Thrilled and honored to find myself on the long list for the Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems. Thank you to all the editors who nominated me and a special thank you to Frogpond Journal for publishing this ku
#haiku #poetryasprotest #TouchstoneAward

NO KINGS 3/28/26 Common Square (Lexington, 11/2/22)

NO KINGS!

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#poetry #NOKINGS #regimechange #Poetry #poetryasprotest #freespeech #micropoetry #spokenword #trumpsucks #trumpssmellslikeass

Great to be back in New Verse News. Thanks to editor, James Penha
#poetry #poetryasprotest #texasprimary

Chuffed to have 14 senryu ( and 1 political monoku) published in The Candyman’s Trumpet. My huge thanks to editor Jack Caradoc. #senryu #poetry #poetryasprotest

Common Square (Lexington, 11/2/22) The blue wisdom sky beckons minute-men

Common Square (Lexington, 11/2/22)
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#nokings #voteblue #protestpoetry #poetryasprotest #indivisible #nooligarchy #blueskyprotest #freespeech

#poetrycommunity #witness #poetryasprotest #literarypoetry #creativewriting

this tendon hanging Catalogs of categories we pass down

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#poetryasprotest #spokenwordpoetry #poetsofbluesky #poetry
#notes

Delighted to be back itching and a scratching in Five Fleas. Thank you to flea keeper, Robin Jacobson for publishing my ku #haiku #poetryasprotest

NVN Tuesday: FLOOD TIDES by Adele Evershed

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Last poem of 2025 published today in New Verse Press from a story about shoes washing up on a beach near where I grew up. Thanks to editor James Penha #poetry #poetryasprotest

Black-and-white graphic featuring a centered white text panel over a repeating, abstract background of silhouetted human figures. The panel reads: “Things that are harder to get than a gun:” followed by a list that includes access to a primary care doctor, timely food assistance, a livable wage, fair student loans, affordable childcare, paid leave, classrooms without drills, campuses without alerts, a country that interrupts itself, and faith in the world. The stark contrast and minimalist design emphasize the poem’s critique of social priorities and systemic failure. The handle “@moms.who.write” appears at the bottom of the text panel.

#PoetryAsProtest #GunViolence #SystemicFailure #SocialJustice #PublicHealth #EducationCrisis #EconomicJustice #CareWork #GunReform #PoliticalPoetry #WordsMatter #MomsWhoWrite

Delighted to have 2 haiku in the Autumn Issue of @waleshaiku.bsky.social
Many thanks to editors Joe Woodhouse and @loverpoetic.bsky.social #haiku
#poetryasprotest

Feeling all the itches! Happy to be back in Five Fleas. Thank you flea keeper Roberta Beach Jacobson for including these #poetryasprotest #EpsteinFiles #RefugeesWelcome

This coming Saturday! Join us for open discussion, poetry, ideas!

After the program, go to the rally:
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BRING YOUR VOICE! BRING YOUR IDEAS!

#poetryasprotest #poetrycommunity #indivisible #nokings #nokingsprotest #freespeech #mobilize #dumptrump

Community participation strogly encouraged!

#freespeech #democracynow #democrats #dumptrump #indivisible #nokings #nokingsinamerica #nokingsprotest #poetryasprotest

Still Howling, Friday the 13th, & Prayer Flags A poet's field notes from a stitched prayer, a haunted library, and a world hurtling toward war

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Open Letter of Resignation Escaping the Pattern of Self-Immolation

vocal.media/journal/open... this is a piece that recently won me 1st place in a writing challenge.

Tags: #QueerWriter #TransGrief #NonbinaryVoices #LGBTQWriter #TransIsBeautiful #PoetryAsProtest #QueerRage #TransRightsAreHumanRights #WriteToResist #VoiceAsRiot #BskyWriters #WritingCommunity

Salt in the Wound. Salt in the Wound is out now. We didn’t make this anthology to soothe or distract. We made it because silence felt worse. Every page turned is a scream in ink—against injustice, inequality, erasure. This is print as protest. Resistance you can hold. Featuring work from 21 fierce contributors who chose to write anyway. Read it. Share it. Salt the wound.

