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Happy to have three poems from This Elegance in the current issue of New England Review. Here’s one of them in the issue preview.

I had THE BEST TIME talking to Ajanaé and Brittany on the Vs. podcast! Thank you both to these luminary poets for going full galaxy brain with me and talking mushrooms, ancestors, time travel, and counter narratives with me, it was a blast, and an honor. 🙏🏽

Me reading The Dunciad

If you’re in LA you can catch me tomorrow April 27 at the LA Times Festival of Books: 2-2:20 PM at the Poetry Stage. Can’t believe it’s been almost a decade since I read in LA. Excited!

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Turning in my author questionnaire this week, so if you’d like a galley of my next poetry collection, This Elegance, send me a message.

Hey, everyone. I'm grateful that MAGICAL/REALISM has been shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Awards. It's a vote-based award, so it would mean a lot to me if you found it in your heart to vote for it here: readingthewest.com/35th-annual-sh…

Looking for Langston (1989) dir. Isaac Julien

Pleased to have a brief essay up in the new issue of Different Visions where I write about a trip I took to The Cloisters last spring, how medieval art inspires my poems, and some general thoughts about ekphrasis. differentvisions.org/medieval-ekphr…

Turned my manuscript in this morning

Chills at Julien Nguyen’s show

Thankful for Eric James Cruz’s wonderful questions about my poems in the current issue of New England Review. nereview.com/derrick-austin/

She gives Bianca Storm a call for the collab

Lyle Ashton Harris, Lyle and Robert, Bronx, New York, mid 1980s

This poem brought to you by me and The Yale Review. To All the Donners Who Passed yalereview.org/article/to-all…

Khia asylum? You mean the Salon des Refusés?

Shook by the knowledge that there was a Cannes in which jury members Agnes Varda and Toni Morrison watched SIN CITY