Brenda Marie Osbey

Poet, essayist, librettist. ALL SOULS: Essential Poems (2015); Editor, Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems (2016); Louisiana PL Emerita

[Brenda Marie Osbey @OsbeyNola]

@LangstonReview Am honored and deeply humbled by Deborah McDowell's essay. Only rarely these days is poetry attended to with such thoroughness and *focus. (Apologies for earlier typo!)

[Brenda Marie Osbey @OsbeyNola]

@LangstonReview Am honored and deeply humbled by Deborah McDowell's essay. Only rarely these days is poetry attended to with such thoroughness and ficus.

[Brenda Marie Osbey @OsbeyNola]

Am honored and deeply humbled by Deborah McDowell's essay. Only rarely these days is poetry attended to with such thoroughness and *focus. (Apologies for earlier typo!)

[Brenda Marie Osbey @OsbeyNola]

Am honored and humbled by Deborah McDowell's so thorough study of my work.

[The Langston Hughes Review @LangstonReview]

"An Obligation to Honor: Brenda Marie Osbey in the Round" by Deborah McDowell, PhD
https://t.co/gYyXLYJPVM

[Poets & Writers in New Orleans @nolapworg]

Read our latest blog featuring a short chat with former Louisiana Poet Laureate @OsbeyNola. Includes audio poem. @poetswritersinc #NewOrleans
https://t.co/DVJzKzxkwF

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"It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there."
-- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

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Albert Allson Whitman, Radical Black Poet of the Reconstruction https://t.co/YPO57d90G3

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ED ROBERSON WINS JACKSON POETRY PRIZE! https://t.co/vP7nf7QEu2

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Award-winning NC writer Randall Kenan, a Southern voice, dies | Raleigh News & Observer https://t.co/j8CsJ5v3q4

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Angela Davis on International Solidarity and the Future of Black Radicalism https://t.co/elSGSzaz1D

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I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra by Ishmael Reed - Poems | https://t.co/leYUkXgfBs https://t.co/11eJM1xl9b

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@WomenWriters As a working author, prolific or not, writing/research/editing/translating is indeed my job. Am not a Romantic and do not hold to inspiration. I believe in work. And I work every day.

[Rick Barot @BarotRick]

I’ve been teaching Ross Gay’s poem “A Small Needful Fact“ for years, but didn’t realize until yesterday, when I read this Robert Hayden poem, how much Gay’s poem is in dialogue with this one. It’s kind of amazing. Looking forward to teaching the poems side-by-side...

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"Think of Me, Laughing" by Major Jackson | World Literature Today https://t.co/8CLZRcjagQ

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On behalf of Rasul Murray, share widely.

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Why are so many Lyft drivers refusing to wear masks? Why is Lyft not responding?

[Brenda Marie Osbey @OsbeyNola]

@AskLyft The "Help" tab of the lyft app does not provide sufficient options.

[Brenda Marie Osbey @OsbeyNola]

@AskLyft If I must pay cancellation fee as a rider, drivers should be charged a fee of at least $5 for leaving customers stranded.

[Brenda Marie Osbey @OsbeyNola]

@AskLyft Do drivers receive financial penalties for abandoning customers after accepting the ride? First driver was 6 minutes away, turned in opposite direction, appeared to take two other riders while I waited outdoors additional 20 minutes.

[Brenda Marie Osbey @OsbeyNola]

@AskLyft Why are lyft drivers not wearing masks/facial coverings during COVID-19??