April 11, 2008: Kobe with the double clutch reverse dunk against New Orleans.

queer southern writers, this one is for you!

How do we complicate the “southern-ness” of antiqueer violence, familial rejection, and narratives of escape to the northern metropole and other diasporas? How is the “queer South” complicated by the larger South?

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🌸 Haikus for Hope: A poetic intervention by Fiona Moon, inspired by Jason Allen-Paisant's call to use poetry as a tool for change, poetry that touches our shared humanity. Join us in penning 'hopeful haikus' to support Gaza. Learn how to get involved: haikusforhope.co.uk

Guggenheim Fellows 2024 announced writingafrica.com/guggenheim-fel…

Just over a week away, The Poetry Society's Free Verse Poetry Book & Magazine Fair on Saturday 20th April! We'll be there, along with 70+ other independent publishers & poetry organisations. Come and say hello! We'll be displaying our titles, old & new. See you there!

Thankful to LondonGrip & Mike Bartholomew-Biggs for posting my response to Greg Thomas/Oo Press beautiful poem/object which inspired a poem & this article & reflections on grief & the value of touch & materials.
With thanks also to Deborah Levy for August Blue
londongrip.co.uk/2024/04/poem-o…

One of my favorite things to do in the classroom: asking students to 1⃣ brag on a classmate's positive impact or 2⃣ brag on themselves.

(Spoiler: they write the coolest things.)

just published open access in Annual Review of Applied Linguistics - new work which pushes for transformative justice, abolition, the ending of linguist-police collaborations, and reconceptualisations of 'impact' work in applied linguistics. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

#SpringRead2024 Day 12

Just finished reading: Scale by Nathan McClain

Very skillful, thoughtful and honestly rendered collection.

Candidate for May deepdive

TONIGHT! Hanif Abdurraqib (@nifmuhammad) sits down with Michael Kosta to discuss his book “There’s Always This Year”

Bring more poetry to your classroom!📝

Join us for the Summer Poetry Teachers Institute. This FREE event includes seminars, workshops & small sessions where attendees craft poetry lesson/unit plans to bring back to their students.

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Kwame Dawes named Jamaica’s next Poet Laureate | Nebraska Today | University of Nebraska–Lincoln 👏👏 ⁦Kwame Dawes⁩ news.unl.edu/newsrooms/toda…

Thank you to everyone who sent us work for Shō No. 5! ♥️

Responses have been sent and our review folder is empty.

We’ll be starting production soon. Proofs will go out in May.

Ready for more MudRoom? There's only 2 weeks left to submit to our Spring 2024 Issue! We are accepting works in poetry, prose, and cover art and pay $15/accepted work.

View our submission guidelines here: mudroommag.com/submissions

Tonight! Come celebrate with us & hear some poems ✨🍃

Thanks to all the readers sharing new work at tonight’s Poetry Review launch and everyone who joined us online and at The Poetry Cafe! Editor Wayne Holloway-Smith with Verity Spott, Emily Berry & Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa & Naomi Shihab Nye who joined via video.

Jericho Brown’s Craft Talk! Tonight!
April 11th, 6:30 pm EST Virtual

Open to all. Free for Tribe. Link to more info. twhpoetry.submittable.com

Here’s a #2MinLineBreak of his “Duplex: Cento.”

#crafttalk #twhtribe #twhpoetry #NaPoWriMo #2minlinebreak

Jericho Brown’s Craft Talk! Tonight!

Poetry As Survival: A Reading of Langston Hughes’s Suicide Note

April 11th, 6:30 pm EST Virtual

Open to all. Free for Tribe. twhpoetry.submittable.com

Here’s a #2MinLineBreak of “Duplex: Cento.”

#crafttalk #twhtribe #twhpoetry #napowrimo

This made me cry. See yall tonight! I am so happy to see someone explain my formal concerns better than me and in much less time 😂❤️