arianab.bsky.social
poet, essayist, animé fan, cozy gamer, sportsball enthusiast, tree hugger, multivariate nerd 🎯
a day spent down a Wiki Rabbit Hole is a day well spent👩🏾💻
my📚: BLACK PASTORAL (UGA Press, 2023; winner, Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Prize)
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LOVE this cover!
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They sit up here and play “Good Tweet, Bad Tweet” like Kendall Roy, only without the sliver of self-awareness that made that character watchable
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“we don’t pay her to put on no fkin fashion show, we pay her to nan!” 😭
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And the great irony is they all have money, and none of them know how to be happy. They haven't figured out that money has a very limited ability to bring happiness. And above a certain amount, you get diminishing returns. Our relationships with the people we love is the true recipe for happiness.
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This explains it so succinctly—yes! It’s really just hateration doused in capitalist lack of imagination.
The looks nosy flight neighbors give when I say I’m a poet, and yes I actually do get paid for poems in big 2025… you can see them doing mental math tryna figure out how I bought my ticket 😂
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I’m really starting wonder how much of the excitement I see from AI proponents at the idea that it will “take [writer’s] jobs” can be attributed to their resentment and unhappiness with their own careers?
It reads like “ha, soon you’ll have to work a job you hate, too!” …very weird.
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🙏🏾☺️
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It’s been on my list for a while, this just reminded me to tap in
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Congratulations, Torrin!! Love to see you winning 💐💐
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sharing again because it some new folks have followed—take this essay as an experimental bio/introduction of sorts ☺️😂
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I can’t thank you enough, Laura, for bringing my work into this space, in this way. It’s truly a poet’s dream, to have their writing critically engaged with. You’re a rock star! ✨
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Thank you for pouring so much into this wonderful game! 🙌🏾
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This is such a cool assignment, will definitely be trying it with poetry!
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thank you so much for sharing, Laura! ✨ still so geeked that you’re writing about Black Pastoral
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Sometimes we write a poem that, while perfectly good, is too redundant in the grander scheme of a manuscript/project, & not as punchy as others, & so it gets cut. What do we do with these scrap poems? How do we keep them with us?
[many thanks to editors Maya & Marty for giving this stray a home 🤍]
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oh this is wonderful news!!! many congratulations, Taylor! The press and so many future poets will be so lucky to have you 💐💐💐