columbia’s students against apartheid were right in 1985 and the students against the genocide in gaza are right today. the university responded the same way both times: mass arrests

africanactivist.msu.edu/recordFiles/21…

“The stars also suffer. Immense and dead, their gasses burn / distant like castanets of antebellum teeth. My open window / a synecdoche of country.”

Explore Tawanda Mulalu's Please make me pretty, I don't want to die:

hubs.ly/Q02t1LkJ0 #PoetryMonth #NationalPoetryMonth

from Jen Bervin’s Nets

here at @usc where a considerable crowd has come out to protest against the cancellation of valedictorian asna tabassum’s speech

Omg ... I'm sorry for the double promo post, but another starred review for MAGICAL / REALISM came out today from Publisher's Weekly!
'Readers will be spellbound.' Thank you so much! publishersweekly.com/9780593187142

currently obsessed w this Eduardo C. Corral sonnet via Robin Myers's 'poem per diem' newsletter...

'I say things like that. Sorry.'

Yesterday, we celebrated our graduating #NCState MFAs with a reading and cake. The grads read beautifully. We’re so proud of them. Onward!

Congrats, Leslie! ✨✨✨

The petition urging USC to reinstate valedictorian Asna Tabassum's graduation speech after it was canceled due to a wave of anti-Palestinian & anti-Muslim hate has just topped 38,000 signatures. Click below to sign now and support free speech: cair-la.salsalabs.org/usc-cancels-va…

Gracias Eduardo 🙏

Charolette folk:

Yarrow Magazine is launching today! We've got new pieces from âpihtawikosisân, CREE HOMO 🌾, Kaitlyn Purcell, Molly Cross-Blanchard, tenille k campbell and Marilyn Dumont! Reviews of Waubgeshig Rice's new book as well as Leanne Simpson's Noopiming. Art by Michelle :D
yarrowmag.com

Overjoyed to be leading an online Craft Intensive with Tin House on June 22nd.

Join us as we interrogate how to unearth histories hiding in plain sight. There will be loads of discussion, some reading and opportunity to write!

Register here: tinhouse.com/product/spring….

NYers:

The Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grants will award $40,000 to as many as ten writers of deeply researched and imaginatively composed nonfiction. Submit your work by April 23! AWP members can learn more on our Opportunities page. awpwriter.org/contests/award…

Super excited to present my translations of three poems by the esteemed Italian writer Orazio Labbate in Literary Matters.

I'll past one poem below, and the rest are here: literarymatters.org/issue-16-2/
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🚨 SOME PERSONAL NEWS 🚨

My book has a cover! & a release date—August 6th!

& preorders are open! bellepointpress.com/products/brazos

Thanks so much to Belle Point Press for putting this out into the world.

'The image—seen, conjured, constructed—as epiphany is what awakens my senses and brands a poem into my marrow.'

Shara Lessley interviews Sarah Ghazal Ali about THEOPHANIES (@AliceJamesBooks).

➡️therumpus.net/2024/04/15/sar…

Been admiring the work of the poetry editors at The Rumpus for years, hyped to share new work as part of NaPoMo, from my *gulp* new project.

This poem circles around displacement, data, and finding my late grandfather in a certain monolith’s “mapview.”

therumpus.net/2024/04/15/nat…

If you’ve ever heard “accessible poetry” as a dig and didn’t like that, this free, downloadable craft chap I wrote for SundressPublications might be for you!

“Becoming Mud:” A Neurodivergent Poetics Toward Movement

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