Dear Black poet. Happy to celebrate #ToiDericotte & @bluespoet — Here is an opportunity to publish. Check out @cavecanempoets & @omiamifestival for more deets. https://instagr.am/p/CCZY0QZnSng/

i still have the poem #toidericotte wrote for me during my stint as a @cavecanempoets retreat staff member. i framed it & its living next to my handwritten letter from #nikkigiovanni & photo w/ #soniasanchez. i am lucky to have met my heroes. i am lucky to know such a life.

Black Boys Play the Classics by #ToiDericotte

"Why is every road
in this bright country furnished
with its history of hatred?" -- #toidericotte

#dear @kldwarsame i find my best poems are the hardest 1s 2write/#toidericotte teaches us to write the hard poem/& so i do/#westwritersdream

#dear twitter: You never get the perfect parent. You get a forgiving child." -- #toidericotte #cavecanem15

#dear Twitter: sometimes you have to turn your back on who says what about you & just write great poems. -- #toidericotte #cavecanem15

#dear Twitter: @cavecanempoets is an idea, a hope. -- #toidericotte #cavecanem15

#dear Twitter: "healing is negotiable" -- #toidericotte #cavecanem15

#dear twitter: "if I had become you or your image" -- #ToiDericotte @cavecanempoets