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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

1 month

With a week away from NaPoMo, @sfeycreates and I wanted to give you a little time to prepare for our annual form madness! As usual, we have our form calendar, which you can follow along with. This year, we also added a 30-day prompt list!

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

1 year

I DID IT Y’ALL!!!! I AM OFFICIALLY DR. BYAS!!! 😭😭😭😭😭

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@TaylorByas3

1 year

It’s DOCTA to you 😏✨

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@TaylorByas3

2 years

@rosewaterframes “I still am” PLEASE?!

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

3 years

Ok guys I was at Bath & Body Works yesterday and while I was checking out, the cashier saw my name pop up at the register and literally asked “Wait, are you the poet lady??” and I SCREAMED INTERNALLY

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

7 months

I am so incredibly blessed. There are no words. My debut poetry collection has won the Maya Angelou Book Award. The affirmation. The encouragement. This means the absolute world to me. To everyone who helped to make this possible, thank you, thank you, thank you.

KCMO Public Library

@KCLibrary

7 months

And the second ever poetry winner for #AngelouBookAward is… I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times by @TaylorByas3 ( @softskull ) This debut collection is inspired by The Wiz and celebrates South Side Chicago & a Black woman’s quest for self-discovery. Congratulations Taylor Byas!

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

3 years

If seen and celebrated so many of these announcements, even dared to dream that one day I would get my own. Well, today, I did. I am feeling so much joy today, so much gratitude for this life and all of the blessings that continue to come my way. Dreams do come true!!! 😭

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

3 years

My coffee table is cooler than yours!

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

1 year

Dissertation defense begins in 45 mins! Wish me luck! 🥹🫶🏽

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

1 year

Is there a name for when you have an obligation in the middle of the day and you are incapable of doing anything else or getting anything done until that obligation is over? Time-frozen? What is it? 😭

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

3 years

AHHH!! I am honored and SO excited to announce that I won this year’s Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry!!! A big thank you to @BPJTweets team, and to the incredible Natasha Trethewey for selecting my poem. Congratulations to the incredible finalists on this list!

BeloitPoetryJournal

@BPJTweets

3 years

The editors of the BPJ are thrilled to announce that Taylor Byas is the winner of the 2021 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry! Read what final judge Natasha Trethewey has to say about Byas’s poem here: . Congratulations to Taylor and our wonderful finalists!

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

5 months

Just left the wonderful virtual event to see this notification, oh my god???! 😭

Chicago Review of Books

@ChicagoRevBooks

5 months

The winner of the 2023 Poetry award goes to @TaylorByas3 for her collection “I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times” ( @softskull )!

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

3 years

So. I have some news, friends. I now have an agent!!!!! It feels almost unreal to now be represented by @renarossner at @DHLiterary , but what a blessing it is to gain an agent who is excited and passionate about my poetry and my voice. This is the news I needed today.

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@TaylorByas3

11 months

I have now applied to over 100 jobs. I still do not know how I will make it through the next two months. This is not me asking for advice. I just want to say how demoralizing and difficult this has been and continues to be.

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

3 years

I am once again asking contests to send people rejections before you send out an announcement of the winners.

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

2 years

Today is my first day of being an Associate Editor for The Cincinnati Review! Cheers to a year of wonderful work, blog posts, and doing more of what I love!

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

2 years

Friends. I received a high pass on my exams. I am now officially ABD!!! 😭✨ Excuse me while I go SOB.

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

3 years

I am speechless. After a rejection yesterday, and the chapbook being a finalist in two competitions, BLOODWARM, is forthcoming from @VariantLit next year! Thank you so much to @TylerPufpaff and the entire team. I can't even believe this is happening.

Variant Literature

@VariantLit

3 years

The results of our open mss reading period are in!

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

2 years

It’s my birthday! This is 26. Blessed to be here for another year, and looking forward to what this year has in store for me 🎂❤️

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

3 years

So an unreal thing happened. I was selected as the winner of the Frontier Award for New Poets by an INCREDIBLE panel of judges. I'm still screaming. I still can't believe this. Thank you SO much to @FrontierPoetry and to @Paige_M_Lewis , @CAMONGHNE and @JakeSkeets !!!!

