#whatshouldwecallpoets

poets post-awp

Reasons to be a poet

(Source: tu-etole)

What I want to say when someone asks why I’m not going to AWP

whatshouldwecallpoets:

Yeah

When someone asks me what kind of poems I write

~amish

How to Survive the Internet during AWP when you’re not at AWP

think about cats in space

How to survive the internet during AWP when you’re not at AWP

Let people know you don’t care 

(or at least pretend you don’t)  

How to Survive the internet during AWP when you’re not at AWAP

Express negative affect

How to survive the internet during AWP when you’re not at AWP

When people act like *everyone* is there, remind them that YOU are not

When feminist literature organizations publish statistics re: gender and publishing and certain people get all defensive

whatshouldwecallpoets:

This blog could be all Oprah and Snooki gifs. Seriously.

reblogging because of relevance

How to survive the internet during AWP when you’re not at AWP

Remind people how misunderstood/mysterious/complicated you are

How to survive the internet during AWP when you’re not at AWP

look on with a vague sense of horror

I’ll be posting AWP posts all week

(all in good fun, of course)

what’s awp?

How to Survive the Internet during AWP when you’re not at AWP

Express Outrage 

When a writer friend and I went on a “literary pub crawl”

What we thought we’d be like:

What we were actually like

My poems from high school