Sue Landers
@slanders.bsky.social
Poet, pedestrian.
My book WHAT TO CARRY INTO THE FUTURE (Roof, 2025) emerged from riding every NYC subway end-to-end. A love letter to the city, it charts joy amidst catastrophe.
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My book WHAT TO CARRY INTO THE FUTURE (Roof, 2025) emerged from riding every NYC subway end-to-end. A love letter to the city, it charts joy amidst catastrophe.
suelanders.com (she/her)
Spotted in Times Square today. Solidarifrog.
October 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Spotted in Times Square today. Solidarifrog.
Wowwwweeee….This Zohran win feels so good!!!
How it also feels:
How it also feels:
June 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Wowwwweeee….This Zohran win feels so good!!!
How it also feels:
How it also feels:
My slate and my why:
1. Mamdani—the complete progressive package
2. Lander—uses data for good
3. A. Adams—because she turned on E. Adams
4. Myrie—seems like a good egg.
5. Stringer—might pull votes from Cuomo.
PS: DON’T RANK CUOMO
1. Mamdani—the complete progressive package
2. Lander—uses data for good
3. A. Adams—because she turned on E. Adams
4. Myrie—seems like a good egg.
5. Stringer—might pull votes from Cuomo.
PS: DON’T RANK CUOMO
June 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
My slate and my why:
1. Mamdani—the complete progressive package
2. Lander—uses data for good
3. A. Adams—because she turned on E. Adams
4. Myrie—seems like a good egg.
5. Stringer—might pull votes from Cuomo.
PS: DON’T RANK CUOMO
1. Mamdani—the complete progressive package
2. Lander—uses data for good
3. A. Adams—because she turned on E. Adams
4. Myrie—seems like a good egg.
5. Stringer—might pull votes from Cuomo.
PS: DON’T RANK CUOMO
As Diane DiPrima reminds us: “NO ONE WAY WORKS, it will take all of us
shoving at the thing from all sides
to bring it down.”
shoving at the thing from all sides
to bring it down.”
June 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
As Diane DiPrima reminds us: “NO ONE WAY WORKS, it will take all of us
shoving at the thing from all sides
to bring it down.”
shoving at the thing from all sides
to bring it down.”
Do it! But, also, you just gave me an idea coz…
May 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Do it! But, also, you just gave me an idea coz…
Very excited to be reading at @ourweather.bsky.social Meet Me There series with @raquefella.bsky.social this Thursday. Virtual. May 8 at 7:30 pm ET. Register here: www.crowdcast.io/c/meet-me-th...
May 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Very excited to be reading at @ourweather.bsky.social Meet Me There series with @raquefella.bsky.social this Thursday. Virtual. May 8 at 7:30 pm ET. Register here: www.crowdcast.io/c/meet-me-th...
Save the date. Next Friday, I’m reading waterway sonnets at this Melville-inspired series at the seaport with these lovelies @mcnallyjackson.bsky.social
April 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Save the date. Next Friday, I’m reading waterway sonnets at this Melville-inspired series at the seaport with these lovelies @mcnallyjackson.bsky.social
Obsessed with vengeance, Ahab drove them all out to sea.
March 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Obsessed with vengeance, Ahab drove them all out to sea.
Thank you @rykaaoki.bsky.social for blurbing my baby! 😘
March 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Thank you @rykaaoki.bsky.social for blurbing my baby! 😘
🎉🥳Happy pub day to me! 🎉🥳
WHAT TO CARRY INTO THE FUTURE emerged from my quest to ride every NYC subway from end to end. It’s an unconditional love letter to a city whose conditions are not the easiest to love. Come for the mass transit and stick around for treescapes and river sonnets.
WHAT TO CARRY INTO THE FUTURE emerged from my quest to ride every NYC subway from end to end. It’s an unconditional love letter to a city whose conditions are not the easiest to love. Come for the mass transit and stick around for treescapes and river sonnets.