Salt in the Wound is out now.
Print as protest. Voices that refused to stay quiet.
Read it. Share it. Salt the wound
#WritingCommunity #ZineCulture #QueerVoices #FreePalestine #LGBTQWriters #IndieLit #PoetryAsProtest #PrintIsResistance.

the united states flag is behind a burning copy of the united states constitution ALT: the united states flag is behind a burning copy of the united states constitution

green leaves
sprouting from our hands
#NoKingsDay

#dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #poetryasprotest

Hoping for Rain They call it a celebration. Two hundred and fifty years of marching feet, of folded flags and final salutes, of uniforms that once meant service, now pressed into a parade for the man in the red tie with his name stitched across the sky in smoke and steel. They roll out tanks like party favors, shine boots like champagne flutes, paint the cannons with the gloss of nostalgia, while the poor are told their hunger is their fault. Medicaid is slashed, food stamps trimmed to confetti that will blow into the gutters of D.C., even as the spectacle flares to frame the “Commander-in- Chief’s” birthday grin. No mention of the children detained, the fathers taken in the night by ICE in unmarked vans, their screams drowned out by a flyover of fighter jets— roaring louder than truth, than protest, than prayer. Outside the barricades, a woman holds a sign that simply says: “This is not what I served for.” And a man beside her mutters, “I’m just hoping for rain.” Rain to blur the cameras, to smear the makeup, to rust the spectacle and soak the velvet rope that divides power from people. Rain that remembers what honor used to mean. Rain that refuses to bow to gold-plated egos and autocratic fanfare. Let it come. Let it interrupt. Let it fall like truth— uninvited, unapologetic. Let it wash the stage clean.

Tomorrow, tanks are set to roll into D.C. for a president’s birthday bash—a multimillion-dollar extravaganza—while the poor go without and families are torn apart.
We don’t need this.
We need a storm strong enough to shut it down.
This is my poem: Hoping for Rain.
#PoetryAsProtest #HopingForRain

#nokings TikTok video by Quincy’s Tavern

#NoKings
#NoCrowns
#PoetryAsProtest

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Open Letter of Resignation Escaping the Pattern of Self-Immolation

Yesterday, I found out that I won a writing challenge that I entered! This means so much to me right now.
#QueerWriter #TransGrief #NonbinaryVoices #LGBTQWriter #TransIsBeautiful #PoetryAsProtest #QueerRage #TransRightsAreHumanRights #WriteToResist #VoiceAsRiot #BskyWriters #WritingCommunity

“A Moon by Any Other Name,” Adele Evershed A Moon by Any Other NameBy Adele Evershed When I lived in Hong Kong,someone passed on an old Chinese saying—May you live in interesting times.I used to like the sound of that—To live in Technicolor…

Delighted to debut in The Turning Leaf Journal with my poem, A Moon by Any Other Name. Love how each piece of writing is paired with a piece of art- the whole journal is beautiful. Thank you to editor, Megan Eralie-Henriques
#poetry #poetryasprotest

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“This is Bisan from Gaza. And unfortunately, I am still alive.”
Read it.
Share it.
Flinch.

#Gaza #Genocide #PoetryAsProtest #Witness #FreePalestine

Delighted to debut in @dadakuku.bsky.social
Thank you to the editor for accepting my riff!
A surreal poem for surreal times!
#poetryasprotest #poetry

Honored to have a poem in this important anthology. To paraphrase the poet Ilya Kaminsky, “When people are powerless language becomes a weapon”
Thank you to editors, Nidhi Gandhi and Jonathan Memmert #poetryasprotest

Newspeak - Wikipedia

deep winter
the new government talks
in newspeak
#SenryuSunday #poetryasprotest

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Happy to be back in Haiku in Action from Nick Virgilio Association from the prompt ‘life imitating art’
#haiku #poetryasprotest

I feel like I’m living in a novel- a badly written 1984 meets Handmaiden’s Tale with a smatter of Fahrenheit 451! So I’ve been writing a lot of poetry as a coping mechanism. Very happy to be back in @newversenews.bsky.social with this poem. A big thank you to editor James Penha. #poetryasprotest