i have two new poems in @honeyliterary.bsky.social newest issue!! www.honeyliterary.com/issue9/sex-t... this is really a dream journal of mine, i feel so full having my words featured here

Today was so off 😫 none of my students did the reading and I think we were all tired so discussion was non existent

lemme celebrate by buying some Cecred

I have a poem published in issue 5 of @newwordspress.bsky.social !

Poets: how do you come up with prompts??

first day of teaching went so well! had a student compliment my syllabus 🫶🏾

thinking about sula today

here’s what I’m reading for the first quarter of 2025

I have 3 poems published in Across the Margin! So grateful to Michael for accepting them!

starting over on storygraph! follow me @ benetthewriter app.thestorygraph.com/profile/bene...

I love this shift to physical media I’m seeing, even within myself. hopefully it turns into a bigger wave that pushes against relying on technology

got amazing poetry news today!

thinking about starting a book club (just for me) so I can be really intentional about broadening my reading

Where are the girlies watching A Different World now that they took it off max??

first rejection of the year 🎉 at least it was tiered

Lucille Clifton, always.

literally said I unsubscribed from New Year’s resolutions and then made a whole bingo card of goals

reading my year compass from the end of 2022 is not for the weak “I forgive myself for letting my loneliness make me feel worthless.”

The Vertical Interrogation of Strangeness by Bhanu Kapil

me everyday until Jan 1st: it doesn’t feel like it’s _____ (insert every day of the week)

just deleted all my emails, text messages, and phone calls. yearly reminder to get rid of all the old things that no longer serve you!

From Sonia Sanchez's book, Shake Loose My Skin: bookshop.org/a/862/978080... #poem #haiku #soniasanchez #books #writers

If I sent a lit mag a poem in October and still haven’t heard from them, does that mean they really like my piece and are still debating over it??

It is a relational skill to be able to meet a need and not understand it or hold that need yourself.

Watching old Tiny Desks and trying to rework my rubric is not proving to be productive

"No sugar, our mothers say as they leave. No sex. No Jerry Springer, no Twister, no booze. Just sit there. Read something, they say." Wow. Incredible story by Nini Berndt @splitlipthemag.bsky.social splitlipthemag.com/flash/1224/n...

I’m definitely in my weird lit fic era

I just want the dirt under my fingernails to become mountains, to listen to my heartbeat inside the rocks - Ai

Is Sula or Song of Solomon better for a intro to lit class?

I’m working on an intro to lit syllabus to manifest teaching the art of literature course next year. Maybe I’ll post a draft here 👀

New(-ish?) Black Love Poem out with underbelly mag, a journal that presents a both a draft & final version of the same poem! Read below abt the editing & process of this poem that came after I was “done” with my first book (spoiler: it wasn’t done with me)! www.underbellymag.com/spotlight-ar...

Poet homies, how are yall asking folks for blurbs on your books??

"I don't think I'm allowed to kill something because I am frightened." —Nikki Giovanni 💔 #poem #poems #poetry

I just got my first ever ticket from the city of El Cajon 🙄🙄 let’s stop making street parking loading zones mkay

I recited Nikki Giovanni’s prose piece Chasing Utopia for my speech and debate competition. It was such an honor to work so closely with her words. Her mind was, and forever will be, endless. I’m sure she found utopia www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

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I was just talking about Ms Nikki Giovanni today! one of my literary beloveds. I’m so grateful to have read and recited her words in this lifetime

Join us tomorrow for One Inspiration, Three Forms, Three Poems: a writing workshop with Allison Joseph. This workshop will demonstrate how to use content in the creation of several poems that differ in their formal approach. This workshop is free with Zoom registration: tinyurl.com/ycyt7eef

This chapbook is so tender to me

My favorite Jane Hirshfield poem

I’ve been thinking about writing a crown of sonnets on the story in Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter

currently watching the piano lesson and that first song all the men sing?? 🙂‍↕️ that felt good in my bones #thepianolesson

I am a stranger learning to worship the strangers around me — June Jordan

I helped my best friend and her gf move into their new place today and I got so emotional 😭 we’re really the new adults

Need this bad 😫 I can’t wait to move

This note from workshop explains my poems rn so well 😂🫶🏾

“If I can’t make you happy, come close between my thighs and let me laugh for you from my second mouth.” my god #whycantileaveyoubyai

I really wanna write, I feel so inspired but also I’m exhausted