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
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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…
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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
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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
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That’s what life is, John – people
opening. You know this, you
live in Connecticut.
- Andrea Cohen, “Purchase”
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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.
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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
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Stop Louisiana youth transfer to Angola State Prison mailchi.mp/youthfirstinitiat…
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@NMOliverPoetry @ShikshaWrites @manueliris65 @Read_Instead @JoshEffiong @UncleMeag ✨✨✨
And as soon as my book buying ban has lifted, I'll be getting new books from @theeabsentee @natallman @Meghasood16 @NBlascsok @ninaparmenter @errormessage @SC_Parent @DeeringRachel
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I didn't read the whole thread, so pardon if I repeat... @_janezwart_, @hmvanderhart, @JessicaLWalsh1, @arabadjisliu, @caesura, @d_c_demaree, @literari_ana, @amorak, @GRTallmadge, @InesPujos
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A great mix of established and emerging poets I admire. @sanjeevpoems3 @KiritiSKiriti @McguirkMatthew
@ShikshaWrites @Ashish_stJude @TejaswineeRC @amythfromassam @briteeth @w_v_sutra @midwesternskirt @schahm @Tabish_Shajar @JoseHernandezDz
There are many more I couldn't tag here.
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to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.
