These are elementary school children who woke up this morning. Who ate their favorite cereal. Who tied their shoes in double knots. Who laughed with friends on the bus. Now more than a dozen are dead. This isn’t normal. It doesn’t have to be this way. It can’t keep being this way

A truly sincere question: How are you even doing any work rn? I just can't. The level of violence, murder, war. How the state supports guns & massacre. How the state let's a pandemic go rampant. The earth. The earth. So many homelands in dictatorship. The children. I can't.

The mom that ran in and saved her kids after being handcuffed in Uvalde finally spoke out.

"Loving you is like saying 'I'm alive.'" Nazim Hikmet (trans. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk):

Bring this poem by Jane Hirshfield with you to Sunday brunch:

When the well-intentioned white person or faux “DEI expert” comes with the “we all have bias”, inform them: Yes, we all have biases. But, those biases are not equal. Becos we don’t all have power. The power to translate that bias into an outcome for those without power. 1/

Wednesday wisdom from Michael Ondaatje:

“We are not powerless. We are indispensable despite all the atrocities of state and corporate policy to the contrary. At minimum, we have the power to stop cooperating with our enemies.” -June Jordan

Meet the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate: @adalimon!!! 🎉

Me: “You can use the ‘I’ in your research essay.” Student: “Your English class breaks all the rules.” Hehe

I made u all something

Next weekend, join Publisher Ashaki M Jackson who will host our exciting showcase, featuring writers Gabrielle Civil, Michael A. Reyes, and Jose Hernandez Diaz at Beyond Baroque's SoCal #Poetry Festival! Sunday, November 20, 2-4 PM, Visit BeyondBaroque.org for tickets and schedule.

“You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.” Malcolm X was born on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska.

This beauty by Raymond Carver:

THE FERGUSON REPORT: AN ERASURE is out today! I am incredibly grateful for the support it has/I have received from family, friends and advocates—thank you, thank you, thank you. This book is as much theirs as it is mine.

Needed this today: