quentonbaker.bsky.social 🇨🇩🇸🇩🇵🇸

they/them | poet laureate of hellworld | cave canem fellow | 2021 nea fellow | ballast (haymarket, 2023)

[quentonbaker.bsky.social 🇨🇩🇸🇩🇵🇸 @QuentonBaker]

ballast enters the world today. it took seven years and a whole mess of effort/grace/love from a lot of folks to make it possible, and i am profoundly grateful. may it live a long life.

[quentonbaker.bsky.social 🇨🇩🇸🇩🇵🇸 @QuentonBaker]

@GabrielleBates i'll say never and just be surprised when it works 👀

[quentonbaker.bsky.social 🇨🇩🇸🇩🇵🇸 @QuentonBaker]

@NatashaOladokun it's actually unbearable tbh 😭❤️

[quentonbaker.bsky.social 🇨🇩🇸🇩🇵🇸 @QuentonBaker]

@NatashaOladokun listennnnnnnnn 👀

[quentonbaker.bsky.social 🇨🇩🇸🇩🇵🇸 @QuentonBaker]

@IntifadaBatata that's phenomenally kind; thank you! 😭

[Harmony Holiday @Harmony_Holiday]

UC Irvine, one of the most sterile backdrops for a college campus you will ever witness. And a woman with a soul

[quentonbaker.bsky.social 🇨🇩🇸🇩🇵🇸 @QuentonBaker]

natasha is truly the best of us. please help them out❤️

https://t.co/24Pto73giA

[quentonbaker.bsky.social 🇨🇩🇸🇩🇵🇸 @QuentonBaker]

ballast is a year old today. the world is a year worse, a year more genocidal. grateful to have this work in the world and thankful to everyone who has engaged with it; deeply sad this is the world we work in and against.

https://t.co/4e5vDxZrLC

[quentonbaker.bsky.social 🇨🇩🇸🇩🇵🇸 @QuentonBaker]

@hystericalblkns @NifMuhammad @mnourbese @WindhamCampbell so lovely to see your work celebrated so widely! huge congrats!

[quentonbaker.bsky.social 🇨🇩🇸🇩🇵🇸 @QuentonBaker]

@TheOceanIsGay this is my whole career lol. i choose to believe that if the work is good (and yrs 10000% is) then the shit evens out over time

[quentonbaker.bsky.social 🇨🇩🇸🇩🇵🇸 @QuentonBaker]

@BarotRick it's hard to rock with the minstrelsy in dream songs

[_ @jonjonmp]

2024 we not arguing back and forth with people who want to kill us

[quentonbaker.bsky.social 🇨🇩🇸🇩🇵🇸 @QuentonBaker]

@carolynownbey i appreciate you sitting with it! 🖤

[Carolyn Ownbey, PhD @carolynownbey]

I have just finished, in one sitting, @QuentonBaker's *ballast* ... & tho I rarely comment on literature like this, I feel compelled to say:

ballast is one of the most brilliant pieces of writing I have ever encountered. I am astonished, bereft, shaken. A profound experience.

[Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks]

Refaat Alareer reads from Light in Gaza

[quentonbaker.bsky.social 🇨🇩🇸🇩🇵🇸 @QuentonBaker]

zero punctuation gang pull up

[Thirty West @thirtywestph]

Alright poets, one’s gotta go!

[quentonbaker.bsky.social 🇨🇩🇸🇩🇵🇸 @QuentonBaker]

my sibbbb 🥺❤️

[PBS News @NewsHour]

"Writing is my act of resilience. Writing is my way to make change. Writing is my way to see the ripples go," Anastacia-Reneé tells us. #BriefButSpectacular

[George Abraham (they/he) 🍉 جورج إبراهيم @IntifadaBatata]

Really grateful that my books are published with presses who express principled, material support for Palestinians, esp in times like these. Support ALL of these amazing & brave presses, esp the smaller ones who need us now more than ever