If you’re looking for a fantastic way to celebrate Nat’l Poetry Month in the NJ area, we’ve got you at Rutgers–New Brunswick tonight (4/9)! Mark Doty, Jericho Brown, G. Calvocoressi, & Tracy K. Smith! Come through!

Brown Girl Collective Book Club Presents Remica Bingham-Risher, author of ROOM SWEPT HOME youtube.com/live/Y-332_uon… #BrownGirlCollective

Here to shout out Matthew D. Morrison for his phenomenal contribution Blacksound. The development across the chapters of sound, popular music, slavery , emancipation, embodiment, intellectual property is many things and also subtly but richly analytic of space and geography. Read and teach!

These days I’m asked a lot, “Do you have hope?” “What gives you hope?” “Is there hope?”

I am more interested in talking about the animating force of anger.

Friends, poets, poet friends, I have just lost a teaching gig I was dependent on for the upcoming year and need to supplement the income. If anyone needs any poems, stories, essays edited let me know 🥰

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Six more great poems today on WORLD. Tune in 2-5pm ET / 11am-2pm PT for writing from Richard Blanco,Evie Shockley, & Walt Whitman, featuring star guests Tracy K. Smith, Gloria Estefan, and Lindy Elkins-Tanton. Full schedule: bit.ly/3PDJRQi
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“Why Me?” Colloquium

Panelists for April 12, 2:30 – 4:45 pm:
• Marie Darrieussecq (Writer)
• Evie Shockley (@RutgersEnglish)
• Robyn Wiegman (@DukeTrinity)

Full panel schedule: bit.ly/3wXqJGt Brown Research #English #Literature #CreativeWriting #LiteraryArts

What are your favorite book-length poems?

Today in 'The NYT or The Onion?'

The man who said he would end 'American carnage' now threatens us with a 'bloodbath' if he is not elected.

This is so good 😂😂😻

This looks like fun.

An online reading group covering three of my novels The Center for Fiction . Discussion is led by the amazing whoismarclabbott? .

I might have to pop in to a session or two, just to understand what I was actually doing when I wrote them!

Congratulations to Evie Shockley, for winning an NAACP Image Award!

#suddenlywe NAACP Image Awards® @evie

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With grief, we share the devastating news that Tyrone Williams, our cherished colleague in Poetics and English and the David Gray Chair of Poetry & Letters, passed away this morning in hospice, in the company of loved ones. (1/2)

Tyrone Williams (1954—2024)

memory eternal—

I am sick with these wonders:

Very sad to learn of the passing of an amazing poet, brilliant scholar of and advocate for poetry, and a sweet man whom I was lucky enough to know a bit, Tyrone Williams. Thinking of his loved ones. poetryfoundation.org/poets/tyrone-w…

As a person who was poor for a very long time, and is *barely* working class, It always gets interesting on here when people start talking about how much money they think folks do or do not have and revealing all the ways they separate themselves from “hood” folks 🙃🙃🙃

I’m in a state of surprise—& gratitude. What an honor this is, especially given the fantastic work & fabulous people nominated alongside *suddenly we* & me! Thank you to NAACP Image Awards® & the judges for the poetry category! 🏆🙏🏽🎉

Hi friends, I was looking forward to connecting at @SXSW tmrw, but I’m pulling out after learning about the unacceptable deep links the festival has to weapons manufacturers and the US military who at this very moment are enabling the genocide of Palestinians.