Just two weeks left to apply for a Brooklyn Poets Fellowship to take a fall workshop for free! We're doubling our financial aid this fall and offering up to 16 full fellowships and another 20–25 partial fellowships. Applications due Aug 16. brooklynpoets.org/workshops/fell…

16-24 year olds: You can get paid while you train for a new career. Join Workforce Solutions for these 3 virtual events to plan your future: wrksolutions.com/jobfair #HCDEimpact #Seetheimpact

📝😁WITS can make literacy a breeze at your school this year. Let's do this, Houston! Sign up today. #Writersintheschools #WITS #Writing #teaching witshouston.formstack.com/forms/get_wits

Did you know that almost all of our active book blog tours include a #giveaway? Visit the #LoneStarLit #blogtour pages each day for a chance to #win books, swag, and even #giftcards! #bookishTexas #WinBooks #FreeBooks #WinSwag #LoneStarGiveaways #Prizes lonestarliterary.com/lone-star-book…

Our students' love of place and liberty gives us hope in these times. #writing #education #arts #teaching #creativewriting #writingcommunity #Mentalhealth #Quarantine #MentalHealthAwareness #writingprompt #incarceration #prison #writehopenow ^

Thank you to Model D for featuring the voices of our @CityWidePoets writers as they navigate and lead during this period of national change. We are so proud of them! modeldmedia.com/features/cityw…

Check out the Fresh Arts Summit! Folks like Outspoken Bean @inocencio_josh Reyes *HOUSTON POET LAUREATE* Ramirez and many other awesome writers and artists!

Me to Maya: have you read any Hurston or Morrison yet? How about Baldwin. Her: um...I’m only 12. Me: it’s time. Let’s start with Their Eyes Were Watching God then we’ll do Bluest Eye. Then Baldwin. It’s Aunt Carliss’ zoom survey of Af-Am literature. Her: why are you like this?

Day 7 of the #SealeyChallenge is CATALOG OF UNABASHED GRATITUDE by Ross Gay. I can't explain the beauty and joy and attention in this book. If you haven't yet, this is a book to read for this deeply painful times, especially if you need something gorgeous in your body.

Our students' insights and resilience give us hope in these times. #writing #arts #teaching #creativewriting #writingcommunity #Mentalhealth #Quarantine #MentalHealthAwareness #writingprompt #immigration #migrant #thewall #Border #writehopenow ^

Let WITS help you transform your class into an exciting community of writers all using their own voices and stories. #WITS #writersintheschools #writing witshouston.formstack.com/forms/get_wits

📽📺📚 What’s #1 on Netflix ? The Lost Husband, a movie based on the novel by Former WITS Writer Katherine Center - mostly taking a Tw*tter break ! ! Wow!

Muhammad Khaerisman is an Actor, Poet, and Writer based in Houston, TX. Khaerisma has worked with WITS Houston , @tutshouston , the Alley Theatre , and Stages and is founder of the University of Houston poetry slam team—CoogSlam. He’ll be😜 #IGLIVE Thursday at 5:30pm. WITS Houston

🎤 This Saturday, February 27th, is the 2nd virtual Space City Slam preliminary. Sign up to compete via the link in our bio! Open to Houston youth ages 13-19!

📣 The 3rd Space City Slam prelim will be THIS Saturday, March 6th at 1pm! We have also added a 4th prelim on Saturday, March 13th! Sign up today to compete for your chance to join the Meta-Four Houston team. Link in bio 👆

⏰ THIS SATURDAY, March 13th, is the FINAL Space City Slam preliminary! If you are interested in joining the 2021 Meta-Four Houston team, register today to compete: ow.ly/uTRi50DWGmu

Today at noon on KPRC Channel 2 Houston Poet Laureate (@hplpoetlaureate) and Meta-Four Houston head coach, Outspoken Bean will be performing LIVE in celebration of Juneteenth! Tune in online or TV 💻📺

WITS invites young writers, ages 14-19 and living in the city of Houston, to apply for the Houston Youth Poet Laureate position. Please apply at witshouston.org/poet-laureate/

Youth Poets on stage at Mercantile Montrose performing at the 1st Free Verse event of the fall. Be sure to join us for the next Free Verse event at Gulf Coast Cosmos Comicbook Co. October 8th 6PM-8PM CT. Youth poets must be between the ages of 13-19 to perform.