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Here's an example from Rilke (from Sonnets to Orpheus)

If I were to do a craft talk and/ or workshop, I would spend one hour on questions: looking at the way poets successfully pose/ posit questions in a poem. So often, people leave in questions that were simply draft scaffolding.

This poem did not make it into Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water, but it was in the earliest drafts of the book. I found it incredibly hard to take this poem out of the book. Still, I love this poem and Alvin Coffey's important and particular experience of racial slavery.

Tonight! Join @toosiewatson.bsky.social to celebrate WHAT WE DO WITH GOD with special guests @ehughespoetry.bsky.social and Hanif Abdurraqib Streams live at 7:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...

It was such a gift to be a part of Daniella's launch!!!

LIVE NOW! Join @toosiewatson.bsky.social to celebrate WHAT WE DO WITH GOD with special guests @ehughespoetry.bsky.social and Hanif Abdurraqib. Stream here:

It was really cool to hear this conversation between Atricia Bennett and Jon Tobias! I was really honored to be put in conversation with CA Conrad. poetryinternationalonline.com/the-poets-we...

Over the past few days, with the release of ‘BLKNWS TERMS AND CONDITIONS‘, friends have shared that our “Black Outdoors” conversation with Fred Moten and Saidiya Hartman appears early in the film and was important to the filmmaker. ❤️💐

Patricia Smith’s The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems has won the National Book Award for Poetry! Read more here: buff.ly/HKCSQQQ

It is such a great honor to help @victoriachang.bsky.social select the winner of the 2025 Georgia Poetry Prize alongside Weijia pan and L.A. Johnson. Send your manuscripts by November 30th! ugapress.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/t...

Happy publication birthday to my debut collection, Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water! Yesterday, it was long listed from the 2025 Maya Angelou Book Award, alongside other brilliant poets. Thank you to everyone who spent time reading the book. And thanks again to Haymarket for giving the book a home.

It is a great, great honor to have my first piece of scholarship published in Callaloo Journal. I join a long line of black thinkers and writers taking seriously the literary pursuits of Black and African Diasporic people.

I cant wait to celebrate Daniella Toosie-Watson's debut What We Do With God. RSVP here: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

AOC: If anybody says “this isn’t fair, I'm gonna have to divest all my stocks if I run for congress” maybe you should stay home.

I'm off to Frankfurt, Germany, to give a talk titled "On the Exquisite Corpse: Blackness and Inexpressibility."

These days, I should either be writing a chapter, article, or poem--or editing one. I love writing, but getting this career off the ground is incredibly difficult.

Chicago and Midwest friends, I am moving back in September. Let's collaborate on some reading events!

drove from Chicago to New York today so haven’t linksposted BUT FRIDAY LINKS IS UP featuring @emmdubb16.bsky.social @ehughespoetry.bsky.social @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social @kdonhoops.com and MORE! www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162657374

Last year, I had the opportunity to be interviewed by philosopher Dr George Yancy about Juneteenth. In the interview, we talk about the philosophical significance of freedom in relation to the ongoing work of antiblackness. truthout.org/articles/jun...

I am so happy my second collection Another Way to Say Dying is a finalist for the CAAPS Book Prize! This book explores the demands of black queer love: the ways blackness renders the demand of love ineffable and the way relation is impossible under the duress of antiblackness.

It was such a great honor to be in conversation with @britrogers.bsky.social, @moonsatdusk.bsky.social, and Luther Hughes on the Vs. Podcast live at AWP. Check out our interview:

Free Palestine reading list

Last Saturday, I was honored to be selected as a library laureate of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. It was such an honor to be mentioned with such literary and artistic icons and to attend their Spring Awakening gala.

On Saturday, I will be leading a poetry workshop at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory on art, history, and healing. Register here: carlos.emory.edu/calendar?tru... Cost: Free for Emory Students $25 for nonmembers $18 for members

Glad to be in conversation with Jimin Seo and Annie Wenstrup in @triquarterlymag.bsky.social "It’s important to say that none of these meticulously crafted debuts are illegible. Each chooses their audience." - Asa Drake www.triquarterly.org/the-latest-w...

DC! Lauren K. Watel, E. Ethelbert Miller, and I will be reading at East City Books! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/hybrid-eve...

I am ABD!!

See yall there. #AWP25

LA! Join us for an offsite poetry reading during AWP, featuring @intifadabatata.bsky.social, Franny Choi, @ehughespoetry.bsky.social, & Christopher Soto Friday, 3/28 at 7:00 pm the loft at LINT donations benefit @mecaforpeace.bsky.social RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

AWP is about one week away. Here is where you can find me! Hope to see you at one (or more) of these events.

Thanks to Hunter Buccheit for this feature! visionaryartistrymag.com/2025/02/e-hu...

As much as people hate Afropessimism, it is really important to note that Hegel writes that Black Africans are in contempt of humanity. AP, if anything, is trying to deal with this particular, morbid, and pervasive idea that continually justifies diasporic Black abjection.

Next week! Steffan Triplett and I will be reading together at White Whale Bookstore! If you're in Pittsburgh, come see us!

here is a picture of Zora Neale Hurston drumming her magic ✨

AWP booked!

MUSTARRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDD

New poetry collections by Frank X. Walker and @ehughespoetry.bsky.social use documentary techniques to dramatize tumultuous eras in Black American history.

"We can't afford individualism." [email protected]

Last night, it was a dream.✨✨ Thanks, Charis Books, for hosting us! 📸: @wjlofton1.bsky.social

What a compliment to be put into conversation with Frank X. Walker. Thank you to André Naffis-Sahely for this detailed engagement with Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water.

Today, Trayvon Martin should be celebrating his 30th birthday. He should be surrounded by friends and family. Trayvon deserved to see 30. Happy heavenly birthday 🕊️

We have tried for many centuries to reform the ideologies that permeate universalism. It is time now--to let it go.

Doechii joins Cardi B and Lauryn Hill as the only women in #GRAMMYs  history to win Best Rap Album.

Next Wednesday (2/5) at Charis Books, THE luminaries Aurielle Marie and Courtney Faye Taylor will join me in celebrating Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water. Register here: www.crowdcast.io/c/ankle-deep

Yesterday, I received my first acceptance for an academic publication! I am so excited to share that my article "On Black Poetry: The Corpse and the Phenomenon of Third Person Consciousness" is forthcoming in Callaloo!

What a joy to read with @lkwatel and E. Hughes, two amazing poets. Thanks to Deanna Sirlin and the The Art Section and the Carlos Museum.

You can’t call yourself “America First” if you cut off federal grants in the U.S. while continuing to fund Israel.

Debut novel 🩵🤍The Edge of Water by @ogracebankole.bsky.social is out next week! Read more: tinhouse.com/book/the-edg...

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin