My book is available for pre-order! This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations explores how enslaved people struggled to make spaces of confinement, exploitation, & violence into something more: homes. a.co/d/gvM77C7

This is a post about an essay about an incredible essay.

Subs are officially open. We're accepting submissions of all forms of writing and art until the 15th of October for issue 3. You can see our submission guidelines on our website. metachrosislitmag.co.uk/submission-gui… Check out issue 2 while you're there! #subsopen #opencall #litmag

We're opening up submission for the Fall from Oct 1- Nov 15! Send us your poems, your stories, your essays, and art! It's 3 dollars to submit and we'll be hitting you with an extra special Halloween treat--but more on that later!

Why you SHOULD submit to Dusty Attic: - we are a small indie mag that is 100% free to read - we pay our writers - we love the art of storytelling just as much as you do - we want to uplift voices that aren’t seen much in mainstream media what are you waiting for??

I present to you…journalism. Long live Heiniecles and Charmacles! (Those are the toilet bears’ names, right?) slate.com/human-interest…

Babe, TIMBER just dropped another issue! Head on over to our website for your fill of poetry, prose, and everything in between. You'll find work that takes risks, pushes boundaries, and rocks your world. 🌎

My visual poem "The Zoo," featuring my grandparents, is the cover image for TIMBER’s issue. Please check it out, as well as some stunners by Isaiah Yonah Back-Gaal and Kurt David, Katherine Indermaur, Elise Thi Tran, and more. timberjournal.org

MY NEW ORLEANS BOOK LAUNCH AND BIRTHDAY BASH for new poetry book, For Today (LSU Press, 2024) w/ Skye, Michael Tod Edgerton, and Blue Cypress Books: Friday, 2/16, 7pm, at the Zeitgeist: ​6621 ST CLAUDE AVE. Sheet cake, booze, poetry and a mystery afterparty. ❤️🔥🌈🪐☄️✨💫🌟💥😈

Lovelies, Please consider submitting more photography, art, reviews and drama submissions our way. You fiction-poetry-nonfiction loves? KILLING. Keep it up. But let’s help our equally benevolent other genres out and stack their decks some! 🌹📝🐝 theloveliestreview.com

Congratulations to the winners of this year's contest brought to you by Da: A Journal of Delta Arts. See you all on Feb. 22 for a reading and reception to celebrate these exceptional student writers!

"This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, [...] and your very flesh shall be a great poem." – Walt Whitman

Check out Issue 14.1 and read Maia Elgin's visual poem, "The Zoo"! timberjournal.org/archive/the-zoo

Pink ladies are everything I ever wanted in an apple.

Musk is clearly not reading the essays my students are having AI generate… reuters.com/technology/tes…

Anand Giridharadas is bringing much needed perspective to Morning Joe.

He’s really doubling down on the crazy uncle vibe this evening.

It took several days to count every ballot in 2020, and it’s very likely we won’t know the outcome tonight either. So please keep a few things in mind as you make your voice heard today: – Thousands of election workers around the country are working hard today. Respect them.

Wait, so Russia has been calling in bomb threats to counties that lean left? Can we talk about this? It feels like we should be talking about this.

Okay, see y’all on Bluesky. @maiaelgin.bsky.social