Also, now that I am going to subscribe to your Substack, I see the slogan after your name and recall the constant urging of my first mentor—a public school choir director whose influence kept me out of the Vietnam War: “Always strive for the aesthetic experience.” I’m with you.
gorgeous and true
Congratulations @Alex Dimitrov <3 Your poetry has changed my life and will continue to shape the world in good ways!
I see why this poem made it! It paints a picture and is soothing. New and nostalgic all at once🖤
Awesome! Feels like New York 100%
really well done Alex!
Congratulations!!!!
Congratulations!!🎈
I really love this
Loveeeee & Congratulations!! Your piece is Gorgeous & True.
Congratulations. Lovely poem.
Brilliant! “Who wants to be who they are”.
Love
I must say I don’t usually like the poems in The New Yorker—and I read every one—but I really like yours. Thanks.
Also, now that I am going to subscribe to your Substack, I see the slogan after your name and recall the constant urging of my first mentor—a public school choir director whose influence kept me out of the Vietnam War: “Always strive for the aesthetic experience.” I’m with you.
Wonderful. As in full of wonder. Of the best kind!
Everything always, I get it too. So many good lines, Alex.
And killer last one. Who wants to be what they are.
This is gorgeous and adventurous. No wonder the New Yorker picked it up!