Rosamond King/rskhappens

*Presence on this platform is not an endorsement of its leader.*
Creative & critical writer, performer, artist.
Opinions are mine alone.

[Rosamond King/rskhappens @RosamondDrKing]

@BlackCatrachoBK @BrooklynCollege Oh! I'm in TX. So sorry to miss you at my home base! The Wolfe folks will treat you right. Glad we get to learn from you!

[Rosamond King/rskhappens @RosamondDrKing]

general info: https://t.co/QieT59HZYd

[Rosamond King/rskhappens @RosamondDrKing]

Current situation: Watching the groundbreaking of the American LGBTQ+ museum online!
Our history belongs everywhere, AND it also now has another dedicated place.

livestream: https://t.co/1KfciNYbmS
@LGBTQ_Museum

[Rosamond King/rskhappens @RosamondDrKing]

@floridapress Island Bodies has continuously been in print for ten years! Thanks to everyone who teaches and cites it and continues to build Caribbean Sexuality Studies.

Please share widely.

[Rosamond King/rskhappens @RosamondDrKing]

*Caribbean Sexualities Call for Submissions*

CFP: Scholars at all stages to write chapter prefaces for an anniversary edition of Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination.
@floridapress

[Kellie Carter Jackson @kcarterjackson]

I draw on the wisdom of Toni Morrison:
"This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal."
#WeRefuse.

[Rosamond King/rskhappens @RosamondDrKing]

Come celebrate joy the day after the election!
: I'm moderating a book & film launch celebrating Edisa Weeks' HAPPINESS rite @Center4Fiction in Brooklyn.
Also featuring artist Darryl Hell in person and Thomas F. DeFrantz via video.

https://t.co/sXyH5WLNIJ

[651 ARTS @651ARTS]

We gathered at @TFBWL and uplifted one another’s art while Dr. @RosamondDrKing educated us about the legacy of one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. 651 ARTS is honored to collaborate with such talented and committed artists in Brooklyn.

[The Center for Fiction @Center4Fiction]

Join us next month for a dynamic conversation between @yahdonisrael, Senior Editor at @simonschuster, and Robert Jones, Jr., author of The Prophets, about the powerful link between James Baldwin’s faith and artistic imagination.

Register now to attend https://t.co/CNGaFAUQtn!

[Rosamond King/rskhappens @RosamondDrKing]

@CBAW_ @strathmore Check out this online workshop on performing poetry! - Thank you @CBAW_ for the invitation!

[651 ARTS @651ARTS]

This is a poem titled 'Oops' by @RosamondDrKing

[Rosamond King/rskhappens @RosamondDrKing]

@651ARTS @TFBWL I’m so excited to lead this FREE creative writing workshop that lifts up Gwendolyn Brooks!

27 October @TFBWL with @renegadepg & @651ARTS
Register here:
https://t.co/MrZsrRs0v6

[Rosamond King/rskhappens @RosamondDrKing]

“Asylum Seeker” by Maral Taheri, transl. by Hajar Hussaini, viscerally addresses memory & forgetting, place & displacement. It begins in Tehran, funneling out to include the 100+ million displaced around us.

Read the English & Persion: https://t.co/t5dKFaFQFD
#poemaday @poetsorg

[Rosamond King/rskhappens @RosamondDrKing]

Pamela Mordecai’s “savage” speaks in Jamaican patois from the specific to the universal. This legendary poet describes her speaker as blunt, outspoken and fearless. We recognize those features in the writer herself!

Read & listen: https://t.co/t5dKFaFQFD
@Refracting @poetsorg

[Rosamond King/rskhappens @RosamondDrKing]

Brilliant poet Trish Salah describes “without a word” as “something like a prayer or grief or condemnation.” If the word is Palestine, she writes, and the word is “a life…a people…a land” then what happens if all are disappeared?
https://t.co/t5dKFaFiQ5
#poemaday @poetsorg

[Rosamond King/rskhappens @RosamondDrKing]

@LitLuisa @heymrsbond Oh, yes "Girl"!

[Rosamond King/rskhappens @RosamondDrKing]

Anthony Vahni Capildeo’s “I sing for joy” is feast for the eyes and delight for the ears. There are so many ways to enjoy this poem (try highlighting a line!)

BTW every #poemaday comes w/audio readings & descriptions - great for classrooms!
https://t.co/t5dKFaFiQ5
@POETSorg

[Rosamond King/rskhappens @RosamondDrKing]

@heymrsbond "Blossom, Priestess of Oya, Goddess of Winds, Storms, and Waterfalls" by Dionne Brand
"Out on Main Street" by Shani Mootoo
"Cane" (novella) by Jean Toomer

[Rosamond King/rskhappens @RosamondDrKing]

Paolo Javier’s poem beautifully answers its own question:

“What good news in the world
can move the mountain in the throat
of a human being calling out their own
mother’s name on the verge of a moment
no English word capably denotes”

https://t.co/t5dKFaFiQ5
@POETSorg