I have 2 or 3 poems from my chapbook BLOOD-FLEX with @ndrmag that I would love to place before publication next spring. Leads? Recs? Folks accepting work that don't have 6 month to year turn arounds?
Ajanaé Dawkins
@moonsatdusk.bsky.social
Poet. Theologian. Educator. Neurodivergent disco queen. Co-host of the VS Podcast. Theology Editor: @ecotheo
To be clear on the kind of chokehold Doechii got me in, I'm about to write a Golden Shovel with "I air this bitch out like a queef" as my reference line.
🥹❤️🔥 that’s how I felt sitting in the convo!
Former poet:jason b crawford@jasonbcrawford.bsky.social · 2y agoI have had a lot on my mind recently and today as I move through space I felt I needed to reconnect with two of my absolute faves @britrogers.bsky.social and @moonsatdusk.bsky.social and I was right. This is healing ❤️
I know we been discussing the quality of Kendrick’s hatred but I’m invested in how he embraces obsession. One of my fears as a creator is being staying stuck on the same idea for too long. Sharing the same poem too many times. Writing about the same topic for too many projects.
Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like
“Not Like Us” ain’t even on the album; there aren’t any direct references to Drake in the music video for “squabble up” really. Kendrick gave that man a merciful out and he really said “nah, I wanna talk to the manager.” INCREDIBLE.
Baby’s first Bluesky announcement ❤️ Gwendolyn Brooks Permissions for named me a Gwendolyn Brooks Living Legacy Honoree in the company of Black women whose work made mine possible and some sister friends ❤️🔥
Hey Bluesky friends ❤️ I’m a conceptual artist and theologian who works through poetry, visual art, performance, and audio. Here’s a poem I wrote about watching my mother give birth ❤️
Peacemaking is dangerous when powerful men and their God — money — want the war to continue. - Kazim Ali
Last night I spent 4 hours yapping with a friend over drinks and dinner snd it was so good for my soul.
without tenderness, we are in hell. —Adrienne Rich * & so to tenderness I add my action. —Aracelis Girmay
I’m an audiobook lover and educator. I don’t believe listening to audiobooks is reading. While I don’t think one activity is more moral/valid, I do think we’re facing a serious literacy crisis and the insistence that they are the same is dangerous. Literacy rates are abysmal and this will impact us.
DeeSoul 🙂↕️@deesoulpoetry.com · 2y agoI’m interested in what people constitute as “reading” when we’re talking about audiobooks (ab) . It’s not that I don’t think listening to ab is reading, cause it’s certainly engagement with a text/story, but it’s not… reading. As in the verb or physical act of looking at words on a page/screen (1/5)
Y’all know. It’s okay if Kendrick DID mean to disrespect Wayne. Sometimes you really do gotta tell the elders to shut the fuck up talking to you.
One of my mentors would tell me “it would be unkind of me to lie to you” whenever he gave feedback on my poems. I am so much better for the days I’ve spent tending my grief after people who meant me well refused to lie to me with niceties.
clawrdia@clawrdia.bsky.social · 2y agoToo many of use confuse politeness with kindness and niceness with goodness and that’s why too many soulless bitches running things!!!
Reading through the quote skeets like yes, these are the vibes I have been waiting to arrive to this app!
tae@taecocky.bsky.social · 2y agoKendrick Lamar should never mention Wayne in a sentence of his song, bc we not taking your side over that mf….😂
This is the year that being a Kendrick fan started feeling like being a Beyoncé fan for me.
BEING A TIDAL SUBSCRIBER RIGHT NOW WHEN KENDRICK IS ONLY ON APPLE AND SPOTIFY GOT ME FEELING LIKE
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Just spent two days applying for some arts funding that actually wouldn’t be available until 2026 when I thought I’d be able to use it in 2 months. What the young kids say? I’m ’bout to crash out
Okay what’s y’all’s plan to get your bluesky followers caught up on your lore?
I’m sorry, bluesky is giving new app new me more than any new year ever has
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The struggle with bluesky is that most of y’all don’t know me so every time I post I’m resisting temptation to treat this like my close friends 😭
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Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · 2y agoPost a non-religious photo you think of as holy
Damn, while I appreciate how thorough the block button on bluesky is…how am I supposed to be nosey when I can’t see who y’all clapping back to?!?! 😭 this app said mind your business
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