Anthony Veasna So was our beloved contributor, friend, comrade, and brother. He was a kind and brilliant and beautiful genius and we just can't believe he's gone. x.com/cejarvis/statu…

hey sorry i didn’t get back to you, i was in a depressive hole for a few days and then felt too embarrassed about not doing it sooner that now i simply can’t engage/felt unworthy of the opportunity/drafted a reply in my head & then imagined i sent it

COVID Update December 17: This is my worst thread. I hate writing it. But I have to write it. 1/

Why has no one run a cute profile / feature on The Poet Salon yet?? Guests are 🤯, hosts are 🚀(Dujie Tahat has a chapbook longlisted for PEN America award, Luther Hughes won the Ruth Lily AND the Discovery AND has a book forthcoming from BOA Editions). Just ~saying~!

Amanda Gorman, the nation's first-ever youth poet laureate, called for Americans to "leave behind a country better than the one we were left" and unify together as she spoke at President Joe Biden's inauguration. cnn.it/3pftFG5

Here is your day-of reminder about this reading with our Visiting Hurst Prof Eduardo C. Corral (he/him/his). The reading will be followed by a Q&A led by the one and only @CPhillipsPoet! Be there or be 🔲 english.wustl.edu/events/reading…

Seems like a good time to declare climate change a national emergency

I'm just really excited: I got an interview!! For a super exciting community outreach and education position at an art museum!! I'm so psyched at even this tiny bit of good news after so many rejections and discouragement lately

Victims of the Georgia shooting have been identified as: Delaina Ashley Yuan, 33, of Acworth Paul Andre Michels, 54, of Atlanta Xiaojie Tan, 49, of Kennesaw Daoyou Feng, 44 Julie Park Hyeon Jeong Park 2 others have not yet been identified May they rest in peace & power. ⁣

Cathy Park Hong cph with the truth, the history, the perspective, the work ahead. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

LIVE: Riot cops are confronting a grieving community after police just shot and killed 20-year-old Duante Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota - close to Minneapolis x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

The theme of today is, "what?!? Like actually, What?!"

“My Bahamas are facing effects of climate change that we could never have caused ourselves, and crises larger than we can survive alone.” In NYT Magazine, a poet writes about how islands like the Bahamas are paying the price for richer nations’ emissions. nyti.ms/2SVbhaB

The results are in... and well worth the wait! 👏🏻👏🏼👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿 We are positively beside ourselves to announce this year's winner of the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry judged by Kaveh Akbar: Monica Rico!🎉🌟 Monica, welcome to the Four Way Books family. Pinion is a marvel!

So I’ve alluded to what’s been going on with my family and people have reached out with concern. I figured I should just explain. My sister, who’s an urgent care doc and sees multiple (mostly unvaxxed) covid cases a day, got breakthrough covid. Then my vaxxed parents got it.

from "Disbelief" by Kamilah Aisha Moon. Today & tomorrow & the day after that, you remain evergreen & ours somewhere not here, as my tears land in potted soil exiled from its mother, Earth, like me. poets.org/poem/disbelief Rest in Power, Kamilah. 💌