Jay Aja

West Indian Baboo 🕉🇬🇾 | Non-binary Pan 🏳️‍🌈 | 🎨🧑🏾‍🎨✨Comics🪸Poetry🪷Nonfiction🌝 🖌 | Tin House '24 | Poetry Book Review Editor @bearreview

[Jay Aja @comicsbhaijay]

Celebrating ✨🪔Diwali🪔✨with this anthology @rajivmohabir invited me to contribute some of my
Comics to!!🌞 Shown are my mother's gold bangles, who passed in 2019, a reminder of all that I have loved that I have inherited as well. Thanks for being in community with me y'all!🇬🇾

[Jay Aja @comicsbhaijay]

Talking to my authors is one of my most favorite parts of my job gahh☺️ Love seeing all their enthusiasm for their work and being a part of bringing their vision to fruition💛

[Jay Aja @comicsbhaijay]

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[Jay Aja @comicsbhaijay]

Find my review of "Fugitive/Refuge" by Philip Metres on Bear Review.
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"Maestro, steady my starlings.

For you I hunger. Lift your baton
And stuff my mouth with singing."

—from "Qasida for the End of Time"

[Satya Dash @satya043]

Devin Kelly. ✨✨

[Jay Aja @comicsbhaijay]

Read Joseph Byrd's full review of "even my dreams are over the constant state of anxiety" by Irene Cooper now live on @BearReview

https://t.co/ECKz2j8OWH

[Jay Aja @comicsbhaijay]

Check out @io_lit at AWP later this month!! Peruse goodies through their Substack in the meantime:

https://t.co/Ugg8XmKaoJ

[Jay Aja @comicsbhaijay]

from my Goodreads review: "These were the poems I came back to remind me that even plaintains experience tough periods before yielding to sweetness."
https://t.co/35Fh3P47dd

[Dr. Ryan Persadie @ryanpersadie]

Excited to share with you all that my most recent article “Deh Say I’s Ah Madman: Soca Performance, Afro-Caribbean Masculinities, and the Metaphorization of Madness” is out and available to read with the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies.

To read: https://t.co/44SDNKqt9M

[Jay Aja @comicsbhaijay]

As a Guyanese-American🇬🇾, I was proud to write a feature showcasing the talents of a fellow West Indian!!🇯🇲 In the future, I hope to continue curating this good work from individuals located across the Caribbean and the diaspora🌱🫱🏾‍🫲🏽🌱

https://t.co/TRcPkiiXoh

[Trinidad & Tobago High Commission in the UK 🇹🇹 @TTHCLondon]

🎉Congratulations to @IngridPersaud from #TrinidadandTobago, who has been shortlisted for the esteemed 2025 Eccles Institute & Hay Festival Global Writer’s Award. Her novel 'Out with Lanterns' blends fiction & history, exploring indentureship's legacies. Winners announced 4 Dec.

[International Journal of Carnival Arts @IJCarnivalArts]

📢Volume 4 out now!📢
https://t.co/C0R8pbupz4
Articles on #steelpan in British universities, the history of TASPO at the Festival of Britain, #carnival activism, using #calypso to engage with people living with dementia & more...

[Jay Aja @comicsbhaijay]

@jalenjwrites @ashakijackson @rajivmohabir @jalenjwrites Thanks Jalen! It was so therapeutic being a part of this project💛

[Jay Aja @comicsbhaijay]

Celebrating ✨🪔Diwali🪔✨with this anthology @rajivmohabir invited me to contribute some of my
Comics to!!🌞 Shown are my mother's gold bangles, who passed in 2019, a reminder of all that I have loved that I have inherited as well. Thanks for being in community with me y'all!🇬🇾

[Jay Aja @comicsbhaijay]

@solomonmissouri So police feel safe wrongfully invading the home of Breonna Taylor and opening fire on an innocent, but not rightfully invading the home of an offender to arrest them for an act they are actually guilty of? I'm done.

[C.T. Salazar @CTsalazar_]

Once again thinking about these perfect two stanzas from Naomi Shihab Nye’s “Jerusalem”

[Millicent Borges Accardi 🇵🇹 @TopangaHippie]

Congratulations to @FlowerSongPress whose book "American Book of the Dead" by Balam Rodrigo, translated by Dan Bellm has been shortlisted for the National Translation Award in Poetry.
Judges for 2024 are Kazim Ali, Ronnie
Apter, and Mary Jo Bang.

[FlowerSong Press @FlowerSongPress]

A review of Central American Book of the Dead/Libro centroamericano de los muertos, by Balam Rodrigo, translated from the Spanish by Dan Bellm.

https://t.co/Gl9BzOI4SX

[Workshops4Gaza @Workshops4Gaza]

In “Seeing the Stanza,” participants will explore ekphrastic poems by Tiana Clark and M. Mick Powell, then generate their own in response to contemporary works of visual art. You'll get to learn from @brittanyroger_ who just published her debut collection https://t.co/P8zM19XoFJ

[Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag]

Contributor @dorothykchan curated a reading list of poetry collections by Asian American authors for @ElectricLit! And it features work by Poetry Editor @RitaMookerjee and Contributor Ina Cariño! https://t.co/Ly1tXc1Ebs