Time to put it down. ✨

Centered in the margin so deep… it’s no longer the margin.

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Not my husband coordinating his outfits everyday to match the Philadelphia Phillies colors. 🤣😫

The lack of MFA Writing programs at HBCUs is utterly devastating. I really hope to reimagine that space.

At dinner tonight: 15 mins into my preteen telling me about her day, she says “then I went to lunch…” I looked at her 5 yo brother and we both fake fainted.

Nothing will make you clean your house faster than knowing the cleaning lady’s on her way.

Not my 5yo watching the news then quietly getting up and setting all the faucets to drip. 🤣 When he finished, he came in the room and said, “Y’all know the drill. Gotta drip these faucets.”

Issue 163 of TriQuarterly is here and it's hot! Featuring new video essay and cinepoetry work by Henry Goldkamp, Catherine Black, francesca and Ariana Francesca triquarterly.org/issues/issue-1…

In "Ironing Pillowcases," poet Ariana Francesca "multiplies domestic ritual as a mode of continuous un-manifesting." triquarterly.org/issues/issue-1…

Go watch my latest cinepoem in TriQuarterly! … the hoodoo + southern wives tales really work btw 😜 Thank you, TriQuarterly🤎

There are literally 21 books of the Bible where not ONE woman says a word. Not one woman's voice is heard. Not one woman gets to utter a sound. Kinda wild if you consider that every single man who speaks has a mother, at the very least -- including Jesus.

Warriors for the WIN!

In my research for my final Queens Univ MFA poetry manuscript, I gathered facts abt #BibleWomen. Fact: The Bible— including the Old Testament, New Testament, and Apocrypha (yes, y’all need to read that too) is abt 1.1M words long. Women make up 1.2% of the words spoken, 14k.

The TSA officer who searched my bag pulled out my glass jar of coconut oil and looked up at me, looked around and slid it back into the bag. He said, “I get it. But they may not let you bring it back. Safe travels.” I love Black people.

Asking for help is a choooore for me, bt getting better + finding that when someone close is floundering, their signs look like mine. Sometimes I have to offer support more than once — that’s normal. We can’t always recognize when we need help/relief. The knee jerk is refusal.

Friends at AWP, I'll be on this panel, God Talk: Poetics of Wonder, Awe, and Ecstasy with poets I admire more than I can put into words. I'll be talking about prophetic imagination in contemporary Black poetry. Would love to see you there. ❤️

I was in a mtg with a vendor today and he read my whole natal chart to explain how we can best work together and … 🤯.

that angst when your name is co-opted… pls don’t remix what my mother gave or what I chose for myself. 🙄