Special Thanks to Beyond Baroque and @angelafranklin for an afternoon of poetry, speaking truth to power against DV.

Opening Night was amazing! Special Thanks to Towne Street Theatre for their production of my poem, "Hold the Line."

In Repsonse - 2025 share.google/VEBvhluKtDrQ... Tickets are on sale now

Special Thanks to Towne Street Theatre for selecting my spoken word poem "Hold the Line" for Rise Up! 2025. Performances begin in October at the Stella Adler Theater in Hollywood, CA.

I cannot emphasise ENOUGH how important it is o get your contract checked by @societyofauthors.bsky.social before you sign. A key area is where there is no clause for rights reversion, and you want to take back all of the rights or just some and you can't societyofauthors.org/2018/02/16/b...

It's here! Women in a Golden State...175 California women poets in celebration of CA's 175th anniversary. My poem, "I Saw My Mom Today" is included.

Scary, unsettling times on this world. Meanwhile, 5,000 light years away, this beautiful giant cloud, the Dolphin Nebula, glows, blown by hot winds from a massive star. About 60 light years across, it covers an area about the size of a full moon in our skies. 🧪 apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20030...

It is March 2, 2025. My plan was to leave the world on March 2, 2024. What a difference in a year. I still have bad days. But reasons to stay are easier to find each day. Thankful for family, for friends, for library kids who ARE going to save the world. Once a library kid, always a library kid 💚

If you are already subscribed to our daily writing sprints, there is no charge for this event, but it is also open to anyone who would like to join in ($25). If you'd like to register, message me here, or reach me at tebbetts.chris at gmail dot com for payment details. Thanks!

Yay! 🎉 Celebrate with me...Gunpowder Press will publish my poem, "I Saw My Mom Today" in their anthology of work by California women; coming May 2025.

OMG. Her art/children’s book illustration is spectacular! Celebrate Black History Month, read The Voice of Freedom Fanny Lou Hamer, written by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Ekua Holmes.

I Walk the Black Heritage Trail buff.ly/3PvMIdF via @PragmaticMom #BlackHistoryMonth #Boston #BlackHeritageTrail

And two final 2024 novels in verse buff.ly/40s4HrM via A Kid's Book A Day #ReadYourWorld #novelsinverse #middlegrade #KidLit

Los Angeles teachers, if you lost your classroom library in the fire, I am a HS English teacher and YA author and I will get you books whenever you're ready for them. The bookish community is here for you. There is no expiration date. tinyurl.com/LAFireBookDo...

#WritingTips How using an agenda can help you protect your personal #writing time and help sustain your writing practice. Link 👇 🔗 authorspublish.com/accountabili...

48 Children’s Books Showcasing Black Achievement buff.ly/3rKPO2I via Mia Wenjen #ReadYourWorld #KidLit #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackAchievement

#PRISM: Support Student Thinking – #TCEA TechNotes Blog blog.tcea.org/prism-suppor... #EduSky

Uk list of #poetry #cfs from journals and presses #poetrycommunity

9 Juneteenth Children’s Books buff.ly/3Q8C7Vf via @pragmaticmom #ReadYourWorld #BlackHistoryMonth #Juneteenth #picturebooks

Looking for reading recs ahead of Black History Month from Black creators? Check out our catalog of adult fiction and nonfiction favorites 👉 https://buff.ly/3DJaQqS

Lovely piece written by my school about the publication of my second book KINGDOM OF DUST www.winsor.edu/lisa-stringf...

