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Author: TELEPATHOLOGIES ( @SaturnaliaBooks , 2017) + DOPPELGANGBANGER ( @haymarketbooks , 2021) • @AliceJamesBooks Editorial Board

Somewhere in America

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Cortney Lamar Charleston

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5 months

I will largely be offline over the next few months while I care for/bond with my newborn. That said, I'll still be doing the Lights & Shadows Book Giveaway each month! Please feel free to enter to win a free book for you and a buddy. Details at the link:

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4 years

How many of y'all are just inexplicably, unbelievably exhausted these days? I can't be alone.

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Don't be dejected in thinking that the protests, the letters, the boycotts, all forms of dissent meant to end the genocide of Palestinians aren't working. They are working. Not quickly enough, not as fast as we want or need them to, but they are. The only choice is to continue.

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Look: I graduated from high school in the top 1% of my class with standardized test scores in the top 1% and a roster of extracurricular involvements. And I still needed affirmative action, because while I merited admission anywhere on paper, my Blackness has restricted ACCESS!

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What Mamie Till did back then by having Emmett's open casket photographed and what we're doing now, posting videos after every lynching and (mass) shooting, are not the same thing. The context is different. The frame ain't the same. We aren't bearing witness, we're watching.

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Whiteness, the construct, doesn't allow shame. If you are white and feel shame at learning history, you are having a human reaction to an inhumane thing, but they want to legislate human concern out of you. That shame is a fork in the road and they want you on a certain path.

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A teacher in South Carolina was reported by her students for teaching Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me.” The students explained that the book made them ashamed to be White, violating a clause forbidding teachers from making students “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish,…

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez might not have had the resources to lock down a living space in D.C. immediately, but damn, gotta love the way she lives rent free in the right-wing's heads.

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If Junot Díaz, singularly, is that essential to the cause of diversity at BR that you're willing to dismiss testimony from women he's harmed as "not that bad," then you have been failing in your supposed mission for years despite what your metrics say. This is sad, sad, sad.

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We read the reports concerning Junot Díaz, Boston Review’s fiction editor, closely. Here is our statement:

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My poem "I'm Rooting for Everybody Black" is today's Poem-A-Day from the Academy of American Poets ( @POETSorg )! Thank you to @KavehAkbar for lifting up this poem of celebration/affirmation and to @IssaRae for speaking the real on the red carpet that night.

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Let's keep it a buck about what this Supreme Court decision is about: the objective is to keep the most "prestigious" academic institutions for social elites who are primarily and overwhelmingly white and wealthy (and male) those demos even more so than they already are today.

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The concept of merit will never and can never exist where whiteness is contiguous with power.

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There are simply certain "tables" that Black and brown (and Asian!) folks are not supposed to sit at and this court decision bolsters a racist order that had been strongly challenged. That Asian(-American) students were used as the shield for this is the saddest thing to me.

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People are killed in language before being killed in body. Words are weighty things that actions carry forth from, why silence is moral failure. Against the backdrop of public massacre, we must language shields because others language swords. We sanctify life by speaking boldly.

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6 years

You can definitely be a poet without an MFA. It's totally, like, writing poems that makes you a poet.

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4 years

If racism was simply belief, it'd be much easier to fight. The problem is that racism is, by definition, backed by power. It is institutional. It is systemic. It is a machine that hums along as we tend to our lives; it hums so rhythmically, by design, it puts too many to sleep.

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Liberation is a lifelong commitment. Freedom won must always be protected. Freedoms we don't have must always be fought for. For all peoples.

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5 years

Some quick news: 1. Starting this month, @The_Rumpus will begin publishing Original Poetry features on a weekly basis. You all have been such great supporters of the poetry section and we're excited to give you more! 2. Poetry submissions are currently open for a short time! 😎

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Writer men: how many of y'all are sad about, disappointed in, angry with Junot Díaz? Just asking because I see mostly women talking about it, so...

