thank you María Esquinca for the invitation and questions that pulled clarity out of my often nonlinear rambling. check out the episode below to hear me talk the utility of poems, development of politics, and how People’s Programs changed my writing. kqed.org/news/11982718/…

It's my favorite time of the year, National Poetry Month 🦋 and today on The Bay we're celebrating with darius.: ' A poem is just a tool and it as useful and as useless as the person wielding that tool.'

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Today on The Bay: a conversation with Dr. Mohammad Subeh, an ER doctor from the South Bay who just returned from a 5-week medical aid mission to Gaza.

Guest hosted by me, produced by María Esquinca Dana Cronin: kqed.org/news/11981941/…

NOW OPEN: We are so excited to open submissions for our Summer 2024 Web Issue, “Futurism as Resistance.” Full details and guidelines can be found on our Submittable. We can’t wait to read your work! ❤️‍🔥

“I want to say I survived our childhoods, // but I hate that I survived you.”

—Chelsea Dingman in I, DIVIDED 💙

Beyoncé made a country album people actually want to listen to. And she made it her own. 🤠 ❤️‍🔥

BREAKING: @PENAmerica’s staff union has gone public about the organization’s attempts to suppress the “political activity” of its workers—a striking blow to (what is left of) the org’s reputation for protecting free speech. Read our statement on the state of the org below:

Y’all realize we REALLY appreciate it when you take the time to email saying you liked something we did, right? Like, it can make a big difference to our day

Happy to see Trash--by sylvia.a.zéleny & translated by yrs truly--designated a Finalist for a Transgender Fiction Award from Lambda Literary.
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It was heartbreaking to report this piece on Zoe Reidy Watts, a young, vibrant artist whose life was cut short. Her boyfriend is facing murder and domestic violence charges, and her death has sparked a reckoning on gender violence in the arts community kqed.org/arts/13954520/…

'sometimes to survive you have to transform—'

Y’all it’s official pub day! I’m extremely thankful to Sean Bishop, Jesse Lee Kercheval, and U of Wisconsin Press for making this collection a reality. Thank you to everyone who pre-ordered & to everyone will order. I hope everyone can see the beauty in this collection.

I talked w/ Tyche Hendricks about how folks in Contra Costa County are mobilizing to get people immigration legal assistance after a new U.S. Immigration Court opened in Concord last month. kqed.org/news/11979997/…

It's puzzling how little positive stories the industry publishes given how much not just readers but ALSO journalists enjoy them. How many more people would consume news if we reported more stories about solutions, joy, love, success? Especially when it comes to BIPOC communities

AHHH CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S FINALLY HERE, CONGRATS SAÚL!!!

Yall!!! If you’re free today, sign up for this spectacular reading!!! So proud of Saúl for their debut poet collection release!

If anyone is writing about a traumatic experience and one of the things you’re wondering about is how to keep yourself safe, I wrote about my own strategies in this most excellent anthology ❤️💐

'Alex Padilla, From California to Capitol Hill' dropped on March 15 as a rebroadcast episode. It originally aired in May of 2021. It was produced by Julia Rocha with help from María Esquinca & Oscar De Leon, it was edited by Andrea López-Cruzado and mixed by Julia Caruso
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