GUESS WHATS AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER!!!!!! That’s right, my debut poetry collection Earthly Gods!!!! It would mean the world to me if you would preorder this book y’all. Here’s what some brilliant writers had to say about this collection

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Some recommendings! Delighted to talk a little about what we’re loving and looking for at Four Way Review. Many thanks to Karen Ng 吳心怡 for your amazing marshalling! 🩵💙🤍

What more is there to say? The line was supposed to be “vote Dem or get fascism” but under Biden we have military cops gassing kids all across the US. The majority of the country is appalled by genocide in Gaza and yet this government is pretending that view is criminal.

Honored to have my short story “Dolores” published by The Adroit Journal. It’s the story of the trauma that many Salvadoran women have endured: leaving behind a child in 🇸🇻out of necessity. This story is about the bonds that unite us—and those which don’t.

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Applications for the 2024 Granum Prizes open May 1! A $5K Prize will be awarded to a writer to support the completion of a poetry, fiction, or nonfiction manuscript. A $1,500+ Translation Prize will be awarded to support a work of translation. More info: buff.ly/44m45nV

Sent the day drinking and walking and drinking.

The problem with PEN America is that they CAN express full solidarity & HAVE. They’ve done it before, condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with their whole chest. Palestine is just the blaring exception. You can’t pretend now to be an org above politics. You just can’t!

🤢😢 okaydonkeymag.com/2024/03/08/lee… Thank you, Okay Donkey Mag/Press for sharing this poem. Also, thanks to my #SadGirlsClub who did manuscript work with Eduardo C. Corral for loving on this #poem .

NYers, I’m reading at Poets House tomorrow. With Benjamin Garcia! Please join us.

Hi, everyone! It's my birthday in exactly two weeks and all I'm still asking for is help to get to MO and settle for my MFA at Washington University in St Louis. 🙏

Please support my GoFundMe: gofund.me/af1571f3

The deadline for the 2024 Letras Boricuas Fellowship application for Puerto Rican writers (including poetry, spoken word, fiction, nonfiction, & playwriting), is 4/30. Twenty writers will receive $25,000 each. Learn more here: flamboyanfoundation.org/beca-letras-bo…

'It feels like poetry can & has taken me everywhere & anywhere.'

Poet & Nat'l Endow f/t Arts Creative Writing Fellow Leslie Sainz joins the Art Works pod to share how her Cuban heritage influenced her first book, why she loves form & more.

🎧 bit.ly/44jy0gI

#NationalPoetryMonth

“In the last six months, I have been displaced 13 times. I won’t move again. There are only three options left for me – either I will be killed, I will flee to Egypt, or this war will end.”

Read our colleague Wasim’s blog from #Gaza : map.org.uk/news/archive/p…

Here's what Eduardo C. Corral had to say about Brazos.

Preorder the book over at the Belle Point Press website: bellepointpress.com/products/brazos

meri pehli kitaab Theophanies iss mahiney sale per hai. agar aapne abhi tak nahin kharida, aaj faida uthaye 🤍

(my book is on sale this month! buy it if you havent yet! whether you speak urdu or not! xo!)

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On its homepage, the The New York Times website currently has four (4) prominently-displayed pieces about American college protests and zero (0) pieces about the nearly 300 bodies (some with their hands and feet bound) found in a mass grave at a hospital in southern Gaza.

North Carolina folks! Come by!! Would love to see you 💓

Our new issue includes our poetry and prose contest winners this year! Huge congrats to our poetry winner Tyler Wagner and our prose winner Tobenna Nwosu! And thanks so much to our amazing judges Eduardo C. Corral and Thalia Field!

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