Submissions are now open for our annual poetry manuscript contests! We can’t wait to read yours. 💜💛💜💛 Enter here: triohousepress.submittable.com/submit

I have three #newpoems in one of my favorite lit mags, Waxwing, alongside gorgeous work by many other writers I admire. Check out all of issue 34! waxwingmag.org

If you work in the Office of Special Education for the Department of Education and have been RIF'ed or if you work in a school that has been notified about it, please message me. My Signal is emgarcia.85. I'll protect your identity.

My visual poem about refugee knowledge at sea, “Field Notes From Aliens Who Float,” found a happy home 🙏🏽🌊 Check out the full online folio!

I’m doing a modified #SealeyChallenge over on Instagram @continentaldrift_poems. Hoping to post a few times a week. Join me! First two poetry books were Bluff by Danez Smith & Dear God, Dear Bones, Dear Yellow by Noor Hindi.

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So glad to have found a happy home for my poem “Plum Jam” 💜

A sneak peek at three of @triohousepress.org's poetry book releases for 2026! I'm delighted to be among them.

Delighted, astonished, & grateful that Continental Drift will be published by @triohousepress.org in July 2026! 💜📝

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the new ANMLY is stellar

The new issue of @anmlymag.bsky.social / Anomalous Press is out and it is amazing. I'm delighted to have two poems in it, "Third Country Resettlement" and "Airport." If either looks wonky on your phone, please turn to landscape view :) anmly.org/anmly-40/ #poetry #ANMLY

My town's first #LitQuake #LitCrawl takes place May 9, 5–8pm! Come on out to hear over a dozen Merced poets (including me) + CA poet laureate Lee Herrick. I'll be at El Capitan Hotel 6:45pm. Free + open.

It was a pleasure to speak with Maiken Scott of @thepulse.whyy.org about Vietnamese refugees, trauma, parenting, & more to mark the upcoming 50th anniversary of war & diaspora. My interview is the last 12 minutes or so of this thoughtful episode.

More of this dude's nonsense, during #Autism Acceptance Month, no less. Thankfully, a poet responds. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... #poetry #neurodivergence

I’ll be reading poems this evening with a wonderful group of Southeast Asian diasporic women writers. Please join us via Zoom, 4/15 @ 4pm PT/7pm ET. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/what-would...

We hope you can join us on Thursday night!

Such a gorgeous poem! Thank you Mai-Linh

I have a new poem out in the wild(ness). Times are so hard that this feels small. But poetry has reminded me daily we can still think and create freely. I love this journal's sense of beauty and wonder and am delighted that "Field Trip" found a home there: readwildness.com/37/

DHS said she was a terrorist sympathizer and “involved in activities supporting Hamas, a terrorist organization." Revoked visa, but offered no evidence. Social media was pro-Gaza, but she said she did not attend any protest. Offered no due process.

The sad irony of our unconstitutional moment is that the perspectives of foreign students can be particularly valuable when foreign affairs dominate American discourse. It’s a dreadful thing to declare to immigrants or foreign students, “Welcome to the land of the free: Now watch what you say.”

I'm ashamed and disgusted that University of Virginia's Board of Visitors voted to end DEI, just a few years after literal Nazis marched with torches on Grounds, and I said so via email. Addresses for you to speak up, too: [email protected], [email protected] wapo.st/4bvXN8M

Jesus Christ.

I'm so grateful to have been part of this stunning cohort of Tin House Scholars. The last few years have been challenging, but poetry writing & orgs that support it make a world of difference. Thank you @tinhouse.bsky.social & your incredible staff! tinhouse.com/workshop/tin...

I'm not religious but I would visit this church 👀

"I became a writer as soon as I was in prison. I was sitting in a cell thinking, what am I going to do with these nine years?" In a conversation with PJP, Reginald Dwayne Betts shares how he became a prison poet.

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My heart is full! What a wonderful workshop this has been. #THWW

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Join our friends @workshops4gaza.bsky.social for their third online poetry reading featuring Sarah Ghazal Ali, George Abraham, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Cindy Juyoung Ok. The reading will be followed by a short moderated discussion and Q and A. Can't wait to see you there!

Day 1 of @tinhouse.bsky.social Winter Workshop has been lovely. Grateful for spaces of creativity and support during a time of so much senseless destruction. I appreciated the thoughtful statements re: Palestine & Native land that opened the program. #THWW

honestly think some of the hesitation here is that no one wants to sound like a crank. i was talking at an event last night and even i felt like a crank while i was speaking!

Protest in Houston today against deportations

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.

Important point for teachers to remember. You can create some conditions that invite "safety" but you cannot unilaterally declare your classroom a "safe space." Don't take it personally; just keep doing the work of creating better relations, better conditions, for others....

Our Chief Fascist freed all these domestic terrorists while railing against “criminal” asylum seekers on the southern border

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

Welcome to the Fringe: Palestine is seeking a diverse range of Palestinian artists, including musicians, theatre-makers, dancers, storytellers, children’s performers, poets, and comedians, to showcase their talents at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

100 Days of Creative Resistance launches Monday with @rokwon.bsky.social followed this week with posts from @melissafebos.bsky.social Denne Michele Norris & Edgar Gomez This is a free program via @writingco-lab.bsky.social To get on this list: site.corsizio.com/register/674...

Wanted to do something positive today, so I made a starter pack of Diverse Kidlit creators and industry professionals! #diversekidlit #starterpack #diversifyyourshelves #weneeddiversebooks go.bsky.app/Ma4TCD7

some forthcoming 2025 books by women of color I’m excited about!!! in this piece out today in @electriclit.bsky.social 🖤 electricliterature.com/48-books-by-...

This is true! ICE ERO administrative warrants are fundamentally requests

Find something (anything! but here’s one thing!) to do today at 9am PT / 12pm ET, besides watch that other thing. Nobody needs to start their week with a cringey post-apocalyptic reality TV special. Take good care of yourselves & each other. We need all of us for the long haul 💜

A president’s executive order cannot undo a law or a Supreme Court decision, let alone a provision of the Constitution. Forget that and you do have a dictatorship on day one.

Took my 8-year-old to see the Broadway tour production of Hamilton last night. Surreal to see this amazing work with a diverse cast, recounting the ideals & contradictions of nation’s founding, as we’re collectively testing (possibly dismantling) every gov’t value & institution worth fighting for.

We need to highlight Black people who have suffered loss during these LA fires. Please please share this "Displaced Black Families" document and donate if you can!!!!! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...