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I am so pleased to share this gorgeous cover of the Canadian edition of my forthcoming book Contraband Bodies---a personal record of diasporic encounter as well as other Black migrants entangled in exilic plights. Thanks for everyone who has contributed to this literary journey.

We have a book cover!!! Jide Salawu, congratulations on this book. Can't wait to welcome it into the world. amazon.com/Contraband-Bod… Pre-order!!!!

"To Light a Candle" is an asynchronous poetry workshop by mail. registration (in thread) for summer 2025 session is open 6/29 thru 7/13! Optional donation of $5-10 🕯️

jay hopler, green squall

Incoming podcast!! Talking with the brilliant poet, writer, thinker, Alina Stefanescu about her new book of poems *My Heresies* Sarabande Books Alina Stefanescu

“This is the only kingdom. / The kingdom of touching; / the touches of the disappearing, things.” — Aracelis Girmay . . . This poem appeared in Kingdom Animalia by Aracelis Girmay, published by BOA Editions Ltd., 2011. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Look at us, she said. We are all of us in this room still waiting to be transformed. This is why we search for love. We search for it all our lives, even after we find it. —Louise Glück, from "An Endless Story"

"I will not accept your innocence." Ah, this poem by Fady Joudah

Anna Akhmatova, translated from the Russian by D.M. Thomas in Akhmatova Poems (Everyman, 2006).

Naomi Shihab Nye

Do I know a story worth telling about the earth? —Gabrielle Calvocoressi

To write something as simple as powerful as this has always been my goal.

Watching the half moon shining on the sea, I remember this poem by Linda Gregg.

"I'd like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, so that above all the language remains self-evidently secret, as if it were being invented at every step, and as if it were burning immediately." — Derrida, The Post Card

New sonnet, about end-of-life care for an elderly parent, in Inscape Journal—“Disapparenting”

—Li-Young Lee, Eating Together

‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost. I came to the same conclusion several years ago. For 65 years I have warned how climate change threatens agriculture and our food security. We reap what we sow. ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/its…

—Merwin