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Isaac Pickell
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black & jewish poet & phd student in Detroit | work @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social and @blacklawrence.bsky.social and @deadmallpress.bsky.social | Cave Canem fellow | just very glad to be here.
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I got something very special in the mail today from my publisher ✨

You Must Live: New Poetry From Palestine

edited by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Sherah Bloor, translators and editors. (Copper Canyon Press, 2025).

💜thank you for not looking away💜 @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
On aging and possibility, or:

forty words for turning forty
for #smallpoemsunday

@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
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Easily the most seen I've ever felt in review—

"these dense bricks that aren’t so heavy you can’t carry them, but you know you’ve got a bag of bricks slung over your shoulder."

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If that sounds good, buy this book? I'm quite sure you'll love its weight.

www.blackocean.org/catalog1/its...
Chris! Very glad to be in the good company of your bookshelf.
Ok so in case yall missed the memo like I did. David Lehman, series editor of Best American Poetry is a Zionist ass. Literally feel embarrassed that I wound up in this situation. I was literally the only person of color in a room of 50+ people. It was terrifying.
#poetry #bestamericanpoetry
University administrators must have real comfy beds to sleep through the night after sending out sub-living wage contracts to adjuncts every semester.
I agree it won’t make other modes of thinking irrelevant, but it might make other modes of thinking unprofitable, and that may have the same effect.
I like a great many of hers—long may she be read.
oh no! she was fantastic.
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happy birthday John Ashbery 🎈
not for lack of trying!
"we love what we love for as long as we can..."

She's right, it's not Act Three yet.
Sometimes it's okay to write poems just because it's fun.