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just a young writer tryna make it! 🇸🇳🇸🇳🇸🇳

[💐 Maurice 💐 @MauriceRuffin]

We did it! Thank you!

[penda🌹 @SmithPenda]

I’ll be doing something random: making up my bed, drinking water, showering, and then I think about the genocide all around us. Sudan, Congo, Palestine. We are in a state of emergency, and what’s frightening is the desensitization and normalization of destruction.

[Julissa Muñiz, Ph.D. @JulissaMuniz13]

I refuse to normalize the killing of Black youth. Ryan Gainer deserved to live a full life. No amount of trainings can undo the anti-black racist foundations of our police force. Nor are they equipped to address the needs of our community members living with disabilities.

[Omar Sakr @omarsakrpoet]

Four months ago we called for a boycott of Poetry Foundation, and thousands answered; the cost was felt by many. Love to everyone who heard us, and love to my kin @IntifadaBatata @MyNrhindi @tariqpoems @summabis for organising. Here’s where we’re at now. https://t.co/2KVGMD0t8Q

[Brittany Rogers (she/her) @brittanyroger_]

For #313Day , I’m sharing the cover of my forthcoming poetry collection, Good Dress! Like me, Good Dress is a D girl- audacious, tender, and grounded in the City.

I’m so honored to have @racheleliza_g gorgeous art on the cover of my debut!! Happy Detroit Day, y’all!

[penda🌹 @SmithPenda]

Welcome ❤️❤️❤️

[Chukwuebuka Ibeh @ChukwuebukaIbe4]

My novel, Blessings, is out in the world today. I tell you, there are no words in the world to describe how I feel.

[penda🌹 @SmithPenda]

sending love to those of u didn’t get into cave. you are so brave for applying, and we need you and your work. love on yourself extra hard today & as always keep applying

[penda🌹 @SmithPenda]

@earthtokb @SafiyaSinclair @NikkiGiovanni6 Love these recs. Also how do you read so fast 😭😭😭😭😭

[Adedayo Agarau @adedayoagarau]

Also, immediately after you arrive, you start researching how to stay here—that migraine called immigration.

I'm saying writers writing in exile already have too many things to worry about, and the last thing they need is a distraction.

We don't even get invited to parties because we are either too black or not fitting for their social cactus.

As Segun says, I know where I am loved, so it's usually amusing where the place that should hold you is the place that calls everyone to come take a bite of your body.

[Mary-Alice Daniel @MaryAlicePoetry]

I can't wait to finish my craft essay about the innovations in this book by Dior J. Stephens @dolphinneptune! I am also including it as a core text in my class on originality @scrippscollege😍Still in awe at the breadth of aesthetics repped by @cavecanempoets!

[Adedayo Agarau @adedayoagarau]

The history of leaving Nigeria for MFA & how the MFA became popular started on Facebook.

I studied DM Aderibigbe's poems for years because I wanted to know what he was doing well and how his writing was different.

Then Tochi. Uncle Gbenga left. Then Adeoba. Then Segun. Then, the many people representing Nigerian and African writers by maintaining good conduct in these programs.

Our reputation is that we leave where we go, wanting more of our kind. We are excellent people, even in our poetics, even as we live our small, miraculous lives.

Whatever conversation we are having that is not uplifting my people, I don't want to be a part of it.

[Njoku Nonso @njokunonso_]

The contrast between sympathy and empathy is the blinding error of perspectives. Are you trying to be a god? Do you wish to be a god? Who's worthy of being saved? And on what rationale? At what juncture does the gift of worthiness become perhaps a tyrannical or prejudiced affair?

[Adedayo Agarau @adedayoagarau]

African Writers writing in the US. Next AWP. Panels?

[Open Books: A Poem Emporium @openpoetrybooks]

Just so we're clear, can a poet moderating an AWP panel read the following statement, or has the following statement been banned by AWP?

[penda🌹 @SmithPenda]

@CAMONGHNE And I Oop

[penda🌹 @SmithPenda]

💀💀💀💀 i truthfully am only here cause I couldn’t get a refund

[penda🌹 @SmithPenda]

@Rob_Charboneau This is embarrassing. Imagine thinking that craft and affectivity are not interlaced— I’ve never heard of you, but will look you up so I never accidentally read another piece of your writing or thoughts.

[Ya moms a heaux @gisellepiaget_]

@queenzingha__ This is for the girlies— I need the men to back up right now. Cause some of us actually run in these circles IRL and this is not just internet fodder to us— this is our safety!