Frontier Poetry

@FrontierPoetry

3 years

The 2020 Award for New Poets Winners are here! Selected this year by @Paige_M_Lewis , @CAMONGHNE , and @JakeSkeets // 1st & $3k Winner / @TaylorByas3 !! 2nd / Samantha Samakande 3rd / @nome__patrick The finalists, longlist, & more here:

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

8 months

I know the debut has only been out for a few weeks, but I hope y’all are ready for a journey with me! Book 2, RESTING BITCH FACE is coming from @softskull in 2025!!!!!!! We locked in!!!!

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

1 year

I cannot form the words to describe how much I adore the cover of my debut-full length. Thank you so much to @softskull , Farjana, and @NLCaputo for making a cover that really captures the book, and that is GORGEOUS on top of that. Chicago as the Emerald City? Let’s. GO.

Soft Skull Press

@softskull

1 year

Cover reveal! Today it's our huge pleasure to show you I DONE CLICKED MY HEELS THREE TIMES, a forthcoming collection from @TaylorByas3 ! Our cover was designed by Farjana Yasmin, with @nlcaputo as AD. I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times will be in stores August 22, 2023!

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

8 months

So like…my book made the Maya Angelou Book Award shortlist…do y’all see these other poets?! Cannot believe this is the company my book is keeping. 😭😭😭Congratulations to these other shortlisters, especially my dear @jezzbah !!!

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

8 months

So I might have yelled in my apartment (sorry new neighbors above me) but !!!!!!! IDCMHTT is on @USATODAY ’s Best-selling Booklist today!!! Me! My poetry book!!! #74 !!!!! HELLO?!?! 😭😭😭😭

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

3 years

How hard is it to press a reject button IN SUBMITTABLE before you announce winners on Twitter? I—

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

1 year

Now that AWP is over, I do have to say this…y’all gotta start bringing timers up to the mic with you or something because you can NOT go over your time when there are over 15 readers on the docket. I beg of you.

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

3 years

CW/TW: sexual assault, rape This is so wild. To be able to move like this without fear of consequences. What a world white people live in.

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

3 years

Just paid for a Black writer’s MFA application 🥺 I’m so happy

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

3 years

It’s here!!! My sonnet crown about Chicago won the Award for New Poets and I couldn’t be more excited that it’s out in the world today. Celebrating in my apartment right now, and I hope you all will celebrate with me and share in the joy of this poem ❤️

Frontier Poetry

@FrontierPoetry

3 years

Here it is! A good day for it too—the winner of the 2020 Award for New Poets & $3k, @TaylorByas3 's "South Side" "This is what teaches me love. Your streets, their wailing for their dead." judged by @JakeSkeets , @Camonghne , & @Paige_M_Lewis Read it:

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

10 months

Haven’t announced on here yet because I was just laying low and trying to get my life together, but ya girl got a new job! 😌 Feeling very blessed and fortunate, and looking forward to figuring out this new phase of my life!

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

3 years

Okay, let's talk about it. What does a white writer gain from putting the N-word in ANY piece of their writing? I can not imagine an instance in which this is EVER necessary or warranted, so why do folks continue to do this?

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

4 years

It's really awesome to be a Black editor. There aren't a lot of people that look like me in these positions, and it feels good to be able to amplify voices I love and voices that are systematically looked over, silenced, not taken as seriously. Just sitting in this joy today.

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

3 years

Lmfao you telling me, a FEDERAL BUILDING, with national leaders inside of it, was "overrun" by people with flags? No. The police put up a little fight to make it look like they did something, then all but stepped aside and let these people in.

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

1 year

One thing about tumblr, they be SHARING those poems honey

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

1 year

So so happy to start this morning and week off with a love sonnet for today’s Poem-A-Day with @POETSorg ! So grateful to @pswordwoman for letting me be a part of this month’s magic, for letting me share a little bit of love with you all ❤️

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

4 years

So I have news! I have accepted a position as @FlypaperLit ’s new Poetry Editor! I won’t start to transition into the position until a little later this year, but I’m SO excited to be joining such a fantastic team and journal. Thank you to @LookingAtLilacs for this opportunity! ❤️

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

4 years

Also. Lit mags, I say this with disappointment. Doing a “Special Issue” that’s supposed to call attention to racism and injustice does NOT count if it’s just filled with white writers’ perspectives.

