#Katy Horan

[nahhhlina]

My first full-length poetry collection, Toska is out now from Deep Vellum! The gorgeous cover art is by Katy Horan.

You can find it at the following places:

Deep Vellum

Bookshop.org

City Lights

Open Books

Barnes & Noble

Target

Amazon

your favorite local bookstore, if you ask!

If you’d like an inscribed copy, please get in touch with me here.

These are poems about the untranslatable but essential concepts that form us, and Alina Pleskova is the interpreter of their simultaneous hold and flight: “What you call me in the dark / isn’t what I am / & that helps me float / above the moment.” Toska is a book of the immigrant daughter in her not-quite-own world, and a book of contempt for striving and capitalism—but the centripetal force that powers these poems is the nameless part of the self, “ruthlessly / down for whatever,” the locked room that nobody can open even while you long for a breach. Pleskova, generous and funny and modern, is a poet of forthright intimacy. —NIINA POLLARI, author of Path of Totality

Alina Pleskova’s debut collection is into grabbing things by the neck, & not always gently: eros in the ancient bedroom & the age of apps; transcendence & complacency & spirituality under capitalism. Pleskova’s poetics is deliciously generous, even in its moments of ambivalence; reading Toska is like chatting with your best friend about pursuing & evading pleasure while the American project unravels. These poems don’t just see to the heart of queer & immigrant subjectivities; they enact them. I sank with this book, was buoyed by this book—how it, like so many of us in America, experiences perpetual attempt, failed translation, the feeling that we are always missing something just beyond our reach. If only we could tighten our grip, want wanting itself, we might unearth language for identity & desire language, of course, being ephemeral, timeless, fleeting, & stunning, all at once. —RAENA SHIRALI, author of summonings and GILT

Alina Pleskova's Toska bears the burden of the eponymous longing melancholy of living even as it phases into the burn of real threats to human-and humane-existence. Writing from "The country where I live- / its surveillance of us surveilled by the country I'm from-" she counterpoints the impersonal gaze of the state and algorithms that follow our movements with the poet's infinitely careful attention to the flow of the everyday: "Made it this far / without mentioning the rain. // Here it is; it's perfect." Solace is found in community, the imperative to "Daydream what mutual care could do," the vast motions astrology tracks, ancient poet gossip. Overwhelmingly, too, in the mysteries of queer desire and its dream of transcendence, the desire to desire unbounded by intolerance, or worse-murder. These poems telegraph in a seductive whisper that keeping each other alive is enough-it's everything, because "I want the class wars to start, but everyone's so tired." The poet asks, "What song was playing when my heart's chambers I got thrown open to let these breezes in?" This book is the song, its frequencies coming through the voices of friends, lovers, family, the poets of the past, and Pleskova's tender plaint that would "Mourn the redwoods, fireflies, platypuses, permafrost, all else that deserves to outlive us & won't ..." In her hands, poetry is the hack for our earthly hangover, toska / saudade its secret sauce in whose ingredients hide the seeds of a new world. We'll be together there,' "covered in each other's hair." —ANA BOZICEVIC, author of New Life

Reading Toska was a spiritual and whole-body experience. I laughed, I screamed, I teared up, I nearly bought a one-way ticket back to Moldova, I called my mom. No one captures the poetics of eros and diasporic longing amid our late-stage capitalist hellscape like Alina Pleskova. 'Assuring various robots / that I'm not a robot several times daily' does not prevent our speaker from 'stockpil[ing] intimacies almost too ephemeral to clock.' And what a gift this book of intimacies is. Toska is a tender and wry instruction manual for navigating desire and the void. I will follow Alina Pleskova anywhere. —RUTH MADIEVSKY, author of All-Night Pharmacy

[drawdownbooks]

Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers

An inventive guidebook that pairs imaginative vignettes with whimsical, folkloric illustrations

Literary Witches reimagines visionary writers as witches: both are figures of formidable creativity, empowerment, and general badassery. Through a series of thirty lyrical portraits, Taisia Kitaiskaia and Katy Horan honor the witchy qualities of well-known and obscure authors alike, including Virginia Woolf, Mira Bai, Toni Morrison, Emily Dickinson, Octavia E. Butler, Sandra Cisneros, and many more.

Perfect for both book lovers and coven members, Literary Witches is a treasure trove of creative and courageous women who aren't afraid to be alone in the woods of their imagination. Kitaiskaia and Horan conjure evocative, highly stylized depictions of history's most beloved female authors, introduce enchanting new writers, and invite you to rediscover the magic of literature.

Published by Seal Press, 2017

Hardcover, 128 pages, 6.3 x 8.1 inches

ISBN: 978-1-58-005673-1 Available at Draw Down

[foreshvdowing]

my newest deck is stunning. i’m in love with it.

[aficionliteraria]

Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers Por Taisia Kitaiskaia y Katy Horan (2017)

Sinopsis

Celebre a las escritoras más brujas con bellas ilustraciones y viñetas imaginativas. Literary Witches establece una conexión entre las brujas y las escritoras visionarias: ambas son figuras de formidable creatividad, empoderamiento y rudeza en general. A través de retratos poéticos, Taisia ​​​​Kitaiskaia y Katy Horan honran las cualidades de brujas de autores conocidos y oscuros por igual, incluidos Virginia Woolf, Mira Bai, Toni Morrison, Emily Dickinson, Octavia E. Butler, Sandra Cisneros y muchos más. Perfecta tanto para los amantes de los libros como para los miembros del aquelarre, Literary Witches es un tesoro y una fuente de inspiración. Kitaiskaia y Horan aportan nuevas ideas sobre sus autores más queridos, sugieren encantadores nuevos escritores y lo invitan a redescubrir la magia de la literatura.

