Asa Drake

TBQ in print available for five bucks at AWP

AWP people, find us at table T704 next week! We'll have copies of the first ever print issue of TBQ. (A sampler of some of our best!) 5 bucks, 50 pages, glossy, full color and it has a poem in the shape of beating Henry Kissinger to death! Guaranteed to be collectible after the cease and desist!

“Afternoon in the Cemetery.” A Poem by Asa Drake under loblolly pines I don’t believe in hallowed ground, but I like that border control doesn’t come here. It’s smelling season. I’m staring at the wide eagles’ nest because I would li…

“I don’t believe in hallowed ground, but I like that border control / doesn’t come here. It’s smelling season.” Read “Afternoon in the Cemetery,” a poem by @asaldrake.bsky.social from the collection Maybe the Body.

if you're mad at the news tonight, you can put that energy toward something good

Thank you so much to Lit Hub for sharing this poem from my debut which comes out today with @tinhouse.bsky.social, and thank you to the friends and mentors who have helped me celebrate the launch of Maybe the Body!

Loved how this interview with Southern Review of Books let me name so many favorite places and describe the South that I love. 🐍🌺

This was a really fantastic collection that I’ll be thinking about for a long time. Thanks for chatting with me @asaldrake.bsky.social!

Loved this interview so much! Chelsea, thank you for these insightful questions and for giving me the space to claim the South as a home.

Quakertown parents, groups demand release of students in police clash Civil rights groups and parents gathered in front of the Quakertown Police Department Saturday demanding answers for the violent confrontation Friday.

INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday.

They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.

Maybe the Body, poems by Asa Drake.

"The body is full of attempt without the guarantee of resolution."

Don't miss A.D. Lauren-Abunassar's review of @asaldrake.bsky.social's poetry collection MAYBE THE BODY from our FEBRUARY ISSUE. 💕 Enjoy it right here: buff.ly/lVpi9D5

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Advertisement with Asa's book that features a rabbit and snake among flowers and a hot pink background.

I'll be reading in Gainesville this week on Friday and interviewing @asaldrake.bsky.social on her new book MAYBE THE BODY for her book launch. Come on out if you're close!!

Please check out our blog (linktree in bio) to read more about the work of Asa Drake and her book Maybe the Body (Tin House, 2026).🌟 @tinhouse.bsky.social @asaldrake.bsky.social

I have a new poem in issue 17 of @alocasiamag.bsky.social about lilacs blooming twice a year for survival 🌿💜🌱

many thanks to @sarahclark.bsky.social

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FEBRUARY INTERVIEW with ASA DRAKE Perhaps it’s no surprise that the first of Asa Drake’s two debuts, Maybe the Body from Tin House, is flush with the fruits and flora of a flamboyant garden, given that she lives in rural Florida. N…

So glad that one of my first interviews was with @nicolewlee.bsky.social , a poet I deeply admire and whose work has shaped my own. Her questions offered me so much insight into my own writing process. fourwayreview.com/february-int...

This Verse Curious episode has made explaining my book to family 100% easier. I've shared it with all my parents. So grateful to Benjamin Landry for offering my work so much context.

Statement from Oscar-winning director Hamdan Ballal: This afternoon, nearly a year after we won the Oscar, the same settler who attacked me shortly after l returned from Los Angeles-Shem Tov Lusky-again led an attack against my home and my family. Four of my family members are currently arrested and one is in the hospital. I invite all journalists and diplomats to come visit me and my family this Tuesday, February 17, to hear about how the situation has gotten worse in the year since we won the Oscar, as it has across the West Bank. Email me to coordinate your visit: hamdanalhrane90@gmail.com Two weeks ago we managed to get a decision from the Israeli court that the area around my home is closed to non-residents, but the settlers break that order and still come with their flocks almost every day. We call the police, they do nothing. The army comes, they do nothing. Today, Shem Tov Lusky-the settler who attacked me in my home shortly after I won the Oscar last year-came with his flock to my home. My brother called the police to report the incursion. The army came first and immediately raided our house, attacking everyone inside. Then they arrested two of my brothers, a nephew, and cousin. Another brother was badly injured and is now in the hospital. The Israeli court decision was supposed to make things a bit quieter for us. But the opposite has been true. The settlers have ramped up their harassment and the Israeli authorities have done nothing to enforce the decision, and today they joined the settlers in the attack. 8 hours ago

From Hamdan Ballal, co-director of last year’s Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.” This is happening now.

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from.

We'll let their words speak for themselves.

Ice planning to acquire $38 billion in warehouses to create detention centers all over the U.S.

There is no easier or more important political position to take than to do everything possible to stop this. It will change our society forever, and Democrats are going along with it.

After Belonging, or A Few False Starts: On Asa Drake’s Maybe the Body — Split Lip Magazine In her 2021 exhibition, “her demilitarized zone,” Filipino-American conceptual artist Gina Osterloh has a striking self-portrait, “Mirror Woman.”

Can't express enough appreciation for A.D. Lauren-Abunassar's insightful essay up today at @splitlipthemag.bsky.social. It's a relief to know that the anxiety and care and even anger that went into "Maybe the Body" reaches the reader on the other end. splitlipthemag.com/reviews/0226...

Portrait of a blonde woman: face smooshed sideways against the glass of a scanner, gaze unfixed, mouth parted. Repositioned mid-scan, the top half of her face repeats in fresh distortion, a slight glitch at the seam. Her hard blue eyes look away.

Love makes the world go 'round and so does art 💕 Enjoy our FEBRUARY ISSUE, made with love 💕 buff.ly/eKv5fuz

The biggest thank you to our contributors
WORDS: Brett Hymel Jr., Rowan Tate, Maria Lata, @tarabetts.bsky.social
ART: VANDI
PLUS: A.D. Lauren-Abunassar reviews @asaldrake.bsky.social

i appreciate this but i think we have conclusively demonstrated that it can continue to not be over until at least ~150 years after MN flag acquisition

Please join me in writing for her release. We know that ICE has stopped medical treatment for detainees. www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...

A rainbow, a family portrait, a heart. These are the drawings found in handwritten letters from children detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas. Read them today on @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

I should probably preface--many content warnings. Ends in moral horror.

I am a slow reader but read "Vanishing World" by Sayaka Murata in one sitting. I promise it's weird.

I uncovered my plants after a week of temps in the 20s. Somehow, it's the pineapples that survived Florida snow flurries?

The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...

our government used a Blackhawk helicopter in a major American city, detained children and zip-tied U.S. citizens all to target... squatters

and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public."
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My book is available for pre-order!

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Here is one of my blurbs:

“The Afterlife of Sweetness is exactly what a first book should be: It is a next step, for the poet and also for poetry.” —Shane McCrae

#poetry #poetryreleases #debutauthor #debutpoet

Looking through the Dual Lens: Michelle Peñaloza’s “All the Words I Can Remember Are Poems” Michelle Peñaloza’s second full-length collection, “All the Words I Can Remember Are Poems,” reminds us of the function of poems: to record, to remember, to share.

"Peñaloza’s latest collection emphasizes how new forms don’t supplant or forget existing ones, but offer variation — a kind of play — which is the point of the poem, to make and to make again."

@asaldrake.bsky.social reviews ALL THE WORDS I CAN REMEMBER ARE POEMS by Michelle Peñaloza.

Journalist Orgs outraged at arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort: ‘The First Amendment is not Optional.’ | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is outraged and deeply alarmed by the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort by federal agents.

ATTN: Today's arrests of Georgia Fort and Don Lemon are an escalation by this administration to criminalize press freedom under the guise of law enforcement.

The First Amendment is not optional, and journalism is NOT a crime. We demand their immediate release!

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