“Today’s poem carries that same energy of self-discovery, inevitable change, and an extravagance of living,” shares Major in today’s encore episode. Read “Nocturne” by Oliver Baez Bendorf @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social: bit.ly/3IUaqAj
Oliver Baez Bendorf
@oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social
🪶 Poet, teacher, 🏳️⚧️writer in exile 📖 Consider the Rooster, finalist for the NBCC + CLMP Firecracker Awards 🌿 Language still belongs to me oliverbaezbendorf.com
“right now, / someone is having sex and someone / is dying and someone is trying to find / a lid so they can, before bed, put away / the soup” — @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social, “Everything All at Once” @yalereview.bsky.social yalereview.org/article/oliv...
Oliver Baez Bendorf: "Everything All at Once"
A poem by Oliver Baez Bendorf: "right now, / someone is having sex and someone / is dying"
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"Grief is not a checkpoint. It travels with you. It gets there first. It sits beside you and does not speak." @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social on being trans in exile from the US. lithub.com/after-the-ro...
After the Rooster Crows: Dispatch from a Poet in Exile
There is no other way to say this: I write you now from exile, having (if you are reading this) fled political persecution in my home country, the United (for now) States of America. I say this pla…
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“There are moments when a place you live stops being livable. Sometimes that arrives slowly, like a leak. Sometimes all at once.” A dispatch from @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social, poet in exile.
After the Rooster Crows: Dispatch from a Poet in Exile
There is no other way to say this: I write you now from exile, having (if you are reading this) fled political persecution in my home country, the United (for now) States of America. I say this pla…
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My essay “After the Rooster Crows” is out today at @literaryhub.bsky.social. It’s about exile, poetry, and what I’ve brought with me. Thank you for reading. lithub.com/after-the-ro...
After the Rooster Crows: Dispatch from a Poet in Exile
There is no other way to say this: I write you now from exile, having (if you are reading this) fled political persecution in my home country, the United (for now) States of America. I say this pla…
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My giant #poetry column is now live @msmagazine.com! Featuring @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social @theoceanisgay.bsky.social @jxzzhndz.bsky.social @taylorbyas.bsky.social @aditimachado.bsky.social @terisasiagatonu.bsky.social @catherineweiss.bsky.social & more! msmagazine.com/2025/04/21/r...
Reads for the Rest of Us: The Best Poetry of 2024 and 2025
Happy April, and Happy National Poetry Month. Since my dormant love of poetry was reignited, I’ve found it so refreshing and inspiring to read beautiful collections each year and share them with you.H...
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Consider the Rooster, poems by Oliver Baez Bendorf (also from Nighboat) "serves as an ode to a rooster's crow, a catalyst for awakening, both literally and figuratively." Here's a conversation with the poet: www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxion...
National Book Critics Circle@bookcritics.bsky.social · 2y agoWe're excited to announce the shortlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Poetry! Congratulations to all of the finalists.
Giant congrats to all the fab NBCC poetry finalists! 🎉 @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social + @cphillipspoet.bsky.social + my mfa cohort-mate Jen Chang!
National Book Critics Circle@bookcritics.bsky.social · 2y agoWe're excited to announce the shortlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Poetry! Congratulations to all of the finalists.
Felicidades @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social! & in such amazing company! I had the honor and of blurbing this mighty book & have not stopped thinking about it since! Orgullo!
National Book Critics Circle@bookcritics.bsky.social · 2y agoWe're excited to announce the shortlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Poetry! Congratulations to all of the finalists.
We're excited to announce the shortlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Poetry! Congratulations to all of the finalists.
Poem of the Day, from the books longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: “Everywhere All At Once,” from Consider the Rooster by Oliver Baez Bendorf (Nightboat Books) @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social Look for our finalist announcement on January 23rd (3/10)
Revisiting June Jordan today: "we are the ones we have been waiting for."
From Rooster to Rooster: A Conversation With Oliver Baez Bendorf @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social Nov 19, 2024 Written By Roque Raquel Salas Rivera @roqueraquel.bsky.social www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxion...
From Rooster to Rooster: A Conversation With Oliver Baez Bendorf — The Latinx Project at NYU
The first time I went to a cockfight was the night the federal ban took effect in Puerto Rico . Accompanied by a journalist and a friend, I watched as men made and changed bets through gestures and...
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Dang, Consider the Rooster made Electric Lit’s Best Poetry Collections of 2024! “Oliver Baez Bendorf troubles the boundaries: of countries, genders, time periods… cement[ing] Bendorf’s status as one of the most interesting poets working today.” Grateful 💖 electricliterature.com/electric-lit...
Electric Lit's Best Poetry Collections of 2024 - Electric Literature
Books by Danez Smith, Anne Carson, and Hala Alyan are among the year’s most celebrated poetry collections
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Knowing where you come from is its own kind of strength. Here's my Grandpa Baez and my mom in his kitchen, filled with chickens, roosters, and family. My new book Consider the Rooster honors these roots—resilience and courage. 💜 PS: Link in bio to support my fight for justice and accountability.
Honored to have my poem “Michigan” from Consider the Rooster featured today at Poetry Daily. This book means so much to me, and I’m so grateful to everyone who’s supported it and made space for its words. 💖 If you haven’t yet, grab a copy of Consider the Rooster—available now from Nightboat Books.
Poetry Daily@poetrydaily.bsky.social · 2y agoToday’s Featured Poem: “Michigan” by @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social, from Consider the Rooster, published by Nightboat Books. Read here: poems.com/poem/michigan/
Today’s Featured Poem: “Michigan” by @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social, from Consider the Rooster, published by Nightboat Books. Read here: poems.com/poem/michigan/
"Michigan" by Oliver Baez Bendorf
from "Consider the Rooster" published by Nightboat Books
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Toni Morrison: "How bleak, unlivable, insufferable existence becomes when we are deprived of artwork. That the life and work of writers facing peril must be protected is urgent [...] and their absence is of equal peril to us. The rescue we extend to them is a generosity to ourselves." 💜
Ruha Benjamin@ruha9.bsky.social · 2y agoYour homework. inthesetimes.com/article/toni...
New on Intervenxions—From Rooster to Rooster: A Conversation With Oliver Baez Bendorf “It takes care to write a book like Consider the Rooster and a great deal of vulnerability.” By Roque Raquel Salas Rivera (@roqueraquel.bsky.social) www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxion...
