new work from Safia Elhillo, Hieu Minh Nguyen, sam sax, Natalie Scenters-Zapico, and Paul Tran is available in the print and digital issues, as well as on our website.

[image: A brightly-colored illustration of the five 2018 Fellos around a table, all looking at the viewer or out of the frame. They appear to be very high up, as blue skies and clouds can be seen through large windows behind them. There are several flowers and green plants in the scene, as well as books, bottles, and a candelabra. They appear to be in a modern apartment.]

#ICYMI #Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows #Lilly Fellows #poetry #poetry magazine #Poetry Foundation #Safia Elhillo #Hieu Minh Nguyen #sam sax #Natalie Scenters-Zapico #Paul Tran

[missedstations]

“Paper Cuts” - Natalie Scenters-Zapico

While crossing the river of shorn paper, I forget my name. My body, a please leave. I want a patron saint

that will hush the dog growling at trimmed hedges it sees in the night. I want the world to be without language,

but write my thoughts down just in case. Send help, the dog’s growling won’t let me sleep. I haven’t slept in days.

I am looking for a patron saint, but none will let me pray for guidance. There is a buzz in my right ear that never goes away, no matter

how hard I hit the side of my head for loose change. Most mornings I wonder who I can pray to that will make sure I never

have to survive waking again. Most nights I forget to pray the rosary, though I sleep with it by the bed. I’ve never owned a TV because

I’ll replay this conversation in my head. My dead lovers are hungry in the kitchen, so I fix them food they cannot eat. I make toast

of vellum paper, fry an egg made of crepe. I only want a patron saint to protect me. I only want someone else to bleed.

#Poems #Paper Cuts #Natalie Scenters-Zapico

[alliwanttodoiscollectpoetry]

Mi Libro Gore~ Natalie Scenters-Zapico

Inside: missing flyers the size of my palm. Like a clone searching for her original, I paste the negative of each girl’s face in a blank book.

Y o u   a r e   n o t   y o u r   d e a t h.

Y          ¿How long has she been dead?          Y

o              ¿Donde están sus dientes?              o

u           ¿Do you recognize her shoes?           u

         ¿Tienes la misma camisa?          

a               ¿Missing, for how long?                a

r                         ¿Tiene hijos?                        r

e                 ¿Was she a prostitute?                 e

         ¿Vive en Anapra?          

n          ¿Why cut under each breast?           n

o                ¿Esta ropa no le vale?                 o

t            ¿Will you get the rape kit?             t

         ¿De donde vienen tantas moscas?          

t          ¿Rocks in the vaginal cavity?           h

h              ¿Mordidas por los oidos?             e

i              ¿More hair 300 ft. away?              r

s                 ¿Una barra en la boca?                

             ¿Puta written in blood?          

d                    ¿Por sus piernas?                     d

e                   ¿Whose daughter?                    e

a                 ¿De quien es mujer?                  a

t           ¿De donde son estas esposas?            t

h           ¿How should I bag her body?           h

Y o u   a r e   n o t   d e a d.

#alliwanttodoiscollectpoetry #poem #poems #poet #poets #death #bag #body #rape #daughter #murder #dead #poetess #hair #anthology #collect #collection #girl #Mi Libro Gore Natalie Scenters-Zapico #Natalie Scenters-Zapico

[benningtonwritingseminars]

Bennington Writers Reading Series

Critically acclaimed, award-winning authors and faculty of the Bennington College Writing Seminars will offer an evening reading series during the MFA program's winter residency—Thursday, January 3 through Friday, January 11, 2019.

If you are in the area of North Bennington, please come! Or tune into our live stream on Friday, January 4.

