one of my favorite things that Center for African American Poetry and Poetics is able to do is offer the CAAPP Fellowship which provides a salary, benefits, & TIME for an early-career poet to write & make. there's no teaching requirement (just occasional community workshops of your choosing).

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Love this list of poet memoirs 💜

⚡️⚡️⚡️this response from Anne Sexton

The mess before the music - always a good reminder!

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😂 THIS really sums up the poet life

Please allow me this one poem, no matter how many times I write it. swamp pink buff.ly/3XSdgsg [CW: suicide]

Remembering Sylvia Plath, with gratitude, on the 60th anniversary of her death. Plath was a Smith alum and we take the name of our press from her poem “Metaphors”💜🍏🚂🐘

Coming this summer- our first book from 9SP!! My Hand Holding Tight my Other Hand: 9 poets mediate on the body. Can’t wait to share this collection with you 💜💜💜

Happy Friday! Pro tips from Duolingo for your weekend.

Going into the weekend like…

With gratitude for Toni Morrison on her birthday week, and always.

As #AWP23 is approaching, I am once again offering these tips to new attendees (and whomever else needs them). A 🧵…

So delighted to be part of CLMP

Going to #awp2023 like…

The #AWP chapbook haul keeps on giving…HOW NARROW MY ESCAPES by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram