I just did my last gig of the year and it was glorious AND I am all extroversion’d out. I’m out and off until 2024. Send a smoke signal, reach me through my website, or email [email protected] to stay in touch.

Be breezy.

Signed,
The Wind

“an understudy organist played the sorriest wedding march. the bride tripped down the aisle, busted her knee wide open. bled through her stockings and silk slip. her groom, many swigs in, balanced by his best men, could barely stand.” —Airea D. Matthews, “March, 1969” Feminist Press

Think of every rejection as an opportunity to believe more deeply and intentionally in your project, your work, your life.

Don’t you have a plan? Ain’t you tryna get somewhere? Well then, clear the web. Walk through.

Hey Friends--I had to reschedule the September Margaret Walker workshop to this Sunday, December 3rd, from 4pm-6pm est. Let's think together. Registration below:

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Loser Ass Song happy to help! should also add Airea D. Matthews has a free resource of essays and texts that has great stuff in it too: x.com/toddedillard/s…

Tis book order season. If your class would benefit from studying various approaches to grief (by form & content) in poems & accompanying micros, request a desk copy and/or read what Jericho Brown & Airea D. Matthews have to say, & preorder today. Black Lawrence Press

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Feeling joy and gratitude in the midst of pain is not a shame. It’s the actual reason I exist. You exist. How we are here at all.

And then
there are those
who in the words of
artist
Mendel-Black, 'inherit
rebellion.'
Large lots of unbeing
passed
one generation to the next.
-- Airea D. Matthews
simonandschuster.com/books/Bread-an…

To forsake the oppressed is to abandon your humanity.

Green room vibes with an authentic musical genius.

Andre3000 just taught y’all that artists don’t owe you YOUR expectation.

Artists teach growth and diversion. Abide and stay stuck if you wanna.

In answer to Andre 3000’s titular question on his second song of the new album…

Yes.

Every elegy is two elegies. One for the dead; one for the living.

So deeply moved by the National Book Foundation finalists statement advocating for a ceasefire and speaking unflinchingly against Islamophobia, Antisemitism and anti Palestinian sentiment and for the children. Solidarity is beautiful.

This Saturday, 11/18 7:30pm. Please come on out as Philly continues celebrating the launch of Tariq Trotter’s (Black Thought) new memoir, The Upcycled Self. It’s a true privilege to be in conversation and think through together.

What is happening in western Sudan (Darfur in particular) is an AGAIN of a never again genocidal violence that entire US orgs were formed around. Are they silent bcs it doesn’t comfortably fit into their frameworks of analysis anymore? Where are the Clooneys, the Prendergasts?

If a poet has books, they’ve already told you everything you need to know about them. It’s. In. The. Books.

Yeah, I know…that’s the speaker. I said what I said.

My UofM talk last night further concretized (to me) the limits of these economic systems and forms of rationality that we’ve adopted. We are capable beings who have to find an alternative to flawed systems that increase greed and/or dependence on any state that views its citizens…