SCHEDULE:

Douglas Bauer and Carmen Gimenez Smith 7PM on THURSDAY, JAN 3

Jenny Boully and David Gates 7PM - Live Stream on Facebook on FRIDAY, JAN 4

Benjamin Anastas and Lynne Sharon Schwartz 7PM on SATURDAY, JAN 5

Deirdre McNamer and Natalie Scenters-Zapico 7PM on SUNDAY, JAN 6

Jill McCorkle and Clifford Thompson 7 PM — followed by Alumni Fellows J. Mae Barizo, Hannah Howard, and Erin Kate Ryan 8 PM on MONDAY, JAN 7

Derek Palacio and Craig Morgan Teicher 7 PM on WEDNESDAY, JAN 9

Sarah Messer and Alice Mattison 7:30 PM on THURSDAY, JAN 10

Garth Greenwell and Mark Wunderlich 7 PM on FRIDAY, JAN 11

Tishman Lectur Hall

Bennington College

One College Drive

Bennington, VT 05201-6003

802-442-5401

#reading #bennington college #bennington mfa program #carmen gimenez smith #craig morgan teicher #alice mattison #garth greenwell #jill mccorkle #jenny boully #david gates #derek palacio #douglas bauer #mark wunderlich #lynne sharon schwartz #ben anastas #deirdre mcnamara #sarah messer #clifford thompson #natalie scenters-zapico #BWSJan19

[oxy-stars]

HUMAN LONELINESS before an insufficient god.

“I only want a patron saint to protect me. / I only want someone else to bleed.”

⁃ Natalie Scenters-Zapico, from “Paper Cuts,”

“The failures of powerful invisible protectors—be they saints or gods—could and should be punished.”

⁃ Robert Bartlett, Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation

JUDAS: Why … didn’t you make me good enough … so that you could’ve loved me?

⁃ Stephen Adly Guirgis, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

“At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? / And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?”

⁃ Ilya Kaminsky, deaf republic

Milton’s Devil as a moral being is as far superior to his God, as one who perseveres in some purpose which he has conceived to be excellent in spite of adversity and torture, is to one who in the cold security of undoubted triumph inflicts the most horrible revenge upon his enemy, not from any mistaken notion of inducing him to repent of a perseverance in enmity, but with the alleged design of exasperating him to deserve new torments.

⁃ Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry

“If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness.”

⁃ Unknown jewish prisoner, on the walls of the jails of Mauthausen concentration camp

Pope Francis alone and under the rain in St. Peter's Square delivering an extraordinary ''Urbi et Orbi'' (to the city and the world) blessing - normally given only at Christmas and Easter -, as a response to the global coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, at the Vatican, March 27, 2020.

#natalie scenters zapico #paper cuts #robert bartlett #stephen adly guirgis #the last days of judas iscariot #ilya kaminsky #deaf republic #percy shelley #in defence of poetry #pope francis #Papa Francesco #holy #collection #parallels #paradise lost #literature critique #critique #theology #evil #i #there was a typo 😩 in deaf republic #web weaving

[jodidion]

You are the twin I swallowed lost within a mother’s womb. I thought you’d died, but look how deep you fell inside me. A ball of teeth and hair nestled in my throat.

Natalie Scenters-Zapico in “The Verging Cities”

#words #quotes #poetry #Natalie Scenters-Zapico #the verging cities #excerpts

[lifeinpoetry]

I only want a patron saint to protect me. / I only want someone else to bleed.

Natalie Scenters-Zapico, from “Paper Cuts,” published in Poem-a-Day

#quote #Natalie Scenters Zapico #poetry #poem-a-day #out of my collection #Paper Cuts #blood cw

[seajaywrite]

Prompt #8 from the voice ask meme - read a page from a book. 

This poem is from The Verging Cities by Natalie Scenters-Zapico which is a beautiful book of poems that explore immigration and US/Mexico border between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez and many topics surrounding those. I am not a poetry reader, but this book is gorgeous. I highly recommend it.

Voice ask meme can be found here! 

#the verging cities #natalie scenters-zapico #immigration #mexico #el paso #ciudad juarez #immigrants #poetry #readings #poems