poet & writer | author of DIVINE HOURS (@FourWayBooks, 2027) | ✍🏾: @TheAtlantic, @thenation, @yalereview
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Beloveds, I'm beyond grateful to share that my debut full-length poetry collection, DIVINE HOURS, is forthcoming from @FourWayBooks!
Massive thanks to my agent, Annie DeWitt, all the homies, and my ancestors.🫶🏾✨
So excited for this Southern Gothic beauty to be live today!
Today on Joyland: Karisma Price (@itsKayPrice) writes about the prison system, vengeance, and a woman trying to care for a son in a world that never protected her.
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Beloveds, one of my father's closest friends lost everything in the LA wildfires. He evacuated safely, but everything else is gone.
His family set up a GoFundMe to help him rebuild. Please donate or share if you can. 💛
gofundme.com/f/wildfire-reli…
So hyped to be a part of this amazing team! Been such an admirer of Joyland, and I’m looking forward to getting to work!
Some news: @devinbarricklow and I are the new editors-in-chief of Joyland Magazine, which has relaunched with new fiction and new editors as part of @joylandpub. Submissions open now. 📘
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Honored to have a poem included here! Thanks to Timothy Donnelly and @lithub for all the cuteness, and to @commonmag for giving it a home!🥰
I know y’all are ready for this banger! LFG! 🤩
good morning to a new chapter. i am elated, joyweeping, astonished, honored to share that my debut, full-length collection of poems is the 2025 winner of the APR / Honickman First Book Prize, as selected by Nicole Sealey.
🐐🩸Bloodmercy🩸🐐 @CopperCanyonPrs • September 9, 2025
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PSA: Corporations benefit from the status quo & have a vested interest in maintaining systems of power that suppress dissent and exploit communities. By supporting Cop City, especially, they're complicit in the militarization of the police & the targeting of marginalized groups.
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We call on the federal government to right historical wrongs, and to move our society forward. The United States must return what its own judges admit it has stolen. Return the Black Hills to the Great Sioux Nation. Now is the time. action.lakotalaw.org/action/…
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A note on theory and activism:
Yes, theory is important, as it helps us understand our conditions and strategize for real change. But I do think it's elitist to expect everyone to have read it or even to have the time, energy, and resources to engage with it.
One of the saddest parts of the last year has been witnessing many Black Americans overlook the apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian people, in order to attain what they believed would be political power. Whom do we want to be as a people?
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This is truly disgusting. Y'all are so embarrassing. You never cared about these people, so please keep Palestine out of your fucking mouths going forward.
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A note on Civility:
Civility ≠ justice. The most dangerous aspects of the U.S. political system are not new; they include systemic racism, economic inequality, and the erosion of civil rights—all of which have been perpetuated by both “civil” and “uncivil” politicians.
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Is it so wrong to demand leaders who fight for true liberation, rather than damage control? If I've learned anything in my life, "harm reduction" is simply harm postponed if we continue to reinforce a system in which true liberation is genuinely impossible.
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As a reminder, the NY Times initially opposed the boycotting, divestment, and sanctions of apartheid South Africa.
The whiny, dishonest NY Times screed, “Stop The Boycott of Israeli Culture,” was co-authored by @Jessica_KJacobs, a self-described “Israeli army mom” who collaborates with the Israeli Foreign Ministry. She is also the daughter of professional anti-Palestinian bigot Charles Jacobs, who founded the David Project to lobby for the banning of Students for Justice in Palestine and censoring of anti-apartheid academics. Jacobs has also been at the forefront of rabidly defaming Muslim American clerics in the Boston area as terrorist organizers. No, the Times did not require Jacobs to disclose this revealing record, allowing her to pose as a simple literary agent in Jerusalem. And yes, she and other genocidal “Israeli army moms” should definitely be boycotted by literary festivals and people of conscience everywhere!
Justifying Palestinian civilian deaths to Arab and Muslim voters in an attempt to coerce them into voting for the administration currently supporting genocide is some of the nastiest work I've ever witnessed in the political sphere. Completely disgusting.
During a rally supporting Kamala Harris, former US President Bill Clinton defended Israel’s war on Gaza and dismissed concerns about the high number of Palestinians killed.
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Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has promised to pass another campus antisemitism bill to stifle pro-Palestine protests during the lame duck session after the election.
In 1984, Randall Robinson launched a series of sit-ins & protests at the S. African Embassy in Washington, D.C., to draw attention to apartheid and the U.S. government's insufficient response. These actions marked the beginning of the Free South Africa Movement in the U.S.
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In 1984, Randall Robinson launched a series of sit-ins & protests at the S. African Embassy in Washington, D.C., to draw attention to apartheid and the U.S. government's insufficient response. These actions marked the beginning of the Free South Africa Movement in the U.S.