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

3 years

With the help of 27 angels, I sent out $1242 dollars today to BIPOC writers. We paid SEVEN grad school applications, fellowship applications, book contest fees, regular contest fees, chapbook fees. I hope someone is breathing a little easier today.

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

3 years

EEEE! I get to teach a Creative Writing and Social Justice course in the Fall!!!!!!! I'm so hype to build this syllabus omg.

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

5 months

Good tears.

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

3 years

Okay friends, I'm doing it. I am posting a thread of everything I've had published this year, and I'm hella proud of the writing year I've had. And now that I have some time, I'm going to celebrate myself a bit! So let's get into it! All my 2020 pubs, a thread:

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

6 months

Ya girl is 28 years old today!! 🥳🎉🎈🎊

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

3 years

I will scream this all year: SLIDE INTO YOUR TWITTER CRUSH’S DMS. Life is too short. It can lead to really magical things. Or it may not work out. Either way, you miss all the shots you don’t take!

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

1 year

Literary twitter erasing that one tweet about erasure poetry:

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

6 months

Feels like it’s been forever since I’ve had a new poem drop. Here’s a new duplex in @NewOhioReview that explores how our relationships with our parents continue to shape later relationships.

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

4 years

Tough rejection this morning. Really really hurt. Cried a little bit, tbh. But will be okay and will keep submitting! ❤️

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

3 years

AHHHH IT’S MY BIRTHDAY!!!! I can’t believe that I’m finally 25, but this birthday feels so special because I’ve never had this much to celebrate. I’m SO damn proud of all that I’ve accomplished this past year, and I cannot wait to see what this new year of life has to offer!

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@TaylorByas3

1 year

It’s official. My high school just asked me to come back to talk about poetry. I’ve made it 🥹

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

3 years

My contributor’s copy of @ChattahoocheeRv arrived! I’m so lucky to have 3 poems in this incredible issue with some other fantastic writers. This one is probably my favorite poem of the three (YES, ITS ANOTHER PANTOUMMMMM). I hope you will read! ❤️

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

9 months

So a little bit of 🎉news🎉: super duper honored and excited to be one of this year’s @bookcritics Emerging Critics Fellows!!! I’ve really grown to love criticism over the years, and I can’t wait to learn more and continue to spend deep, intentional time works I love ❤️

National Book Critics Circle

@bookcritics

9 months

We're so proud to announce this year's Emerging Critics Fellows! We're looking forward to working with these brilliant writers over the next year.

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

3 years

Gonna make a thread of people's websites because I want to creep on them later today. Reply with the link to your website!

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@TaylorByas3

2 years

I want an anthology of love letters between poets over the years. Do you know how emotionally distraught we could be if we had that????

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

2 years

Ok friends, officially getting ready for bed! Exams begin at 9 AM in the morning, and it will be me, snacks, DoorDash, and energy drinks until Monday at 6 PM! Would appreciate all good energy and prayers over the next few days. Will post little updates along the way! 💙

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@TaylorByas3

3 years

Guys. My prose poem “On Hesitation” was chosen to be included in Best Microfiction 2021!!!!! Thank you so much @ambernoelle and to @perhappened for nominating and publishing my lil creepy barn poem!!!! 😭❤️

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

3 years

Ooo got an acceptance today! 🤗

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

2 years

🚨So I can announce this newz: I have signed a contract to co-edit “The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol X: Alabama” anthology with @TxReviewPress !! Very grateful to Texas Review Press and the entire team for this opportunity to get more important voices out there! 🥰🎉✨

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

2 years

I am honored that Natasha Trethewey selected my poem “Tell It Like a Movie | Rewind” as the winner of @BPJTweets ’s Adrienne Rich Prize!!! Y’all know I love form, so it’s a bit of a prose palindrome. Thank you to the entire Beloit team, and I hope you guys enjoy! 🥰

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@TaylorByas3

3 years

I got a Pushcart nomination from @SWWIMmiami !! 🥺 Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

4 years

It's been a hectic day, but what a surprise it was to find out that I won first place in the Poetry Super Highway Poetry contest!! I am STILL shaking from this news. I said I needed good poetry news and it was DELIVERED. I am so grateful, so blessed. Thank you @PoetrySuperHwy !

Poetry Super Highway

@PoetrySuperHwy

4 years

Poetry from Contest Winners Taylor Byas, B.J. Buckley, and Angele Ellis #poetry @TaylorByas3 @angeleelli1

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@TaylorByas3

4 years

I just got an email from a professor at a University to let me know that my poem “My Twitter Feed Becomes Too Much” won her students’ “Prize Committee Project” and her students WROTE LETTERS TO ME. They’re thanking me for touching their hearts...I’m SOBBING in bed rn.

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

3 years

I managed to keep writing, and saw improvement. Made some incredible friends. I will have 50 poems published this year. I won a poetry contest. I got an agent. I received 6 Best of the Net nominations. I became a Poetry Editor for Flypaper. Landed some dream pubs. What a YEAR.

Ashley Strong

@strashme

3 years

this year was rough - brag on yourself a bit :)! what did you accomplish this year?

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.

@TaylorByas3

2 years

After 5 rejections and 1 instance of a poem getting accepted elsewhere, I FINALLY got an acceptance from @splitlipthemag !!! Keep going, friends! 😭❤️

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@TaylorByas3

1 year

Y’all my momma and my grandma came to my reading and craft talk and were sitting in the front row doing the writing exercise and I almost cried just looking at them. I was so happy. They are the cutest things ever.

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@TaylorByas3

9 months

IT’S HEREEEEE!!!!! Today my book is officially out in the world and in stores! Happy pub day to IDCMHTT, and I can’t wait to celebrate it’s release this evening @JosephBethCincy ! If you haven’t already, I truly hope you’ll get a copy 💜💚💛 @softskull

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@TaylorByas3

2 years

I'm thrilled to have three poems in the new special issue of @OSUtheJOURNAL 's Ohio issue (and to have my poems selected by the brilliant @RuthAwad !!)! Here is one of them, an older one that I adore:

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@TaylorByas3

1 year

It’s officially the year that my debut full-length comes out 😯

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@TaylorByas3

3 years

How am I supposed to “live laugh love” under these circumstances???

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@TaylorByas3

3 years

I had to make one for writers 💀 @blkgrlpoet inspired me

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@TaylorByas3

3 years

To call me or other writers “entitled and whiny” and “a bunch of fucking babies” because we think it’s common decency to receive a form rejection from a contest submission (which are often $10-$20) is...a choice. It’s so easy to do in Submittable. It’s rude and I can think that.

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@TaylorByas3

3 years

Oh hi, birthday makeup 😌🥳💄💋

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@TaylorByas3

2 years

Finally admitted out loud that I have a lot of gaps of memory in my childhood and it alarms me. I spent a lot of time burying myself in books and in hindsight, I think I was really anxious as a kid. Still working through this.

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@TaylorByas3

2 years

So, ✨BOOK NEWS✨: Truly honored to work with @ambsmcbride , @EricaEditor on POEMHOOD: OUR BLACK REVIVAL, a YA anthology that celebrates Black poetry, folklore, and culture. And we couldn’t have done this without our incredible agent, @renarossner ! ❤️

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@TaylorByas3

2 years

Got a nice lil ring to it 😌 @VariantLit

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@TaylorByas3

3 years

I have a poem in @TriQuarterlyMag ’s incredible Black Voices Issue, alongside some other heavy hitters. Can’t wait to read and tweet about the rest of this issue later today! Here’s my sexy Bible poem, “Scripture” and thank you @lutherxhughes tor snatching it up! ❤️

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@TaylorByas3

8 months

I have four poems now on @POETSorg

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@TaylorByas3

3 years

I just. My mom screamed at the top of her lungs and then broke down and cried when I told her. Man. I’m making her proud, and that alone is worth the world.

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@TaylorByas3

3 years

My mom just said to me, "I cannot imagine a world or a lifetime in which you are not writing poems. There was no way you could turn your back on your gift" and this is why I keep writing y'all. What would I do without her???

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@TaylorByas3

2 years

ATTN BLACK POETS: I have the honor of guest editing a special folio for @PoetLoreMag , and I want to fill it with Black writers! The submission window will be only two weeks, starting July 25th, so get your poems ready! 🥰❤️

Poet Lore

@PoetLoreMag

2 years

While our current issue is still wrapping up, we are so incredibly excited to announce our next Guest Editor: @TaylorByas3 !! Taylor will be curating poems from Black writers for her folio -- submissions go live on July 25th, so get those poems ready! Link in bio for more info!

