Breezy (they/them)
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Sometimes Brionne Janae sometimes Breezy always the drama 😘 Poet 🏳️⚧️ ww.brionnejanae.com www.patreon.com/brionnejanae
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
I’m teaching for myself guys!! Come write with me? I’ll bring in poems for us to chew on, give prompts and then we’ll workshop your work. Email me at abishislive@gmail.com if you’re interested!
Wrote a lil essay about my problems with the crucifixion narrative for Good Friday. Check her out! www.patreon.com/posts/agains...
Against Sacrifice: An Anti-Easter Sermon | abitchislive
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I recently discovered Wanda Coleman and was literally saved by her poems. She survived so much and still managed to do her thing. I'm both angry that no one exposed me to her poems sooner, and grateful to have finally found her. www.patreon.com/posts/wanda-...
Wanda Why Aren’t You Dead | abitchislive
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Pulled a little fragment from the archive. Fun to see past Breezy's brain learning to grapple with the lyric poem. www.patreon.com/posts/unfini...
Unfinished Draft 1/12/15 | abitchislive
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Here's a recording of the first song I wrote after years of being too afraid to sing, and the story of how/why it was written. Here's to rediscovering our voices! www.patreon.com/posts/song-t...
Song: "Toward a Unified I" | abitchislive
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Flipped through my notebook and found this today, and was reminded that I come from a people who have survived and thrived even in the most terrible situations. If my ancestors survived that then I can survive this. www.patreon.com/posts/in-tra...
In the Tradition | abitchislive
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Here's the first and final draft of a poem I wrote for Trayvon Martin in 2017. www.patreon.com/posts/altern...
Alternative Facts (first & final drafts) | abitchislive
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Black History Month's almost over and I wanted to go out with something fun! www.patreon.com/posts/n-ggaz...
N*ggaz!!! Assemble!!! | abitchislive
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Check on your friends, self care is not enough. We need connection, we need community. www.patreon.com/posts/check-...
Check on the Survivors. We are Not Ok. | abitchislive
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Another poem draft from the notebook. Kind of excited to go back and revise this one www.patreon.com/posts/at-low...
at the low point of salvation (drafts 1 and 2) | abitchislive
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Listen to him read it!!! www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43076/...
Middle Passage
I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the dying; horror the corposant and…
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Former poet:jason b crawford@jasonbcrawford.bsky.social · 7mo agoIf you have never read Robert Hayden’s Middle Passage, you should
Once again processing out loud. To all the survivors out there whose family won’t believe them, I see you. To all of us forced to grieve our parents while they live, I see you. www.patreon.com/posts/my-mot...
MY MOTHER WON’T BELIEVE ME AND IT BREAKS MY HEART | abitchislive
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Some personal Black History about my first trip to Meridian Mississippi where my mothers parents were born and raised. www.patreon.com/posts/149798...
The South is a Type of Homeland | abitchislive
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Good boys call their senators and tell them not to fund ice! www.patreon.com/posts/149364...
Love Poem to the Boy | abitchislive
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Man tackled to ground after spraying unknown substance on Rep. Ilhan Omar at town hall in Minneapolis.
For the longest time when therapists would ask me what id say to my childhoodself, id say that i would smother her, because it felt like there was nothing i could do to save her. Sometimes I still feel that way. www.patreon.com/posts/149195...
Death Scolding 2022 | abitchislive
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Just launched a Patreon. Follow for drafts from my notebook, journal entries, music, poems, essays, experiments and more—
Hi Everyone! Excited to be offering poetry editing services. DM or send me an email at abishislive@gmail.com to get started! #poetry
I’m still not over the fact that the government tried to starve my poor disabled ass. Like I’m not surprised but it’s still a lil terrifying/traumatic. Anyways—it’s a great time to be vulnerable af.
How could anyone be mad at me? I’m just a guy at home writing love songs 🥺
Instead of admitting this is what their ancestors participated in.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers@blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 12mo agoYou know why all these White folks are trying to convince me that Stephen Miller is a psychopath? Because that way they can distance themselves from what has happened in this country for 500 years as “evil” or “mental illness”—instead of admitting, this is what their parents & ancestors ignored.
This is appalling. As I've said before, giving DL control of an annual anthology for 35 years was a mistake. BAP is a deeply reactionary project thru which DL launders his ideology (& ego!) via a rotating cast of "ecumenical" editors. It's an unequivocal good that this year's edition is the last.
Breezy (they/them)@abitchislive.bsky.social · last yr.Ok so in case yall missed the memo like I did. David Lehman, series editor of Best American Poetry is a Zionist ass. Literally feel embarrassed that I wound up in this situation. I was literally the only person of color in a room of 50+ people. It was terrifying. #poetry #bestamericanpoetry
Ok so in case yall missed the memo like I did. David Lehman, series editor of Best American Poetry is a Zionist ass. Literally feel embarrassed that I wound up in this situation. I was literally the only person of color in a room of 50+ people. It was terrifying. #poetry #bestamericanpoetry
The way that “anything” is actually terrifying— Every day we are reminded that “anything can be” includes all the violences of the state and others who want to keep people under their thumb. It’s increasingly hard to believe that good can be too but the other choice is despair so…
Rae Radford@raeradford.bsky.social · last yr.
If you’re at AWP, I’m signing at the University of Arkansas Press table at 2:00! Table 1136. Come see me :)
