““Ironing Pillowcases” is a piece that multiplies domestic ritual as a mode of continuous un-manifesting, a type of interior weather that keeps out a rising storm.”
Bless you, @TriQuarterlyMag🤎
@TriQuarterlyMag@writercatblack @franekwuyasi @AriFrancesca If you're into teaching video lit this semester, our editor's letters are a great teaching resource that offer a short critical note to frame each piece for the viewer https://t.co/WWQ9BNzSd0
“Never tell yourself no, let someone else do that.” -@staceyabrams
A privilege to moderate the closing fireside chat for the “Power Up” series hosted by the White House Initiative On Black Americans.
Friends at AWP, I'll be on this panel, God Talk: Poetics of Wonder, Awe, and Ecstasy with poets I admire more than I can put into words. I'll be talking about prophetic imagination in contemporary Black poetry. Would love to see you there. ❤️
Asking for help is a choooore for me, bt getting better + finding that when someone close is floundering, their signs look like mine. Sometimes I have to offer support more than once — that’s normal.
We can’t always recognize when we need help/relief. The knee jerk is refusal.
The TSA officer who searched my bag pulled out my glass jar of coconut oil and looked up at me, looked around and slid it back into the bag.
He said, “I get it. But they may not let you bring it back. Safe travels.”
I love Black people.
In my research for my final @QueensMFA poetry manuscript, I gathered facts abt #BibleWomen.
Fact:
The Bible— including the Old Testament, New Testament, and Apocrypha (yes, y’all need to read that too) is abt 1.1M words long.
Women make up 1.2% of the words spoken, 14k.
“Coach Terrell aka Coach Daddy”😩🤣🏀
Can’t explain how proud I am of my young kings! GREAT @imhotepacademy win!
We defeated Jackson State last night in overtime. Melo gave us the game winning 12th point! I love this game! I love this team. The future is bright for them.
There are literally 21 books of the Bible where not ONE woman says a word.
Not one woman's voice is heard.
Not one woman gets to utter a sound.
Kinda wild if you consider that every single man who speaks has a mother, at the very least -- including Jesus.
Issue 163 of @TriQuarterlyMag is here and it's hot! Featuring new video essay and cinepoetry work by Henry Goldkamp, @writercatblack, @franekwuyasi and @AriFrancesca https://t.co/mPvg1Qau91
"And suddenly your dreams have become my responsibility. I can't have that. So I'm trying everything."
This week's #ThrowbackThursday is more of an #ICYMI, but either way, don't sleep on @AriFrancesca's mesmerizing "Ironing Pillowcases," in the newest TQ https://t.co/jAhycWuZLl
Not my 5yo watching the news then quietly getting up and setting all the faucets to drip. 🤣
When he finished, he came in the room and said, “Y’all know the drill. Gotta drip these faucets.”