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33 years ago tonight, 14 women went to bed thinking about their finals, future in STEM and the upcoming holiday season. They didn’t know that these dreams threatened a man’s sense of self worth and that they wouldn’t survive to see their goals and aspirations become a reality.

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A POEM !! MY POEM !! My first ever publication with **the coolest** unstamatic !!! Could not be among better company :))

2 love poems out in Passionfruit Review...wrote this one in California last summer on a freezing cold beach by the Marin Headlands and glad it's seeing the world today 🏖️

So excited to have this poem about my birth place in Breakwater Review ! Thanks to the editors!

"Of this world, I behold the wasps and the willows, the heaven upon a hamlet of smog, I behold, in the storehouses of blossoms, pollens of our past." "Meera on Longing" by Arpita Read now: psalteryandlyre.org/2024/05/06/mee…

Thanks to Psaltery & Lyre ❤️‍🔥 for publishing my poem Meera on Longing. I am very excited to have found a place in this wonderful magazine. You can read the poem here: psalteryandlyre.org/2024/05/06/mee…

I’m excited to announce that my debut poetry collection is officially forthcoming! March 2025 with ELJ Editions “Bone Valley Hymnal” is a deeply personal and special collection centered on themes on lineage, religion, and gender and I am so excited to share it with y’all

Issue 6 is live!!!! Featuring work by 🔭Rosebud Ben-Oni 🚀 Randall Mann Meghan Kemp-Gee 🐺 THE ANIMAL IN THE ROOM Lena Crown Arpita Debmalya Bandyopadhyay @marthasilano and more—this one is a beauty! (Link below)

Teaching my first class this term, I dealt with a Dutch white woman student whose disrespect I was forced to tolerate for months. This person would roll her eyes at me in every class, gossip about me in Dutch, make comments about my face and hair, and question my qualifications.

I've my first micro fiction out!

Last week while travelling between India and DC, I had a little auto-prose-poem-ish out (about the time I had a major crush while navigating a new landscape) with @autofocuslit

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Trio House Press is pleased to announce it will be publishing The Grace of Black Mothers by Martheaus Perkins (Martheaus Perkins) in 2025!

Best Spiritual Literature Nominees! ✨ "Meera on Longing" by Arpita "Psalm 23.2" by Michael Hicks "Jeanne D'Arc: Before God Spoke" by Kimberly "Book of Revelations" by Daniel Kraft "Conversion" by Trampoline Poetry "Psalm" by Kathryn Knight Sonntag Read on the website!