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Very awed to be in Kenyon Review Summer 2024 “Extinction” issue. Thank you Nicole Terez Dutton and the editorial team. I wrote “Failed Eulogy” amid shade losses that were not the losses I thought they’d be. Shade is a place…

lifting my head up here a second to say: as planned, this is my last year editing for BtB. a breath, a sharpening to read submissions. a completely humbling & impossible process. thank you for the work you make. if intrstd u can submit here by july 14 🌿boaeditions.org/pages/blessing…

"To say that Jorrell Watkins’ (Jorrell Watkins) debut poetry collection Play|House contends with the troubling reality of being black in America would be an understatement that doesn’t do his work justice." 🔎 Read JP Legarte's review ow.ly/YUvf50SAyy2 #poetry #bookreview

I’m overjoyed and humbled by this stunning review of “PlayHouse: poems”! Brink Literacy Project Northwestern University Press

Please give what you can or share 🙏🏾 gofund.me/e3697bad Hey, what's up! I just found out that Sofie's apartment caught fire last night, and they lost everything, even their cat, Toni. It would mean a lot if you could click the link below to donate or share.

Look at this gorgeous cover art Shay Alexi designed for my chapbook with Garden Party Collective !!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭 Pre-sales are live here: gardenpartycollective.bigcartel.com/product/what-s…

it's stressful whenever someone who doesn't write asks me what I'm working on next. chill, I just published my first book and you haven't even read it yet

Whaaat! My book is on the lineup for the #SealeyChallenge by the Nicole Sealey?! Life goals have been met

I’m ecstatic to share that my translation of KimHyesoon 김혜순시인’s wondrous collection Thus Spoke No (않아는 이렇게 말했다, 문학동네) will be published by Ecco in spring 2026. Thank you so much Deborah Ghim for believing in this work. And Nat'l Endow f/t Arts for your support!

Terminal Maladies is officially out today! My utmost gratitude to Center for African American Poetry and Poetics and Christine Stroud, my editor Autumn House Press, every one of you who preordered a copy, and to my family ❤️

“[this is what happens] when we love a little Black girl well" - Maya Moore, 🏀🐐 the Lenore Marshall recognizes the "Most outstanding collection in the U. S. in 2023." My *very first* book. The book I wrote at 23 yrs old. thank u Mom & Dad. thank u God & home & blk poetry.

⭐️COVER REVEAL⭐️ Here she is, THE TINY THINGS ARE HEAVIER, my stunning debut. This cover photo by Adaeze Okaro is perfect. Divinely made for this novel. You’ll see why come June 2025 when the world finally gets to meet my imaginary friend, my novel’s protagonist, Sommy.

“Crazy, scary, spooky, hilarious.” #GNX

✨ hey siri, play “man at the garden” by Kendrick Lamar 💪🏾✨ lol but fr, what an honor to have Black Pastoral awarded the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize! 🙏🏾 many kudos to the judges, my fellow nominees, and to Kingsley Tufts winner Jaswinder Bolina! 🤍 arts.cgu.edu/tufts-poetry-a…

Clayton Purdom Mary Dorie Chevlen sophia stewart Hannah Zeavin Devin 🌱 Thomas O'Shea O F Cieri With poetry from Ansel Elkins, Tracy Fuad, Daniel Halpern, Laura Kolbe, Tamara Nassar, and Jorrell Watkins; columns by helmet girl and Maya Binyam; a comic from Quino; and an art portfolio curated by Perwana Nazif.

"We thieved sour and sugar— / dashed past onlookers,." A poem by Jorrell Watkins for LARB Quarterly, no. 44: Pressure. lareviewofbooks.org/article/jorrel…

Honored to have my new poem in the latest issue!!