Black History Month's almost over and I wanted to go out with something fun!
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Black History Month's almost over and I wanted to go out with something fun!
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Check on your friends, self care is not enough. We need connection, we need community.
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Another poem draft from the notebook. Kind of excited to go back and revise this one
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Dooo it!!! That poem is always timely.
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Listen to him read it!!!
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Once again processing out loud. To all the survivors out there whose family won’t believe them, I see you. To all of us forced to grieve our parents while they live, I see you.
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Some personal Black History about my first trip to Meridian Mississippi where my mothers parents were born and raised.
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Good boys call their senators and tell them not to fund ice!
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New day, old draft.
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The grief never stops—
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Man tackled to ground after spraying unknown substance on Rep. Ilhan Omar at town hall in Minneapolis.
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For the longest time when therapists would ask me what id say to my childhoodself, id say that i would smother her, because it felt like there was nothing i could do to save her. Sometimes I still feel that way.
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Hand written poem: must I replace god now that I’ve killed him should I obey the stars or the sun or the wind shaking the individual hairs on my skin in soe divine frequency I met a woman who said “the spirit told her” and I wanted to ask which spirit and how do you know its here for your good. I am against god in all his many feathered coats I cant won’t be tricked into obedience or bent knee
Just launched a Patreon. Follow for drafts from my notebook, journal entries, music, poems, essays, experiments and more—
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Yes.
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I’m still not over the fact that the government tried to starve my poor disabled ass. Like I’m not surprised but it’s still a lil terrifying/traumatic.
Anyways—it’s a great time to be vulnerable af.
Hard, good reading by Jeet Heer
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How could anyone be mad at me? I’m just a guy at home writing love songs 🥺
02.10.2025 21:07 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Instead of admitting this is what their ancestors participated in.
23.09.2025 02:48 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This is appalling. As I've said before, giving DL control of an annual anthology for 35 years was a mistake. BAP is a deeply reactionary project thru which DL launders his ideology (& ego!) via a rotating cast of "ecumenical" editors. It's an unequivocal good that this year's edition is the last.
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Ok so in case yall missed the memo like I did. David Lehman, series editor of Best American Poetry is a Zionist ass. Literally feel embarrassed that I wound up in this situation. I was literally the only person of color in a room of 50+ people. It was terrifying.
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The way that “anything” is actually terrifying—
Every day we are reminded that “anything can be” includes all the violences of the state and others who want to keep people under their thumb.
It’s increasingly hard to believe that good can be too but the other choice is despair so…
Book Signings. Thursday March 27. 2:00PM. John Allen Taylor. To Let the Sun. Booth 1136
If you’re at AWP, I’m signing at the University of Arkansas Press table at 2:00! Table 1136.
Come see me :)
In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
—Adrienne Rich
Poetry collection book cover. Light pink background with the silhouette of a hill and two small figures. Above them, three suns embroidered into the sky. “To Let the Sun” in purple, san seriffed all-caps.
I am really, really excited about my debut collection coming out from University of Arkansas Press. Selected by Patricia Smith(!).
You can pre-order it here ❤️
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New poem!
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Come write poems with me!
21.02.2025 00:50 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0A lil praise and worship
02.02.2025 17:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0For those of us who know what it’s like to grieve our mothers while they still live.
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