Donika Kelly

please go look at the moon.

We can't wait to host Donika Kelly as she launches her wonderful new collection, "The Natural Order of Things"!

Tour graphic with dates for my book tour: 10/7: Prairie Lights w ICBF 10/10: Storypub Book Store in Des Moines 1023: Brown University 10/25: Wisconsin Book Festival 10/27: Skylights Books with Jennifer Espinoza

Tour graphic continues: 10/31: Palm Springs Pride on the Page 11/8-9: Texas Book Fest 11/13: NYU 11/14: Craft Talk at NYU 11/14: Sarah Lawrence 11/15: P&T Knitwear

Book stuff kicks off next week, with a home book launch in Iowa City as part of the @iowacityoflit.bsky.social Book Festival. Tuesday 10/7 at 7pm at the Iowa City Public Library!

if you want to hear it with the original audio instaed of the music, I downloaded this from the EcoWatch Discovery Mauritius Instagram page directly. if you want to share it please credit them

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

“What I Might Sing” “Last Friday, I was thinking of Whitney Houston, / and, because of you, I was thinking too of America.”

"What I Might Sing," a poem from my new book THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS (pub 10/7), is in the @newyorker.com. Preorder link for a signed copy book is in my pinned post.
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shit ain’t over til it’s over

“why some people be mad at me sometimes”

they ask me to remember

but they want me to remember

their memories

and i keep remembering

mine

- Lucille Clifton [writing the most Black woman poem of all time]

today is the last day to apply to be a 2026 Periplus Fellow! application closes at 11:59pm EST

The Natural Order of Things: Poems Poems

My new poetry collection The Natural Order of Things drops October 7 and is currently 15% off at bookshop.org!

We Came Here to Get Away from You Downhill, a skeleton of an orca suspended: a female beached; belly full,

Today’s Featured Poem:

“We Came Here to Get Away from You” by @donikakelly.bsky.social from The Natural Order of Things published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social

Read here:
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holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

Wow! We're up to 175 participants & more than $10k in pledges/direct contributions!

Let’s keep the momentum going ❤️‍🔥 You can still join the #sealeychallenge Poetry Pledge Fundraiser for Gaza, as a participant or sponsor, at any time. Details here: mailchi.mp/openpoetrybo...

Vote for Mariah to be featured in a 3BRAND ad in Sports Illustrated and win $25,000! Mariah Ford Is Youth Athlete Of The Year Because She Is A Game Changer. When Mariah Steps On The Track Or Basketball Court You Feel It 100%

My niece is going for Youth Athlete of the Year. Please give her a vote! athleteoftheyear.org/2025/mariah-...

Vote for Mariah to be featured in a 3BRAND ad in Sports Illustrated and win $25,000! Mariah Ford Is Youth Athlete Of The Year Because She Is A Game Changer. When Mariah Steps On The Track Or Basketball Court You Feel It 100%

My niece is going for Youth Athlete of the Year. Please give her a vote! athleteoftheyear.org/2025/mariah-...

GIFT A day so happy. Fog lifted early, I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. I knew no one worth my envying him. Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot. To think that once I was the same man did not embarrass me. In my body I felt no pain. When straightening up, I saw the blue sea and sails. Berkeley, 1971

czeslaw milosz, written in berkeley 1971

please vote, y'all.

My First Lover Was the Bathtub Faucet - Electric Literature An excerpt from “The Dry Season” by Melissa Febos

In this excerpt from Melissa Febos’s (@melissafebos.bsky.social‬) memoir “The Dry Season,” Febos explores her relationship with pleasure and convinces us of the ecstasy of abstinence.

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Donika Kelly - "Love Poem" Let us be ocean and coast, a taking

Let us be ocean and coast, a taking
into and over one another:
shifting sediment, a breaking down

of rock: dredge and deposit.

@donikakelly.bsky.social‬, "Love Poem"

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Give me some Pointer Sisters... #SesameStreet

Speaking of the WNBA…a few things:

1) The league pass is only $34.99! National (or local) broadcast games will not be shown on there due to restrictions.

It’s sucks but it’s the same for the NBA. Still support! This is how the ladies can leverage their CBA.

21 Nonfiction Books Coming this Summer

🙌 Here comes @melissafebos.bsky.social THE DRY SEASON (thanks @nytimes.com) 💥💥💥 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/b...

The 16 Best Books to Read This Summer From Taylor Jenkins Reid's 'Atmosphere' to Susan Choi's 'Flashlight'

“Mixing feminist history and personal essay, The Dry Season explores what @melissafebos.bsky.social, a serial monogamous dater since her teens, learned about sex, love, and art by finally putting herself first.” Thank you @time.com! 💥💥💥 time.com/7287373/book...

Not only are trans people under attack legislatively, rhetorically, and physically, lifesaving and life-giving trans-serving organizations are facing massive cuts to their budgets and losses of grants they rely on.

The cover of Donika Kelly's poetry collection "The Natural Order of Things" shows two transparent leaves with just the veining remaining, against a white background. The cover image appears against a green background.

#SneakPeek 👀 Donika Kelly's THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS—an extraordinary and unexpected book of finding happiness, by the award-winning author of THE RENUNCIATIONS—is out October 7, 2025.

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The cover of donika kelly's poetry collection The Natural Order of Things. Open and translucent cicada wings on the left side of a white background with the title and author name toward the right.

My new book THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS comes out October 7 and is available for pre-order! If you order from @prairielights.com I'll sign your copy! www.prairielightsbooks.com/book/9781644...
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I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like Rebecca Carroll Donika Kelly Chanda Prescod-Weinstein January 16, 5:00 pm ET Haymarket Books

I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like

Join @rebel19.bsky.social, @donikakelly.bsky.social, and @chanda.bsky.social for a virtual celebration of the voice and vision of Black women writers

Thursday, January 16th at 5:00 pm ET

RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...