March 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
🎉🥳Happy pub day to me! 🎉🥳
WHAT TO CARRY INTO THE FUTURE emerged from my quest to ride every NYC subway from end to end. It’s an unconditional love letter to a city whose conditions are not the easiest to love. Come for the mass transit and stick around for treescapes and river sonnets.
WHAT TO CARRY INTO THE FUTURE emerged from my quest to ride every NYC subway from end to end. It’s an unconditional love letter to a city whose conditions are not the easiest to love. Come for the mass transit and stick around for treescapes and river sonnets.
This spring I'll be sharing my labor of love, WHAT TO CARRY INTO THE FUTURE, in a series of readings across the spring.
The book sprang from a quest to ride every NYC subway line end to end. Pre-order now >>> bookshop.org/a/110446/979...
The book sprang from a quest to ride every NYC subway line end to end. Pre-order now >>> bookshop.org/a/110446/979...
March 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This spring I'll be sharing my labor of love, WHAT TO CARRY INTO THE FUTURE, in a series of readings across the spring.
The book sprang from a quest to ride every NYC subway line end to end. Pre-order now >>> bookshop.org/a/110446/979...
The book sprang from a quest to ride every NYC subway line end to end. Pre-order now >>> bookshop.org/a/110446/979...
Now available for pre-order—my new book of poems, WHAT TO CARRY INTO A FUTURE. bookshop.org/a/110446/979...
February 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Now available for pre-order—my new book of poems, WHAT TO CARRY INTO A FUTURE. bookshop.org/a/110446/979...
Feeling very validated by this notecard in today’s mail.
Text by Elizabeth Willis, with illustration by Nancy Bower, published by Litmus Press.
Text by Elizabeth Willis, with illustration by Nancy Bower, published by Litmus Press.
January 29, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Feeling very validated by this notecard in today’s mail.
Text by Elizabeth Willis, with illustration by Nancy Bower, published by Litmus Press.
Text by Elizabeth Willis, with illustration by Nancy Bower, published by Litmus Press.
from Danez Smith, a prayer/intention to implement:
“let us not be idle or stunned by fear/not be so comfortable that we ignore/another's grieving instead/of ending what forces her grief. //let us not be scared of the work/ because it's hard/
let us move the mountain/because the mountain must move.”
“let us not be idle or stunned by fear/not be so comfortable that we ignore/another's grieving instead/of ending what forces her grief. //let us not be scared of the work/ because it's hard/
let us move the mountain/because the mountain must move.”
January 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
from Danez Smith, a prayer/intention to implement:
“let us not be idle or stunned by fear/not be so comfortable that we ignore/another's grieving instead/of ending what forces her grief. //let us not be scared of the work/ because it's hard/
let us move the mountain/because the mountain must move.”
“let us not be idle or stunned by fear/not be so comfortable that we ignore/another's grieving instead/of ending what forces her grief. //let us not be scared of the work/ because it's hard/
let us move the mountain/because the mountain must move.”
A few years ago, I was looking for a way to feel ok in a world that is not ok, and I sought sanctuary on the NYC subway, using the trains as my writing studio. I rode (wrote) every subway line from end-to-end, and these are the lines that emerged. Coming in March 2025 from Roof Books.
January 12, 2025 at 12:54 PM
A few years ago, I was looking for a way to feel ok in a world that is not ok, and I sought sanctuary on the NYC subway, using the trains as my writing studio. I rode (wrote) every subway line from end-to-end, and these are the lines that emerged. Coming in March 2025 from Roof Books.
One of the many delights of Stacey D’Erasmo’s THE LONG RUN is Samuel Delaney describing his teaching ethos:
“You need to teach people that they’re important enough to say what they have to say.”
Repeating for whoever needs to hear this today: you’re important enough to say what you have to say!
“You need to teach people that they’re important enough to say what they have to say.”
Repeating for whoever needs to hear this today: you’re important enough to say what you have to say!