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Somebody in the on the CNN production team didn't properly research their guest, but I'm so glad they didn't. What a thoughtful, measured, honest and unshakeable articulation of the Palestinian cause.

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5 years

Yo, submit to that dream journal or literary magazine of yours. This is a friendly reminder.

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Announcement: @The_Rumpus will be having our first-ever open submissions period for poetry in January 2019!!! I, @CarolinaEbeid and our wonderful new team of readers look forward to all of your poems. Please submit, please share with others. 😊

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Open Reading Periods for Unsolicited Poetry! - The Rumpus

The Rumpus wants to read your poems!

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3 years

Poet folks, link me to a poem of yours that you're proud of, if you don't mind!

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4 years

Make no mistake, this is an open call for dictatorship in the United States of America seeing as the 22nd Amendment was ratified for a reason.

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Admission: I have an ambition to be a *great* poet, by which I mean, I have an ambition to be a relentless truth-teller, a safe and honest broker, a generous lover who is not a fool. Where there is a silence that shouldn't be there, I want to be a sound. This, I strive for.

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4 years

President Warren isn't going down this cycle, but how about Senate Majority Leader Warren working with a President Sanders or President Biden in the White House? We'd all be so fortunate. Sen. Warren has so much she's capable of. We'd be foolish to waste her gifts.

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3 years

I just don't want to see people die violently anymore. For any horrible reason. In any place.

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4 years

Maybe today is not the day to kick off your conference calls with "how was your weekend?" Just. A. F*cking. Thought.

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9 months

My people deserved some Garamond! No edits, no filter. Just a Black poet having fun.

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Poets, I know you have your ambitions and that's a healthy thing. We all do. But I believe it should be balanced out with generosity―unyielding generosity―and celebration of the success of others.

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Seriously. Clap for yourself every time you make it out of the slush pile. That math is wild.

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4 years

What year is this?

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Biden says he won't legalize marijuana because it may be a "gateway drug"

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In moments where I may feel overlooked, which all poets/writers/artists feel at some point, a helpful frame I've used to (re)commit to the work is to tell myself the work I have ahead of me eventually leads people to the work I have behind me. Your work will take care of itself.

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@mitchsweiss Everybody dies, just not usually all at once.

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Hey, y'all! Who are poets you're rooting for? It could be for *any* reason: maybe you hope for a greater audience for their work, or for them to be more confident in their voice, or to overcome something. I'll start: @xandriaphillips is the truth and folks need to recognize!

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Mosab Abu Toha, an award-winning poet and essayist, has committed no crime, but nonetheless has been seized by the IDF and separated from his family while fleeing the bombardment of northern Gaza. He must be released immediately. Praying that it's so.

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Mosab Abu Toha - essayist, poet - has been kidnapped by Israeli army in Gaza as he was fleeing with his family.

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5 years

Poets are important, in case you're just tuning in.

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Poetry doesn't stop at the end of the last line. It doesn't stop on the page. It continues on. It continues through.

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I often surprise people when I say I don't teach poetry/creative writing. I know many poets do to make ends meet, but it's important to note that many, many do not and it makes them no less committed. The shapes of our lives as poets can be so different; it makes the art richer.

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Some of my 2018 goals: 1. Take up more space in both voice and body. 2. Don't be afraid to be happy or joyful in public. 3. Give myself permission. 4. Love better, not harder. 5. Don't just stay alive, but live. 6. Write true, write as much as possible. 7. Be generous.

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I have a kind of homecoming coming up in Fall 2020: my second full-length poetry collection, DOPPELGANGBANGER, will be hitting shelves by way of Chicago's @haymarketbooks ! I've been quiet on things for a while, but hey, it's happening!

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I'd like to occasionally wake up without learning people had been killed in mass in America as I slept. This might be frequent occurrence, but that doesn't mean any of this is normal. We are sick in our souls in this country and it shows through every day.

