"Eligible to New York City-based artists with children under the age of three, awardees will receive a grant for $25,000 to be used for childcare expenses with the provider of their choice." www.artistsandmothers.org/grant - Applications due by Jan 2.

Happy December, y'all!! Gotta kick off the 🎄 season right!!! Take it away, DMX!!

YOU KNOW WTF TIME IT IS!!!!♐️♐️♐️♐️♐️♐️

Tonight! Don't miss this reading by Tiana Clark and Donika Kelly at 7PM at Black Pearl Books! Free RSVP: secure.qgiv.com/for/torlitart/event/tianaclarkanddonikakelly/

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a double feature reading by @melissafebos.bsky.social and @donikakelly.bsky.social!

A poem I wrote some months ago showed up at my door today in the first issue of the relaunched Southerly magazine.

My third book, This Elegance, is out from @boa-editions.bsky.social in May 2026. Cover design by Sandy Knight with art by Diedrick Brackens. Available to preorder now 🙏🏿

🌈📚 📖 The Natural Order of Things: Poems by Donika Kelly @donikakelly.bsky.social an extraordinary and unexpected book of finding happiness Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks #poetry

Tomorrow on the show, I'll be talking w poet Donika Kelly about her new collection, THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS, an evocative cycle of poems that have much to do w happiness and love and embodiment, & what it's like to experience these sorts of things on the other side of a darkness. Stay tuned...

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

they just did this to millennials saying the reason we couldn't afford homes is because of coffee.

Join us for An Evening with Tiana Clark and Donika Kelly at Black Pearl Books! Thursday, Nov. 6th 7:00 P.M. Black Pearl Books 7112 Burnet Rd, Austin, TX 78757 RSVP: secure.qgiv.com/for/torlitart/event/tianaclarkanddonikakelly/

#ClipOfTheDay: “I was little and lost / the season I learned to be still...” In this Charis Circle event, Donika Kelly reads poems from her new collection, The Natural Order of Things (Graywolf Press), and speaks with Jericho Brown about family, home, and her writing process. at.pw.org/KellyCharis

Sharing for awareness: For those able and willing to help, the Embassy of Jamaica in DC is coordinating disaster relief in the U.S. They have asked folks to reach out to them at [email protected] to coordinate support. The government has info on donations supportjamaica.gov.jm

Awaiting a pre-reading burrito. See you at Skylight Books at 7!

This was such a fantastic event! If you're in Boston, please check out Just Book-ish, a lovely Black queer bookstore!

Save the Date! November 6 at 7pm Black Pearl Books Join us for a special evening at Black Pearl Books featuring Tiana Clark, author of Scortch Earth, and Donika Kelly, author of The Natural Order of Things! RSVP: secure.qgiv.com/for/torlitar...

I'll be in Dorchester, Mass this Tuesday at Just Book-ish at 6:30-8pm. RSVP at www.justbook-ish.com.

#ClipOfTheDay: “So much has happened / that I would never have known / I could remember.” In this Silo City Reading Series video, Donika Kelly reads her poem “Suicide Watch: Spring,” which appears in her third poetry collection, The Natural Order of Things (Graywolf Press). at.pw.org/SiloCityKelly

In her latest poetry collection, The Natural Order of Things, out now from @graywolfpress.bsky.social, Donika Kelly (@donikakelly.bsky.social) celebrates joy as a simple yet radical means of resisting despair. “I have a high capacity for sensitivity to the sublime.” Read more: at.pw.org/DonikaKelly

Announcing our Nov/Dec issue! 🎉 Inside you’ll find a profile of poet Donika Kelly, author of The Natural Order of Things; our tenth annual 5 Over 50 debut author feature; a craft essay in appreciation of the longer short story; and the case for collective resistance to AI. More: at.pw.org/NovDec2025

Tonight!

The book tour continues! Tomorrow night at 7:30 eastern, I'll be in conversation with Jericho Brown at Charis Books. Register for the livestream here: www.crowdcast.io/c/the-natura...

The moon drops one or two feathers into the field. The dark wheat listens. Be still. Now. James Wright

From BOMB’s Fall 2025 Issue, @donikakelly.bsky.social’s poems from THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS (graywolfpress.bsky.social) evoke a visceral sense of the intimate. Read an excerpt. tinyurl.com/2c8kpjew

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading at the Iowa City Public Library with Donika Kelly!

Congratulations to Torch Features Patricia Smith and Tiana Clark, and all of the finalists longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry! See Tiana Clark and Donika Kelly at the Torch events at the Texas Book Festival in November! Details at TorchLiteraryArts.org

please go look at the moon.

We can't wait to host Donika Kelly as she launches her wonderful new collection, "The Natural Order of Things"!

Book stuff kicks off next week, with a home book launch in Iowa City as part of the @iowacityoflit.bsky.social Book Festival. Tuesday 10/7 at 7pm at the Iowa City Public Library!

if you want to hear it with the original audio instaed of the music, I downloaded this from the EcoWatch Discovery Mauritius Instagram page directly. if you want to share it please credit them

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

"What I Might Sing," a poem from my new book THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS (pub 10/7), is in the @newyorker.com. Preorder link for a signed copy book is in my pinned post. @graywolfpress.bsky.social

shit ain’t over til it’s over

“why some people be mad at me sometimes” they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep remembering mine - Lucille Clifton [writing the most Black woman poem of all time]

today is the last day to apply to be a 2026 Periplus Fellow! application closes at 11:59pm EST

My new poetry collection The Natural Order of Things drops October 7 and is currently 15% off at bookshop.org!

Today’s Featured Poem: “We Came Here to Get Away from You” by @donikakelly.bsky.social from The Natural Order of Things published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/we-came...

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

Wow! We're up to 175 participants & more than $10k in pledges/direct contributions! Let’s keep the momentum going ❤️‍🔥 You can still join the #sealeychallenge Poetry Pledge Fundraiser for Gaza, as a participant or sponsor, at any time. Details here: mailchi.mp/openpoetrybo...

My niece is going for Youth Athlete of the Year. Please give her a vote! athleteoftheyear.org/2025/mariah-...

My niece is going for Youth Athlete of the Year. Please give her a vote! athleteoftheyear.org/2025/mariah-...

czeslaw milosz, written in berkeley 1971

please vote, y'all.

In this excerpt from Melissa Febos’s (@melissafebos.bsky.social‬) memoir “The Dry Season,” Febos explores her relationship with pleasure and convinces us of the ecstasy of abstinence. buff.ly/n43eYXt

Let us be ocean and coast, a taking into and over one another: shifting sediment, a breaking down of rock: dredge and deposit. @donikakelly.bsky.social‬, "Love Poem" www.brinkerhoffpoetr...

Give me some Pointer Sisters... #SesameStreet