Michal ‘MJ’ Jones (he/they)

life is the best. 💕

I made a list of every literary magazine I could find on Bluesky. Follow them and share this post. The sooner they see Bluesky as a viable platform, the sooner they leave X.

go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j

my 7 y/o wrote me a poem a few weeks back & i am 😭😭😭

“light me a candle
a piece of tea
a crack of lightning
won’t threaten me
more melody
Baba & me
together we will ascend
together in melody…”

To a Young Poet I don’t usually write because I’m too busy being afraid of it. Not of writing but the it.

WOW.

poets.org/poem/young-p...

Indigo As I’m walking on West Cliff Drive, a man runs

poets.org/poem/indigo

who are your favorite documentary poets?

happy 2nd birthday to my debut book of poems 💕 ily

better life loading 💕

from endo with love

Do you have some poems that could use an expert eye? Lamdba Literary Award winner @blackqueerdo.bsky.social is accepting single poems, folios, chapbooks, and full-length manuscripts. Pricing starts at $25 and scholarships are available.

blacklawrencepress.submittable.com/submit/24438...

next 2 reads - Women of Brewster Place is one of my favorite books of all time

i have just remembered that i need to submit poems in order to have them published

I’m learning that once again NYU has gone off the rails and suspended a group of students for a year for nonviolent protest on Dec 11th. We see this is as part of the same oppressive apparatus that supports genocide, suppresses resistance, and destroys institutions of critical knowledge production

poets - anyone else also a musician? 👀

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. whole novel is a poem 😍

newest addition

Israel burns northern Gaza’s last functioning hospital; patients and staff forcibly removed Isreali military vehicles surrounded the hospital, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, and communications had been cut off.

Israel has burned northern Gaza’s last remaining hospital. And kicked out its patients, including neonatal and ICU patients. I picked a western news source since y’all seem more likely to believe those. I don’t know how else to get people to care.

www.nbcnews.com/news/world/h...

on my way to Chicago, had to bring the amazing @taylorbyas.bsky.social with me.

this year, banana pudding cookies. gotta perfect the recipe for Santa!

from my almost-there work in progress. for Devonte “Hart” (Devonte Davis)

I think the transgender kids are the bravest kids right now that we see; they're as brave as my generation was in breaking down segregation. They're breaking down-I don't have the word for it right now-but it's gender prejudice, and [the idea that] somebody has decided that they can tell you who you are, what your name should be, and how you should look. And those youngsters are saying, "No, I can decide who I am, what my name should be." Everybody's mad at me like, You should be a girl because we've decided you're a girl. And they say, "Well, who the hell are you?" I can decide that I'm a boy. And if it makes me happy, what does it mean to you? And I can decide that my name is John. And if you don't like that my name is Geraldine, why can't you name yourself? And if the people who know you and love you-or have to talk to you, maybe they don't even love you but they have to talk to you -you can tell them, “This is my name, and I would like to be referred to in that way."

This interview with Nikki Giovanni from earlier this year should be required reading. oxfordamerican.org/web-only/nik...

i caint deal with this passing of time...

too many good folk are getting up outta here and not anuff good folk are replacing them...

no matter how nice we are, none of us are worthy.

being an editor is one of the greatest joys of my life. got a manuscript you’re on your way to finishing? work with me. i promise you i’m the sweetest.

www.michal-jones.com/editorial-se...

🙂‍↕️ absolutely

live image of me trying not to get a cold with an elementary aged kid around

i haven’t been gay on here yet so here you go: the best wife ever in some of our favorite places ever

a woman singing into a microphone with the words i have nothing nothing nothing ALT: a woman singing into a microphone with the words i have nothing nothing nothing

my wallet to all these Giving Tuesday emails:

Linda Gregg

may as well shoot my shot on this new platform here - any lit agents out there open to documentary poetics?

i got one hell of a project to share 👀

A photo of KB on the left, a Black non-binary person with long hair and a yellow shirt, smiling. On the right, a photo of bubbly honey.

We are now open for new work for our February 2025 issue, to be edited by the incredible KB Brookins!

This issue has no theme -- just send good work!

#submissioncall #poetry #writingcommunity

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