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Too few White Americans see our grace. After Indigenous removal and chattel slavery; after Jim Crow, Chinese exclusion, Japanese internment; now after Muslim bans, family separation, bigoted mass shootings, we remain, work, build up the country we love rather than burn it down.

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Also, if you're a non-Muslim who is choosing "love" today: every time a crime like this is committed against vulnerable people, and you choose love, you are choosing to act, to protect because that's what love requires of you. Either do so, or don't diminish the word.

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I'm an incoming Poetry Editor at @The_Rumpus !!! Excited to get to know the team and work with them to get The Rumpus Original Poetry even more poppin'! Also, I do have some forthcoming poems there that had been accepted earlier and slated for January 2018, so keep an eye out. 😊

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We are THRILLED to announce that @bardsbesidebars is coming aboard as a Poetry Editor at The Rumpus!

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5 years

Don't know what poets need to hear this, but what you perceive as someone's unrelenting productivity is likely more a coincidence of publication cycles being long or unpredictable across different mags/journals. Sure, some really are prolific, but you're not failing to keep pace.

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3 years

The GOAT love poem? It's up there for me.

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"Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem" by Matthew Olzmann #poetry

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We really need to stop saying things like "women aren't going to stand for this" in relation to Kavanaugh's SCOTUS appointment. Black women, Latinas, Asian American, Native women generally won't stand for it. White women... are a question mark always.

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Are any of you writer folks also notoriously slow readers or is that just me?

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After 2020, I hope I never hear "militia" again. Call them terrorists. That's what they are. Quit trying to make them sound honorable because of what they look like.

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My most mind-blowing poetry moment yet probably wasn't any fellowship or publication (believe it or not) but the time I found out a cousin of mine got assigned some of my work in their college class. Such a possibility had never occurred to me.

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Tomorrow, @The_Rumpus will launch our annual National Poetry Month project! That's 30 days with new work from the 30 poets below. Throughout April, I'll add their works to this thread to make things easy to follow. We hope their words offer you comfort in these uncertain times.

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A drunk driver took away someone very special yesterday that I and so many others knew. She was loved and respected. She was an earth-mover. I hope she knows, even with a short time here, she made her mark. I'll remember her always.

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3 years

I see on here that POETRY's February 2021 issue features the work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated poets. I'm always here for that. More of that everywhere, please.

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What have I been writing lately? Absolutely nothing. And, not gonna lie, it feels pretty good. I used to get anxious about dry spells. I'm learning to trust in the process more and feed myself with other things in the meantime that bring me joy. I'll get back to the page.

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My poem written after Jordan Neely's murder on the NYC subway quietly slid into the world this week. I hesitated to share it as I wish no distraction from ending the siege of Gaza, and yet the struggles of Black Americans and Palestinians very much rhyme.

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It’s Important I Remember That Things Are Getting Back to Normal Around Here —

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Me: "Can y'all stop writing all these books so I can catch up? Damn." Also me: "Never stop writing please, I love your work too much." My wallet: "I hate you all." My bookshelf: "I can't fit into these pants anymore."

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Re: Hicok's essay― 1. If white men still dominate publishing, they're not "disappearing." 2. Your house/awards/publishing contracts are all safe. Your only cost has been to ego. 3. It's weird to write about diversity's inevitability when white supremacists run D.C. right now.

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Poetry submissions at @The_Rumpus : Now open!

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Announcement: @The_Rumpus will be having our first-ever open submissions period for poetry in January 2019!!! I, @CarolinaEbeid and our wonderful new team of readers look forward to all of your poems. Please submit, please share with others. 😊

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@LucasBrownEyes @steffantriplett 1000%. Mamie had agency and a hope for what her decision could mean in that specific moment which, while similar to ours, was importantly different. I can't imagine those left after the violence today choosing as Mamie did. Instead, we choose and traumatize and think it "help".

