Looking for Deaf-centred stories for the reader in your family? Check out these authors: @novicsara.bsky.social @sageravenwood.bsky.social @rossshowalter.com @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social Keep an eye on this page. I’ll be recommending Deaf & Disabled authors & artists throughout the month. 🤟🏼

The poem is based on a true story. A fist did indeed come through a door…Every Damn Day Is Domestic Violence Awareness. Pulp was originally published in Pinhole Poetry. #DomesticViolence, #Holidays, #Pulp, #pinholepoetry

Might be human… We’re all complicit in this humanness. Let this be a reminder, kindness doesn’t cost a damn thing… #human, #WeCarryTheWound, #mightbeapoet, #KindnessRebel

When you have fangs and a heart. Our humanity is making us the wrong kind of animal. #fangsandheart, #trashethos, #notgrandmaspoetry, #littlegirlgrownup

She’s two and as fierce as the day she debuted. #everythingthathurtusbecomesaghost, #RebelPoet, #Indigenous, #gallaudetuniversity, #debutanniversay

I’m not even mad the moon hid last night. Make sure to read the poem inspiring the caption. I was fortunate and honored Atlanta Review chose to published ‘Between Bites’ a few years back. #moonlight, #betweenbites, #atlantareview, #poetry

*Lit Cigarette Summer is in two parts. The recent Canadian wildfires have me returning to this poem of mine in scavengers.lit . NY’s red haze moonlit nights of ‘what have we done’, is yet another in your face reminder. The world is becoming a dumpster fire with each passing day.

I’ve been sadly remiss in announcing two wonderful anthologies I had the pleasure of gracing recently. The first is @pioneertownlit decade long celebrated collection - Pioneertown Pairings. Poems are paired with a cocktail or mocktail recipe throughout. Check out my poem, ‘What Escapes a Throat’.

We can’t let April pass us by without featuring some #DeafLit for #NationalPoetryMonth! Here's “Night Speak” and “Playing God with a Flashlight” by @sageravenwood.bsky.social from EVERYTHING THAT HURT US BECOMES A GHOST. Now 30% off w/ promo code NDHM2025: gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/E/Ever...

Includes collections by @mailbykite.bsky.social, Naomi Cohn, @tagreathouse.bsky.social, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social, @sageravenwood.bsky.social, and Jillian Weise.

Your girl’s book is featured in the DeafLit Reading Fest. I’m right up there with Nyle Dimarco whose book Deaf Utopia made The NY Times Bestseller list. 🙏🤟

There’s no flesh between love and pain…Twin shadows, never one without the other.” I’m a little too ‘real’, so you might want to grab a copy before it ends up getting banned in this new reality we find ourselves in. gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/E/Ever...

Today’s a good day after all. 🙏🤟

What is Autumn of the soul but a lesson in how to let the dead things go. And what if we can’t? It’s been a quiet year of gentling loss and goodbyes. Words unflinchingly stabbing pins in nerve endings like a voodoo doll as if we haven’t already succumbed to grief.

Honored! 🙏🤟

Happy Bookaversary! It’s been one year since Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost debuted. I would love to hear what you thought of the collection or if there was a favorite poem. 🙏🤟

A poetry expose, halfway between beauty and chaos. ‘I still don’t like my face’ but this book is what happens when you cut the raw truth from your body and expose it to the light of day. The emptying… (link in bio)

My poem ‘Deer Woman’ originally published in @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social is today’s feature poem on #versedaily www.versedaily.org/2024/deerwom...

I’m honored and thankful to @shiloniziolek for choosing ‘Tsola’ one of two poems for print in the recent issue of @scavengers.lit. When you see life unfolding around you and within you.

When you trip into Goodreads and find your book isn’t doing so bad after all. 🙏🤟 www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...

The post about my 2nd book making finalist for the Southeast Missouri State University Cowles Poetry Prize got a lot of traction. Here’s the poem the collection is based on. First published in Hobo Camp Review. It’s loosely based on the MMIW (Missing Murdered Indigenous Woman) movement.

