In America to launch the latest issue of ALTA in which they published a little chapbook/long braided essay I wrote the last time I was stateside — a dramatic lyric essay about the Pacific Ocean & connection

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Thanks So Mayer for this list of books by authors who withdrew from PEN America awards in support of Gaza.

It’s a powerful action to withdraw work from a highly visible org & it’s a lot of $ to give up. Support author action by buying their books 💙

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We are beyond thrilled to announce a beautiful new partnership with Moniack Mhor supported by British Council 🎉🌊✍️🏝️ Applications now open for writers from Aotearoa and Scotland: full info and applocation form on our website verbwellington.nz/island-to-isla…

it was fantastic, don’t get me wrong but Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken” at the Oscars still holds the second spot in my top “Ryan Gosling at award shows” moments

Diane Seuss, with one of the most beautiful sonnets I’ve read in a long time.

The Creative Future Writers' Award, for all underrepresented writers, opens for submissions today - and nina 明雅 and Wayne Holloway-Smith are judges

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This Sat: hear the brilliant nina 明雅 kulleh Grasi Qurratul ‘Ain Cynthia Miller read new poems written for our project with @my_british and discuss how writing together has impacted their craft, all from the comfort of your sofa! ✨Free✨ tickets here: bit.ly/PoeticConversa…

Exciting! State of Play Out-Spoken Press anthology poets 錦豪/Jinhao @ nina 明雅 Dr Theresa Muñoz Khairani Barokka tim tim cheng 🐸 (she/they) will read and chat about their work at the poetry night by Common Press bookshop London on 24 Jan (Wed) ✨Tickets are nearly sold out: outsavvy.com/event/17887/th…

No! We want her with the pastry chef! And tbh I want her arc to not at all be tied to romantic love, but with her confidence and skill, her relationship to her anxiety, her family, her grief for her mom. Please don’t let that white man ruin her life.

Join The Poetry Society for a very special online event where we'll hear the brilliant kulleh Grasi, nina 明雅, Qurratul ‘Ain and Cynthia Miller read work created in collaboration with each other and discuss their writing processes bit.ly/PoeticConversa…

from Clifton's The Book of Light

A lover, once: You can’t say every action is political. Then the word political loses all meaning.

He added: What is political about this moment?

I was washing his dishes. I had left the water running.

—Solmaz Sharif

Rest in the sky, poet.

Clarification from Home Office that the £38,000 income threshold for UK citizens wishing to bring a spouse applies to 'the income from the UK-based partner' NOT joint income. Concern this effectively means only those among the top 25% of earners can afford to marry a foreigner

Thrilled to announce my first children's book—with illustrator Elaine Chen ☘️—will be out in February. Take a first look at A Garden Called Home on CBC Books now. cbc.ca/books/canada-r…

Thrilled to be part of this project with wonderful writers, & grateful for the funding.
Together, we'll be working on online nature writing workshops as well as a collaborative work of inter-genre nonfiction & poetry reimagining the role of the narrator in environmental writing.

The wonderful Natalie Diaz from Postcolonial Love Poem:

Thrilled to receive Four Nations funding with colleagues Alycia Pirmohamed nina 明雅 Pratyusha to explore collaboration and co-authorship in nature writing. 🩷🍃💜🌲

Excited to be selling UK poetry at the George Town Literary Festival bookshop in Malaysia alongside titles from across East Asia Nine Arches Press nina 明雅 Cynthia Miller Candlestick Press British Council MY