Kay E. Bancroft, MFA

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Currently scheming stops for book tour next year — where should I go!? 🩸

Heaven Looks Like Us: An Evening of Palestinian Poetry Virtual Launch Event Thursday, May 15 5:00 pm CT Rasha A. LDA A Dina Abdulhadi Leena Aboutaleb George abraham Rimona Afana Fadia Antabli Summer Awad Asmaa’ Azaizeh Farah Barqawi Sarona Bedwan Carolina Ebeid Olivia Elias Summer Farah Layla Azmi Goushey Maen Hammad noor hindi Lenna Jawdat Emily Khilfeh N Mankinem Angie Mazakis Hajer Mirwali Sara Saleh Hind Shoufani Jen Siraganian Rewa Zeinati Omar Zahzah

Heaven Looks Like Us: An Evening of Palestinian Poetry 🇵🇸

Join @intifadabatata.bsky.social, @noorhindi.bsky.social, and contributors to the new Palestinian poetry anthology Heaven Looks Like Us for a virtual reading in commemoration of Nakba Day.

RSVP to join:
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Promotional graphic with blue and pink background, text includes the following: ‘Transcendent: A Fundraiser Reading Benefitting Trans Lifeline and Trans Latin@ Coalition — Virtual, Thursday, March 13, 5-7 pm PST / 8-10 pm EST — Readings from Meg Bromley, Jos Charles, D.L. Cordero, Paige Lewis, Mordecai Martin, Celina McManus, Vanessa Micale, Michelle Moncayo, Dakota Smith, Tovah Strong, Mia S. Willis — Hosted by Kay E. Bancroft and Melissa Ferrer Civil

Pretty please come to this fundraiser reading? It’s this Thursday, and I want to see you there so we can support @translifeline.bsky.social and @translatinacoalition.org 💗✨ register to attend here: us05web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Two light purple crocuses among green and brown grass

Small bright yellow flowers among greenery and soil

Went on a walk in the sunshine and there were flowers, and honestly? It healed me a little.

List of words banned from federal agencies

Hey poets! These are the words now banned or discouraged at federal agencies—on yer mark, get set, ✍️….

On March 13, 5 p.m. PT I'll be reading at a virtual event fundraiser for Trans Lifeline and TransLatin@ Coalition, organized by poets Kay E. Bancroft and Melissa Ferrer Civil. Registration details in the Linktree in bio. Donations and loving presence welcome!

Updates on National Endowment for the Arts FY 2026 Grant Opportunities The National Endowment for the Arts is updating its FY 2026 grant guidelines, with deadlines in March and July 2025. These changes impact organizations applying in the Grants for Arts Projects or Chal...

So, the National Endowment for the Arts announced today that they are reworking the guidelines for all 2026 grants and will be prioritizing projects that center the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It's now just a propaganda fund.

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Honestly please do this, it’s iconic

Two photographs on a bright green flyer advertising featured poets: A Black woman with long, dark hair & a black sleeveless top in the top photo, and a non-binary white person with short, brown hair, a black sleeveless top with a blue & white neckerchief, and tattooed arms in the photo below.

If you're in Cincy this Tuesday (Feb. 4th), come to Sitwell's Coffee House for some electric poetry from @taylorbyas.bsky.social & @kebpoet.bsky.social! We'll have an open mc, too!

Metaphors are bad at listening when you try to tell them you are full.

Guys, I know I’ve posted this article a lot in the last two weeks. But I’m so serious.

They’re not fucking around, and major executive action aimed at trans literature could happen as soon as tomorrow. The time to take action to protect trans books and authors is *now.*

This was actually what made me decide against going this year; I didn’t want to take up space that could be going to displaced folks / mutual aid needs!

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Call for Work: Until You Get Here, Queer Epistolaries For six years and counting, we — Jody and Zoë — have been sending each other love notes: epistolary poems, long form emails with subject…

Call for Work: Until You Get Here, Queer Epistolaries
Deadline: March 15, 2025

"Queer folks have been keeping each other company on the page for as long as we’ve existed—to practice solidarity, extend generosity, resist, wonder, flirt..."

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So, my debut poetry collection “Bloodroom” is being published in summer 2026 by @sundresspub.bsky.social ! 🩸✨This book is full of explorations, of diving into intergenerational trauma, parent/child relationships, queerness and sexuality, pop horror from the 90s to now, and more.