May 2013
10 posts
kirstyrebecca asked: I've just ordered What The Night Demands after watching a few of your poems on YouTube. It was a challenge to find somewhere in little old England to order it from, but the task is now complete and I'm way too excited for it to be delivered.
prettier-than-whoopi asked: when did you first realize you were a guy stuck in the wrong body? and are you still with the girl your poem "apples" was talking about?
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We Eat an Apple In My Bed
We’ve been kissing for months. Three times a week our toothbrushes share a chipped porcelain mug in my bathroom. As my lips reach for the juice falling from her laugh, her mom calls. I listen as she talks about Biology, her new job, asks about her sister. Her eyes drop as she whispers, No, I still don’t have a boyfriend.
On cue, I stop chewing. She looks at me, waiting for my face to flush,...
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megan falley: Friends & Followers, →
meganfalley:
I want to thank you.
I have been living as a full-time writer since September and it has been the most beautiful dream. Without you— you who bought books, you who came to shows, who flew me out to your college, who sent sweet tumblr messages, who reblogged, who told a friend about my work, who…
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COMING SO SOON!
My book release party is NEXT WEEK!
Come out to Launchpad in Brooklyn and help me celebrate the birth of my first collection of poetry!
Readings by Jon Sands! Aaron Samuels! Megan Falley! and ME!
It’ll be a super duper night, I promise you. Pinkie swear.
Peep the facebook event HERE
April 2013
16 posts
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Breaking the binary →
In which my old college features me in their newspaper!
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30 Under 30 18/30: Miles Walser →
In which nice things are said about my work that make me incredibly bashful.
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That moment of absolute horror when you realize that you’ve been listening, for two years now, to one of your absolute favorite albums with the tracks IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER NOT THE INTENDED ALBUM ORDER.
I could throw up, I’ve never hated the alphabet more.
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Book Release Party!
Hey Friends!
Are you in Brooklyn? Are you somewhere close enough to fly, drive, bike, walk, or swim there by May 10th? Dope.
Do you like poetry?
Food?
Music?
Do you like Megan Falley? Aaron Samuels? Jon Sands?
Do you like me? (Wait don’t answer that actually.)
I’ll see you HERE then.
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I need a poster-flavored favor!
Hey Friends! Do any of y’all graphically-skilled folks have interest and time to help me with an itty-bitty poster project? (Spoiler: it’s for my book release!)
If you’re interested, shoot me an email: miles.j.walser@gmail.com
Thank you in advance! Y’all are the best.
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“What the Night Demands is a brutally honest mirror for us to look into and...”
– Danez Smith says something beautiful about my book!
I just ordered my first batch of copies! Have YOU pre-ordered your copy yet?
In regards to that picture
(I work overnight shifts. That was probably important info.)
#ImusthaveseemedlikeaWEIRDO
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March 2013
14 posts
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SAVE THE DATE!
Friends!
May 10th, 2013 will be the official release party for What the Night Demands, my first full-length manuscript of poetry, published by Write Bloody Press
Launchpad, 721 Franklin Ave, Brooklyn, NY
It’ll be all ages. It’ll be a blast.
I’ll let y’all know as I know more, but I wanted to give you a head’s up now. Ask off work! Buy that bus ticket! Tell...
HALT THE PRESSES, TUMBLR
I just read someone say that being told they have privilege is “as offensive as any slur”
OH BOY.
“If a fascist regime kills a 15 year old girl for wanting to learn how to read,...”
– Jeanette Winterson.
Got to see this incredible writer read and drop brilliance-bombs at AWP this weekend, on International Women’s Day no less! Holy. (via meganfalley)
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February 2013
7 posts
“It is difficult to be sad while eating avocado
or listening to rap music
but I...”
– LK Shaw, “Miss America,” from the For Every Year project (via nps2013)
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Want to take this tumblr-friendship across social media platforms?
Well, here’s where you can find me:
Twitter — @KilometersW
Instagram — KilometersW
(sense a theme?)
AND, my new website: www.mileswalser.com
Oh, internet. Oh, pictures of cats.
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Smith College! Tomorrow!
Hey Friends,
If you’re anywhere near Smith College, I’d love to see you at my show tomorrow. It’s the last stop of my first ever tour, and I’m really looking forward to it!
The show is at 8pm in the Neilson Library Browsing Room.
Please come! It’ll be poems and stories and awkward smiles and loads of fun!
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I know it's some big football day BUT
Wouldn’t you rather come watch me read poems? Good news: if you’re near Worcester, MA, YOU CAN!
I’ll be featuring tonight at the Poet’s Asylum (doors at 6:30, show at 7) at the WCUW Front Room, 910 Main Street.
I promise to reference my inability to play or understand sports.
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Exciting things!
www.mileswalser.com
is a total thing now. Check it out!
tenderbean asked: Hi! I saw that you're going to be in the Amherst area very very soon and wanted to find out when/where you'd be performing. I'd love to come out to see you!
January 2013
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Hi my name is Miles Walser and I want to read you...
Today, I throw social anxiety to the wind and begin my first ever mini-tour! Boston, Worcester, and Amherst, I’m coming to play!
First up, Emerson College!
Show tonight at 8pm in Walker 233.
