poem-maker/lover, fictionist, attemptress, editor; enthusiast in (de)spite; long live VA Press
Joined November 2013
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May 19
The shattering new issue of #aboutplacejournal from @BlackEarthInst is live. I've got one in here, in humbling company, thanks to Issue editors: Amanda Ngoho Reavey & Seth Copeland
aboutplacejournal.org/issues…
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28 Jul 2024
Delighted to see poet @alex_tretbar sliding into the photos posted by @EduardoCCorral at @sewaneewriters. Feel like I'm there. Made @CPhillipsPoet say my name once in a zoom room, so.
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18 Jul 2024
Due to wildfire mayhem, Steph will be sticking close to the chickens and beasties, while I fill her shoes on the sign up sheet at The Commons Cafe & Tap Room tonight. Bring your words! Bring them!!
#openmicbend
#osucascadesmfa
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20 Jun 2024
👨👩👧 VOL. 3: FAMILY is OUT NOW. 👨👩👧
People have killed in the name of family; its ‘sanctity’ is a motivator for far right violence across the world.
Even when we break away, we remake found families.
So—what IS the family? What’s so good about it?
readtower.itch.io/family
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13 Jun 2024
That special part of low residency first day when everyone shows each other pictures of their dog 🥰
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14 Jun 2024
Have you listened yet?
Warning: two listeners told me they needed to pull over to cry. 🩷🩶💙💚💛💜
28 May 2024
Latest episode of Commonplace is NOW LIVE! commonplace.today/commonplac…
ALT ID: Light blue and gray horizontally split background with two shades of blue text. Photo of D. A. Powell in black and white. He is a White man wearing a hoodie and a baseball cap with wire frame glasses, and he is smiling. ALT TEXT: Episode 126: D. A. Powell Doug and Rachel talk about friendship, optimism and poetry, and the amazing poet, activist and scholar Judy Grahn! (Ep has clips of Grahn as well!) COMMONPLACE PODCAST
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10 Jun 2024
We are thrilled to announce that the Le Guin family has donated their family home to Literary Arts to turn into a writers residency. This generous gift will fulfill Ursula K. Le Guin’s lifelong mission to elevate historically underrepresented voices in literature.
10 Jun 2024
Ursula K. Le Guin's home will become a writers residency apnews.com/article/ursula-k-…
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13 Apr 2024
This piece on small press publishing by my colleague Jeff Alessandrelli contains many salient points that a lot of writers don’t think about starting out, like how they have a range of mostly unspoken aims, funding models, strengths, and business practices.
12 Apr 2024
"Since a certain amount of funding is coming from grants, donors, and (hopefully) the press’s Board of Directors, there are more variables to consider."
- Jeff Alessandrelli
clereviewofbooks.com/writing…
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11 Apr 2024
Congrats to these poets! What an amazing group.
Kaveh Akbar
Jos Charles
Elaine Equi
Vievee Francis
Airea D. Matthews
Robyn Schiff
Safiya Sinclair
Tracy K. Smith
Mai Der Vang
11 Apr 2024
Congratulations to the 2024 Guggenheim Fellows! Here is a message from President Edward Hirsch (1985 Fellow) #guggfellows2024: youtube.com/shorts/C7kus1bJP…
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12 Apr 2024
Between child school carlines right now and!!! and!!! So grateful to be a finalist and selected by @chanda_feldman; thank you for reading. Y’all, I know this is so hard, but listen to your heart & gut. Listen to your poems. 💗
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8 Apr 2024
Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, California and Washington poets...this message is for you
30 Mar 2024
D.A. Powell is the judge of the 2024 @catamaranlit Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets! Deadline: June 15. Must live in CA, WA, OR, AK, or HI to enter. Submit 60-100 poems. $1k prize & publication awarded. $45 fee.
#writers #poetrycontest newpages.com/blog/where-to-s…
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5 Apr 2024
we're thrilled to announce the FINALISTS for elsewhere’s annual chapbook contest!
judged this year by the lovely Monica Brashears @magnoliasnmud, the winner will receive $250 and print publication through our micro-press!
congratulations to our finalists! ✨
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30 Mar 2024
"The short story is the name we have chosen to describe the production of the cultural and social space in which something hidden becomes visible, and therefore shared, but still a secret." —Cristina Rivera Garza, leaving me breathless once again
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27 Mar 2024
I love the LCD Soundsystem essay by @KateCarmody8 but the “coxswained” line from Avery Ferin on Destiny’s Child’s “Bootylicious”is all 4 me today
marchxness.com/final4-destin…
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27 Mar 2024
Congratulations to @MonicaYoun for winning the @AnisfieldWolf Book Award in Poetry for From From! One of my highlight conversations and reads of last year ICYMI here is the audio of our conversation—
Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/monica-… @NTrethewey @GraywolfPress
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24 Mar 2024
This is what my friend, the brilliant @lorihellis Hellis, has been up to! True crime your thing? Get in on this:
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