5 Picture Books about African Americans Who Excelled in the Arts buff.ly/4avENXP via @pragmaticmom #ReadYourWorld #BlackHistoryMonth #CreativeArts #biography #picturebookauthor

7 Picture Books About Blues Music & All That Jazz buff.ly/3VmMiI1 via Mia Wenjen #ReadYourWorld #BlackHistoryMonth #Jazz #KidLit #Music #bluesmusic

Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth using Children’s Books by Carole Boston Weatherford buff.ly/40bQPk3 via @pragmaticmom #CaroleBostonWeatherford #ReadYourWorld #KidLit

Charles Person, who was the youngest of the Freedom Riders in 1961, has passed away at age 82. With his passing, Hank Thomas is the last remaining of the original Freedom Riders. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

We've got all the kids and YA books you need to celebrate Black creatives this Black History Month 😍 Check out more at https://buff.ly/3PpfMnk

14 Children’s Books about Harlem buff.ly/4gPzzs8 via @pragmaticmom #ReadYourWorld #BlackHistoryMonth #Harlem #KidLit

This and other #kidsbooks from @kalaniotbooks.bsky.social show #Jewish life around the world and in a wide array of cultures

RISE UP! from #BarefootBooks is a "fact-filled and delightfully rendered picture book [of] 25 moments of protest, resistance & revolution [led to] emancipation from slavery, women’s rights, safe foods, environmental protection & minority voting rights" lithub.com/the-most-ant...

For National Science Fiction Day, ESSENCE is paying tribute to one of the greatest sci-fi novelists of all time, Octavia Butler.

Wow... My parents heard King speak at Highlander.

If you are working with CSPs in elementary settings, please consider submitting a piece to our edited book. We welcome stories in creative forms in additional to traditional chapters. We prioritize the work of scholars of Color. Deadline 1/17 forms.gle/ywpPTdk4yiFz...

Han Kang's Nobel lecture is now online. Please note that this was filmed *before* the events of 12/3 and only *released* now.

Today's #ReinasHolidayViews some old Christmas cartoons *The Snowy Day* (Amazon Prime Video)--we watch this every year now, eat mac-n-cheese and cookies and laugh and sway to the soothing sounds of Boyz II Men. www.usatoday.com/videos/life/...

The Middle Grade Book Publishing Landscape Jan 20, 2025, 7pm CT Free: bit.ly/41llRZh Sam Subity, MG author and Data Analyst,will share his latest report on the MG industry. Mallory Kass, executive editor at Scholastic, will discuss the middle grade slump and what's needed to turn it around.

A visit to Boston Public Library wouldn't be complete without the Reader's Chair in the Children's department!

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson - opening keynote speaker for NCTE 2024.

A trip to the Boston Public Library - Central for Tea.

NCTE 2024 was 🔥🔥🔥. Thanks to our amazing panel members: #ElizabethvPagel-Hogan, #GeorgeJreije, #KristenKiesling, #MattFaulkner

*Updated* Resources for Educators & Librarians on Bluesky. Includes quick ways to find other educators, events, Primary Educators, Middle School Educators, High School English Teachers, School Librarians, etc. publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/fo... #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians #Skybrarians

If you want a quick way to share the #kidlit Mega Feed with people (say, at NCTE) to make it easier to get connected with all of us on Bluesky, I made an easily shareable digital card with the QR code. #ncte24

This week’s schedule and instructions. No rules, no requirements. Just join in for as much or little of this shared quiet writing time as you like. Hosted on Instagram Live this week by @sharonlangley.bsky.social

Writing calls, fellowships & contests open to historically underrepresented authors in November 2024. 🌈✨ Includes creative funds worth up to $700,000. Link 👇 🔗 authorspublish.com/73-opportuni...

Presenting as one of three panelists at the NAGC Signature Session: “NAGC’s 70th Anniversary Celebration~The Eras Tour” co-panelists are Dr. Joyce Van Tassel-Baska and Dr. Ann Robinson. Moderator, Sheyanne Smith (Nebraska Dept of Education).

I'm totally OK with being called woke. It just means that I'm showing off my green flags. Happy to follow others with green flags. #woke

I looking forward to seeing you at #NCTE if you'll be there!

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First post on this thing feels as strange as my first Twitter post. Awkward. Yet hopeful.

#WritingTip: You can always fix bad pages. You can’t fix no pages. Write. Just write.