All praise to Prof. Sami Schalk, who protected her students w her body. They ripped off her dress and hurt her so badly that she is now at the hospital. Dr. Schalk literally wrote the book on Black Disability Politics. Talk about putting your body on the line for your politics!

the way some of y’all are caring and giving and doing without seeking credit or visibility is really defying how we are being programmed. im baring witness with in gratitude for sincerity.

UW Madison encampment needs bodies NOW. Police have shown up and are threatening to use force.

I'm thrilled to be working with these brilliant writers in my new position as Director Adelphi MFA Program. We're accepting applications now for the Fall.

Read this for useful, thoughtful context.

Jezebel is back and so am I?? Here's an essay I wrote about my best friends, about being a not so great friend and about trying to understand friendship as a neurodivergent adult. Thank you, thank you LT for giving this weird, scary truth a home
jezebel.com/trauma-brought…

If you’re faculty at a university where there are protests, remember there are lots of ways to support, publicly & privately, tenured or not. Here’s a few:
-Know your faculty rights & rules
-Amplify protest info on your social media, privately to colleagues or in class

As it should be

“The administrator added that the PEN/Jean Stein Award will not be awarded by default to the one remaining longlisted author, as the judging protocol for the award has not been changed in response to the withdrawals.”

publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in…

As of this morning 29 writers & translators nominated for PEN Awards have withdrawn - including 9 of 10 fellow Jein/Stein nominees, who asked to no longer be considered for PEN’s most lucrative prize. We sent a letter to leadership today explaining why:
lithub.com/the-pen-awards…

RIP Faith Ringgold! Talk about a legacy of cultural storytelling ✨

[Image by: John C. Edmonds for Harper’s Bazaar, March 2022]

Brynn Saito and I are spending two days in a windowless room in a basement in Colorado re/reading 200+ pages of poems on WWII Nikkei incarceration and arranging them into a narrative/order that will eventually become an anthology that Haymarket Books is publishing next year.

Hey yall. Every year a queer & trans bookstore gives away books to Black folks & this year they had like ten times more requests than they got donations to fulfill requests. So if you’ve got something to spare, please support the effort: roomofonesown.com/donation

RIP, amazing artist Faith Ringgold🙏🏾 interviewmagazine.com/art/faith-ring…

It’s joy to be among this group of poets.

Congrats to these poets! What an amazing group.

Kaveh Akbar
Jos Charles
Elaine Equi
Vievee Francis
Airea D. Matthews
Robyn Schiff
Safiya Sinclair
Tracy K. Smith
Mai Der Vang

'Sometimes poems fall out of the nest and find their wings—and never in a way I expect.' —Katie Farris

Katie Farris's new memoir-in-poems, STANDING IN THE FOREST OF BEING ALIVE (@AliceJamesBooks), explores love in the midst of enduring illness.

bombmagazine.org/articles/katie…

I have a new (odd) poem up The Rumpus thanks to Cortney Lamar Charleston
therumpus.net/2024/04/10/nat…

Happy poetry month!