We made this corny but cute video for CAMP BEOTIS. Free & Virtual.🌞 Join the 200+ who’ve already signed up and saved their seat! Beotis.com/camp We’re announcing the online camp programs sooon! RT + tell ya friends. 🌲See you online this April, campers.

Shoutouts to folks like Eloisa Amezcua and tabia yapp who are working TIRELESSLY to fill gaps left behind by canceled gigs. They’re organizing virtual engagements that offer folks community, art, AND are making sure artists get paid. I’ll never forget their work through this

Hi! Camp Beotis starts this week! RSVP link: beotis.com/camp. 🏕 All programs are virtual and free, though we are accepting (and appreciative) of any donations, info below! Venmo: @ beotis Cash app: $ hellobeotis PayPal: paypal.me/beotiscreative

i think often of this 2015 painting: “The Talk” by Michael D'Antuono (2015)

In under 48 hours, we raised $3303.90 for BYP100! This is our community 💐 arrangement. 💕 I’ve placed a stem to represent each of the 159 donations made in this bia〰️blooms fundraiser to support BYP100 and their urgent work as Black youth activists. 🌼instagram.com/biablooms

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In this week's Agents & Editors Recommend, tabia yapp of BEOTIS offers advice on how and when to scale your team as an artist: "Take your time as best you can with this research and team-building process." at.pw.org/TabiaYapp

Love me some tabia yapp 💕 go sista girl // BEOTIS

"If you’re seeing an uptick in interest in your work, editors reaching out, venues pinging about your rates...You’ll want to find folks who are organized and excited about your work, but you’ll also want them to see and care about you as the person behind that work." ~tabia yapp

This is so cool tabia yapp !!!

My sista girl tabia yapp & her floral boutique bia〰️blooms are in this vid and she’s radiant and beautiful and all things #BlackGirlMagic ✨✨✨

"A bit of gentle garden in the best ...The technique of a variegated grace." - Gwendolyn Brooks bia〰️blooms tabia yapp my friend, always making beautiful things

Thought I saw a familiar face in the new Pharrell Williams and @S_C_ video.... Congrats tabia yapp! bia〰️blooms looks incredible. youtube.com/watch?v=bTOoY5…

"There's just this super, super joyful exchange that takes place not only when I'm handing over the flowers, but also when they wake up and see them each and every day..." Little throwback to my interview with tabia yapp 🌺🌺🌺 hunker.com/13727321/bia-b…

It was a thrill to talk with so many wonderful people for this article: monika woods, @authorKQ, Jacqueline Ko, Kaveh Akbar, Anya Backlund @blueflowerarts, tabia yapp, Regina Brooks Serendipity Literary Agency, @jessicaCaremoor, Jeff Shotts, Carey Salerno Alice James Books thank you 🙏

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A new poem in the winter issue of Sixth Finch 🌟 🥺 🌟 read the rest here: sixthfinch.com/aiken1.html

“Akbar’s concern with language is deadly serious: to speak is to survive.” PILGRIM BELL reviewed in ⁦The New Yorker⁩ and out tomorrow ⁦Graywolf Press⁩ Kaveh Akbar Finds Meaning in Misunderstanding  | The New Yorker newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…