Okay friends! As of today, here’s the list of 2022 forthcoming poetry books by queer writers of color. If you want to be added or if I’m missing peeps, feel free to comment below or dm me. This includes chapbooks and self-published ☺️

Big things around the corner here at Sampsonia Way! Next month, we're launching our new website, launching our new "Everyday Pandemic" series, & we're hosting a live global literary event. Stay tuned!!!!

Check out THIS HERE FLESH from former staff writer Cole Arthur Riley!

@gunita_singh, staff attorney for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and Brett Sholtis, health reporter for WITF news will detail current and past court actions to access key legal documents for important investigations. fb.me/e/2ey72U8m5

On March 22, join us for a LIVE global literary experience: bit.ly/3HEWNyN Join us as we launch our new series capturing the daily toll of life through the pandemic from the perspective of writers who are familiar with the experience of isolation and exile.

Russian authorities must halt their campaign to stifle the domestic press, and the country’s armed forces should immediately cease harassing journalists covering the invasion of Ukraine, and ensure that the media can work freely and safely. cpj.org/2022/03/russia…

Join us -- on March 22 -- for the launch party for our newest series “The Everyday Pandemic”! Featuring writers from around the globe: Simten Coşar, Jorge Olivera Castillo, and @marciatiburi . Plus, there will be a series of interactive creative writing exercises! 💫✨

Join us tomorrow! cityofasylum.org/event/the-ever…

“Wouldn’t it feel great to have the freedom to fly?” cityofasylum.org/sampsonia-way-… @TuhinPittsburgh describes the craft the newest House Publication on Sampsonia Way.

My new interview: cityofasylum.org/sampsonia-way-…

On #WorldPressFreedomDay, we honor the lives of at least 7 journalists killed while covering the Russia-Ukraine war. Their friends, families, and colleagues remember them as uncles, cat-lovers, joke-tellers, and so much more. Journalists are #NotATarget. #WPFD2022 #pressfreedom

Gwendolyn A. Mitchell's "Lost in Winter" in Sampsonia Way Mag—she writes, "This was our warming place." buff.ly/37o7h9B Hear her in person alongside ゆい🌏, Margaret Hyacinth, spooky version 🦇, Timons Esaias, & @DoogEkim for Week 2 of @HemingwaysPoetry! 5/17, 7pm: buff.ly/3OgqWc1

Read our review of @TuhinPittsburgh's latest and greatest: “Again and again, what amazes in this collection is Das’s ability to expose the ordinary as something extraordinary, and vice versa." (Reviewed by Alayna Powell) cityofasylum.org/sampsonia-way-…

New Ep.🚨 ft. a medley of City of Asylum’s annual JazzPoetry festival performances! Have U been to a JP event? Tell us about it!

“The kinds of people who stood up for me in the bad years might not do so now,” Salman Rushdie told The Guardian in 2021. “The idea that being offended is a valid critique has gained a lot of traction.” (1/3)

Wishing a health and healing to Salman Rushdie and Henry Reese. In the wake of this vile attack, we’re reminded of the fragility of life—and we’re further buoyed in our efforts to promote and champion freedom of expression.

Read Simten Coşar's exploration of foreignness, fear, and steel — and how she experienced exile in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. bit.ly/3RlQENh

“In a Vale of Soul Making: In Conversation with Mark Steidl & Richard St. John” by Leah Simpson (Leah) bit.ly/3SYEj2l “I wanted it to be so raw that a reader would feel uncomfortable putting down the piece, because they would be putting me down.”