as #AWP24 comes to a close, there many things to unpack, but tonight I'll post some of these excerpts about silence, harm, and truth-telling from @jerichobrown's brilliant keynote
weaves everything from Black liberation to resisting fascism to Gaza & right back to us @awpwriter
“Every empire denies the iceberg
it crashes into, hires a chorus, funds the arts.
Every empire sings itself a lullaby.”
— Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, “To Be Self-Evident”
Friends, here’s the link to the All Things Considered segment with the poems. You can read & hear the rhythm & worlds within their words. I hope you enjoy these brilliant writers as much as I do. 💜💜💜Daughters of Latin America is in stores now. 💜💜💜 https://t.co/vbcAZmHHa3
**new poem** out today with @yalereview
this is one of my favorite poems in all of Black Pastoral (which, wow, is really coming out this fall), and one of the last to make it into the book. it felt like the missing piece in many ways. thrilled it found such a wonderful home 💐