Poet | Essayist | Eco-Mystic | Disabled | Neurodivergent | Alum @BennMFA_Writing | Books w/ @DiodeEditions, @BrokenSleep & @Fly_Press | Editor @ Rascal (RIP)
Joined May 2017
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1 Nov 2019
I don't believe in access barriers when it comes to art. This includes literature. Economic barriers to poetry: bullshit. No one should be prevented from reading poems because they can't afford a book. Permanent offer: you want my book & money's tight: it's free, on me, happily.
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11 Sep 2024
It's my birthday & I'm trying to break a depression. What I'd most love is for the book Addie & I made to find more hearts & homes. All royalties go to the org that saved her from death row. Maybe give it a try? (And if you're broke, DM for one on me.) ❤️🩹 amazon.com/Soul-We-Share-Ric…
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Ricky Ray retweeted
30 Aug 2024
"Poetry saved my life, so I vowed to give my life to the art in return, in the hopes that my art might one day do for others what the works of my predecessors did for me. And 25 years later, I’m still trying to keep that vow” - @RickyRayPoet for @McrPoetryLib !
Full interview: mmu.ac.uk/news-and-events/ne…
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28 Aug 2024
I very rarely get to interview. When I do, I always go as deep as I can. Hope you enjoy this glimpse into the soul Addie and I share with Mother Earth, and the abiding sense of kinship they inspire me to write from. mmu.ac.uk/news-and-events/ne…
28 Aug 2024
@fly_press spoke with Aryamati Prize winner @RickyRayPoet about his incredible collection The Soul We Share that reflects on paid, gratitude and human nature👏
You can read the full interview now🔗 mmu.ac.uk/news-and-events/ne…
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23 Aug 2024
Apologies to anyone I owe responses. Absolutely blasted and haven't even been able to look at email for a couple weeks. Load lightens on Sunday, so expect replies early next week! ❤️🩹
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21 Aug 2024
A reminder that Mary Oliver also wrote this:
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19 Aug 2024
So grateful to the Hive @HoneyLiterary (esp. @dorothykchan, @RitaMookerjee & @christinamgia) for letting me & Addie be part of the Infinity issue. The last poem published from my Addie book. One more home where she gets to live in gorgeous glory forever. honeyliterary.com/issue-8/an…
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1 Aug 2024
Lost one of the best. RIP, DJ Randall, dear gentleman and maestro of the mix—may your crates forever after be full of fire, the vinyl be flawless, and your hands the magic makers that turn tunes into ecstatic flows of music. Here's one of my favs: youtube.com/watch?v=6OXIyw55…
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28 Jul 2024
This is as true now as it was back then, and applies to all of my books, including The Soul We Share. If you're skint and want a copy, please just request via DM and it would make me very happy to share.
1 Nov 2019
I don't believe in access barriers when it comes to art. This includes literature. Economic barriers to poetry: bullshit. No one should be prevented from reading poems because they can't afford a book. Permanent offer: you want my book & money's tight: it's free, on me, happily.
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28 Jul 2024
If you want a mindheart expansion on aligning ourselves with the ecological processes to which we belong, highly recommend!
25 Jul 2024
I'm speaking on a panel about "Resilience and Connection Amidst Ecological Change" next Monday July 29th at 7 PM. Join remotely here: members.spiritualcarepartner…
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Ricky Ray retweeted
26 Jul 2024
Happy publication day to @RickyRayPoet, whose poem, 'The Daughter You Almost Had' first appears in Issue One of The Marrow! Congratulations Ricky!
26 Jul 2024
The Soul We Share is out today! It began 10 years ago, when a rescue named Addie began to transform my life, teaching me how to live & love in a failing body, & how to live poems, how to feel poems, & only then: to write them down. amazon.com/Soul-We-Share-Ric… flyonthewallpress.co.uk/prod…
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26 Jul 2024
The Soul We Share is out today! It began 10 years ago, when a rescue named Addie began to transform my life, teaching me how to live & love in a failing body, & how to live poems, how to feel poems, & only then: to write them down. amazon.com/Soul-We-Share-Ric… flyonthewallpress.co.uk/prod…
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26 Jul 2024
One of the themes in the new book is childlessness, both as an act of love AND a heartbreaking sorrow for the personal/ecological conditions shaping the circumstance. That love/heartbreak includes the child who almost was, but had another destiny to take. themarrowpoetry.com/issue-1/…
26 Jul 2024
Seems like the perfect day to repost this by @RickyRayPoet! Happy publication day, Ricky @fly_press 🎉🎉🎉
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25 Jul 2024
The Soul We Share: tomorrow! Gonna blast out some last-min promo, starting w/ this beautiful blurb from one of my fav people on the planet, @strand_sophie! She's one of the best eco-mind/hearts alive; please order her new book—The Body Is a Doorway—too! amazon.com/Body-Doorway-Memo…
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25 Jul 2024
So glad to see the book Addie and I made creating moments of warmth and beauty in the world! 🫶
25 Jul 2024
This beautiful book of poetry arrived from ~ Ricky Ray Poetry. Every poem is more stunning than the last.
Day of My Death
I have a whole lifetime's worth of people-friends, lovers, family, foes-who live inside me./People I never spoke to. People I never want to speak to again.
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24 Jul 2024
So stoked to be part of this. And tbh, I wrote the fuck out of that letter, trying to sit alongside one of Rilke's. AND there's an Addie surprise in the envelope! Go subscribe.❤️🔥
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23 Jul 2024
Still looking for reviewers & interviewers for The Soul We Share. The book has received very kind words from Maura Dooley, Sophie Strand, Devin Gael Kelly & Ilya Kaminsky, who said "These are beautiful poems, built to last." Would anyone like an ARC? Please feel free to share.
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16 Jul 2024
Countdown to release of The Soul We Share, gonna share some excerpts, blurbs, thank yous, readings, & a whole lot of Addie, who taught me to live these poems first, then to write them down. Lots to give thanks for! Lots to celebrate. First up, a lil Addie love to set the stage.
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18 Jul 2024
8 days ❤️🐶 For today, a teaser: an unpub'd Addie epistolary poem, full of longing and love. I never wanted to spend an hour apart from her, let alone a whole day.
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22 Jul 2024
4 days until pub day! For today, one of my fav poems I've ever written, a poem Addie led me to find, one dark night in the snow. flyonthewallpress.co.uk/prod… | amazon.com/Soul-We-Share-Ric…
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