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Wonderful news!

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Rita Dove to Become New York Times Magazine’s Poetry Editor

Beginning July 1, Dove will introduce a new poem each week to a wider reading public.

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5 years

He doesn't even need to be the next anything. He's just a human being wearing a hoodie. Let him live. Literally.

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Joe Biden: "We've got to recognize that kid wearing a hoodie may very well be the next poet laureate and not a gangbanger." 😬

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In other news, today is my 30th birthday. I don't know what that means, but it means something. It's hitting different. Normally my birthday is a gloomy day, when I feel especially disconnected from family and friends, because there's a disconnection in myself.

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The people I've encountered in life whose intelligence/insight I'm most impressed by, I've noticed, tend to move through the world not from the assumption they are right, but from the awareness they can always be wrong. I try to let this guide me as well.

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One of the things I loathe more than anything is going into work and getting on like nothing happened this weekend, like dozens and dozens weren't slaughtered. This leaves limited room for collective grief. Limited room for righteous anger. Limited time for action. All a plan.

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@khadastrophic That's wild. And sadly unsurprising.

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My first poem ever in POETRY and there's my granddaddy right there at the beginning of it. This was always a special poem to me. I think it's even more special now.

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Devotion (“I Am on the Battlefield for My Lord”) by… | Poetry Magazine

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Has anybody just straight up called the sitting President of the United States a clown in the middle of a debate? Cuz that was a moment

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Anybody else love the movie The Fifth Element? No? Just me? Okay.

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It's been hard to embrace my upcoming book in excitement with all that's going on, but I'm leaning into it for a brief moment to share the cover. Big thank you to @fptheshit for supplying this gorgeous artwork. DOPPELGANGBANGER / ETA: 02.09.21 courtesy of @haymarketbooks

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What in the fresh hell is this response? Look, y'all tried to do a positive thing but are showing, yet again, that what readers and contributors have been asking for is not being understood on a deeper level. Let's explore a bit...

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@HeyLimLim People in prison have been sentenced & are serving/have served those sentences; it is not our role to further judge or punish them as a result of their criminal convictions. As editors, our role is to read poems & facilitate conversations around contemporary poetry. 2/4

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THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER was an important read for me precisely because the protagonist's relationship to women was entirely unhealthy and pathological. I truly thought that was the point, but this thread underscores what was really up. Misogyny is a hell of a drug.

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So, one really cool thing that happened over the weekend is that @SaturnaliaBooks let me know that the first poem in TELEPATHOLOIGES, "How Do You Raise a Black Child?," won a Pushcart Prize.

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1 in 18 people in Chicago have an active COVID-19 infection. That's absurd. 😰

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Who else goes through one of those stretches where you're like "everything I've ever written is hot garbage"? Who else is going through that right now?

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Kamala Harris's facial expressions are winning this debate by themselves, let alone the facts.

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National Poetry Month is a week away and we're gearing up for a great one at @The_Rumpus !!! Read up on everything we're up to at the link () and preview our featured poets for our annual National Poetry Month series below. Get hype!

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She and I have been together nine years today. We haven't made it to our final destination, but we've made it here. Even with the world on fire.

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#ShareYourRejections ? Well let's see... * opens up Submittable * 72 accepts/202 rejects (35.6 % acceptance rate) First submission logged Sep. 2013 These numbers are damn good, but there's definitely more rejections not captured here. It's a practice, y'all. Submit, submit!

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Just let me know if, after the verdict, the United States is still racist to its core and if state-sanctioned violence is still permissible and relentless, particularly when levied against Black people and other minorities as well. The real verdict is not coming today.

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This COVID-19 business is wild, y'all. It's almost like the government should play a fundamental role in securing, protecting and promoting the health of its citizens or something.

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TRACY K. SMITH PODCAST?!?!?!?!

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We are proud to announce THE SLOWDOWN, a new poetry podcast and radio feature hosted by U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith! Learn more and listen on November 26.

