Everyday is New Year’s Day (even April 1st!) 🥂

The first of our poem collection resultant from our New Year’s resolution workshops!

Hello PTKers! Wow! It’s already month 4! Where has the year gone? It took us a while but here we are! Back in January we had the great privilege of being joined by some of you in two thematic poetry workshops: QUEERING RESOLUTIONS which we hosted with Unwanted Words, and HOT PEOPLE DON’T MAKE RESOLUTIONS with The Berlin Writers. As a part of our mission to platform new writers and showcase poetic experimentation, we left an open invitation to all who participated to publish their work with us (if they were so inclined).

So, we know we are entering the year’s 2nd trimester, but to quote I HATE NEW YEAR’S DAY, the essay by Antonio Gramsci:

“Every morning, when I wake again under the pall of the sky, I feel that for me it is New Year’s Day. That’s why I hate these New Year’s that fall like fixed maturities, which turn life and human spirit into a commercial concern with its neat final balance, its outstanding amounts, its budget for the new management. They make us lose the continuity of life and spirit. You end up seriously thinking that between one year and the next there is a break, that a new history is beginning; you make resolutions, and you regret your irresolution, and so on, and so forth. This is generally what’s wrong with dates.”

With this in mind, on the first of every month for the time being, we will be dropping new year’s poems from a couple of our fabulous workshop participants! Happy New Year (in April!) and without further ado, here’s Monika Rybińska and Aysu Naz Atalay’s New Years poems

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be gay, do crime

by Monika Rybińska

our tour resolver has fun in a sticky quarter
right before one watch reminds of a new year’s day
& another glues her back to cuntless edits
adding a compliment here
removing self from there

this year, she will not stop sniffing her big girl panties
she will wear them every day
& her new hair will welcome you at the gate
to a magical portal

this year, she will not stop brooding in the fountains
& maybe her bones will fall into places
or her joints will crack to snuffle
the ground of yesterday

this year, she will not stop flirting with muscular girls
but she might get rid of her fake-ass boyfriend
as well as start boycotting the patriarchy
& use more lyric vocabulary
our tour resolver presses send for a happy end

About Monika

Monika Rybińska is a poetic blade bound to reason, dancing on the edges of reality as a writer. As a multidisciplinary creator, she is a part of The Daybreak Poets, and works in graphic design at M:RG;D studio. She spent her recent years diving into the depths of human psyche and unraveling the mysteries of interpersonal connections. Her latest work paints a vibrant mural of rebellion, desire, and vulnerability. Currently, Monika calls home a secret location between Warsaw and Berlin, sharing experiences with the local poets and having conversations with smiley baristas.You can follow her at on instagram at _monikarybinska

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new y, funky dream reality by Aysu Naz Atalay

I don’t need a new year’s resolution I need an orgasm a day       sea shells in a camping van ambient
  	              thoughts and love for all           rising sexual tension with an unexpected call I don’t need a new    year’s   resolution I need a nap in a pink basket          physical touch in a seductive way
                       reading post-punk literature   in           a                     gloomy                           day
	    I don’t need a new year’s resolution     I need a space to rage   	and         maybe to flirt with         desires in a full moon rave                       where                    	 there won’t be any more days that we  curse              and        delusionary sweat            I don’t need a new year’s resolution                        but         I                                                            still         do

About Aysu

Aysu Naz Atalay (she/her) is a writer interested in poetic and erotic forms of expression. She uses poetry to unmask inner narratives in a playful or experimental form. Her writing often deals with childhood, identity, transitions, sexuality, self, and the body. You can follow her on Instagram at aysunazatalay.

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Happy new April everyone! We will be back on May 1st with more new year poems and wishes! Until then,

Xoxo,

PTK