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31 Jul 2023
this is my last tweet on this platform. i’m on the quilt community, IG, the book of the faces and the tikytok. rainaleon on everything except the last where i’m rainajleon
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10 Jul 2023
just returning from 6 weeks in italy. i will now take the next 4 to recover.
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6 Jul 2023
oh how i love … when the younger decides to go to bed by herself.
and elder already fell asleep watching a movie.
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19 Jun 2023
the official letter on #emerita status at Saint Mary's. "Your colleagues substantiate your highly efficacious, inspiring, and humanizing teaching; abundant and mesmerizingly creative scholarship…” i did good work. with good
folx. i celebrate that good work dreaming new waters
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16 Jun 2023
i’m curious. how would i find out how many emeritus/ae/x there are in the States? And who we be by cultural communities? i just was named #emerita cool. i’m curious about the numbers. throughout my academic career i’ve often felt lonely; it would be great to know others.
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6 Jun 2023
this morning, atl city council voted to fund #copcity as many of us expected they would.
which is why i addressed my comments not to the snakes that mock democracy; but to you, the people of atlanta. to remind you that we have all the power to #StopCopCity
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5 Jun 2023
Themed submissions June 12 - 25
Free to submit, for Summer/Fall 2023 issue, Guest Editor Ruben Quesada curates a folio of poems engaging with Traditional Poetic Forms. poetlore.com/guest-editors-c…
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1 Jun 2023
beloved italians. there is no music that is good enough for a mother to say, play on, when the baby wakes up.
rather, i am now conjuring a curse on your keys and drum kits … though i personally like the music.
viareggio. it’s sleepy time.
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1 Jun 2023
uplifting as i know how much a community that truly sees you can change a life.
1 Jun 2023
So excited to announce this endeavor w/ @jadareneeholy as we are raising funds to conduct this amazing 2 week virtual conference & workshop. Please share/donate & follow @FrancesTWS for more information!
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28 May 2023
would you rather have a bed against a noisy in the morning wall and be able to see the door in your bedroom or have a wardrobe on the noisy wall and the bed on the same wall as the door? curious.
me? i want to see the door. i’ll take morning noise.
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24 May 2023
Remedies For Disappearing
Join special guests @rainaleon, @PoetJasmineMans, @RamirezPoet, and @cursivebones for a celebration of @GetFreeAlexaP's debut poetry collection, Remedies for Disappearing.
Tuesday, June 6th at 7:00 PM ET
RSVP to attend:
eventbrite.com/e/remedies-fo…
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23 May 2023
Announcing the Writing Freedom Fellowship!
This fall, with @MellonFdn and @Art4JusticeFund, Haymarket Books will recognize and support twenty poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers impacted by the criminal legal system.
Read more:
haymarketbooks.org/blogs/486…
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24 May 2023
Tina Turner doing Proud Mary is unforgettable. 🔥
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24 May 2023
3: child has passion! “i wuv hee!” (hee is the sound a person makes going up in an airplane). no more #punkrock2s we are at #3knocks as in i never know who is going to be at the door i open. #gemini. monday she decided to go to school in full astronaut costume. #SoCool
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24 May 2023
3: the age when the child learned how to open supposedly childproof/difficult things like the mouthwash (now on my couch) and the hair styling cream (so she could paint herself like a tiger). also we’ve entered the hiding so as to do mischief stage. pray for us.
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17 May 2023
Just two weeks left to #submit!
ALT Image description: a typewriter with a long paper scrolling out of it and a sage background. Text reads: Submissions close in 2 weeks! Free subs open in all genres. psalteryandlyre.org
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16 May 2023
Under DeSantis’s new laws, Floridians may never learn there was once a Black Superintendent of Schools in Florida who was so forceful in his advocacy for civil and educational rights, that he had to sleep armed in his attic to ward off attacks from the KKK. Meet Jonathan Gibbs.
30 Mar 2023
As the first Black superintendent of schools, Jonathan Gibbs supervised every county’s standard of education and established uniform textbooks across Florida. I hope his ghost is haunting Ron DeSantasis and Florida state legistlators who undermine and attack public education.
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12 May 2023
how i love that my kid now negotiates ti have “healthy tv”. yes to number blocks and the magic school bus … or we are using a chisel and hammer to find gemstones. either way, we are learning.
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10 May 2023
Alice Walker. Jesmyn Ward. Angie Thomas. Sonia Sanchez. Nikole Hannah-Jones. Charlayne Hunter-Gault. Imani Perry. Paula Giddins. THEE Joanne Gabbin. Readings. Panels. PRAISING.
If you're a Black poet (or an approved ally), here's what you're doing in November. You're welcome.
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