If seeing who likes & shares Reb Livingston’s oppressive & triggering blog post so that I can choose (read: HAVE AGENCY) to not associate w/ those people is “trolling” then I don’t even know what to say to you. You can “hold aloft multiple realities” (which is bullshit speak anyway) but actively liking and sharing opinions sends a very loud message that YOU must agree with that message, which makes YOU a VERY NOT SAFE PERSON FOR ME. And if it’s “my fault” for interpreting it that way then yes, you’re just another victim-blaming empath-deficit poser.
If all of the publishers are white, then it doesn’t matter how many brown judges get appointed / how many brown poets those judges choose to publish (because we are still operating under a white-supremacist system). Our stories and our lives are underneath a white hand, and white people get to decide when and how our sadness, our trauma, our narrative poetry comes into / out of fashion. White people get to decide how our sadness is treated. “The master’s tools will not dismantle the master’s house” (Audre Lorde). If white people actually care about POC poetry then they need to do at least two things- one mobilize politically against the white supremacist power structures that are murdering our communities. Two, mobilize for our leadership in their publishing houses and support us throughout all realms of the poetry community. .
Happy to announce that my chapbook JULIET (II) is one of the finalists in the Nostrovia! Poetry Chapbook Contest!
If you are a book reviewer interested in reviewing my book, message me & I can get you a copy.
I will be signing books at the University of Hell PressWrite Bloody Publishingtable at noon this Friday – come see me!!!!
I will be reading at the Quaint Magazine Issue 4 Launch/Dance Party Friday night – it’s being hosted at Madame of the Arts, an underground queer arts center in Minneapolis (this means I get to be in the same room as Kia Alice Groom ahhh so happy). I believe the reading starts at 7:30 PM, here is the address:
Madame of the Arts
3401 Chicago Avenue South
Minneapolis
I will also read poems to you wherever! I really love reading on the spot, just ask!
After AWP you can buy my book online directly from U of Hell. It will also be available at Powell’s + more independent bookstores tba.
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