A founding director and instructor at Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House, UMD. Orlando Prize, Tupelo Broadside Prize. MFA, PhD. BLM No Human is Illegal 🏳️🌈
Takoma Park, MD
Joined April 2013
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No one: Pair that maroon towel-shirt with maroon shorts to show the aura who's boss
Picasso:
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Dreaming - A lynx stalking through the Scottish heather. Sadly only AI generated at mo but one day… @Lynx_Scotland
Oh @anniefinchpoet YES. Thanks for sharing this.
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In an effort to support and uplift Palestinian voices, Sundress Publications is announcing two new opportunities for writers of Palestinian descent. Find out more about our new residency fellowship and upcoming microgrant! sundresspublications.com/new…
Thanks for posting this @seminewblack! Hey @jpwritershouse, this is our very own Lillian-Yvonne Bertram @UMDEnglish! We’re reading both amazing poets @seminewblack and Bertram in my upper level forms workshop @jpwritershouse this fall!
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Laura Lauth retweeted
A lot of y'all who said I couldn't fit this whole starfish in my mouth are real quiet these days.
ALT A close-up view of a white and gray gull trying to swallow a large sea star.
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Happy Tuesday❤️ #writerslift
I'd love to connect with more #writers & #readers! ✨ I follow back! ✨ 📚
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500 words/day = 183K words/yr
#Motivation
“I am no bird, and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.” – Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre.
Laura Lauth retweeted
Grateful to @kenyonreview for publishing this poem about home and mothers and food.
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Friends! My new book about being in love & in treatment for breast cancer, STANDING IN THE FOREST OF BEING ALIVE, can be ordered here for convenience: tinyurl.com/yp8tzhus or here to better support my 🔥 publisher @AliceJamesBooks (& therefore me): tinyurl.com/ycd85a39
Laura Lauth retweeted
That’s what life is, John – people
opening. You know this, you
live in Connecticut.
- Andrea Cohen, “Purchase”
Posting for a close family friend: Hakeem’s been missing for a month from the DC metro area. If you could read and circulate the following info as broadly as possible, his family would be very grateful.
Whoot!!! So thrilled for you both @KelliAgodon and @susanrichpoet—and thrilled for myself and the many poets who’ll benefit from this gem of a resource on birthing a book! Will order ASAP.
Poets-- Now available!
If you're working on a poetry manuscript or chapbook, @susanrichpoet and I may have something to help--DEMYSTIFYING the MANUSCRIPT: Essays & Interviews of Creating a Book of Poems!
We sold ot at #AWP23, but grab yours here: amzn.to/3yzKjpX
Laura Lauth retweeted
Last year at AWP I went to a talk by Toi Derricotte, who said if you write a haiku and an intention every day for a year, your life will be transformed. I decided to try this:
A year later I am holding twin infants, chairing an English Department, and terrified of haiku.
Ohhhh @aliner I love me some MatZap @matthewzapruder !! Thanks for sharing this gem. Come on all you ghosts! Could there be a better title for that book—or any book of poems?
"I also had a secret, immutable rule. If I ever mistyped a word— horse for house, ward for word, vary for very, or find for fine—I would have to keep it."
- @matthewzapruder on poetry and wandering
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Last year, the wage gap for Black women was $0.63 for every $1.00 made by white men. This year ... it’s $0.58📉
On #BlackWomensEqualPayDay, empower your voice to create awareness about the racial inequalities in the workplace🗣
@blkwomenshealth #PayBlackWomen #BWHIEqualPayDay22