January 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
One of the many delights of Stacey D’Erasmo’s THE LONG RUN is Samuel Delaney describing his teaching ethos:
“You need to teach people that they’re important enough to say what they have to say.”
Repeating for whoever needs to hear this today: you’re important enough to say what you have to say!
“You need to teach people that they’re important enough to say what they have to say.”
Repeating for whoever needs to hear this today: you’re important enough to say what you have to say!
I could screenshot page after page of @alexispauline ‘s SURVIVAL IS A PROMISE as I read it slowly, each day, over the breakfast table. But this little paragraph about the real costs of running a vital small press took my breath away 🧵.
![Paragraph from Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ SURVIVAL IS A PROMISE that reads: “In retrospect, [Barbara] Smith calls the experience of keeping Kitchen Table Press alive through repeated heroic efforts “traumatic.” The fact that the press continued to publish, reprint, and distribute meaningful works of literature for more than eleven years is a miracle in the sense that it was an impossible thing that happened. But it did not happen by magic; it happened at a great cost. It taught those involved, especially Smith, something about pressure and the tension between collective vision and individual accountability. Groups of people continually rallied to support KTP, but Barbara knew that if she stopped devoting full-time unpaid labor to the work, the press would close that same year.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6weasn64lspkhzv67vxdb3ah/bafkreiehc24mj4x7jyqkt7ixezrlx7wrroxepmk2cofjrxfdoi47lu4eay@jpeg)
November 26, 2024 at 12:33 PM
I could screenshot page after page of @alexispauline ‘s SURVIVAL IS A PROMISE as I read it slowly, each day, over the breakfast table. But this little paragraph about the real costs of running a vital small press took my breath away 🧵.
“the pen like a ventilator
for a dozen patients”
One of my favorites from Mosab Abu Toha’s Forest of Noise, his devastating collection about life in Gaza.
for a dozen patients”
One of my favorites from Mosab Abu Toha’s Forest of Noise, his devastating collection about life in Gaza.
November 19, 2024 at 12:08 PM
“the pen like a ventilator
for a dozen patients”
One of my favorites from Mosab Abu Toha’s Forest of Noise, his devastating collection about life in Gaza.
for a dozen patients”
One of my favorites from Mosab Abu Toha’s Forest of Noise, his devastating collection about life in Gaza.
No reason—just thinking about how in Station 11, making and sharing art, in community, gave life meaning in the post-apocalypse.
November 13, 2024 at 4:09 PM
No reason—just thinking about how in Station 11, making and sharing art, in community, gave life meaning in the post-apocalypse.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs: “In Lorde’s case, her role as a daughter of Oya means that she embodied the whirlwind, prioritized intergenerational relationships and ancestral connection, and embraced the destruction of anything that needed to be changed in order to return the elements to balance and flow.”
November 12, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Alexis Pauline Gumbs: “In Lorde’s case, her role as a daughter of Oya means that she embodied the whirlwind, prioritized intergenerational relationships and ancestral connection, and embraced the destruction of anything that needed to be changed in order to return the elements to balance and flow.”
“The phragmites in bloom susurrate.”
Snippet from my new sonnet in progress, inspired by the salt marshes of Brooklyn.
Snippet from my new sonnet in progress, inspired by the salt marshes of Brooklyn.
August 22, 2023 at 12:46 PM
“The phragmites in bloom susurrate.”
Snippet from my new sonnet in progress, inspired by the salt marshes of Brooklyn.
Snippet from my new sonnet in progress, inspired by the salt marshes of Brooklyn.
Toshi Reagon’s Parable of the Sower opera, now showing at Lincoln Center, is a masterpiece for many reasons, including the lyric, “drowning people sometimes fight their rescuers.”
July 14, 2023 at 11:40 AM
Toshi Reagon’s Parable of the Sower opera, now showing at Lincoln Center, is a masterpiece for many reasons, including the lyric, “drowning people sometimes fight their rescuers.”