Good morning

Wrote some today

Good morning 🌺

"for earth for space for non-negotiable longevity" From "Lebanon, Lebanon" by June Jordan

Some beauty

“If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.” Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster

How are words possible when entire worlds don’t know whether they’ll survive the night?

A book to read today and everyday

"Orion, the Moon, and the Earth. EVERYONE, in that picture" - #Artemis II Mission Control.

On this day, 49 years ago.

More beauty

Some beauty

Delighted to be in such great company!🌺🌺🌺🌺

“She will outlive everything you know.” From the poem “The Moon is Trans” By J. Jennifer Espinoza #transdayofvisibility

Writing remains hard

Happy birthday to Toni Cade Bambara 💐💐💐💐

Happy birthday to Toni Cade Bambara 💐💐💐💐

“Of course, everything was everything.”—Toni Cade Bambara

How many ways to say this must end.

Wrote a little today

Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...

“Ornaments of air” Unencumbered passage A wish

"For music and the ornaments of air without bombing"-Dionne Brand, Inventory

“We ate A family tremulous but fortified by turnips/okra/handpicked like the lilies filled to the very living…” June Jordan, 1977: Poem for Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer Today is the anniversary of freedom fighter Fannie Lou Hamer’s passing 💐💐💐

Always the right time to give people their flowers 💐

“Ornaments of air” Unencumbered passage A wish

"For music and the ornaments of air without bombing"-Dionne Brand, Inventory

I now have the rest of my copies of my first full-length book Houses which came out from Horseless Press in 2015. They are currently out of print. If you're interested in obtaining one, I will send you a signed copy for $20 including shipping.

Thinking about the late Dr. Lindon Barrett, writing about value as force and form…the deeply word-defying awfulness of imperialist war where the discourse on value always hides the lives whose killing it depends upon

Thinking about the late Dr. Lindon Barrett, writing about value as force and form…the deeply word-defying awfulness of imperialist war where the discourse on value always hides the lives whose killing it depends upon

“Beauty is a method” -Dr. Christina Sharpe @hystericalblkns.bsky.social

In this country, the cost of death more easily met than the cost of living

Chrystel Oloukoï and I are coediting a special issue of the Black Scholar, “Black Nights.” See the CFP for all the details www.theblackscholar.org/call-for-pap...

In this country, the cost of death more easily met than the cost of living

End genocide End ecocide No bombs or gates on this unownable earth

Imperialism is violence against women

“but who gave birth to a woman who wanted to be in the world true and absolutely whole and therefore lived with ghosts since that world could not happen yet.” 2/2 Dionne Brand, The Blue Clerk

“And then there was one, another woman who did not want to be in the world, or the world she was dragged into, who noticed right away the fatal harm…1/2 Dionne Brand, The Blue Clerk

Imperialism is violence against women

we have saved daylight but at what cost

“And then there was one, another woman who did not want to be in the world, or the world she was dragged into, who noticed right away the fatal harm…1/2 Dionne Brand, The Blue Clerk

Learned that a colleague passed away and I’m sad. Life is too short. We should give each flowers while we can 💐

“1970s Beirut, he is counting the missing neighbors, tiles, borders from a broken balcony swing” From Zaina Alsous’s poem ‘Universe in which My Father Is a Poet’

good signs

Flowers for your day

They should invent a way out that isn't through

“The piece of art that they send to the future..” Dionne Brand

16,000 people living with HIV are expected to lose coverage from the AIDS Drugs Assistance Program due to Florida's funding cuts. Read Kamaria Laffrey's pre-obituary as a long-term survivor in Florida. "Kamaria Laffrey writes an indictment of a system that’s failing people living with HIV."

"Before I leave, I have a demand: a poem against extinction.” Zaina Alsous

“The piece of art that they send to the future..” Dionne Brand