WOIIII!!! Shout out all my WEST INDIAN poets!! These are some of the West Indian poets I’ve been excited to read over 2025 / 2026. I hope you will too!

My review of "Seabeast" by Rajiv Mohabir is now live on the Bear Review site!

UTampa Press Interviews Poet Flower Conroy YouTube video by UTampa Press

Last month, I was happy to have the chance to sit down with Flower Conroy to discuss their poetry collection, "Zoodikers: A Bestiary," winner of the 2023 Richard Mathews Prize for Poetry. View my conversation with Flower and a reading of some of their favorite poems here:
youtu.be/O0wj0MYFHx0?...

😃 I'm stunned!! Thank you @jamieboyd.bsky.social for sharing this... and thank you so much @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social and @reactorsff.bsky.social for featuring my story! I'm so glad Deepika is reaching the hearts she's meant to.

#booksky 📚💙 #writesky #blackbooksky #bvm

Talking to my authors is one of my most favorite parts of my job gahh☺️ Love seeing all their enthusiasm for their work and being a part of bringing their vision to fruition💛

Publishing talk this Saturday with Kitchen Table Literary Arts!!📚📖

I'm an MFA! What a 3 years... a lot of ups and downs, but also forming community with the people who helped me through it. I'm happy to be done. Here's a page from my graphic novella thesis. This project was tough as shit, y'all. But I learned how to put together my own book and I'm proud of that.

“Swimming in an Ocean the Same Temperature as Your Blood”: A Conversation with Rajiv Mohabir - Words Without Borders Urvashi Bahuguna talks with Rajiv Mohabir about Chutney music, Caribbean Hindustani heritages, and translation.

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Three bright stars with diffraction spikes shine near the center-right of the image, illuminating nearby clouds that glow in pale blue. The clouds darken at the edges of the image, and are dotted with smaller stars, some also with diffraction spikes.

A glowing orange-red star is surrounded by cobweblike layers of dust. The black background of space is dotted with more distant stars and galaxies.

Webb’s image of NGC 1087 shows a densely populated face-on spiral galaxy anchored by its central region, which takes the shape of a short light yellow line that is about a fifth of the length of the galaxy. Filamentary spiral arms made of stars, gas, and dust start at the center and extend to the top and bottom edges, rotating clockwise. There is so much light in this region that the spiral arms of the galaxy look muddled. They are largely orange, ranging from dark to bright orange. Scattered across the packed scene are some bright blue pinpoints of light, but they appear more clearly in areas where it is dark gray or black. Several smaller “bubbles” where it’s black appears throughout the galaxy. The edges of the scene are dark black and there are some larger bright blue points of light, along with a few pink shapes, likely background galaxies.

At the center is a thin vertical cloud known as Lynds 483 that is shaped like an hourglass with irregular edges. At lower center are two discrete bright white, tiny blobs of light that have raced away from the hidden central stars. The top lobe shows a more prominent orange U-shape. Orange bleeds into light purple, and brighter pink at its edges. Some background stars are visible through sections of this lobe. Higher up, there is an orange arc. Some brighter pink material extends to the top edges near the center. In the lower lobe, less orange is visible. More opaque light purple is in its top third, rippling out into semi-transparent blues and pinks. The lower lobe has more texture. V-shapes left and right of the lobes are darkest, and the background stars in these areas appear orange. Elsewhere, the black background of space is clearer, speckled with tiny white stars and faint orange galaxies.

here’s some cool space shit

Find my review of "Fugitive/Refuge" by Philip Metres on Bear Review.
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"Maestro, steady my starlings.

For you I hunger. Lift your baton
And stuff my mouth with singing."

—from "Qasida for the End of Time"

I'm happy to place my poem "A Catalogue of Hurricanes" with the 2024 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest as an Honorable Mention. Here are the first four sections🌀

Comic book haul from Panel Palooza by the Sequential Artists Workshop this past weekend in Gainesville!😊

Total dream to have my Bristol board and watercolor pen comic "Whale Sex" published in @therumpus.net

I tried to draw a short diary comic to help me cope with the past few months, something hopeful and pithy, but I am neither. My words escape me and I'm sure one day they'll return carrying lessons, a cool balm. As of now, what I cannot supply myself I am turning to other writers, and the poets.

Last year, I received this updated "Tidal Wave" zine whose initial design I worked on as production editor for Saw Palm for Issue 16. It's so cool to see the printing of this piece years later! I'm happy it was a part of my beginning in Comics🎨