#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

[powderpinkprincess]

Hey everyone! ❤

I'm currently writing my master's degree thesis in psychology, and as a topic, I chose something that I deeply love and am very good at — fangirling! :)

If you are a European fan over 18, I would be insanely grateful if you could help me by filling out a 15-minute survey that I need. (I do not ask for any information that could identify you.) You can find it here with all the information I can provide about my senior thesis: https://pszppke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9AAAvEMv8E1SWQm

Thank you so much! Dóri

[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

[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

[dailytraingirl]

btw i made a post sometime here about being in a restaurant or something and hearing teenage dream and thinking of larry stylinson because of that one video of them singing it

anyway like two days ago i went BACK to that restaurant and they played just the way you are AND viva la vida

it actually made me feel like i was going insane

[arabellachant]

Home is where the heart is...

but God I love the Irish

[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,…

[emotionalsupportsoccerball]

✨ international break ✨

[undertheniall]

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

[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

[flashfuckingflesh]

The Blind Leading the EVIL. "Oddity" reviewed! (Acorn Media International / Blu-ray)

“Oddity’s” Blu-ray from Acorn Media International is Here! Dani Timmins spends many nights renovating her and her husband’s new country home.  While her psychiatrist husband Ted works long nights most nights at the mental hospital, Dani spends her time in solitude and isolation to fixup their future home.  When a strange man knocks on her door and warns someone is inside her house, Dani must…

[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

[k4tie75]

The way del water gap is in my city right now and I'm not at the show is just outrageous

[fandom]

Musical Acts

Kendrick won here, too.

Taylor Swift

Stray Kids +2

BTS -1

My Chemical Romance -1

Kendrick Lamar

Chappell Roan

Ghost

ENHYPEN +7

ATEEZ +2

Megan Thee Stallion +13

SEVENTEEN +1

Drake +74

Joker Out +8

Louis Tomlinson -4

Fall Out Boy -7

The Beatles +23

Sabrina Carpenter +66

Hozier -9

æspa +23

Harry Styles -14

Twenty One Pilots

NCT Dream +9

TWICE -7

Beyoncé +2

Red Velvet +10

One Direction +34

Tomorrow X Together -10

Queen +5

NCT 127 -5

Britney Spears +45

Snoop Dogg +48

Will Wood and the Tapeworms

LOONA +3

Joost Klein

The Mechanisms +13

LE SSERAFIM -2

SHINee -18

BLACKPINK -8

EXO -19

Mitski -2

Rihanna -14

ITZY -2

Miley Cyrus +38

Olivia Rodrigo -15

Ariana Grande +43

Macklemore

WayV +12

IVE +6

Lady Gaga +35

Paramore -22

Niall Horan -1

Dua Lipa -3

Greta Van Fleet -31

Bruce Springsteen

Fiona Apple +23

Boygenius -19

Charli XCX

Billie Eilish

Rammstein +10

The Mountain Goats +7

Astro +2

Elvis Presley -19

Lemon Demon

Green Day

David Bowie

NewJeans

Metallica +23

Madonna

Halsey +30

Guns N' Roses

Michael Jackson

Courtney Love

The 1975 -32

Zayn Malik

Nirvana +18

Gorillaz -2

Phoebe Bridgers -30

Weezer

Muse

Katy Perry

Käärijä -29

(G)-IDLE -2

Nicki Minaj

Tracy Chapman

Tokio Hotel

Nsync

Bob Dylan

Panic At The Disco -75

Stevie Nicks

Dreamcatcher -14

Arctic Monkeys -36

Shawn Mendes

Led Zeppelin +1

Pink Floyd

NCT U +5

Oasis

Dolly Parton -51

Slipknot

The Boyz

Justin Timberlake

The number in italics indicates how many spots a group or name moved up or down from the previous year. Bolded groups or names weren’t on the list last year.

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