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Poem inspired by SYMPTOM DIARY by leela! Ghost City Press, also inspired by my late dad

stonepacificzine.com/reviews/heat-d… MORE THAN “JUST A SICK GIRL”: A REVIEW OF HEAT DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE BY LEELA RAJ-SANKAR, written by Eleanor Ball is in the zine today! The book is published by fifth wheel press 🏜️🌵

“It's a rare pleasure to read a debut and know you're seeing the author at the beginning of a long, successful career… This collection deftly explores chronic illness, adolescent love, and the pains of growing up.” — Eleanor Ball on HEAT DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE by Leela Raj-Sankar

i’m ngl i almost cried reading this - thank you SO much eleanor for your beautiful review of HEAT DEATH!!!

wrote a paragraph of my common app essay and was immediately overcome with nausea if anyone’s wondering how college apps are going

“And so [the poem] ended up, in my mind, with a speaker that is an elder in a community, passing on wisdom and lighting the fire of the next generation.” Read Leela Raj-Sankar’s interview with poet Mariya Kika here: counterclock.org/blog/how-i-wro…

New on Empty Room: CHROMATIC SCALE, a new one-act radio play by Leela Raj-Sankar (leela!) A pianist at odds with their instrument. An all night rehearsal. Chopin's Ballade No. 1 over and over. Voiced by Claire Wagner and Diego Noll. Listen/Read: emptyroomradio.com/chromatic-scal…

new empty room haunted audio object everywhere now: a short (first!) play by leela! leela! featuring my roommate’s century-old piano… a futile rehearsal of Chopin… open.spotify.com/episode/5kDSxX…

emptyroomradio.com/chromatic-scal…

Thank you Mariya 🍉 for the mention! Check out her wonderful interview with issue one contributor leela!

2day i’m thinking abt how right after my bf finished reading heat death he said “wow you sure do mention cars a lot for someone who can’t drive” several months later i’m a licensed gal but i’d still love it just as much if you bought my book n read my car and desert ramblings!!

GET! 'L'étranger' #469, 27-08-23, Radio Panik (Brussels) w 佐伯美波 Minami Saeki gabber ghoul leela! andy chefboyardee heckbot Carl Abrahamsson jarid danielle chelosky Oren Ambarchi Michael McSweeney Penultimate Press gabrielle griot Adam Matlock/simmering 3 records Olli Aarni a.o. - > radiopanik.org/emissions/l-et…

Leela’s CHROMATIC SCALE appears amidst this Sunday’s strangers 💧

just wrote a full poem (13 lines; yes, it’s bad) for the first time since january so as it turns out the rumors of my retirement at the ripe old age of 17 were false and i am in fact defeating the haters (my one million blank google docs)

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