Jade Wong-Baxter

cuomo conceding overlayed with the drewjanda tweet: "The haters said I couldn't do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters"

absolutely nuts to feel joyous about a political moment, for the first time in years and years 😭

Opinion | Our Advice to Voters in a Vexing Race for New York Mayor

not to expose myself as insufficiently cynical but I’m actually kind of shocked at how bad this is across multiple levels—as a piece of analysis, as a piece of rhetoric, and as a deployment of the NYT’s outsized power in this specific instance

Wow, NYTimes be like, “Andrew Cuomo is our problematic fave."

The editorial board willfully misunderstands something I figured out in early adulthood: that sexual harassment tells you everything about someone’s relationship with power, and on its own, ought to be enough to disqualify from office.

Our power grows!!

Join us at the Poetry Project tomorrow April 23 at 8pm to celebrate LOVE IS A DANGEROUS WORD by Essex Hemphill (1957–1995). John Keene, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Pamela Sneed, and more will be reading. Come at 7:30 to toast to Hemphill before the reading!
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RSVP: www.poetryproject.org/events/love-...

A Classic Collection of Black Gay Poetry Returns to Shelves Poet and activist Essex Hemphill’s 1992 collection

a true honor to help bring Essex Hemphill's work back into print -- thanks to @summ.bsky.social for capturing the labor of love that went into its publication

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one thing I always wanted for my complicated birth country with a blood-drenched history was for it to also be a bankrupted casino

John Keene on the Life and Literary Legacy of Essex Hemphill an Early Poetic Chronicler of Black Queer Life Throughout Essex Hemphill’s poetry, what we registered was his attentiveness to craft as well as statement, to the possibilities of performance, of form, of the line, and to the expressive content,…

"He was a lyric poet to his core, and a political poet who knew that the most devastating critique could hinge on many of poetry’s numerous resources, any of which he wielded when needed."

Read John Keene in praise of Essex Hemphill over at LitHub.

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Love Is a Dangerous Word: Selected Poems For three decades, the legacy of the revered writer, editor, performer, and activist Essex Hemphill has been lovingly sustained through xeroxed copies of his few published works. They are as potent no...

Very excited to share that this beautiful little volume of poems by the late, visionary Essex Hemphill, which I co-edited with the brilliant Robert Reid-Pharr & for which he wrote the introduction & I the afterword, will be out next week (March 5) from New Directions!
www.ndbooks.com/book/love-is...

especially these days, it's been such a delight escaping into @liaholland.bsky.social's music festival mystery -- both a love letter to and pointed commentary on the intoxicating raves, community, secrets and chaos of the festival world. Very excited to be working together!!

Happy #MSWL day! Working with a decent amount of nonfiction now, so would love voice-driven upmarket fiction to balance it out. Always enjoy a splash of genre and weirdness with a heart (MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES; THE WEDDING PEOPLE, etc.) Full wishlist:

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Did you guys know that Kendrick is the first Pulitzer winner to perform at a Superbowl halftime show?

Next year book Barbara Kingsolver, you cowards.

hire @marinafang.bsky.social for her brilliant reporting work, strong convictions, and the fact that now feels like a particularly dumb time to be laying off journalists given literally everything around us

phewww this take

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Sorry I'm just in a really bad place right now (United States)

Why Simon & Schuster’s Flagship Imprint Won’t Require Blurbs Anymore In a decision some might call “stunning” or a “tour-de-force,” new S&S publisher Sean Manning has decided to no longer require authors to obtain blurbs for their books. Here’s why.

the things we could do with all the time and freedom afforded by not having to stress about blurb outreach...!!

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I mean HAPPY Friday everyone

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our First Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 12, 2025. 🎉🎉🎉

Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.

Learn more here: manuscriptwishlist.com/the-next-off...

nearly texted my dad condolences on the Talking Heads guy passing away, only to realize that I've spent my entire life thinking David Lynch and David Byrne were the same man. and now I have to apologize to dads everywhere

responses to this official holiday card have ranged from "this is incredible!" to "what is happening", which seems correct. anyway happy holidays from the magical mystery FGLA team ✨

I wrote about Sesame Street, AI in book publishing, and the curse of a society that values endless growth over quality and care. mariskreizman.substack.com/p/the-maris-...

see now *this* is what the internet should be for!!

The 10 Best Books of 2024 The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction.

I adored Alvaro Enrigue's densely dreamy, truly singular YOU DREAMED OF EMPIRES, and the whole team at @goldinagency.bsky.social couldn't be more thrilled that it's been named one of the 10 best books of 2024 by the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/b...

Enable Literary Agents -> Empower Authors -> Enlighten Readers Join the 2024 Giving Tuesday Fundraising Campaign for Literary Agents of Change

Literary Agents of Change does great work to ensure that book workers from diverse backgrounds can come to and *stay in* book publishing. I'm grateful for their programming, which has helped build my own agenting career -- please donate if you can!

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Zombie Vomit Mad Libs by Duy Đoàn — Alice James Books The poetry collection ZOMBIE VOMIT MAD LIBS by Duy Đoàn, forthcoming from Alice James Books in November 2024.

This incredible, off-the-walls poetry collection, ZOMBIE VOMIT MAD LIBS - about death & life after it, about horses and nightmares and movie stars -- publishes today!! It's unabashedly strange and I love it, and now you can too:

www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/zo...