#timothy liu

[typewriter-worries]

It's world poetry day so here are some (more) of my favorite poems:

What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade by Brad Aaron Modlin

All Trains Are Going Local by Timothy Liu

Rural Boys Watch the Apocalypse by Keaton St. James (@boykeats)

HOPE YOU’RE WELL. PLEASE DON’T READ THIS. by Lev St. Valentine (@dogrotpdf)

Time of Love by Claribel Alegría

Every Job Has a First Day by Rebecca Gayle Howell

ALL THAT WANTING, RIGHT? by Devin Kelly

Reading by A.R. Ammons

things i want to ask you by Helga Floros

Night Bird by Danusha Laméris

Prayer for Werewolves by Stephanie Burt

The Two Times I Loved You the Most In a Car by Dorothea Grossman

The Yearner by Rachel Long

If I Had Three Lives by Sarah Russell

I Dream on a Crowded Subway Train with My Eyes Open But My Body Swaying by Chen Chen

We Have Not Long to Love by Tennessee Williams

Jesus at the Gay Bar by Jay Hulme

Cracks by Dieu Dinh

and here's part one <3

#already working on next year's list <3 #these are a few of my favorite things #brad aaron modlin #timothy liu #keaton st. james #lev st. valentine #claribel alegría #rebecca gayle howell #devin kelly #a.r. ammons #helga floros #danusha laméris #stephanie burt #dorothea grossman #rachel long #sarah russell #chen chen #tennessee williams #jay hulme #dieu dinh #world poetry day #poetry #literature #poetry recs #not to me not if it's queue

[girlfictions]

#on love #words #poetry #quotes #typography #timothy liu

[et-in-arkadia]

#saw this on the train today and can’t think about anything else #poetry #poetry in motion #timothy liu #the lovers

[hepatosaurus]

national poetry month, day 25

Reading Cavafy How many pages did the poet turn before dozing off, knowing he would never find what had been lost? Those roses on the table cast a shadow in the shape of a darker rose, flattened there beside the book. He sleeps alone where the scent remains. —Timothy Liu

#timothy liu #reading cavafy #poetry #national poetry month #npm2024

[littleprincess-95]

By Timothy Liu

#let’s be each others home #always and forever #poetry #love #lovers #timothy liu

[bibliomancyoracle]

the ground is hot enough.

Nature has a long game,

she said, her mind slowly

unhinged. Somehow seeing

*

from “ELEGY” by Timothy Liu

#Timothy Liu #bibliomancy

[acelessthan3]

Rereading &Change vol 2

also check out &Change, it's a journal of poetry by gay men and it's only like $3 to get a copy

This is how you do good short poetry, people! That's 24 syllables, 26 if you include the title.

My literally breakdown:

Starting with the title by focusing on the relationship "bromance" when the body of the poem is such concrete details about things that are happening in one moment, it primes us to interpret them in this context. This description of what would be a two second interaction irl is synecdoche for the bromance relationship if you want to use your ap lit terms. The first few lines could evoke cultural dissonance between narrator and subject. Like why point out it's playing from the smart fridge unless that's somehow significant to you. And it's new technology so it's interesting and a little absurd when there are usually so many other options available, it shows a certain degree of wealth. The extra break before the last line creates tension to the reader. As an incomplete sentence that reads like a full sentence that stanza alone "when he asked me if I wanted him." Since there's no punctuation you can continue the sentence into the last line but that break forces you to consider the question first. Do "I" want him? Did he pause when he was asking the narrator? Is that wishful thinking? This is in a journal of poetry by gay men, in that demographic like who hasn't had that moment with a bro? There's also a different ambiguity/double entendre to that last line. Thermostat or hookup? But it's delivered casually even from narrator to reader. Like this is So Good.

#poetry #&change #Timothy Liu #image description in alt text

[poemsforthesehours]

From Timothy Liu's book, Say Goodnight. (Copper Canyon, 2017)

#poem #poems on tumblr #poetry books #poetry #poems for these hours #timothy liu

[litbowl]

From Timothy Liu's book, Say Goodnight. (Copper Canyon, 1998).

#poem #poetry books #poems on tumblr #poems #poetry #poetry on tumblr #poem of the day #timothy liu

[homoerotisch]

The Lovers by Timothy Liu

#timothy liu #the lovers #poëzie

[sheshallfromtimetotime]

National Poetry Month - Day Eighteen Love Poem: Hafez - Timothy Liu

#National Poetry Month 2024 #day 18 #Love Poem: Hafez #Timothy Liu #poetry

[nsantand]

Timothy Liu - Thoreau

"Thoreau", um poema de Timothy Liu

Meu pai e eu não temos para onde ir.Sua esposa não nos deixa entrar em casa —medo de contrair AIDS. Ela acredita quedormir com homens é pior do que um pecado,meu pai diz, enquanto nos sentamos no meio-fioem frente à casa dos vizinhos.Sessenta e quatro anos tornaram meu paiimpotente. Raízes grisalhas e tinta pretadesbotada manchando seus cabelos o fazem parecerquase cômico, como se sua…

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#Nelson Santander #Timothy Liu

[itsthesoulthatserotic]

#timothy liu

[poem-today]

A poem by Timothy Liu

Love Poem

What a poem

wants is not what I want

necessarily

though it can be difficult

to explain

why what I want is not

what fastens

these words to the page

when it’s clear

I’m willing to give up

what I want—

Timothy Liu

Timothy Liu’s website.

#timothy liu #american poetry #love poem

[atompowers]

The Lovers by Timothy Liu

#love #lovers #Timothy Liu #poem #love poem #poems #tarot cards #tarot reading #tarot

[6peaches]

Timothy Liu - The Lovers

I was always afraid of the next card

the psychic would turn over for us—                              Forgive me for not knowing how we were

every card in the deck.

- The Lovers by Timothy Liu

#poem #poet #Timothy Liu #The Lovers