Hellooooo, poets of the internet! Back with a conversation with Nick Martino about Nonce Forms, Possibilities of Visual Poetics, and Writing Towards Surprise His debut poetry collection, Scrap Book (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social )will be published in June of 2026. oword.deesoulpoetry.com/o-nonce
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DeeSoul | he/they | Stanford '21 | NYU '24 MFA | Free 🇵🇸 deesoulpoetry.com
Happy to share this conversation with @jonnyteklit.bsky.social about Joy as Poetic Practice, Poetic Influences, and How Joy Can Push Us Towards Action on my podcast, O, Word? Hope you’ll give it a listen! oword.deesoulpoetry.com/p/o-joy
O, Joy!
A conversation with Jonny Teklit about Joy as Poetic Practice, Poetic Influences, and How Joy Can Push Us Towards Action
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I’m not cross-posting nearly as much as I should but here’s to changing that! New O, Word? Episode with Alison C Rollins out today! open.substack.com/pub/oword/p/...
e·pon·y·mous | "Black Bell" by Alison C. Rollins
Talking with Alison C. Rollins about Black Bell, the poetics of referentiality, and performance as mode of collective meaning-making
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The second is with @deesoulpoetry.com about Repetition on their podcast 💜(listen wherever you get podcasts) oword.deesoulpoetry.com/p/o-repetition
O, Repetition!
Talking with Summer Farah about Repetition, leaning into frantic energy, and the value of revisitation
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Introducing DeeSoul Carson, one of our 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows! 🎉 DeeSoul will be reading at the 2026 @omiamifestival.bsky.social on 4/10 for the cohort's inaugural reading. Learn more about DeeSoul: https://bit.ly/4d1hnwL
We'll be reading with Tyger Quarterly and The Year off-set at AWP this Friday, featuring Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Emily Bark Brown, @deesoulpoetry.com, James Garwood-Cole, Emily Pittinos, and Sophia Terazawa. Hope to see you there!
Today's Feature: "I Must Listen to the Birds" by @deesoulpoetry.com from @kenyonreview.bsky.social, Spring 2025 Read here: poems.com/poem/i-must-...
I Must Listen to the Birds
but the state stole all my good metaphors
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First installment of e•pon•y•mous available on my Substack! Was so honored to have this convo with my good friend @taylorbyas.bsky.social , please give it a listen when you have the chance! open.substack.com/pub/deesoulp...
Eponymous | "Resting Bitch Face" by Dr. Taylor Byas
Listen now | Talking with Dr. Byas about sophomore collections, the freedom of form, and why we love the pantoum
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Honored and humbled to have been selected as a 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow by PoFo bit.ly/3UcVLTo
Have a new poem up in @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/thermal-imag...
“Thermal Imaging,” a Poem by DeeSoul Carson
“Thermal Imaging” The beautiful British nature documentary narrates that their cameras are military grade, meaning that before this technology was used to peer into the areolas of ants about their …
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PLEASE SHARE! I am raising funds for a dear friend and member of the literary as well as arts communities. $5 and $10 goes a long way! Reshares even further! We are just $800 from our goal and my hope is bluesky can take us the rest of the way. 💛💛💛 chuffed.org/project/1299...
Extra super excited to finally share this! THE LAUGHING BARREL will published with @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social in April 2027 💜🥳💜🥳 you can preorder now (for 20% off) at this link: bit.ly/laughingbarrel
Some exciting news! Alice James will publish @deesoulpoetry.com's debut poetry collection, THE LAUGHING BARREL, in April 2027. THE LAUGHING BARREL was a finalist for the 2025 Alice James Award, & we're elated that this collection and Carson have found a home with AJB 💛 Learn more at buff.ly/KX3e8oa
Some exciting news! Alice James will publish @deesoulpoetry.com's debut poetry collection, THE LAUGHING BARREL, in April 2027. THE LAUGHING BARREL was a finalist for the 2025 Alice James Award, & we're elated that this collection and Carson have found a home with AJB 💛 Learn more at buff.ly/KX3e8oa
3 | American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes “It is not enough/ to love you. It is not enough to want you destroyed.”
DeeSoul Carson | /build god, then we’ll talk (encoded in hexadecimal, but I’m being nice and including the decoded text) Published in Seventh Wave Mag
Today’s Featured Poem: “Good Riddance” by @deesoulpoetry.com, from Issue 100 of @agnimagazine.bsky.social. Read here: poems.com/poem/good-ri...
Good Riddance – Poetry Daily
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"Good Riddance", a poem by @deesoulpoetry.com poems.com/poem/good-ri... via @poetrydaily.bsky.social and @agnimagazine.bsky.social
Honored to announce I’m a 2025 NEA Fellow! Out of 2000+ applications received, I’m overwhelmingly humbled that my work would be recognized in this way. It’s important to me that I aim for clarity in my work, and I’m grateful for this support to help me keep reaching folks.
I’m so inspired by FLOW winning Best Animated Feature at the #GoldenGlobes An art house masterpiece that told a powerful story in such a creative, mesmerizing way. Every aspect was truly a delight to the senses and so thought-provoking. A beautiful win for smaller-budget storytelling!! ❤️ #filmsky
New Year means updated reading list First 10 books of 2025! Happy New Year!
If you’re interested in what starter packs you (or a friend) might included in, you can type in your handle here and click on the “lists” tab! clearsky.app
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This powerhouse poem by DeeSoul Carson will blast off your Monday (any day, really!): agnionline.bu.edu/poetry/good-...
Had such a fun time writing this poem, hope you have a fun time reading it (or playing the game!)
This powerhouse poem by DeeSoul Carson will blast off your Monday (any day, really!): agnionline.bu.edu/poetry/good-...
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Happy Friday! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 Who is a Black author you've read that you need more people to know about?? No better time than today to give folks they flowers 💐💐💐
The funniest about posting on here is the Twitter urge to say in as many ways as possible in my thread that I am just a man having my own thoughts, please do not stone me