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I've long held anxiety that I don't always have the tools to articulate the anatomy of a good poem, but I do tend to know a good poem when I see one; it's one that always keeps me coming back, even if I don't know why. There's some mystery to attraction, I guess, and that's okay.

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Cortney Lamar Charleston

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5 years

Poems don't have to be universal to be universal.

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5 years

Nothing better than editors who actually care.

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Cortney Lamar Charleston

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6 months

What are the poems you're turning to right now? I'm interested not in poems that are about "hopeful", but more so that have resolve. Steadfastness. Courage. Poems that aren't afraid to be as ugly as the world they indict. What comes to mind for you? Share 'em here.

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Cortney Lamar Charleston

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4 years

This will be a long thread. I've been taking in last night's vote returns, and people's comments and responses to it, and I've got some things to get off my chest. My friends on the left, after last night, I'm concerned about your spirits. Our spirits. We gotta set 'em right.

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Cortney Lamar Charleston

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5 years

Me, reading something I wrote: I think this is poetry. Me, reading Act I of @ilya_poet 's DEAF REPUBLIC: Oh, *THIS* is poetry.

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Cortney Lamar Charleston

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5 years

Wait... I have a letter here that says I received a Pushcart Prize nomination from @AGNIMagazine ?! Hot damn!!!

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Cortney Lamar Charleston

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3 years

The most awkward part of writing a book is having to be like, "hey, go buy my book, check it out, tell somebody." Yes, the words deserve that, the labor that you and your collaborators have put behind the book deserve that, but it's still awkward.

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Cortney Lamar Charleston

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4 years

Detroit showed out. Thank y'all! But, damn, it would be nice if Black people (women in particular) didn't have to be the last line of defense for American democracy ALL THE TIME.

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Cortney Lamar Charleston

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5 years

I'm probably a better poet than I give myself credit for and you're probably better than you give yourself credit for.

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Cortney Lamar Charleston

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4 years

Strikes across the world of professional sports is a beautiful thing to witness, my damn. Shout out to the Milwaukee Bucks for setting this wave off.

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Cortney Lamar Charleston

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6 years

Poets, I know it can feel like we're fighting for visibility, but that's a lie. I feel we're fighting to be seen, and it's the poem that sees us, ultimately is the only one that matters. An audience *can* see you, most surely, but it can just as easily look through or past you.

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Cortney Lamar Charleston

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4 years

I'll say this: if you're going to focus on "healing" the nation of all nations, you're going to have to focus on those of us who have been hurt. Those communities are the first priority.

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Cortney Lamar Charleston

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6 years

It's never a bad time to remind you that Moana is a stone-cold classic and superior to Frozen. That is all.

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Cortney Lamar Charleston

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5 years

One very affirming thing about AWP this year was people coming up to me about both my written work and my editorial work for The Rumpus. I see what I do there and on the page as inextricably linked, so that made me really happy. Thanks for putting a smile on my face, y'all!

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Cortney Lamar Charleston

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3 years

Four black people can't even stand too closely together without law enforcement pulling up on them but these fascists get to do all this.

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Cortney Lamar Charleston

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6 years

I hate this talk. Restricting access is not the same thing as taking away ownership rights for law-abiding citizens. We put more barriers in front of people for the vote than we do for owning deadly weapons. That's how a nation loses its soul and then loses its bodies.

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Ryan: Florida school shooting shouldn't result in taking away gun rights

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Cortney Lamar Charleston

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3 years

Good morning to everybody voting against the fascist political party in Georgia today. Do your thing!

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Cortney Lamar Charleston

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5 years

But... how do poets and other writers get fellowships and residencies (and and and) when they don't have professors to write those recommendation letters or advocate for them?

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Cortney Lamar Charleston

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5 years

Curious: what poems have you turned to when you needed hope and/or reassurance?

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