I am ABD!!

DC! Lauren K. Watel, E. Ethelbert Miller, and I will be reading at East City Books! Register here: eventbrite.com/e/hybrid-event…

Glad to be in conversation with Jimin Seo and Annie Wenstrup in TriQuarterly "It’s important to say that none of these meticulously crafted debuts are illegible. Each chooses their audience." - Asa Drake triquarterly.org/the-latest-wor…

On Saturday, I will be leading a poetry workshop at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory on art, history, and healing. Register here: carlos.emory.edu/calendar?trumb… Cost: Free for Emory Students $25 for nonmembers $18 for members

Congrats E. Hughes!!! 💐💐💐 #thalum

It was such a great honor to be in conversation with Brittany Rogers (she/her) ,Ajanaé Dawkins, and Luther Hughes on the Vs. Podcast live at AWP. Listen to us wherever you get your podcasts.

Cave Canem 2025. So much love, so much of that good feeling of home. P.S. Shout out to group D!

Last year, I had the opportunity to be interviewed by philosopher George Yancy about Juneteenth. In the interview, we talk about the philosophical significance of freedom in relation to the ongoing work of antiblackness. truthout.org/articles/junet…

Rest well

I passed my French language exam! 😭😭😭

Chicago and Midwest friends, I am moving back in September. Let's collaborate on some reading events!

Heidegger's late turn toward poetry is a complete embrace of the underside of Hegel's philosophy. Romantic turns in thought should terrify us.

Hegel and Kant figured out how to systematize astonishment: We now call this "aesthetic experience."

Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water by E. Hughes, published by Haymarket Books.

I'm off to Frankfurt, Germany, to give a talk titled "On the Exquisite Corpse: Blackness and Inexpressibility."

I finally passed my German exam.