The older I get, the more I can't stand everything being on autoplay.

I feel like I'm being gaslit.

Promo image for Cherry Reading Series event: “Three Poets | One Night at Rice,” featuring headshots of Kinard & poets Sasha Debevec-McKenney & Lisa Lowe looking toward the reader against an olive green background with monstera leaf decorative motifs. Text: Three Poets | One Night at Rice April 9, 2026 | 5:30 Sewall Hall 301 Presented by English & Creative Writing Sponsored by Cherry Reading Series Fondren Library, Rice University Sasha Debevec-McKenney Author of Joy Is Middle Name (W. W. Norton, 2025) Willie Lee Kinard III Author of Orders of Service (Alice James Books, 2023) Lisa Low Author of Replica (University of Wisconsin Press, 2026) Register Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/1JOmxXlSpgEBuSR87UnV4z18QK-c8eO_M_iHGCpFMhqY/viewform?edit_requested=true&utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMjU2MjgxMDQwNTU4AAGngYy8mivrzc2G0JBXBXCxwP9SRw0OyYmqOh3dvAd-B9tHkucBwjaD2OpSw8A_aem_ZmFrZWR1bW15MTZieXRlcw

This Thursday at 5:30 P.M. CST, catch me outside a lil ways from home at Sewall Hall at Rice University ✨ With Sasha Debevec-McKenney & Lisa Low, for one night only, let us delight you with poems from our debuts. We’ll see you soon ✍🏾💛✨

GAHTDAMMIT, RAYE. 😫

Screenshot of Kinard’s full poem “A Briar, a Bramble” now live at Shade Literary Arts, against a cream background. Link in Kinard’s bio. Text reads: “A Briar, a Bramble by Willie Lee Kinard III When the spiderwort took over / for Grandma's roses, I found grace / to be a memory. A gift specific to one. / I counted loss as nothing but reminders / forgiveness pricks best in the present, / regret grown fresh, a briar, a bramble / each ungloved morning. Not enough / to love your blessings; you've got to care / for them too. It was a nest of roses / learned to tend, my soul a winged witness / unprotected from inaction. What's a bird / to a startling flight from daydream? / What's a daydream but flower-figuring / fight? It's not a dream the forest of roses / belongs to the ego now, its bruises long shed, / its wrappings, its eight-legged blues a wildness / I didn’t realize I backed out of seeing.” Read it in full at https://www.shadeliteraryarts.org/single-post/willie-lee-kinard

Kinard’s grayscale headshot with artist bio beneath, set against a cream background from Shade Literary Arts’ website. In the photo, Kinard, stoic, faces the viewer, wearing a long-sleeved collarless mandarin shirt, a large beaded necklace, & small hoop earrings. Text reads: “WILLIE LEE KINARD III (he/they) is the author of Orders of Service: A Fugue, winner of the 2022 Alice James Award (Alice James Books, 2023). A Black nonbinary editor, brand designer & musician forged in Newberry, South Carolina, his written work appears or is forthcoming in Obsidian, Southern Humanities Review, Poem-a-Day, Boston Revier, The Rumpus, & elsewhere. The recipient of fellowships & support from The Watering Hole, Poetry Foundation & the Pittsburgh Foundation, they make trouble under @williekinardiii.”

Rose season in SC reminds me my grandma passed 10 years ago this month. I miss her & her pink rose bushes a lot these days. Grateful to Shade Literary Arts for publishing “A Briar, a Bramble” & to hold space for the grief, love & lessons blooming in the years since. Happy #NationalPoetryMonth 💛💐✨

building community is so so worth it.

Happy happy birthday! 🥳

Happy birthday!

Fibro suspicions being confirmed while allergies are in full bloom means spontaneous flares of rashes, aches & muscle spasms. I’m grateful for better know-how on managing the symptoms frfr but false spring being an opp was literally not on my bingo card for this year.

Happy happy birthday! 🥳

The day he goes, things that ain’t never been grilled will be thrown on one & I will give full Glinda twirling with the good news.

Finally seeing The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Such a strange film.

Cover of magma poetry journal no.94 on a red background

Such a fascinating issue of @magmapoetry.bsky.social THANK YOU editors @cloudscholar.bsky.social @williekinardiii.bsky.social and Lola Oh for including my 'Menstruating Cento' in the #Remix xxx

& is. To this day, "Sweet Architect" amazes me.

This album got me through 2016 & 2017. Love it so much

"Love makes your soul crawl out of it's hiding places." - Zora Neale Hurston

A viral video series is breathing life into one of the country’s oldest Black history museums Staff at Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History are spoofing what it is like to work at the legendary institution from a distinctly Black perspective.

I wrote about a museum that is near and dear to my heart, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History

Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.

No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.

I can't wait until my mouth heals. I hate not being able to chew right.

Just a reminder: This is a generative A.I. hate account.

Follow your first mind.

Trans rights are human rights and if one of is ain’t free then none of us are.

"My mind has been telling me to settle right on down..."

(I'll prolly delete that before the night is over, but something about releasing it makes me feel better about my life now.)

My folks separated, pops moved out & 3 days later, 9/11 happened, all in the week before I turned 9. & only last year, 3 days before my Jesus year, I found out we were nearly a feature on one of those family jet ski pictures they show on news features back then, which led to the separation 🫠

Sony Orders 24 Episodes of ‘Reading Rainbow’ Reboot as Classic Kids Show Finds New Life The classic PBS children’s show Reading Rainbow is officially back, with the series securing a 24-episode pickup.

The classic PBS children’s show Reading Rainbow is officially back, with the series securing a 24-episode pickup.

In the early trials, a meat thermometer can be your friend.

Been there recently. One day at a time 💛

i'm tired of having to fight white people for them to see us as human and deserving of respect and dignity.

& before you start, as someone that has grown up with generations-long lineages of specifically working with (& being folks with) varying ranges of mental, genetic, physiological & developmental disabilities, please understand I’m telling you we’re tired of the posturing & positioning around it.