Margaret Ray

@mbrrray.bsky.social

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Poet 🥸 Author of: GOOD GRIEF, THE GROUND (poems, BOA Editions‘23) & a Poetry Society of America Chapbook: SUPERSTITIONS OF THE MID-ATLANTIC she/her https://www.margaretbray.com/ https://bookshop.org/a/92150/9781950774845

A messy coffee table with several stacks of books. Visible on top are On The Calculation of Volume II by Solvej Balle, The Tale of Genji, Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber, and others. In the foreground a hand holds an I heart my Indie Bookstore sticker.
Sill from the end of Bong Joon-Ho’s 2019 film PARASITE: Song Kang-ho’s downtrodden character snaps and murders the wealthy Mr. Park
Last summer’s seed heads on meadows flowers encased in ice
Full moon rising over a snowy hill in Vermont
Graphic for a poetry reading at Grolier Poetry Bookshop Nov 21st at 7pm, including photos of poets Diana Cao, Perry Janes, and Margaret Ray
Practice / by Ellen Bryant Voigt To weep unbidden, to wake at night in order to weep, to wait for the whisker on the face of the clock to twitch again, moving the dumb day forward— is this merely practice? Some believe in heaven, some in rest. We’ll float, you said. Afterward we’ll float between two worlds— five bronze beetles stacked like spoons in one peony blossom, drugged by lust: if I came back as a bird I’d remember that— until everyone we love is safe is what you said.
Poster for the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship Winners Reading, part of the Brooklyn Book Festival
an image of all 3 poets' headshots announcing the reading, which is $5 to attend at the Poetry Society of America
Golden tomato slices on toast
Me reading poems in a blue jumpsuit in the Bryant Park Reading Room