Tonight!!

Ayeeeeee

And a @britrogers.bsky.social poem about it in case you haven't read one before: www.underbellymag.com/issue-14-index

Book cover for All City by Alex DiFrancesco (Seven Stories Press), with the title in large all-caps handwritten font against a photo of brick apartment buildings superimposed on a photo of a face wearing large sunglasses. In a near-future New York City in which both global warming and a tremendous economic divide are making the city unlivable for many, a huge superstorm hits, leaving behind only those who had nowhere else to go and no way to get out. https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4162-all-city

Book cover for Becoming Story: A Journey Among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors by Greg Sarris (Heyday), with black ravens silhouetted against a yellow and green sky. Now in paperback: a gently powerful memoir about deepening your relationship with your homeland. https://www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/becoming-story-paperback/

Book cover for Good Dress: Poems by Brittany Rogers (Tin House Books), with a black woman in a black dress with red detailing holding a bouquet in front of her face, against a bright yellow background of painted wood. Brittany Rogers’s Good Dress documents the extravagant beauty and audacity of Black Detroit, Black womanhood, community, class, luxury, materialism, and matrilineage. https://tinhouse.com/book/good-dress/

Book cover for Love/Aggression by June Martin (tRaum Books), with a line drawing of two female faces facing each other in profile, one tinted pink and the other green. Best friends Lily and Zoe fight, separate, reunite, and repeat, each time deepening the belief that the other is the source of their problems. If Lily can’t give up her desire for control, if Zoe can’t lay aside her cruelty and ego, they’ll never escape their intolerable places in the world. Traversing art, domination, sex, and shape-shifting houses, LOVE/AGGRESSION is a novel about the indignity of depending on other people, and the terrible cost of trying not to. https://traumbooks.com/love-aggression/

12/12 All City by Alex DiFrancesco, Becoming Story by Greg Sarris, Good Dress by Brittany Rogers & Love/Aggression by June Martin #DSPBposts @theworldsgreatestwriter.com, @traumbooks.bsky.social @alessandrostardust.bsky.social @sevenstories.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social @britrogers.bsky.social

Damn, I was gonna say get it lol

Thank you 🥹🥹🥹

I truly cannot recommend highly enough tracking down the work of @moonsatdusk.bsky.social and @britrogers.bsky.social! They're both amazing writers and wonderful souls.

What a kind, thoughtful review!

This is sneaking up on us, so HEY! GO RSVP FOR THIS EVENT WITH TWO AMAZING POETS AND CO-HOSTS OF THE VS PODCAST AND ALL-AROUND WONDERFUL PEOPLE, @britrogers.bsky.social and @moonsatdusk.bsky.social!!!

🥹🥹🥹 thank you!!! I can’t wait to read it 🤗

the incredible thing about this extremely viral post is that James Baldwin never said this, it was a tweet by a Twitter user called Son of Baldwin.

The disinfo war is not just against right wing political actors

I gotta remember to make my way over here

Nikki Giovanni describes how she doesn't think death is the end of us.

From an interview I did with Nikki Giovanni back in 2017:

It really says something that so many of us met and interacted with Nikki Giovanni at some point. She was always among the people. She loved us deeply.

🥹🥹🥹 I had needed this convo BAD

I was wrong, she was a scammer 🙃🙃🙃

Ok Bluesky, we gave you all these new users, now give us Bookmarks.

Damn don’t tempt me lol

Not the new braider accidentally double booked 😭😭😭

Guess I’m over here too.