Someone that came to me (after the graphic was done, energy chips spent) that I'm so thankful to have shared in creative space and otherwise: Whitney "Frenchie" French, who recently released bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/syn...

When we open to subs May 16, we'll be searching for 3 poems—publication in July, September, and November. To guide and ease review process, we've crafted a rubric rooted in our four core values. Additional excite, we're dreaming of digital broadsides with option for audio done by us or the author.

April's last 🍲🌈🍜: www.patreon.com/posts/april-... Also, who's writing poem 15 today? (Congrats! Keep writing👏🏾💐)

📋Queer BIPOC Spec Poetry Roundup: forms.gle/nSbZjZz5L5tD...

First prompt of National Poetry Month 🌌🍂⚧️🪐📜: www.patreon.com/posts/april-... Write on! 📣1️⃣✍🏾🛸3️⃣0️⃣🏁 @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social (💐for being a Nebula finalist @sfwa.org) @strangehorizons.bsky.social

Just an update that we are slowly but surely inching our way to 50% funded! ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/support/

📣 New Podcast! "Episode 132 - Go Against the Grain" on @Spreaker #audacity #black #brown #creativelyexposed #creatives #yourownlane

Let us reintroduce ourselves (promise worth reading to end): www.patreon.com/posts/update... In 🫶🏾 & verse, @lyszflo.bsky.social @jdridges.bsky.social

📣 New Podcast! "Episode - 132 - No & Creation Season" on @Spreaker #creatives #querying #rejections #submission #writing

📣 New Post! "Episode 132 - No & Creation Season" on @Spreaker

As it should!!

Protests resume as anger mounts over ‘brutal’ police www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/n...

Bueno a terminar my Puerto Rican YA where my magical Afro-Boricua MC is fighting corruption and chinchorreando.

So many cool creations www.kickstarter.com/projects/off...

youtu.be/jAQQ2fH9PpM for anyone needing a break

Amorphaville —over 20+ authors’ writings explore our collective relationship to the fluidity of time—both in how it has been historically used as a weapon of oppression, and how we might start to reimagine it as a tool for liberation. I have 3 deeply loved poems. www.hinchaspress.com/amorphaville

Check out the 2 prompts we have to start warming up Anathema In Verse

Amorphaville —over 20+ authors’ writings explore our collective relationship to the fluidity of time—both in how it has been historically used as a weapon of oppression, and how we might start to reimagine it as a tool for liberation. I have 3 deeply loved poems. www.hinchaspress.com/amorphaville

Proud to be here for another Black History Month! Show some love to the Black creators who've been a part of FIYAH for the past decade: go.bsky.app/VSHmC2p

HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH SHOUTOUT TO BENITO PROTECT YOUR FELLOW HUMANS from 🧊 Be uncompliant.

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ITS BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Sharing that this print book for middle grade is going out of print If you want a story with a smart Black boy & a dope techy world & family. Get this 3 book series especially the last one. go indie bookstore or local library request print Like the one below. www.mahoganybooks.com/9780593479506

Welcome to Neptune in Aries @LadyDEmerald and I discussed this last year and now it has arrived. Offering the possibilities and Blueprints of what was for what can be.

Sharing that this print book for middle grade is going out of print If you want a story with a smart Black boy & a dope techy world & family. Get this 3 book series especially the last one. go indie bookstore or local library request print Like the one below. www.mahoganybooks.com/9780593479506

ICE kidnapped this five year old, Liam Ramos. His family didn’t know where he was for 24 hours. This little boy is being held in a gulag in Texas & so is another student from the same school. 2 other students who were kidnapped by ICE haven’t been located.

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Have you checked out the new prompt?

www.kickstarter.com/projects/boy... sharing a Kickstarter from a wonderful drawing comic artist! They helped bring one of my stories alive help support this one!

This is my first self published work so if you buy this novella, you'll directly support a Black indie author. (And if there's enough demand, I might be able to get paperbacks made.) Preorder here: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

youtu.be/xM6qeZiUzb8 happy new moon

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

A reminder that you can support me & my work & read some cool stuff I'm working on by joining my Patreon (patreon.com/therisingtit...), or you can buy THE GOD OF SPITE AND VIOLENCE over on Itch (therisingtithes.itch.io), or (more quickly) on Ko-Fi!

did you miss Table of Contents O' Tuesday? 🌮?? who doesn't love TOC'Os 😂 🫶💀

Just in case yall are looking 👀

Hello fellow spec poets! Its our time

pin.it/BSV4Aiy7D the amount of creation that I have done over the years. In one place.

your support via Patreon (patreon.com/therisingtit...) or Ko-Fi (ko-fi.com/therisingtit...) right now is not only of great help to me at the current moment but gives you a chance to comment on a really important longform piece I’m working on that I think is really important

My draft —mini craft of acknowledgments by HD Hunter “The growing desire to love when the world feels like it is cyclically ending. -songs lf Alex Isley. The etherealness to be soft, to hope, to desire and how it fuels. romanticization of a safe world, a utopia and the potential flaws of it all

it's HERE our issue 41 table of contents!! TOC'o tuesday is the best, we know 🌮 🖤 so let's start with POETRY thread/

And despite it all, this is Tehran 🇮🇷

In this new episode we discuss ways to ease, accept, and move through your grief. Our moon signs help tap into our nurturing and nourishing energy. Youtube: youtu.be/WXgqzGWF0MQ Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/18RvaAC... All other podcast places: www.spreaker.com/episode/astr...