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Beauty Talk (@Noemi_Press, 2026) | One Way to Listen (@Gold_Line_Press, 2023) | Associate Editor @BPJTweets

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Absolutely blowing my mind today to see CLOUD MISSIVES here alongside so many poets I admire ❤️✨☁️💌
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Next Friday at 4pm. If you're in Atlanta, please attend!
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The wonderful Kalamazoo Book Arts Center has created a stunning limited edition broadside of one of my new poems "October," featuring woodblock art by Martin Hubbard. They're signed (by me) and numbered by the artist. You can preorder it here: kalbookarts.org/shop/broadsi…
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Asa Drake retweeted
Oof #LibraryTwitter . I’m seeing white librarians here and on other platforms sharing that their workplaces are safe and welcoming for minority groups and while *you* may think that, it’s not your declaration to make.
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"The ages most represented among the dead were five to nine-year-olds."
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We need to have a serious conversation about slavery--its ahistoricism--and how blackness exists outside of time. Slavery was never simply or completely configured as a material circumstance--but as a state of mind and of being.
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I think, one of the the best doing it. Get this book @E_Hughes_Poetry
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Birth certificate. Eyeglasses. Cell phone. Teddy bear. Sewing machine. Hep C medication. Breast pump. Bible. Urns of ashes. @propublica spoke with people across the US about what they lost during encampment sweeps. Please spend time with this. projects.propublica.org/home…
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Beauty is enslaved in critical philosophy. It has no domain over which to impose limitations.
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If you're in New York, please join us Oct 22 at KARMA Bookstore to celebrate the launch of OSSIA by @JimSeoni, with readings by T. Jean Lax, Maia Ruth Lee, @matthewschneier, H. Sinno, and the author. RSVP here -> pp.events/aarrEZGn
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We are excited to announce the longlist for the 2024 Granum Foundation Prize. Check it out at granumfoundation.org!
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Today is PUBLICATION DAY! Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water belongs to the world now. I have carried these poems like unspeakable hymns in my chest for many decades, and today I lay them down. They are yours now.
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This morning I am the ancient ruins of last night’s massacre
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The gratitude and good luck is truly ours. If you haven’t yet read Asa’s work, you’re in for a treat!
So thankful to Karan and the team at ONLY POEMS for this incredibly thoughtful interview and publishing so many of my poems from this summer (alongside some print-only favorites 💕)!
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⏰ writers—submit now before the 2024 Gold Line Press Chapbook Contests close for good!⏰ goldlinepress.submittable.co…
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Seeing Zionists react to the NYT story about Palestinian children being shot in the head by Israeli forces has been both fascinating & maddening. They have 3 general responses: jubilant celebration, outright denial, or “it’s just a couple bad apples.” 🧵
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Friends, I am ELATED to share that my book launch will happen at Haymarket House on October 29th with the luminaries @kemiaalabi and Ed Roberson! Sign up for tickets here: tickettailor.com/events/haym…
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I just saw my friend and colleague Hassan Hamad an hour ago Israeli occupation forces have just killed him, and what remains of his body is in pieces in a plastic bag. Why do I have to see my friends in plastic bags? Why is this world so cruel to us?
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Loves. I'm offering a FREE, VIRTUAL 4 week docu-poetics workshop with @UrbanArtsSpace. And it's virtual! Prioritizing folks with research questions / archival interests, especially those that don't have institutional support. Apply at the link below.
Want more poetry in your life? Attend a free four-week virtual workshop—Docu-poetics: Between the Stanza and Archive—led by Ajanaé Dawkins @MoonsAtDusk. Workshops will be held via Zoom on Wednesdays from 6–8 PM ET on 10/23, 11/6, 11/13, and 11/20. uas.osu.edu/events/docu-poet…
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