it is *so* special to get to share this offering. my sister & i collaborated on this book w/Enchanted Lion & feel so honored for it to be in the caring light of Black Children's Books and Authors (BCBA) 🌿🌿 thank you! bcbooksandauthors.com/especially-for…

Hi everyone! Starting today, Blessing the Boats Selections are open to women of color poets! Send us your work! - No fee to submit - Judged by Editor-at-Large aracelis girmay - 1 poet will receive $5,000 & publication in F 22! - details: boaeditions.org/BTB #BTBSelections

Send to this prize for Latinx poets with a first book manuscript Letras Latinas am honored to judge with Alexandra Lytton Regalado @AriCisco Adela Najarro thanks Francisco Aragón for keeping this work going. Please share letraslatinasblog.blogspot.com/2022/01/letras…

Only three hours left until Poetry & the Creative Mind, our signature #NationalPoetryMonth reading & celebration! Join the live broadcast tonight at 7:30pm EDT: youtu.be/SjTfpeU66aM The event will feature these luminaries from across the arts & culture sharing favorite poems:

REMINDER: WE ARE 8 DAYS AWAY FROM MY FIRST VIRTUAL READING FOR THE #TXPoetryRoadShow - fea. Emmy Pérez KENNYBIM 1 📸 .chibbi. oh, and me. WED. AUG. 10th, 7:00p live on my YouTube Channel. Link here: youtu.be/geTc4n2U1p8

GET READY - Join me tomorrow as I get to read with Emmy Pérez, KENNYBIM 1 📸 & .chibbi. for my #TXPL project - the #TXPoetryRoadShow!! 7p CST, Wednesday, Aug. 10 - TOMORROW NIGHT!! JOIN WITH THIS LINK TO WATCH THE LIVE SHOW: youtu.be/geTc4n2U1p8

Feeling grateful tonight for the generosity and openness of other poets during these continued hard times. Thank you for the gift of your presence and kindness @saramariepoetry

I know not everyone I connect with on here is in the RGV, or even TX, but a few have asked about my Family Izquierdo book launch event at Suerte Bar & Grill in Weslaco, TX on 9/6 at 6:00 PM. Below are the FB event details. Hope you can make it! fb.me/e/eTrjgJCSs

Are you a literary journal with current submissions open? If so, reply to this tweet and maybe some of our followers can discover new mags to submit to! :)

**Submissions Open** Inaugural Georgia Review Prose Prize contest, judged by Jennine Capó Crucet. The best short story + essay will be published. Overall winner will receive $1,500 + expenses-paid trip to read with Crucet // Runner-up will receive $600 thegeorgiareview.com/the-georgia-re…

I am so happy and honored to be in the new issue of huizache alongside some of my friends and heroes like jo reyes-boitel Jose Hernandez Diaz Juan Felipe Herrera natasha carrizosa josé olivarez Emmy Pérez and other fantastic writers and artists.

& Austin! Emmy Pérez! Carrie Fountain! Sasha West! Mx. Faylita Hicks ! special guest @amejohnston

200 students walked out of class at an Alabama high school after they were reportedly told their student-led Black History Month program could not reference slavery or the civil rights movement "because one of our administrators felt uncomfortable" sports.yahoo.com/hillcrest-high…

Happening today at 1:45pm! #AWP2023

We’re ecstatic to share this call for submissions to Undocupoetics: An Introduction, a forthcoming anthology of poetry & poetics, featuring work by poets currently & formerly undocumented in the US. 🌻 Submit & please share! Deadline 4/30. More details: tinyurl.com/2xdt5krm

Feeling extra fortunate today because we have an interview with jo boitel-reyes on their latest book the matchstick litanies (@NextPagePress). Read it here: letraslatinasblog2.com/post/interview…

Time is flying by for our first-ever reading period!😱 Send in your fiction, hybrid, and poetry chapbook manuscripts by November 30th to be considered for publication by us. We can’t wait to see what other magic will appear in our Submittable! Submit: abodepress.submittable.com/submit