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Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

Three poets will read from their work and consider their own lineages, influences, inspiration, and show how they extend their work to writing communities and beyond. centerforthehumanities.org/event/influe... @scryptkeeper.substack.com @mdurandpoet.bsky.social @humanitiescuny.bsky.social

Three poets will read from their work and consider their own lineages, influences, inspiration, and show how they extend their work to writing communities and beyond. centerforthehumanities.org/event/influe... @scryptkeeper.substack.com @mdurandpoet.bsky.social @humanitiescuny.bsky.social

Here are some titles to check out before National Poetry Month ends! Order here: linktr.ee/aragiauthors @nataliediaz.bsky.social @scryptkeeper.substack.com @graywolfpress.bsky.social @scribnerbooks.bsky.social @aaknopf.bsky.social @penguinpress.bsky.social

Only one more week until we begin!! Have you signed up yet? Now's the time for more poetic light ... www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...

Happy Publication Day, @biidaasamose.bsky.social! 💧 Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead is a genre-bending exploration of that most elemental force–water–through Indigenous storytelling, personal memory, and the work of influential artists and writers

OMG this is gonna be so fun — sign up and join us let’s make this magic!

I'm so grateful to the Academy of American Poets for sharing #IHopeThisHelps as a part of their Reading List for National Poetry Month. The book drops May 13th -- pre-order it today and get it right on time! mailchi.mp/poets/a-read...

Only one more week until we begin!! Have you signed up yet? Now's the time for more poetic light ... www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...

Omg. Y’all. I just (finally) saw Gypsy with Queen Audra. I am so shook. This is why I do this. Oh lawd. What magic. 🫶🏾

Ooooo! Join us! Let’s make this magic together!!

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Finally going to see GYPSY with Queen Audra tonight!! Squeeeeeeee!!!!

Finally going to see GYPSY tonight with Queen Audra! I just had to holler my joy!

If you're happy Harvard stood up for academic freedom today: write your alma mater(s) if they haven't done the same and ask them to do the same. Make this your one action you take today. And share that you did it below!

Anyway, I’m delighted. www.retailbrew.com/stories/2025...

For those calling for Trump admin, Ice agents, etc to be charged with "crimes against humanity", note this: the US doesn't have federal laws for such crimes and the US doesn't recognise the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.

Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

No. Where.

I've had the Black National Anthem as a nonstop earworm for like an hour ... we doin sumpn? **checks supplies**

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

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It’s not time to get ready. It’s time to STAY ready. #IHopeThisHelps

Just 30 days from pubday for #IHopeThisHelps I’m excited this new episode burst into the world today! You know how when you’re in a great convo with an exciting and thoughtful conversant and you just get lost in the joy of it? This is it! #poetry #authors #blackauthors #blackpodcasts

Soooooo the internet got me I just got caught up having ChatGPT turn my cat into a human. She’s hot 😝😜 Thing is - they got her eyes, the way she looks at me, kinda freakishly right. Well folks the Right was right. The slippery has sloped. Now I gotta marry my cat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

stop calling things deportation just because they call it deportation. -You cannot legally deport people without due process. -You cannot legally deport citizens. -They are defining down deportation to break the law.

ICE isn't "deporting" immigrants, it is kidnapping them. DOGE isn't "fixing" the government, it is dismantling it. Trump isn't "helping" Americans, he is retaliating against them. Pam Bondi isn't "upholding" the Constitution, she is ignoring it.

We're living through a nightmare. (Yes, this is authoritarianism.) www.freep.com/story/news/l...

I dunno I’m making rice. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

me: fifty-leven hours later: OMG AM I FINALLY DONE BEING ON ZOOM?!?!?!?!?!

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