Glad to hear it! ❤️🙏🏽

Teaching things! Been thinking a lot about what is fleeting, about longing and loss and what comes next. What I call Temporary Kingdoms. And teaching a class about it. Poetry is sometimes the best way to find a path forward. And back. Deets below and link to Litfield in bio. Hope to see you there!

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Happy to have a poem about one of my favorite things on Poem-a-Day today. Selected by Kim Addonizio. poets.org/poem-a-day

Graphic featuring the cover of BLADE BY BLADE by Danusha Laméris, a photo of the author, and a poetry excerpt from “They Say the Hearts Wants” that reads: So here’s a list, mine: tall grasses, blowing in the wind, / swirled glass cups, peacock blue, bought in Lebanon. / Fog off the California cliffs, dark boulders on the shore.

Graphic featuring the cover of THE TRADITION by Jericho Brown, a photo of the author, and a poetry excerpt from “Crossing" that reads: I’m not crossing / To cross back. I’m set / On something vast. It reaches / Long as the sea. I’m more than a conqueror, bigger / Than bravery. I don’t march. I’m the one who leaps.

Graphic featuring the cover of INCORRECT MERCIFUL IMPULSES by Camille Rankine, a photo of the author, and a poetry excerpt from ”After the Fire, I Ask Myself” that reads: Love note penned on the back of my hand: Little girls prefer pink, gentlemen. Cowards put their hands up.

Graphic featuring the cover of KING ME by Roger Reeves, a photo of the author, and a poetry excerpt from “After Love” that reads: Pretend this is the first time you’ve seen me/ reach into the hollow of a tree and snap a comb / of honey from a hive. Let’s pretend it doesn’t sting.

We strive to keep Black voices centered year-round, and we are honored to celebrate just a few of those we love this February.

Today we give shout-outs to the talents of: DANUSHA LAMÉRIS (@danushalameris.bsky.social), JERICHO BROWN, CAMILLE RANKINE (@camillerankine.bsky.social), and ROGER REEVES.

From @danushalameris.bsky.social's book, Bonfire Opera.

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🙏🏽❤️ So good to see you there. And to reconnect. ❤️

An opportunity to study in a 12 person, five day workshop with poets Joseph Millar and Dorianne Laux. 💙 See www.litfieldwriters.com

Always honored to be featured in a Poetic Puppets post. ☺️

I’m teaching a craft class online Sundays in March. Come for the poetry and community. Get unstuck. Get some new poems started. Good for prose writers too! Online. Live and also recorded to watch later. Scholarships available.
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Oh I hope so!!! 🥹

I DID! I feel so bad about it. Plus I didn’t have my phone..🙃 Rescheduling. 🙏🏽 Thanks for trying to let me know.

Also this: send in those chapbooks!

A poem for beginnings

Soooo—-I guess we’re over here now! Hoping for bluer skies. Let’s make them.