I had the honor of having two poems accepted by South Dakota Review. I’ve already shared the first with you, here’s the second one, aptly titled, ‘Seeded Pain’. Once again the poem is in two parts, scroll for the second half. Indigenous thoughts on who we are.

What better way to say I’m not a fan of Valentine’s Day than to share, ‘I’m Not the Branch’ a deaf poem about falling out of love or is it about love. You decide. This poem first showed up Santa Clara Review and makes an entrance in my book ‘Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost’.

It’s an incredible honor to grace the pages of the latest issue of South Dakota Review. American Spirit is in two parts✌️pages. Make sure you read for the full poem. Speaking about native cliches…

So there’s this…

When you’re trying to get creative promoting your book which came out in Oct. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Honestly, I don’t know what I’m doing. I wrote some words in a poetry collection. You can find it here: gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/E/Ever... Let me know what your favorite poem of mine is. I’d love to know.

My manuscript ‘Many Persons Faces Covered Over’ ended up being a finalist in the Southeast Missouri State University Press 2023 Cowles Poetry Prize. I’m writing it off as a big deal. So close to having another of my books out in the world. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’m delighted to have my poem ‘Vase Drunk Season’ in the latest issue of Free State Review with so many other amazing writers.

Let’s keep the mystery alive. Yes, I’m damn well angry in that second image. Either I have a perpetual pout or scowl. Life has jagged edges, I don’t like being sawed open.

"Glue your eyes to my chest so you won't see my mouth devouring a scream" Sage, this gave me the goosebumps. The whole poem is stunning 🔥 Can't wait to read the full issue when my copy arrives across the border... & beyond excited to have a piece alongside yours in Shō #4 💙

When our stories come with warnings and a belief in something larger within us. I’m incredibly grateful to have my poem ‘Deer Woman’ (Ani Yunwitsandsdi) in the latest issue of @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social with so many other extraordinary poets.

So happy to be published in Shō no. 4 @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social with two Returning from the Dead poems. Also thrilled to be alongside poets like @jackbedell.bsky.social Ariel Francisco Melissa Fite Johnson, @sageravenwood.bsky.social @janezwart.bsky.social and many others!!

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I just received my copy of @sageravenwood.bsky.social's gorgeous debut poetry book. Sage is one of my very favorite poets & I've been waiting years for this book. Get your copy at the link below: t.co/4HiQp7gQ15

I’m honored to have my poem ‘Singing Coming From a Torn Throat’ in the recent edition of @WorcesterReview Volume 44 with so many amazing writers. Poem is in two parts scroll for the ending. It’s a nod to October’s soliloquy.

Two weeks!! I can’t wait until this book is out in the world! ‘Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost’ comes out October 18th from @GallaudetPress. It’s available for preorder from the link below as well as Amazon, Barnes & Noble. Who else is excited? gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/E/Ever...

I’m incredibly honored to have my poem ‘Pretend You’re Not an Occupying Force’ in @reservoirroad.bsky.social For what it is, for what it means, and where it ends. This one holds my heart. www.reservoirroadlit.com/issue-11/pre...

It’s an honor to have my poem ‘Torn’ in the latest issue of @westtrestal. I can’t think of a more appropriate poem to offer up as summer wind down. www.westtrestlereview.com/west_trestle...

Oh, hey. My poem is up at Atlas and Alice today. atlasandalice.com/2023/08/31/p...

I have several poems coming in the next few months. My book, Everything That Hurt Us Becomes Ghost will be out from @GallaudetPress Oct 18th. And…I’m starting to query my supernatural/thriller (not poetry) book. I can’t wait for everything to find it’s way to you. This is my writing life.🤟

I’m around but I also have a self imposed deadline. Surprisingly, I’m actually sticking to the deadline. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Here’s your August reminder ‘Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost’ is coming your way in Oct. ( in ✌️ months ) from @GallaudetPress . Preorders are available from https://gupress.gallaudet.edu/everything-that-hurt-us-becomes-a-ghost.html Amazon, and Barnes & Noble

I love everything @chuckwendig.bsky.social writes. He hooked me in with Blackbird, been a fan since. Plus he’s cool as hell on the socials.