Spring Poetry Workshop With Brionne Janae Monday’s from 6-8:30pm EST Dates: 4/13, 4/20, 4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18 Price: $350* *sliding scale available for queer bipoc poets
I’m teaching for myself guys!! Come write with me? I’ll bring in poems for us to chew on, give prompts and then we’ll workshop your work. Email me at abishislive@gmail.com if you’re interested!
Wrote a lil essay about my problems with the crucifixion narrative for Good Friday. Check her out!
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I recently discovered Wanda Coleman and was literally saved by her poems. She survived so much and still managed to do her thing. I'm both angry that no one exposed me to her poems sooner, and grateful to have finally found her.
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Pulled a little fragment from the archive. Fun to see past Breezy's brain learning to grapple with the lyric poem.
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Here's a recording of the first song I wrote after years of being too afraid to sing, and the story of how/why it was written. Here's to rediscovering our voices!
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Flipped through my notebook and found this today, and was reminded that I come from a people who have survived and thrived even in the most terrible situations. If my ancestors survived that then I can survive this.
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Here's the first and final draft of a poem I wrote for Trayvon Martin in 2017.
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Black History Month's almost over and I wanted to go out with something fun!
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Check on your friends, self care is not enough. We need connection, we need community.
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Another poem draft from the notebook. Kind of excited to go back and revise this one
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Dooo it!!! That poem is always timely.
Listen to him read it!!!
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Once again processing out loud. To all the survivors out there whose family won’t believe them, I see you. To all of us forced to grieve our parents while they live, I see you.
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Some personal Black History about my first trip to Meridian Mississippi where my mothers parents were born and raised.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Man tackled to ground after spraying unknown substance on Rep. Ilhan Omar at town hall in Minneapolis.
For the longest time when therapists would ask me what id say to my childhoodself, id say that i would smother her, because it felt like there was nothing i could do to save her. Sometimes I still feel that way.
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Hand written poem: must I replace god now that I’ve killed him should I obey the stars or the sun or the wind shaking the individual hairs on my skin in soe divine frequency I met a woman who said “the spirit told her” and I wanted to ask which spirit and how do you know its here for your good. I am against god in all his many feathered coats I cant won’t be tricked into obedience or bent knee
Just launched a Patreon. Follow for drafts from my notebook, journal entries, music, poems, essays, experiments and more—
Editing Services 1-2 poems up to 3pgs: $50 Submission Packet up to 6pgs: $75 Chapbook up to 40pgs: $400* *Some flexibility on chapbook prices for queeer bipoc poets
For full length manuscript consultations, please reach out and we can discuss the best plan for your work and how I can best support you. Pricing will be determined by the length of the manuscript and the type of feedback you are looking for. contact: abishislive@gmail.com
Hi Everyone! Excited to be offering poetry editing services. DM or send me an email at abishislive@gmail.com to get started!
#poetry
Yes.
I’m still not over the fact that the government tried to starve my poor disabled ass. Like I’m not surprised but it’s still a lil terrifying/traumatic.
Anyways—it’s a great time to be vulnerable af.
How could anyone be mad at me? I’m just a guy at home writing love songs 🥺
Instead of admitting this is what their ancestors participated in.
This is appalling. As I've said before, giving DL control of an annual anthology for 35 years was a mistake. BAP is a deeply reactionary project thru which DL launders his ideology (& ego!) via a rotating cast of "ecumenical" editors. It's an unequivocal good that this year's edition is the last.
Ok so in case yall missed the memo like I did. David Lehman, series editor of Best American Poetry is a Zionist ass. Literally feel embarrassed that I wound up in this situation. I was literally the only person of color in a room of 50+ people. It was terrifying.
#poetry #bestamericanpoetry
The way that “anything” is actually terrifying—
Every day we are reminded that “anything can be” includes all the violences of the state and others who want to keep people under their thumb.
It’s increasingly hard to believe that good can be too but the other choice is despair so…
Book Signings. Thursday March 27. 2:00PM. John Allen Taylor. To Let the Sun. Booth 1136
If you’re at AWP, I’m signing at the University of Arkansas Press table at 2:00! Table 1136.
Come see me :)
