May 2013
12 posts
“I think I am leaking-
Imagine:
A woman pours her heart
into a bowl and feeds...”
– georgia says you’re never coming back: a love song for mia (via wintertangerine)
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a love song for mia
I think I am leaking-
Imagine: A woman pours her heart into a bowl and feeds it to her cat. The heart becomes a liquid thing- like heat, a shocking,
but not so shocking red, like my mother’s lipstick, like the first drop of blood, like the tone of a poem written all wrong.
Sometimes I look at people I don’t know and think “I could love you”. My ribs tremble with...
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shark teeth
My name isn’t Annie and I don’t write.
If I were pretentious, I would say I bleed, as if by putting together words in a fairly coherent manner, I am emptying myself, I am leaking, I am hollowing out, becoming a shell. If my name were Annie, I would say that I bleed. I would walk barefoot on the beach and smile when I step into glass. I would know more about the ocean, the migration of...
Anonymous asked: what's the acceptance rate for winter tangerine looking like/how many pieces did you get for the first issue?
Anonymous asked: Where do you post your writings then?
Anonymous asked: Hi ! i was just wondering when the first issue of WTR will come about ? Also, when will those that submitted be notified? Thanks dear!
Anonymous asked: hey! i love your writing! you posted about the norman mailer contest a while ago and i was wondering if you would post your submission.
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Hi, so a friend of mine is running this online writing workshop this summer, and I’d love for you guys to apply! I’m applying as well and really looking forward to seeing what comes out of it. :]
“Something VERY exciting will be occurring this summer: the first ever annual Adroit Journal Summer Poetry Workshop! This will be an online writing workshop/opportunity to share work...
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may caged in her throat
She is fifteen this summer, with her father’s whiskey on her breath and her mother’s smile on her lips. She is a fisherman’s daughter: sailor knots and slick yellow gloves and bait that tremble in the bucket, worms not quite dead yet. She is lulled to sleep by the clumsy songs that the ocean lures from her father’s chest, his voice deep and smooth like a fish spine. Each...
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first day of youngarts ny, so tired ugh omg it was amazing though (sorry i haven’t been around much lately or answering many questions, super super super busy with life atm)
Anonymous asked: I was wondering, have you ever thought of collaborating with an artist or photographer? I think it'd be really interesting to see! Love, love, love your poetry by the way.
Anonymous asked: 50% of catullus is really really erotic poetry what is that anon implying about you
Anonymous asked: You seem like the type of person who would like Catullus? Into Latin poetry much?
April 2013
26 posts
Last day to submit to Winter Tangerine Review! Get... →
Anonymous asked: Your poems are so amazing and they're different and written in this way that I can't even explain, but it's honest and just like really cool and you're fantastic and I just wanted to let you know.
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A few things you should know
Whenever I pray, a dog somewhere dies. My mother can’t look me in the eyes anymore. I sleep with my contacts in and I get sweats at night. I’ve gained six pounds since December and I’ve lost four friends and two possible lovers. I bought two bamboo plants last week
and I’ve lied about six things since Wednesday, (your haircut looks nice, I’ve watered the plants, I...
wintertangerinereview:
This morning, we hit our $500 fundraising goal on Indiegogo! We’d like to thank everyone who spread the word on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, or word of mouth. From donations of one dollar to one hundred, we extend our infinite gratitude.
We’re really looking forward to our first issue, and we hope you are as well!
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Anonymous asked: how long does it take you to write a good short story?
Anonymous asked: I want to submit poetry but I really don't want to create a cover letter... It always just feel like I'm writing a personal ad. How much are you looking for? Do you have examples?
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river-dance
Your lips burn when you wet them and I have mastered the art of focusing and unfocusing my eyes long enough for nothing to mean everything again. I wanted to save. There are fireflies in my throat and when I cough, I am the sun for a fleeting moment. We are heaving and you told me not to write about the moon.
The broken cups make a mountain of shattered things on the floor and the lights stay...
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WHAT THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH MYSELF UNTIL JANUARY.
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recovery
this is how we unfold;
a mattress is bruised yellow and water stains the ceiling a moldy grey. it is 1994 and your mother’s skin is a flushed tan under the moon’s glare.
it is 1994 and the crickets beat the ground like a crescendo. here is the truth: your father kissed your mother like a promise.
19 years later and people say you have your father’s blue eyes. i see something...
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omg but i’m actually really liking shameless its filling the gaping hole that skins gen 3 gave me when they started existing.
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Winter Tangerine Review is accepting submissions for our first issue for only 2 more weeks! Be sure to submit!
Anonymous asked: but how are the two separated then? if it's all writing, why don't they just call it that instead of depicting it as prose and poetry? both are very different. if they weren't different, they wouldn't be separated. it's like saying that a script in a play is not different than a story.
Anonymous asked: how do you write about experiences that you've never had? it's something i really admire about your work.
