Keegan Lester

Author at @wvupress work in @POETSorg @pshares @OSUtheJOURNAL @the_rumpus @TheBostonReview @BetteringPoetry 2016 @SlopeEditions Book Prize & WVU sports

[Keegan Lester @KeeganMLester]

I am so humbled to be sharing space in this issue of @pshares among so many star writers. I have so much gratitude for all of the readers and editors and of course to Tracy K. Smith who selected this poem. Holding this feels surreal.

[Keegan Lester @KeeganMLester]

@GabarianJason This is rad! You made my day!

[Keegan Lester @KeeganMLester]

@MisizGood @summerbooks1 @WVU_Humanities @WVUEberly Thank you, Kayla! When things calm down on the covid front, I’d love to come visit your class— :) hope you all are hanging in there

[Keegan Lester @KeeganMLester]

@summerbooks1 @WVU_Humanities @WVUEberly Thanks for including me :)

[West Virginia University Press @WVUPRESS]

New catalog! We're looking ahead to fall with new books by @KeeganMLester, @WilliamHTurner1, @profblockett, and more, plus a history of @seiu1199wvkyoh and another victory lap for @DeeshaPhilyaw. (And yes, that's bookseller @fritesflagey on p 20.) https://t.co/1wg3ha4ny4

[Keegan Lester @KeeganMLester]

@jessica_salfia @karlahilliard @PoetryOutLoud @_joseolivarez @Lyricalswordz @BerkCoSchoolsWV @SMHS_Official 😍😍😍😍

[Keegan Lester @KeeganMLester]

@SherrieFlick @summerbooks1 @housleydave Best night ever.

[Keegan Lester @KeeganMLester]

@jessica_salfia @_joseolivarez @karlahilliard @PoetryOutLoud @SMHS_Official 😍😍😍

[Derek Krissoff @DerekKrissoff]

Right on: Vox surveys the National Book Award finalists and notes “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies comes from West Virginia University Press, meaning we get the unusual sight of a small university press book in the fiction finals.” https://t.co/stAjH7SA2Z

[Keegan Lester @KeeganMLester]

@totallynotbex @JCastleWrites Dreams are made of elements that haven’t yet been discovered — get to it—- Maybe??? Obviously your poet child is way smarter than me. 😂😂😂

[Keegan Lester @KeeganMLester]

@karlahilliard @SanfordInspire @BerkCoSchoolsWV @WVeducation Congrats!!!!

[Keegan Lester @KeeganMLester]

@summerbooks1 @brevitymag @UnivNebPress Congrats, Ren!! This is awesome!!!!!

[Keegan Lester @KeeganMLester]

So this is rad.

[Odana @ohodana]

I'm going to say it again, hopefully without typos, but Rosenary Ketchum (elected-Wheeling) and Stephanie Heck (moving on to general-Huntington) made WEST VIRGINIA HISTORY last night and we need to be just as happy for them as we are sad for Smith (and trust me, ya girl is sad)

[Hanif Abdurraqib @NifMuhammad]

a thing I did today that folks can do (esp if the phone makes them nervous) is email Louisville's mayor & Kentucky's AG to demand the officers who murdered Breonna Taylor face consequences:

Daniel Cameron
[email protected]

Greg Fischer
[email protected]

[Gabrielle Bates @GabrielleBates]

Advice for those working on first poetry books, via Ross Gay via @TianaClarkPoet via this old Poets & Writers feature on debut poets: "Make magnificent attempts" https://t.co/lWTdOaRWbv

[West Virginia University Press @WVUPRESS]

Incredibly proud to be publishing @DeeshaPhilyaw’s new book. “Triumphant,” says Publishers Weekly. https://t.co/qIAGS34JUA

[Keegan Lester @KeeganMLester]

@vcmpoetry @AceBoggess @cgoodwoman 😍😍😍😍😍

[Keegan Lester @KeeganMLester]

There should be schools in West Virginia named after Katherine Johnson, Bill Withers, Henry Louis Gates, Denise Giardina, Daniel Johnston, and, of course the GOAT, Randy Moss. Perhaps one called Union High.

[Shawn Fluharty @WVUFLU]

Remove the Stonewall Jackson statue at the WV Capitol. Replace it with Katherine Johnson.

[Keegan Lester @KeeganMLester]

@PBW_Poet Thank you.