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This is so very Mississippi yet still so very Mali. The sounds of the Sahel are here y'all. We are the descendants of Mande & Fula people and I can hear it in our music. I could cry when I listen to this music because I know it's telling me who I am and where to go.

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Wawa is near!

Join us for the next Brooklyn Poets Reading Series at 144 Montague on Friday, November 8, featuring Christopher Rey Pérez, Ruth Awad 🇵🇸 and Danez! Free and open to the public, the event will also be livestreamed via Zoom. bit.ly/bprs-11824/

A new Episode of the Furious Flower IV: The Worlds of Black Poetry podcast has arrived! Listen to the incredibly talented poets Nikky Finney and Danez Smith in fruitful conversation. Stream on Apple Podcasts now 👉loom.ly/wXfPYOc

"The country has shifted right." WE didn't. Both major parties only really made appeals to the right, and the election results reflect that. If the Democrats had made a concerted effort to earn the votes of the left and truly oppose the right, things might have been different.

The stupid, evil, soulless country got the stupid, evil, soulless representation it deserves and WANTED. Not shocked, not sick, just disgusted and braced.

“The Democratic Party really underestimated the extent to which lots of people in this country are in crisis.” Watch Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and others in our expanded two-hour broadcast, live at democracynow.org.

All that kissing ass to republican voters and promising a conservative in your cabinet and empty centrism and Israel has a right to defend itself and got your ass whooped cause the wanted a republican not a democratic trying to be one 🤷🏾

American idiocy, illiteracy, ignorance, naivety, and stupidity were all successfully preyed upon by someone who said he had a “concept of a plan”. I’d say I can’t wait to see you all have the experience you deserve but that experience will be shared by those who don’t deserve it.

“If you were able to overlook a genocide and cast a vote for Harris, you already know how a conservative was able to overlook Trump’s extremism and vote for him.”

Join the Palestine Festival of Literature + Mizna for a powerful evening of performance and discussion, in PalFest's first-ever event in Mpls. w/ Mosab Abu Toha Lena Khalaf Tuffaha لينا خلف تفاحة @SarahAziza1 Danez Nick Estes Sagirah Shahid + Dina Omar Tickets on sale Nov 29 mizna.org/event/palfest-…

TICKETS ON SALE NOW Join Palestine Festival of Literature + Mizna for a powerful evening of performance and discussion, in PalFest's first-ever event in Mpls. w/ Mosab Abu Toha Lena Khalaf Tuffaha لينا خلف تفاحة @SarahAziza1 Danez Nick Estes Sagirah Shahid + Dina Omar mizna.org/event/palfest-…

BLUFF Danez, A FILM IN WHICH I PLAY EVERYONE Mary Jo Bang, and MODERN POETRY by #DianeSeuss among The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2024, alongside so many great books this year! Graywolf Press nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Blues in Stereo: The Early Works of Langston Hughes (legacylitbooks), curated by Danez Smith (Danez Smith aka Hennyfurr Lopez) ✨ …n-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/hughe…

🎧 New Ep: Danez, poet, performance artist, & devotee of #HarlemRenaissance poet #LangstonHughes presents a selection of Hughes’s early work. Host Jo Reed & AudioFile’s Robin Whitten discuss. Hachette Audio bit.ly/AFMpodcast

⁦⁦Danez⁩, Tracy K. Smith, Solmaz Sharif, Natalie Diaz, Diane Seuss, ⁦Ilya Kaminsky⁩, Layli Long Soldier, & Claudia Rankine on Best American Poetry of 21st Century! & ⁦Eduardo C. Corral (he/him/his)⁩ & Natasha Trethewey! ⁦⁦Graywolf Press⁩ theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

Submissions are open for the 2025 Adroit Prizes for Poetry and Prose, guest-judged by Aria Aber and Danez Smith! All secondary and undergraduate students are encouraged to apply—we can’t wait to hear from you! Apply through the link in our bio!⭐️