@akualezlihope.bsky.social
Creator, Wisdom Seeker
Last night I enjoyed the honor and privilege of presenting my poetry with poets Ennis Rook Bashe, Alicia Hilton and Juan M. Perez at WorldCon 2025.
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#worldconseattle #speculativepoetry
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#blackfantastic
#womenpoets
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Disability Pride Month REading! Catch it at
youtu.be/n2RUO4nvmgY
looking forward to it! You will enjoy the company!
23.07.2025 19:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Honored and delighted to be included on this list for Disability Pride Month 2025!! And wondrous Petra who participated in the Speculative Sundays
Poetry Reading for Disability Pride Month is on the list, too! www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...
Kind words, affirming words, sweet words, after so much pain, rejection, denial, dejection, ah "A poet, speculative fiction writer, fiber artist, and visionary, Akua Lezli Hope's work pulses with imagination, cultural richness, and transformative power. 🌟✍🏾" Thank you!
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I have just one more poem postcard to create, to fulfill my list of 31. So I've written about 35 poems since July 4th (say wah?) The secret sauce is spontaneity, and community, which i sorely miss, which I long for and lack... interaction, feedback. sigh #poetrypostcardfest #poetrypostcards
19.07.2025 06:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0erp...since July 4....and have now written 15 and sent 14.....
10.07.2025 00:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I ran out of white card stock to create my Poetry Postcards, so I began to play with this image and am astonished what animating it offers in terms of new images! #specpo #poetrypostcardexchange #poetrypostcardfest #poetrypostcardfest2025 #akualezlihope #afrofuturism #blackfantastic
10.07.2025 00:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Was sharing this not used image for a postcard poem... and th image inspired another spontaneous poem.. This has very stimulating and exciting.. I've now created 12 poems for postcards since July 14 and am at work on # 13 BUt i forgot that i was supposed to be working on a manuscript for BTB!
08.07.2025 21:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Save the Date for the Speculative Poetry REading for Disability Pride Month. Sunday 7/13 from 7 to 8 pm EDT www.eventbrite.com/e/speculativ...
08.07.2025 03:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0not gonna not gonna lactose intolerant can't listen
08.07.2025 03:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I completed my 10th poem and 10th postcard for the the Poetry Postcard Fest The list has 31 people to whom to send work, so I'm about a third of the way through. Big Fun! #poetrypostcardfest #poetrypostcards
08.07.2025 03:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So I've embarked on another adventure, the Poetry Postcard Fest, An annual 56 day self-guided workshop in spontaneous composition and community-building. Just before dawn I channelled 3 poems on blank postcards and doodled 3 images, addressed them to 3 people on my given list of 31 and stamped them
04.07.2025 16:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0O! pitch perfect! Such a well told and moving story!
02.07.2025 22:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The first 5 postcards for the First Annual Great Speculative Poetry Postcard Exchange have arrived and they are each a different delight! Thanks to Miguel Mitchell for being the first. I look forward to seeing the rest! #speculativepoetry #poetrypostcard #postcardswap #postcardexchange #specpo
30.06.2025 21:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Amazing how the video option gave me a more desired image, by animating and progressing the starting image! Part of a series generated from my poem Contact, published in IF magazine. #specpo #IFmagazine #scifipoetry #firstcontact #akualezlihope #afrofuturism #blackfantastic
28.06.2025 04:09 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great idea: Rhysling Nominees asked to create videos reading their nominated poems. did one for my long poem nominated:Giant Robot and His Person, first published in FIYAH, Disability Issue, Summer 2024
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#specpo #disabilitypoetics #rhyslingawards #sfpa
So I've lost my mind, exploring the new animation options. I created a bunch for my poem Contact, previously published in IF. I was making images for the postcard and now animating makes me think of new stories. #afrofuturism #blackinspace #aliencontact #specpo
23.06.2025 05:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
joy inside my tears! So honored so happy to have TWO stories in this new collection!! My special thanks to Isis Asare and the Sistah Scifi Book Club
#afrofuturism #afrofuturist #speculativefiction
#akualezlihope #AfrofuturismShortStories #sistahscifi
#isisasare #blacksciencefiction
backs of postcards one with flying saucer flowers and the other with wildflowers
22.06.2025 06:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My speculative poetry postcards for the First Great Annual Speculative Poetry Postcard exchange arrived today! Not revealing the poems, but the backs are fly too!
#poetrypostcards #poetryexchange #speculativepoetrypostcardswap #akualezlihope #postcardexchange #poetrypostcardexchange
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Congratulations! You are brilliant, wonderful, inspiring and deserving of every good accolade, honor and acclaim!
19.06.2025 02:32 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0... the article says you heard late but in 1863... the Juneteenth Texans didn't hear til 1865! and there are several stories about why/not... to get an extra cotton harvest... messenger/s killed and I'm forgetting the third reason beyond just not letting my people go...
19.06.2025 02:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 065 pages is not 65 poems, so yes, you can do it! Also if you
tried a few scifaiku or other short forms, those may help add fuel to the fire you're stirring up.
The Time is Now!
18.06.2025 23:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0What city is this penned in?
18.06.2025 23:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Congratulations!
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The Books are Here!
Our 50th by Akua Lezli Hope, is a powerful senryu collection commemorating the 50th reunion of the Williams College Class of 1975—the first to include women and the largest Black student cohort in its history.
tinyurl.com/50thWilliams
Grateful and Delighted to be included!
18.06.2025 23:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I enjoy you so much! Thanks for participating!
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