SPD shutting down and essentially telling us we won't get paid for books they sold and that we'll probably have to pay to have remaining stock returned from Ingram while shopping for a new distributor... well, that certainly is a dagger in the heart of one small business...

Excited to be on this amazing panel with these amazing writers for AWP! Thank you Nancy Reddy 🙌!

It was an honor & joy to select your stunning book! Massive congrats to Christen Noel Kauffman. I can't wait for you all to read these poems that made me gasp, snap, & cuss at my computer screen in all the best ways. Thank you to Birdcoat Quarterly / Ghost Peach Press for having me judge!

“I go into my library, where I normally work on my poems, stories, and essays. I have spent hours here, reading writers like Kahlil Gibran, Naomi Shihab Nye, Mary Karr, and Mahmoud Darwish. Everything is coated in dust. Some of my books have fallen off the shelves.”

Tiana Clark Virginia Quarterly Review Tate 'The galvanizing power of the mutilated Black body. Does horror / compel us more than beauty?' --Tiana Clark

Whew! Thanks for that.

Excited to be reading and celebrating L.S. McKee next month at Austin Peay💛🙌!

So excited for you Kelsey Norris 💝✨🙌🏽🙏🏽🎉!!!!!!!

Antonio Machado, dreaming the dream for all of us...

Happy birthday, William Carlos Williams:

Tiana Clark “Maybe In Another Life” The The New Yorker September 18, 2023

Tremendous thank you to The New Yorker 🙏🏽✨! I appreciate you all for reading & loving on this poem. Means so much to me, especially to those who have reached out, relating to certain lines & the overall feeling of wading through the unknown waters of life🌊.

Congratulations to the phenomenal poets on the NBA LONGLIST ✨🎉🙌🏽🎊!!!!!!!!!!

'I become who I am by not knowing'

“The bargaining—ain’t it a bitch? The bargaining aspect
of grief, to constantly release that which I’ve already
let go of, but how the water in my mind brings it all back
like the flood current each day…”

Love this new poem by Tiana Clark in The New Yorker today! 😍