🔮 Happy Publication Day! 🔮 Do you believe in magic? We sure do! White Magic is finally here, and we're so glad to share Elissa Washuta's gorgeous essay collection with you today. 📸: early reader Nilsson (Neil) Yazzie Get your copy here: twodollarradiohq.com/white-magic/

My Modern Allegorical Fiction class at Hugo House starts next week and there are 5 spots left! We’ll talk about strong, weak, figurative, mimetic, and embedded allegories. Here are some stories I’m excited to talk about. Register here: hugohouse.org/store/class/mo…

I'm so glad to see this review of Bloomland in the new issue of Blackbird Journal. Grateful for this close attention to language, this appreciation of all the shifting, contradictory forces in the book. blackbird.vcu.edu/v20n1/nonficti…

ANNOUNCING THE 2021 VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD's 'TOP-3' FINALISTS: ~How Much of These Hills is Gold by @cpamzhang ~Luster by Raven Leilani ~Memorial by Bryan Washington VCU English Dept. VCU College of Humanities and Sciences VCULibraries Riverhead Books Farrar,Straus&Giroux

Honored.

CHECK IT OUT! Michelle Goshen, 3rd year dual-genre student in VCU's MFA program, published a review of the 2020 Cabell Award winner, BLOOMLAND by John Englehardt. To read the review visit Blackbird Journal or ow.ly/cgou50F3LQj VCU English Dept. VCU College of Humanities and Sciences VCULibraries @dzancbooks

Congrats to Raven Leilani for winning the VCU first novelist award for LUSTER! This book is blazingly restless and contemporary and communicates meaning at the speed of light. It was an honor to serve as a judge on the panel.

“It’s hard to imagine anything more damaging to literature than literature” - Mattilda B Sycamore #thsw 🔥 🔥 🔥

Excellent example of how historic firsts are almost always an indictment of the entire system.

Tomorrow at Elliott Bay Book Co. with Rick Barot Friday, 10/15 at 6pm PT, virtual reading & convo. Register here: eventbrite.com/e/poet-victori…

Deciding what poems my intro creative writing students need to hear. Looking for immediacy and energy. What am I missing?

I wordled 🟩🟨⬛🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I'm so sorry to hear we've lost Matt Henriksen. "Jesus, why must it be so late, so bright and so early?"

My op-ed for Truthout! "Every article about monkeypox should state that the U.S. government is a cause of this crisis, instead of shifting the blame onto individual acts and policing people’s sex lives while refusing to challenge the structural violence" truthout.org/articles/monke…

Please read this powerful poem by naa adukwɛi from her superb collection QUIET:

my book is available for pre-order (that's a wild thing to be able to say). ballast is coming out in april from Haymarket Books. be my best friend here: bookshop.org/p/books/ballas…

It's a huge thrill to have a poem in the new issue of the "New Yorker." With much gratitude to the poetry editors, Kevin Young and Hannah Aizenman, for taking the poem. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

🌟🌟COVER REVEAL!!!!!🌟🌟Yes, look at the stunning cover for TOUCHING THE ART, out on November 7 from @SoftSkull—watch out, world!!! And, you can now preorder from your local indie bookstore!!💥Never too early to send over media requests, thanks for all your support!!!💫💫💫

Very happy to have contributed the introduction for this reissue of Andrew Holleran’s masterpiece, coming in December alongside Nights in Aruba & The Beauty of Men.

🚨HAPPENING NOW: In the largest known boycott of "Israeli" cultural institutions, a coalition of writers, publishers, literary festival laborers, and book workers are refusing to work with Zionist literary institutions––and have invited the publishing world to join them.