take a hike

has anyone posted this yet. best tweet ever written

richard silken active on twitter is the best thing coming out from august 2023

self portrait against bed wallpaper by Richard Siken

………… love u siken

richard siken also just published two new poems—sidewalk and metonymy—and i recommend reading them in that order, the end of one seems to start the other. if we’re getting sequences out of mr siken this may be the end of me i fear

he just really gets it, man (x)

Pornography, Richard Siken

hey. why would you say that

Richard Siken, excerpts from “Hansel” in Brothers & Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales

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the way i feel about the new richard siken poems is. okay look. people are always always saying what does this mean, what’s happening, why can’t you just say it? people do this to poetry in general but him in particular. who died? what happened? and these poems feel like him staring straight at the camera saying okay, i’ll tell you. come and fucking get it. is this what you wanted?

peer. fucking. reviewed.

All About Love, bell hooks | Snow and Dirty Rain, Richard Siken

also I keep seeing people saying they thought richard siken was long dead. one person said they thought he was a colonial poet. quick question. what.

thou art in a wagon with a comely lad

You all literally need to understand Richard Siken’s origin story. Imagine being an established poet repeatedly explaining to people that your most famous poetry book was not about Wincest: