Mia S. Willis

poet. beatmaker. cultural historian. they/them. “monster house.” (@cavecanempoets/@jaialaibooks, 2019). “the space between men.” (@penguinbooks, 2025).

[Mia S. Willis @Poetinthehat]

baby’s first pub day is finally here.
wish my sister could see this. 🥹

[Penguin Books @PenguinBooks]

New to Penguin Poets: THE SPACE BETWEEN MEN by @Poetinthehat! ⁣

A poetic ethnography that creates and documents the vocabulary of the Southern Black queer experience, THE SPACE BETWEEN MEN looks to familial history, rituals of faith, and the natural world to explore how the intersecting cultures of Blackness and queerness relate to each other.⁣

Start reading now 👉 https://t.co/qHFZPkWH42

[Biscuit Boom @M2C_BoomQue]

If you from Atlanta, read this book. If you live in Atlanta, read this book. Abiut half way through. Super solid

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

no data center on Earth is worth the bees, water, and trees.

[Uncle Ruckus @Emarged]

“Until death, all defeat is psychological."

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

I heard an interview today about AI in creative spaces and the man being interviewed said “AI is data, and Data can only look backwards. Creativity looks forwards.” And I need to sit with that in the best possible way.

[Kyle @WordsByKyle]

I am so excited to share a project I've been working on for a minute now.

I spoke to over 15 collaborators from Beyoncé's iconic B'DAY album to reflect on its creation and impact 20 years later.

Get into the full retrospective here:
https://t.co/2FdND4Jt62

[miss talk sum @shootmeadub]

“What am I going to do today or tomorrow in order to contribute to the material conditions that enable revolutionary love to be the norm and not the aberration?”

— Joy James

[Kitttÿ @n0ty0urkittty]

I am guided by voices older than time and protected by love older than fear

[Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 @afrosypaella]

Black people buying into fascism is not only befuddling but dispiriting.

[love drops @lovedropx]

Czeslaw Milosz, from "Ars Poetica?"

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

Sherman should have burned every plantation and punished every traitor.

[phillys black marxist ☭ @Forever_noir_]

If your rights are on the ballot you have already lost your rights. Things that need to be understood.

[m @skitzocat]

it all works out on a random tuesday

[⚭ @lekimgym]

You need to touch saltwater sometimes
not always grass.

[Maybe: Fat Booty Latina @lexascending]

You have to be crazier than what came to kill you.

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

“All addictions are a low level search for God.”

- Carl Jung

[Synekura Audio @synekura_audio]

Assata Shakur: "In order for us to effectively change this world, we're gonna have to change ourselves" [from Lecture, 1997]

[Bill @wjneumire]

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

The “protect women’s sports” crowd has been using women athletes as props. Now a WNBA star is publicly telling them to stop. Brianna Turner: “Don’t use athletes like me to exclude others.”

[Mia S. Willis @Poetinthehat]

if you’re a gatekeeper? i’m the gate.

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

apparently i’m an elitist gatekeeper for saying you should do some work (like read and draft) to become an artist or a writer. and not use AI.

[kyle cL @kycarrerolopez]

toni morrison tried to break this down for everybody long ago

https://t.co/ieV97vkxna