“We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings.” –Ursula K. Le Guin

something piecemeal, excerpted for these days, no title yet. Terrance Hayes’ “How To Draw A Perfect Circle” is always in my head/ so, too, the ⭕️ of it.

"No proximity can disrupt what a fixed border obstructs or makes invisible. If you peel back the fixed border, another world can radiate. But sometimes it is not within our ability to see that other world." - Asiya Wadud asiya wadud fencedigital.com/2020/04/11/ele…

Dawn Lundy Martin, from Good Stock Strange Blood, 2017 and always

“The marine wind is such that each soul/ lives according to the drift” by Josué Guébo, tr. Todd Fredson

I'm honored to have an excerpt of 'attention as a form of ethics' in Poem-a-Day. Many thanks to Monica Youn, May's editor. 🤎🤎🤎 This piece is in my forthcoming book, No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body (2021, Nightboat Books)

All we carefully assemble becomes our own archipelago: the time that waned when we thought it stood still, the burden and the blessing of an able constitution. Light becomes luminous when you name it light. asiya wadud Nightboat Books

An excerpt of a long ‘L’ poem, which is a reply to one of my 4th grader’s dazzling ‘S’ poems, which is a reply to Claire Wahmanholm’s ‘O’••• also & always a long look at the kind of country this one is.

The Episcopal bishop of DC – who oversees the DC church Trump just stopped at – tells the The Washington Post she is "outraged" and that neither she nor the rector was asked or told… “that they would be clearing with tear gas so they could use one of our churches as a prop.." 1/3

let’s talk about erasure I mean that’s easy start with a word that you don’t like start with a people you didn’t know start with a neighborhood, rank start with any miasma dispersed —Asiya Wadud poets.org/poem/attention…

I personally think it's really cool how we all went from learning how to make banana bread to learning how to abolish the police in a matter of weeks

Today—the longest day of the year/another of many 100º+ days in the Mexico–US borderlands—is the perfect day to support No More Deaths | No Más Muertes and their humanitarian aid work (desert aid, legal aid, search + rescue, documenting abuse, aid in northern Sonora): bit.ly/3hOmqS7

From Jul 9 - Aug 30, LMCC presents River To River 2020: Four Voices, inviting artists asiya wadud, #JeanShin, muna malik, and Mona Chalabi to create new works to offer New Yorkers! #R2R20 #FourVoices is free and open to all! Learn more: LMCC.net/R2R

always thank you for sharing Syncope with others 🖤

I'm honored to be among many writers whose work has been my company. Thank you ✍🏾 Hurston/Wright Foundation for Black Writers for this recognition of Syncope.

Today is the pub day for my new book. I loved writing this book and sitting with all the material that ordered and organized it. I am sad that I'm no longer writing it and miss its company, but glad to share it with you. Thank you, Nightboat Books, as ever ever ever.

How lucky to work with UChicagoPress to bring my new book, Mandible Wishbone Solvent (images, essays, poems) to life. Thank you for ushering it through with such care AND, TOO in the company of Tracy Fuad's new book. 🖤🖤🖤