Not enough people are talking about the fact that in Montgomery there is now a monument to formerly enslaved people that lists every one of their last names as it appeared in the 1870 Census, the first census to record Black people in this country.

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We can't thank the jury enough for this wonderful discussion. Chelsea Manning Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Tolu Ogunlesi, MON , Emanuele Coccia , Rachel Monroe D. Ongaro, V. Walters, M. Bethenod and Adli.eth TAKKAL ₿ATAILLΞ 🦝🔮

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Christina Sharpe ( Ordinary Notes ) is the winner of the Hodler Prize 001 for Ordinary Notes (@fsgbooks)

#hodlerprize #christinasharpe

I’m out of jail, finally, and I just want to say that these students are the lifesblood, the bearing heart, I am so grateful for them and their courage and would defend them with my body any day without question. Free Palestine.

'Come together' over the STILL unacknowledged bodies of over 100 Palestinian journalists, poets, writers, translators, and academics? A laughable statement if it weren't so ghoulish

I had the chance to choose something from the The Paris Review archives to unlock this week. Here is my introduction to the Art of Poetry interview with William Meredith, whose words ('Why so many?') helped me through a very long period of writing no poetry mailchi.mp/theparisreview…

trans history, not as a form of legitimacy—we should matter no matter what—but as a form of connection, of reaching our hands through time

If you’ve ever heard “accessible poetry” as a dig and didn’t like that, this free, downloadable craft chap I wrote for SundressPublications might be for you!

“Becoming Mud:” A Neurodivergent Poetics Toward Movement

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SHORT FILM is NY Public Library’s Book of the Day 🥺🎬

my writer mentor said that we should consider the possibility of writing for our most generous readers, our most attentive & thorough readers

& I’ve loved that advice

Overwhelmed to be on this list of Guggenheim Fellows along with so many writers I admire. Immensely grateful to GuggenheimFoundation
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Last night I got to accept a freaking Oregon Book Award in the same venue where I went to senior prom and I am absolutely not recovered from the honor and non-stop smiley joy of it. Hugest howl of thanks to the judges and my Oregon community and Literary Arts 🐺❣️

This essay is out of this world. A meta-essay on languaging grief, written using the style guidance of the Chicago Manual of Style: theoffingmag.com/enumerate/an-a…

💀Death is my intimate shadow partner.

It is a disability intimacy.

I wrote for TIME about my relationship with mortality as someone who just turned 50 as a disabled person.

Shit has been rough but I’m still fucking here

time.com/6960765/alice-…

IM A LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD AND A BARNES & NOBLE CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD FINALIST OMG ASFJFSKGSLGSDGD

For Transgender Poetry:

✨ Bloomsday Literary, K. Iver, Black Lawrence Press, Michal MJ Jones (they/he) 🍉, Subhaga Crystal Bacon 🏳️‍🌈✒️ 🏳️‍⚧️ ✨

Full list here: bit.ly/3TBHkHz

For Bisexual Poetry:

✨ @danielledeulen, BOA Editions, Margaret Ray (mostly offline/ m_rrray elsewhere), @graywolfpress, Button Poetry, Sierra DeMulder-Eyres ✨

Full list here: bit.ly/3TBHkHz

For LBGTQ+ Nonfiction:

✨ John Sovec - Therapy/Coaching/Counseling, JKP Books, JKP Gender & Sexuality, Elyssa Maxx Goodman, @htpbooks, @mattbaume BenBellaBooks, Julie Marie Wade ✨

Full list here: bit.ly/3TBHkHz

For Transgender Nonfiction:

✨ @arsenalpulp, Verso Books, Miss Major, Toshio Meronek, chica marx,chica marx3000 ✨

Full list here: bit.ly/3TBHkHz

For Bisexual Nonfiction:

✨ @jkpbooks, @jkpgender, Vaneet Mehta, The Lammy Nominated Author, Myriam Gurba Serrano, Book*hug Press, Eden Boudreau DrKrisPy, @zacharyzane_, Zack Knoll, @abramsbooks ✨

Full list here: bit.ly/3TBHkHz