louisianateacherpoetlesbian • rutgers phd student • she/they • nature enthusiast • introverted menace •
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i’m reading Gloria Naylor’s book-women of brewster place. and one of the stories is about a lesbian couple living together. The rumor of them being together “spread through the block like a sour odor”
where’s that phd woman who studies and writes about smell?!
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“it will be your hair/ramona africa/they will come for you/they will bring fire” - lucille clifton
40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood phillytrib.com/commentary/ed…
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see also: “samson predicts from gaza the philadelphia fire” - a poem by lucille clifton
40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood phillytrib.com/commentary/ed…
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this is false. consider starting with a selection or two from this book called Words of Fire. monoskop.org/images/8/81/Guy…
The feminist movement was for WHITE WOMEN never black women 🤣 they got yall dummies doing the assignment while they at home with they husbands. YALL ARE THE GOOFIES
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my favorite writing hack is writing in single space and then double spacing at the end.
it does it for me every time!
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the lights went out in class this evening and it was right in the middle of a very good discussion about layli long soldier’s collection WHEREAS and i said “awww it’s like camp*🥹”
*i’ve never been to camp. that’s just my fantasy of what (poetry) camp maybe would’ve been like.
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you can take the girl out of louisiana but you can’t take the louisiana out of the girl.
an quite frankly, we’re at the point of the semester when *everything* is kicking my ass 😂😭
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brittany l. marshall retweeted
“When I say first time, that implies / there will be a second, a fourth, a ninety-ninth. ”
— Aimee Nezhukumatathil
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This poem appeared in Poem-a-Day, by the Academy of American Poets, 2024. Shared here with deep gratitude.