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@TaylorByas3

2 years

Just realized Frozen came out in 2013 which is almost a decade ago and I could have sworn it came out like 4 years ago, I’m gonna go scream into a pillow.

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@TaylorByas3

3 years

Taking majestic photos in my floor length mirror, what y’all doin?

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@TaylorByas3

3 years

You know, we talk a lot about how money isn’t the sole reason we do this poetry thing. I keep a spreadsheet for my writing payments for tax purposes, and I realized that by the end of next month I will have made almost $10k this year from writing/writing-related events. Insane.

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@TaylorByas3

2 years

Y'all ever reread a published poem of yours and go "Yikes, that one wasn't fully cooked"??? Literally me, rn.

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@TaylorByas3

1 year

What if you and your favorite poets all living in one apartment building together and just left little notes and poems on/under eachother’s doors every day

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@TaylorByas3

4 years

This year has been a lot of things and has been so difficult, but my writing has always been the one thing going well no matter what. I’m honored to receive my fifth BOTN nom from @SWWIMmiami today. It’s an honor to be read at all. But these votes of confidence mean the world. ❤️

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@TaylorByas3

3 years

2 years ago, I got my first poem acceptance. I often forget that I’ve really only been sending work out for two years now, and I’m so so proud of all that I’ve accomplished and published in those two years. ❤️

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@TaylorByas3

3 years

Looks like I'm gonna finish my PhD coursework with a 4.0!

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@TaylorByas3

3 years

I laid on the floor and highkey just cried because I'm done with classes now. For this semester, and for the rest of my program. Omfg.

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@TaylorByas3

3 years

“The absolute baseline level of internal peace” has taken me out of the GAME

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3 years

My relationship with my father is strange and sad and painful. I haven't talked to him in months. I miss him often. Sharing my poem about him because every time I read it I am reminded again that he is human, that I'm human, that we're both hurt humans missing eachother.

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3 grad school apps have now been paid for. We’ve paid for contest fees. We still have money left! BIPOC writers, DM if you need a sub fee sponsored or help with a grad school app ❤️

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2 years

Besties, give me your favorite poems about heartbreak!

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2 years

Dated a poet and he wrote me a letter after we'd broken up and said "You are always on my foolish mind, made a fool and foolhardy and foolish by the touch of your hand, your lips, the gravity of your love, the distance of which has harmed this land and made it burn, as do I."

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2 years

The formalist in me can never pass up a chance to share a formal poem, so I was so happy when @OSUtheJOURNAL also took this little sonnet about loneliness during the pandemic!

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3 years

Okay, I’ve sent out $947 at this point, which means I have $238 left! My BIPOC writers, if you need help with a contest fee, regular sub fee, or a grad school app, DM me! ❤️

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4 years

Okay so as I wait for my computer to reboot, I’m going to go ahead and start this thread. I came across Cleaver Magazine’s new issue (and don’t worry, I WILL tag them in this thread). Almost immediately, it caught my eye. For multiple reasons.

Home

Cleaver, Philadelphia’s international quarterly literary magazine, is currently celebrating ten years of publishing.

www.cleavermagazine.com

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3 years

How many times have we robbed ourselves of love because we were convinced that we could only love and be loved in these highly specific and limiting circumstances?

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2 years

I fight with the pantoums, the sonnets, and the sestinas regularly, so it was an honor to have wrestled a villanelle down finally (and to have it land in the amazing @PoetLoreMag !) The incredible print issue is on the way, but in the meantime, happy to share my poem!

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8 months

Have been committing to writing a poem a draft every time I finish reading a book and I love this practice. I take reading notes as a read (word bank, quotes that stick out, any poem fragments that come to me) and then I see what comes out of it. It’s been so fun!

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3 years

🥺 woke up to a Pushcart Nomination. Thank you so much, @alienlitmag !!! 😭❤️

Alien Magazine

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OUR PUSHCART NOMINATIONS:

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1 year

My momma cried at work when I called her to tell I was a Dr. Byas. Me and her have to get matching Dr. Byas shirts now, and she has to have MD on the back of hers and I have to get PhD on the back of mine 😂

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Contests that don't reject you but just send the contest results in place of a rejection get on my last nerves. How hard is it to just send a form rejection? Jesus.

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