Submissions are now open!
wintertangerinereview:
Head over to our Submittable page to send in your poetry, prose and art. The deadline for our first issue is May 1st. At Winter Tangerine Review, we want the electric. We want the pieces that you have emptied yourself into. We want the imagery that startles us, that stirs something inside of us that we do not understand. We want the strongest analogies, the most...
Anonymous asked: are you popular at school???
Anonymous asked: I love your writing! I do. I do. I do. I am, as most, an aspiring writer and could you shed some light on how to... I don't know... be OK with your writing? I'm not sure if I make sense, but what I mean is that I never like anything I write (or I never think it's enough... sometimes it feels like the same thing). And I want to be confident in what I write or at least be okay with it...
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met junot diaz tonight omFG HE WAS AMAZING
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got into kenyon review’s young writer’s workshop with a full scholarship yayyyyyyy
Anonymous asked: Do you have any book recommendations? I've run out of books to read and you seem like just the person to ask xx
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this is the summer we learned
We teach ourselves how to cure razor burn with honey and oil, and how to curl our lashes using safety pins, and how to fling curses and other big girl words into the sand of Jones Beach like an apology;
We lick the back of our teeth and our tongues catch on the cracks from lost enamel because our older sisters taught us that the toilet can be our best friend if we want it too. We ignore the...
Anonymous asked: Which summer programs did you apply/were accepted to?
Submissions are now open!
wintertangerinereview:
Head over to our Submittable page to send in your poetry, prose and art. The deadline for our first issue is May 1st. At Winter Tangerine Review, we want the electric. We want the pieces that you have emptied yourself into. We want the imagery that startles us, that stirs something inside of us that we do not understand. We want the strongest analogies, the most...
Anonymous asked: What's your favorite novel? And poetry book?
Anonymous asked: why did you start writing all this sex/love/depression shit? i'm dissappointed your work used to be really good.
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indigo and cotton
After, you wake up alone in a bed you don’t recognize, with a half-empty bottle of beer sleeping beside you, blood on your thighs and the spilt moon glaring at your exposed chest. After, you steal sweatpants and a t-shirt from the open closet and leave your dress and earrings on the floor where they belong. You tiptoe past the sleeping teenagers who lay over each other like corpses. You...
March 2013
32 posts
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If 1/4 of my followers donated just one dollar to my new literary journal Winter Tangerine Review, we’d have more than double our goal! Literally one dollar- less than the price of a cup of coffee, less than the price of a bottle of soda, less than the price of a new notebook- just one dollar will make a huge difference. You can also pre-order a copy of our first and second issue, if...
Winter Tangerine is now on Facebook!
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We’d also like to remind you that our submission period will be opening in the beginning of April. Prepare your best...
Anonymous asked: what is the key to winning poetry contests? or prose contests? is the main thing just writing about a surprising topic and carrying it out in a very unique and impressive way? or is it technical skill? or..?
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sink
My aunt miscarried four times and after each one, she took me to Chinatown in the city, and we would watch the gloved men gut fish after fish after fish as if it meant something. She carried all the ultrasounds for years after, with names and the expected date of birth scribbled on the back, and on the train ride home, she’d clutch the bag of headless fish close to her body, and softly, rub her...
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Winter Tangerine Review Needs Your Help!
About a week ago, I decided I wanted to create a literary journal- one that would defy standards, one that would search for excellence and publish only the best art and writing. And I did just that! I know that a lot of literary journals would rather publish works by established artists, because unheard of artists were a risk. At Winter Tangerine Review, we like that risk, we like the...
Anonymous asked: what contests are you currently submitting stuff to now? i wanna know because im thinking of submitting to contests but dont know many :P but do you know any that youre submitting to/know of that have deadlines coming up anytime soon?
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quiver
I’ve always believed that the human body is a soft thing, but I’ve become more of a fault line that anything. It took me too long to realize that my entire life is simply a series of things I’ve left behind. When my mother was seventeen, her tongue faltered under the bridges of English and shook when faced with America, a country of gold and dreams and lost things. I blur the...
Anonymous asked: Do you have a tumblr for the magazine yet? I am so excited to read and purchase this!
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augustina
When I was fourteen, my mother told me that although she was my mother, she wasn’t my mother and I broke all the mirrors in the house and crumpled my baby photos. When I met my family for the second time, Meryam told me in garbled French that we looked alike, and I stared at the dead roach by the sink and the stains on the children’s shirts and the sun that stumbled in through...
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Winter Tangerine Review
Hi guys! My name is Yasmin as most of you know, and I’m starting a literary journal! It’s called Winter Tangerine Review (You should all follow us on Tumblr, by the way!) and I am editor-in-chief. My staff and I are working on a literary magazine/journal dedicated to the very best art, poetry and prose. We like the inventive, the original, the experimental. We don’t care who you are, where you’re...
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in terms of the steubenville rape case:
I’ve gotten a few messages asking my opinions on this case over the past week so I’m going to address them here. I might get a lot of shit for this, but we truly cannot put all the blame on the two boys, Ma’lik and Trent. The fact of the matter is that we, as a society, are to blame too. Obviously, they sexually assaulted this girl and they deserve to be imprisoned for what they...