Comentario

El libro celebra a muchas escritoras de forma poética, visualmente llamatica y desde una perspectiva "witchy". Se refiere a las autoras como brujas pero entiendo que se refiere a que poseen las características que se asocian con estas.

Las biografías son algo cortas pero al menos están acompañadas de ilustraciones de cada una... y esto hace una gran diferencia.

Literary Witches me parece una opción genial para quien esté interesado en literatura y en conocer nuevas autoras.

Por otro lado, si eres bruja o te interesan esos temas... quizás te interese saber que la ilustradora de Literary Witches (Katy Horan) creo un oráculo con el arte y es maravilloso.

[kristieemewis19]

I NEED FOOTBALL FRIENDS!! ✌🏻

Preferably ones over twenty, no teenagers 😬

I used to be crazy active on here and took a step away for a while. But I’d love to have friends to talk about football with. Or just anything with honestly. I’m trying to get back into watching Arsenal/NWSL more. But I’ll talk anything USWNT somebody! Im also a big Danielle van de Donk and Kristie Mewis fan! Also try to watch ENGWNT, NEDWNT and AUSWNT.

[franciscolicari]

songs that remind me of Past Lives

one more afternoon, Maggie Rogers

complex, Katie Gregson-Macleod

scott street, Phoebe Bridgers

about you, the 1975

august, Taylor Swift

we're in love, Boygenius

james, Maggie Rogers

promise, Laufey

falling for you, the 1975

this town, Niall Horan

[arabellachant]

Home is where the heart is...

but God I love the Irish

[emotionalsupportsoccerball]

✨ international break ✨

[lgbtqreads]

New Releases: November 2024

Conceivable: A Guide to Making 2SLGBTQ+ Family by Laine Halpern Zisman (4th) Version 1.0.0 You are creating your family. You may not know how (or with whom) quite yet, but you are on your way. Conceivable: A Guide to Making 2SLGBTQ+ Family moves beyond the birds and the bees to consider the politics, challenges, choices and opportunities for agency and joy involved in 2SLGBTQ+ fertility,…

[undertheniall]

Niall on The Late Late Show with James Corden (x)

[so-idialed-9]

"Tell Simon Cowell to go fuck himself. Team 1D." -Fin Power, vocalist/guitarist for Stone

Edit - here's a link to the TT

Takeaways -

People aren't as afraid of Simon tanking them - his power is fading

Simon's recruitment isn't going well, per the article

He's recruiting someone already with a record deal and years of performing - which matches what former X Factor contestants and industry people have said for years about how things happened with X Factor, Modest, and Syco, lending credibility to other aspects of their stories

- Katie Waissel, X Factor contestant, said she had been touring and making albums and doing collaborations, and when Simon recruited her she said no repeatedly. She said he sent people to her recording sessions to pressure her, then suddenly her other deals went bad, her own lawyer who it turned out shared an office with Modest's team pressured her to sign with Simon as written which turned out to be a horrible deal for her

Fuck Simon Cowell

[nahhhlina]

My first full-length poetry collection, Toska, will be out on 6/13 & is now available for pre-order! Cover by the amazing Katy Horan.

Here’s where you can pre-order Toska:

Deep Vellum (my publisher!)

Bookshop.org

Barnes & Noble

Target

Your favorite local bookstore, if you ask them!

If you like talky poems about queer, first-gen immigrant feels & a lot of haranguing about capitalism (how it's ruining our lives) & sex (also ruinous, but more fun), this may be up your alley. 

Blurbs should be up on the pre-order page soon, so you won't have to take my word for it. xo

[michaeldavis3489]

Who Is The Voice USA 2023 Winner Gina Miles? Everything You Need To Know About The Teen Star Who Won This Season With Coach Niall Horan

Gine Miles is a 19-year-old American pop singer-songwriter who was crowned with the title of the winner of The Voice USA season 23 earlier this year. She is originally from  Paxton, Illinois, but is now living in Sacramento, California. After the two-hour last episode was about to end, her name was announced as the winner. Niall, who mentored her throughout the season, rushed to hug her. She was incredibly thankful for his support.  'I'm not going to cry but your friendship and your mentorship has been very special to me,' Gina said. 'And I love you. So thank you for choosing me and giving me this opportunity. Love you

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[katycatforever]

Katy Perry with Different Celebrities PT-3

[grapefruit-personified]

Not Lindsey kind of going at Katie

[oceanusborealis]

The Peripheral: Season 1 – TV Review

The Peripheral: Season 1 – TV Review

TL;DR – While it expertly builds tension and the world, it ends on a flat note of frustration   ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3.5 out of 5. Disclosure – I paid for the Prime Video service that viewed this show.End Credit Scene – The final episode, The Creation of a Thousand Forests, has an end credit scene.Warning – Some scenes may cause distress. The Peripheral Review – It has been a while since I have sat…