A journal of prose, poetry, and visual arts of artist of color in and out of the Appalachian region. Returning Fall 2021!
Lexington, Kentucky
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CONGRATULATIONS to our 2021 Crystal Wilkinson Creative Writing Prize winners! Please help us celebrate their exceptional submissions!
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@PluckJournal & @NewLimestone sponsoring the Inaugural Crystal Wilkinson Creative Writing Prize in honor of @CrystalWilki. Subs open 1/15-2/15. Tell all yo fam. Judged by @damarishill
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Today is the first day you can submit your work for the @CrystalWilki Creative Writing Prize, judged by @damarishill author of the award-winning A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing
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In collaboration with our friends @NewLimestone we are excited to announce the inaugural Crystal Wilkinson Creative Writing Prize. From 15 Jan to 15 Feb we welcome submissions of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and other hybrid forms.
At the end of his congressional testimony in Feb, Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former fixer, floated a nightmarish possibility, “I fear that if he loses in 2020, that there will never be a peaceful transition of power.”
Trump's behavior is not a surprise.
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Just wanna share that the potential for Arizona to flip toward blue is because of the strongholds of Tribal Nations that represent the state. I have not heard any news commentary stating that reality.
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Instead of talking about changing White people’s hearts and minds, can we talk about changing the electoral system that gives White voters a disproportionate amount of power (as it was designed to do)?
Our managing editor @revmak is on @poetswritersinc list of new books coming out for his sophomore collection "under the aegis of a winged mind" 2019 @AutumnHousePrs Poetry Prize winner
Congrats to @revmak for having UNDER THE AEGIS OF A WINGED MIND featured on this @poetswritersinc list of new and noteworthy books!
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Our managing editor @revmak's mixed media poem was @POETSorg's poem-a-day feature today. Be sure and listen to the audio to get the full flavor of the piece.
WHITE SUPREMACY IS AN ECOLOGICAL DISASTER
—makalani bandele
@revmak
#PoemADay
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Listen to this great interview with our managing editor as he talks about black poetry, and the poetics in his new book, 2019 @AutumnHousePrs Poetry Prize winner, under the aegis of a winged mind.
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Tonight!!!!! Cave Canem and City of Asylum Presents: Robin Coste Lewis and Frank X Walker
August 10 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Free
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Affrilachian Poets @CrystalWilki & Nikky Finney will be in conversation on all things sisterhood, craft, family, history, heritage, and on Finney's new book Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry. You don't want to miss this!!! 7/18/2020
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Our managing editor has a book coming out in September. Look at that cover. This is a book of poems you are going to want to read.
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Join the Editor-in-chief of PLUCK F X Walker & @ShaunaMMorgan at the historic @lexingtonlyric this Thursday at 6:30 PM for a reading and intimate conversation about art & struggle.
@PluckJournal @AffrilachiaX @ShaunaMMorgan @affrilachia at @lexingtonlyric #BlackArtInTimesOfStruggle @UKYMFA @UKarts_sciences
Don't forget !!! Tomorrow is the third installment of the Affrilachian Poets Bourbon & Poetry Festival. Starts at 7PM. The line up is hot like 🔥 ka-💣, definitely, 🌟🌟🌟-studded. You can view it from the Affrilachian Poets FB page.
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Black lives don't really matter to a lot of these mofos, but black dolla$ do. Let's shut 'em down
#blackout #blackoutday #keepyodoloinelpocketo #dontbuyshit
You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument.
And with this essay we the people against the selective memory of the Confederacy rest our case. Tear down these wood and stone idols to rape, exploitation, and white supremacy
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