ICYMI: 300+ Iranian musicians have issued a collective statement expressing strong opposition to the death penalty handed down to rapper Toomaj Salehi in Iran. They praised Toomaj as "a champion of the righteous aspirations of an entire generation of Iranians" and criticized the

I’m here tabling BIPOC Book Fest with @TramEditionsand RAWI, and we’re in the same room so we can hear KB Brookins talk about their memoir! In this picture, you see our very own HoustonPoetLaureate ask a question!

We are by and large copying/pasting our strategy from the 2021 freeze. This was our map after just 5 days of intermittent outages. The outage due to the recent storms is expected to be even longer. We cannot stress enough the importance of checking on your neighbors during

#rapidresponse #houstoneventplanner WE NEED TARPs, People with trucks and people who know how to work on trees. Please email [email protected]

Really grateful to be read by Emily Perez (she/her). It’s hard out here. We don’t always know why we do the strange dances we do as poets. This news made my day 🙏🏼

Tram Editions' author Priscilla Wathington reads this Sunday, June 2ed, for the Bay Area Book Festival ! She'll read alongside sam sax &others on Sunday at 11:30am on the Allston stage! #baybookfest We also want to congratulate Priscilla Wathington who is a The Poetry Center Mazza Writer in Residence!

Today, 5pm est/4pm cst, I join WordPlay hosts lockie and Jeff Davis to talk artist life, poetry and read! You can listen live on Asheville FM’s website. ((Shhh, but I think I’m reading new work 😅))) Wordplay is 103.3 Asheville FM ‘s longest-running program on 103.3!

Tonight! 7:30! I’m so excited to bring Dogwood Alliance fellow, filmmaker, and conservationist Tiffany Womack ‘s film to #asheville, in addition to an artistic collaboration w/my poems &the artistic work of Southern Equality ‘s Liz Williams (Pink Tiger Design) join us!

This is tomorrow, Wed, at 7:30pm. If you wrote poems from the ex. we did using Tiffany Womack Womack's film, What About the Drinking Water, DM me so I can add you to the readers. Excited to show an ekphrastic collab btwn Liz Williams &myself too. Going to be a v cool night.

getting ready for exhibit tonight& lo, it happened unto me—my ancestors came&said: baby You know we can’t use that natural deodorant. So I gotta’ go to the store. Join us all tonight at 821 Haywood Rd 7.30pm. The immersive digital art that’ll play during the reading is 😎👌🏼

Our power just flashed in the Houston loop. Make sure you have your stuff charged

Spent June in Asheville—outdoors, no smell of refineries,in a more easy heat that wouldn’t kill me. During events&interviews, I spoke abt the ecological terror of living at our climate front lines. Publicly, I spoke as a Houstonian. Privately, I wept at the thought of returning

Houston: Tired: Bayou City Wired: Land of Perpetual Recovery

Today, in class, I heard a student talking about a raccoon& I asked what she was talking about. She said she rescued a baby raccoon who had a chili can stuck on his head. She said she threw her friend’s jacket on him and she said,“He hissed at me,but I got the can off!”So. Proud.

Houston-based Tram Editions friends, come out tonight/Thursday to hear Catherine Lu, Sim Kern - THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE , and Keagan Wheat (he/they)! 8:30pm at Poison Girl Bar!

wasn’t able to get through all it, but picking up w/ KB Brookins ‘s “My Therapist Suggests I Replace…” in the Humanities courses today. Proud to teach other Texan poets. Also: yesterday emo. whooped me. Changing 2ed 1/2 class today to add aracelis girmay “You are Who I Love”

Excited to read (VIRTUAL) tomorrow Saturday 2pm cst with Jane Berg Esteban Rodriguez Esteban Rodriguez and Brandon Thurman Brandon Thurman for PublicPoetry ! I’m happy to read new work! Register here: calendar.houstonlibrary.org/event/12088065

I mean I’m teaching 6 courses and yeah, I did leave that small bag that has all the money (under eye concealer,) and stuff at home to day, but the students are excited about the course. Everything’s good. Everything’s great.

Equistar Chemicals leaked an estimated 5000 lbs of the neurotoxin hexane and 100 lbs of highly poisonous ethylaluminum dichloride last week during truck loading in Channelview, east of Houston

I'm grateful to Split This Rock for featuring "Body Under Another's Tradition" as their Poem of the Week. They have published so many poets I admire--check out their database, The Quarry. This is a honor for me, and I'm grateful for this work they do for us.