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This poem, first published in Gulf Coast and then in The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays, is included in my collection, The Importance of Being Feeble-Minded, due out next month

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new poem—thank you @yalereview.bsky.social

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Another way is possible. Don't lose sight of that.

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Mama always taught me to stand up and fight for it. You can't respect yourself otherwise.

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Something that 2024 taught me in spades is that when you treat ppl as disposable - by ghosting them, by making assumptions, by ignoring cries for help to insulate yourself -you lose your humanity. You become callous and shallow. And you’re going to need every bit of your humanity in 2025

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URGENT: Here’s a list of campaigns to support Black families displaced by the LA fires. Bit.ly/rebuildAD h/t: @ykreborn.bsky.social

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What are some of y’all’s favorite poems about poverty, the working class, money fear?

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I actually love writing. I feel like that's become a marginal view because it's so cool in writing culture to brag on how you're not writing & complain about how miserable you find it. Being at the page & having words come out of me & editing them later is joyful for me. @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social

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k. iver SLEEPING BEAUTY www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/162612...

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Happy shortlist day! First up, we’ve got seven fantastic poetry collections by transfeminine authors up for the Best Transfeminine Poetry of 2024 award 💖 The trans poetry community is mostly on Instagram (where I am not), so if folks want to go shout people out over there that would rock.

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“I used to think I wrote because there was something I wanted to say. Then I thought, ‘I will continue to write because I have not yet said what I wanted to say’: but I know now I continue to write because I have not yet heard what I have been listening to.” Mary Ruefle

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“It is not enough / To love you. It is not enough to want you destroyed.” Terrence Hayes

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And poet laureate of Madison, Wisconsin!

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@stevenespadaw.bsky.social just joined! Follow him for great poems, funnies, and updates on his about-to-stun debut collection with @scribnerbooks.bsky.social

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Hey friends— Over the past few years I’ve done a roundup of trans/nonbinary/gender non-conforming debut authors. I’m building my 2024 list now! Send me your favorites (or yours if you debuted this year)! Last year’s here for reference: chireviewofbooks.com/2023/12/22/6...

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We are a group of autonomous writers, artists, educators and translators coming together to offer online courses and workshops to raise money for people in Gaza 🥀🥀🥀

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BREAKING: The Department of Education Office of Civil Rights - in response to a complaint filed by HRC in February - found that officials in Nex Benedict's school district repeatedly and with deliberate indifference violated Title IX over a period of many years.

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Thinkin about Simone Veil’s reframing of rights as needs and also this poem by Audre Lorde

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because mothers are more deserving of poems than fathers even this one ... Oh goodness @ivertownandcountry.bsky.social why did you have to go and say it out loud. Don't stop.