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My novella Terrestrial from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social is open for preorders now! Grateful to @joeyhedger.bsky.social who said some generous and smart things about it. malarkeybooks.com/store/terres...

we have to go back. to warn them.

Versus ('27) and (Tumbao '29) will also be out from Texas Review Press; poetry collections.

www3.uwsp.edu/english/corn... Neon Steel arrives Feb. 17th from Cornerstone Press! Link to more info here and here: www.jennifermaritzamccauley.com/neon-steel

Never, ever thought I’d see my work in @pleiadesmag.bsky.social, let alone that the lovely editor Jennifer Maritza McCauley would DM to solicit work from me. But both these amazing things have happened. 🙏 😭

Grateful for this blurb from the brilliant Jennifer Maritza McCauley!

Faculty at 2025 Yale Writers’ Workshop and Faculty reading. Thank you to my colleagues (and friends): Jotham Burrello, Lisa Page, Kirsten Bakis, Molly Gaudry, Trey Ellis, Sybil Baker, Jennifer Maritza McCauley, Mary Collins, Mishka Shubaly.

Wherein Jennifer Maritza McCauley reads from KINDS OF GRACE, a finalist for the 2024 BIG OTHER Book Award for Poetry! youtu.be/kG0Juvf70iw Cc: @flowersongpress.bsky.social

“Silly Goose” by Jennifer Maritza McCauley She is sitting, waiting for her partner to return / bringing Missouri flora in his mouth; coneflower, / daisies, aster.

It's Friday! Check out "Africa Hollers Back to Me" by Torch Friday Feature, Jennifer Maritza McCauley, in Torch Magazine online: torchliteraryarts.org/post/friday-feature-jennifer-maritza-mccauley #torchliteraryarts #fridayfeature #poetry

Check out these short stories that will stick with you long after the final page! #FridayFeaturedReading #RecommendedReads #BookRecommendations #ShortStories #LibSky #BookSky

The farthest away I was to #Pittsburgh to capture the moon was 12.4 miles, and last night I was just shy of that at 9 miles but it worked out perfectly. The moon rose right beside the Steel Building, making for an unbelievable composition.

James Baldwin’s message was simple: we’re afraid of love, because we’re afraid of exposing our true selves.

Ezra Koenig was on some existential shit when he wrote “I don’t wanna live like this, but I don’t wanna die”

Jo Scott, contemporary UK artist #womensart #FridayFeeling #summer

Black women! Come to the front, let’s huddle up. Sisters of the Yam is THAT GIRL in the book world! This is the prerequisite read to cultural self-recovery & self-actualization. If you haven’t claimed it, this has the knowledge to free living Sis. Happy #Juneteenth #blackbooksky #bvm #blackskywomen

“When I was a little girl, in Texas, I thought Juneteenth belonged to us, meaning to the state of Texas generally and to black Texans specifically.” Revisit Annette Gordon-Reed’s piece, from 2020, on how a Texan holiday became a national tradition.

in the midwest it's dunning-kroger

I’m so tired of these motherfuckers

teach teacher!

American/ Un-Holied Tonight, my old spirit calls for my unholy body, as if that shell is a child yearning for comfort, as if my skin is made of red clay and loon-feather, as if it is my brown Mami and street-Black Papa, who have come to rescue me, from some kind of housefire that the neighbors…

Thank you, Jerry Jazz Musician! <3 www.jerryjazzmusician.com/the-sunday-p...

Happy birthday, Jennifer Maritza McCauley! Celebrate by reading these McCauley poems we published in BIG OTHER's Puerto Rican Writers Folio: A Hauntology in 2022! The poems were subsequently published in Kinds of Grace in 2024! Cc: @flowersongpress.bsky.social and @maritza4770.bsky.social

Happy birthday, Jennifer Maritza McCauley! Celebrate by reading these McCauley poems we published in BIG OTHER's Puerto Rican Writers Folio: A Hauntology in 2022! The poems were subsequently published in Kinds of Grace in 2024! Cc: @flowersongpress.bsky.social and @maritza4770.bsky.social

There's just a few hours left in GIVE STL Day. Thank you so much to all who have donated so far. Can you help Kimbilio get on the leaderboards and unlock more support? Support KIMBILIO GIVE STL DAY 2025 on Mightycause. www.givestlday.org/story/Kimbil...

Delighted to announce the finalists for the 2024 Big Other Book Award for Poetry! The winner will be announced at the 2024 Big Other Book Awards Ceremony, which will be aired virtually (date and time to be announced). bigother.com/2025/04/30/a...

Mary Magdalene has been portrayed as a sinner, a nun, a mystic, and Jesus’ wife. The patron saint of outcasts, she embodies uncertainty. “To engage with her story requires divine imagination,” Eliza Griswold writes.

A much-needed moment of calm 🐺

If you're looking for short stories and poems that revolve around girlhood, feminism, black women, family, and love, check out my Tumblr blog! Sit back, grab a cup of hot chocolate, and read away :) www.tumblr.com/walspurgisna... #bvm #blackwriters #writing #writersofbluesky #writers

Cowboy Bebop's Shinichiro Watanabe on How John Wick's Director Joined the Lazarus Anime Team

As we approach April 5th, #BlackSky this is your reminder that Rest Is #Resistance! And if you don’t believe me here’s a well-developed argument of prioritizing #rest in a capitalist and grind culture society. Rest is a need & it’s essential to living. 🫶🏾 #blackbooksky #bvm #diversebooksky

Two new poems! About lesser known Black writers, singers and homegirls. thestockholmreview.org/2025/04/01/t...

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From Birdwings Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror up to where you’re bravely working. Expecting the worst, you look, you look, and instead, here’s the joyful face you’ve been wanting to see. --Rumi

Spent hours reading and watching interviews to learn more about Black game devs who have actually shipped their games—oftentimes multiplatform or with industry publishers. Support them if you can! #blackskygamers #GamerSkyClub #BVM 🖤 🎮 blerdbeats.com/2025/02/24/b...

call me old fashioned but i am not rooting for the asteroid

When We Invited You To Join Our Trivia Team, It Was With The Understanding That You Knew ‘Star Trek’ theonion.com/when-we...

"It is one of those ‘midwinter spring’ mornings, when the light feels strong, and as I set off on my walk there’s a tremendous, energetic chatter of starlings on wires and sparrows in hedges. Is it spring yet? Is it?" Katrina Porteous on sandeels and false springs:

Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"

This is a fantastic episode. Everyone killed it on @fnfpodcast.bsky.social! lithub.com/lan-samantha...

Seriously, creative folks: Don't be afraid to let people know your stuff is out there for them, or worry that "now is not the time for that." People are stressed and freaked out and looking for the things that will give them a moment of rest and joy. It is EXACTLY the time for what we do. Tell them.

Fiction, especially writing it, makes you PAY ATTENTION to the truth and the bloody realities of the world, even if you're writing about elves. Writers already know this. It's why we're often sad. So, when someone says you shouldn't be focusing on your writing, you can just lol at that person.

You don't stumble into hope. You force it into existence. You give it no choice but to appear bc you've refused complacency & you've reached beyond where the dark rests & found another hand to hold. (Also a reminder to myself.)