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The thing is, I love you all but I am drowning in Substacks

Hinge showing me the profile of a friend of mine who I know is very not alive and saying we are most compatible is exactly how my dating life is going 🙃

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -Assata Shakur

📣 NEW RELEASE ALERT! 📣 Boa Editions is thrilled to announce that Aracelis Girmay's new collection of poetry GREEN OF ALL HEADS is out now! We have signed paperbacks and hardcovers for sale on our store in limited supply! Purchase yourself a copy today at boaeditions.org. Spread the word🍃

Thank you Wolf and all @redhotorg.bsky.social. TRANSA is such a beautiful project and great to celebrate last night at The Getty.

Some evenings you come home and you just need to hear Nina Simone. That voice, that ache.

3 new poems up at @villaineralit.

September 30!

Sending a transmission from downtown Los Angeles— it’s very intense here and swelling. We are in the thick of it fighting back.

oh well

If you keep a journal, the time passing will always make a shape -Alice Notley

I am qualified for giving you pain by telling the truth -Alice Notley

Being made to be a sniper by the American government is a very public thing - Alice Notley

Too much has happened to me -Alice Notley

🖤 ALICE 🖤

Erasure poems using a copy of Polysecure

April 22nd is Earth Day. Get a copy of the new IOE anthology, Ecobloomspaces. Great work by poets such as @jjrancourt.bsky.social @dare-williams.bsky.social @kelliagodon.bsky.social and many more. Purchase here: buff.ly/Qr67DPH #writingcommunity

If you’re all edges, are you edgy?

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open there no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will. - Czesław Miłosz

This anthology from @ironoakeditions.bsky.social dropped at AWP - thank you for giving this poem a home and glad to share pages with many talents.

The ides of March… if only

I have 2 new poems in @birdcoatquarterly.bsky.social thank you for giving them a home. A poem made at @vermontstudioctr.bsky.social after a cruisey encounter and another about HIV in the body, art making and historical disconnection. www.birdcoatquarterly.com/post/dare-wi...

On March 19, hear former #ExpoReview Poetry Editor @cdeskilson.bsky.social read from their debut poetry collection SCREAM / QUEEN at Skylight Books, with a double #ExpoContributor bonus of Edwin Bodney & @dare-williams.bsky.social & Sarah Ellen Fowler: www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylig...!

@cdeskilson.bsky.social has written a force of a book and I’m so excited to be a part of the celebration 🖤🖤🖤

“ Death begins at birth…and escalates at dinner parties”

because of the fucking reticence of this world -Jean Valentine

Inspired to listen to @dare-williams.bsky.social read his poem ETYMOLOGY (bit.ly/ExpoEtymology) in #Transposition, our podcast, born out of COVID & the need to celebrate our 2020 annual issue writers in a bigger way than sheltering in place allowed. Listen here: expositionreview.com/issues/vol-v....

Be unformatable

Let’s gooooo!!!! @terivela.bsky.social

I’m so ready

Wait… is this place pronounced Bloo- skye or Bloo-skee

Listening to Coltrane. Cooking dinner. The little joys.

AbracaDebra would be an amazing drag name

Something I can say from my 43 years on this earth is when fashion turns toward office core, it’s always a sign that a recession is near 🙃

My teacher ✨✨

Today’s Featured Poet: Saúl Hernández is a queer writer from San Antonio, TX who was raised by former undocumented parents. As a finalist for The Wisconsin Poetry Series, his debut poetry collection, How to Kill a Goat & Other Monsters, is out now, University of Wisconsin Press.

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Sharing this poem pubbed last year from @splitlipthemag.bsky.social thank you for supporting my work splitlipthemag.com/poetry/1223/...

I guess I should begin by saying I recently graduated from the MFA program @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social something I told myself I could never do and I shared a little about that and maybe it will help you too.