oh shit. i still have mastodon?!?

looking for black speculative poetry? run tell your favorite bookseller to order this for you, The Second Stop Is Jupiter by upfromsumdirt from Wayne State University Press #blackpoetry #speculativepoetry #scifipoetry #speculativewriting

it's been a minute...

is this thing still on?!?
*taps mic*

@authortoburnett 6, 7, 9.

Deifying A Total BREAKDOWN… pt. 1

i'm little-known as a poet. i mean, little little-known... i once had a small following of poet-friends a couple decades ago, during the golden age of poetry message boards circa 2001-6; pre-facebook, pre-myspace. being entirely an unlettered, autodidactic poet, those old poetry boards were the closest thing to a workshop that existed for us small-time poets posting raw, unfinished poems from our personal journals and diaries - sites…

http://upfromsumdirt.com/2023/09/06/deifying-a-total-breakdown-pt-1/

@StillIRise1963 its not that they dont know how... they just dont desire it.

#poetrycommunity #artistcommunity
#blackpoets
#blackwriters #poetsofmastodon #writersofmastodon #writingcommunity
#acab #afrofuturism #afrosurrealism

just trying to find some folks.

the second stop is jupiter… counting down…

the publisher confirms that author copies of the new collection will be mailed to me the first week in july. the book launch isnt until the first week in september. what kinda torture are they trying to put me through!?!?! they just expect me to stare at this book ALL ALONE FOR TWO WHOLE MONTHS until it's delivered unto the world?!?! the publishing world is full of sadists, i swairfogawd. okay, okay... my copies in two more…

http://upfromsumdirt.com/2023/06/23/the-second-stop-is-jupiter-counting-down/

fat meat is greasy…

there is always a longing. a needing to belong. our energies consumed in the searching of identity instead of luxuriating in the liberational privileges that come with cultural self-possession. but enslavement made Blackness a politic, no longer just a condition of natural humanity. an entire continent of people gone from normal & ordinary to "a condition of" in simple regards to the melanin levels acquired in their skin.

http://upfromsumdirt.com/2023/06/23/fat-meat-is-greasy/

"You cannot wake a person who is pretending to be asleep." - Navajo proverb

wanna read something cool Pat Nolan wrote about the poetries of Bob Kaufman, John Keene, Will Alexander, and myself?! ...yes? ...HELL, YES?!

well, alright then:

https://thenewblackbartpoetrysociety.wordpress.com/2023/05/09/in-the-black/

Today, April 23, 2023 at 3pm EST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdSMw4r3N8M

A Conversation

Myth, Maas & Mythology: Caribbean Folklore to Fantasy

In celebration of World Book & Copyright Day

Featuring: Tanya Batson-Savage; Nalo Hopkinson; Alake Pilgrim; Alexia Tolas

a slightly older version of my poem, Fayre Gabbro, The Woman In The Sun, appears online today in Pangyrus... a sorta self-reflective valentine for the poem's narrator — ❤

https://www.pangyrus.com/poetry/fayre-gabbro-the-woman-in-the-sun/

@futurebird that im not good at it. crushing my dreams of being the architect i wanted to be.

@catherinerockwood it's such a strong collection... i wish i hadnt been so adverse to journal submissions in the past.

John Henry Says I Am Not My Hammer, HFR issue 71.

Abstrack Africana, HFR issue 71

grateful to Hayden's Ferry Review for publishing my poems, Abstrack Africana and John Henry Says I Am Not My Hammer in issue 71, fall/winter 2022.

it is what it is...

entering 2023 like: