Author of Not on the Last Day, But on the Very Last (@Milkweed_Books, 2016). Opinions are your own.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined March 2015
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Any friends in or around Athens, Greece who can recommend a top-notch dentist? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
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What if Elon Musk is just trying to make us all more productive by killing Twitter?
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Vonnegut on "Howl", Ginsburg's 'I saw the best minds of our generation destroyed' poem.
Makes me laugh.
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The only outlet
in Philomath sells wood, the kind that grows
just here & in the holy lands.
—Devon Walker-Figueroa (@DeVonciFig)
#fromthearchives
poems.com/poem/philomath/
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I'm so excited to announce a new era of the podcast! What was already occurring I've made official: welcome Ode & Psyche Podcast, devoted to starting conversations around how poetry illuminates the mechanisms of human consciousness. I'll be focusing in on elements of...
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dear friends, here are pics of my poem published today on @POETSorg. Also a link to the sound recording! A thousand laurel leaves to @marcelo_H_ who’s been bringing us October little by little.
🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂
open.spotify.com/episode/0mk…
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My condolences to everyone on the academic job market, which only seems to get more terrible each year.
I’m here to talk about what work on the other side of things can be like if you want. I gave up a tenured creative writing job this summer to work in industry. DM me.
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I had the pleasure of attending a wonderful Q&A with the lovely @DeVonciFig at VCU for our Levis Prize! Pick up her gorgeous (award winning!) collection here: milkweed.org/book/philomath
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I am in Ukraine right now to see my uncle who’s been ill. I have stories to share in due time. But for now, a plea for help: if you have the means, might you consider donating to refugee center in Odesa?
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Northeast friends: would anyone like to host these personality plus chinchilla girls for a year starting in November? I have to be outside North America for 12 consecutive months starting then & cannot bring them with me. I'd be forever in your debt! DM me if interested
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“The first lines of what would become the book took shape in a candlelit basement in Salem, Oregon, where I was bartending at the time.” @DeVonciFig uncovers the making of Philomath, her debut poetry collection out now from @Milkweed_Books. at.pw.org/FreeingSpace5
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So this is unreal… All of these amazing poets and I get to live among them and write among them—and fulfill my lifelong dream of becoming a cartoon! And all thanks to P&W. Very very grateful.
In our #2021DebutPoets feature we celebrate ten powerful voices: @ThreaWrites @DesireeCBailey @wjherbertpoetry @anaportbrim @cheswayoo @ShangyangFang @YesAurielle @djsweeney Moheb Soliman and @DeVonciFig. at.pw.org/FreeingSpace
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“Have you ever watched a person burn / what’s left of the person they love I have”
“Out of Body” from Philomath by Devon Walker-Figueroa @DeVonciFig
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Retweeting myself because the Twitter algorithm has completely given up on me, of all people, who tweets once every 6 months (very reasonable!).
These @SMU creative writing fellowships really are a fab opportunity. 2 years, $50k, 1:1 course load, time to devote to your project:
A great opportunity at @SMU—the inaugural Hughes Fellowships in Creative Writing: jobs.chronicle.com/job/41905…
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you and I
Are suddenly what the trees try
To tell us we are:
That their merely being there
Means something
—John Ashbery
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"PHILOMATH is more than pastoral; it is intensely personal and intimate with its surroundings. @DeVonciFig demonstrates that a place is more than its ecosystem and infrastructure. More than anything else, it is its people." ✨✨✨ @clereviewbooks
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I feel gaslit by how little we acknowledge the inherent, unfathomable mystery of being here. Like, we sincerely have no idea where we came from or where we're going & I'm supposed to pay bills/do my taxes/email/?! God is breathing on the glass & we're talking about the glass.
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“I committed the poem to memory and carried it with me as a contraindication of the true path, humming it like an anthem of failed feeling as I wended the tame gauntlet of my late girlhood.” I’m so glad this piece found its circuitous way to me. bit.ly/3CtqwZD
