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poet & nyeusiphile. poetry collections: Deifying A Total Darkness; To Emit Teal; The Second Stop Is Jupiter; & NOW, The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife 👠👠 + 🎣👨🏿‍🦳 + 👰🏿‍♂️

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 5h

happy day of official recognition, little guy...

THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN'S WIFE • poems • upfromsumdirt

available from @kentuckypress.bsky.social - or (hopefully) everywhere books are sold.

photo of blue hardback book with orangish, goldish illustrations of a mermaid with a leopard on the front. the book sits on a desk with an assortment of stuff on it, lime an orange notebook, a blue sharpie, and a bottle of black.

photo was taken at about 3am. why isnt the poster asleep?!?

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 3h

write it. it would be amazing!

im inspired by jazz, thus the title... it's always important to be critical of things, but i hope you also have joys & find ways of expressing them that are unchallenged by some. ❤️

graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 4h

Larry Moore at Broadstone Books was a dream (tho much of Teal's wording went unchallenged)...

& nothing but love for the professional staff at Wayne State Univ Press. Jupiter goes underappreciated, imo.

& UPK has been phenomenal (tho they forbade my attempts at copyright infringement!)

graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 4h

i understand the importance of a book budget... i did go waaay over mine this year, but i have no regrets.

graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 4h

thank you!

last i heard, To Emit Teal was out of print, so if you can't find it then hit me up and i'll send its pdf.

graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 4h

dang... not "the last of...." 😯

i dont know what other authors im following but i hope it lives up to expectations.

thank you!

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S. Reeson @internetofwords.com · 4h

I have spent the last of the Book Budget on @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social's new poems.

I am very much looking forward to reading them <3

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 4h

Michael Scharf at Harry Tankoos Books was an amazing publisher for my 1st collection, Deifying... HTB was extremely choosey about the projects they publish & im forever & deeply grateful for Michael's friendship & insights; i hope other poets get that same opportunity to work with him.

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 4h

ok... ive tricked 4 different publishers that i admire into printing my work.

so maybe i can get rid of this imposter syndrome now - altho, 2 of the first 3 shoulda received SOME sorta recognition... 😒

i might be an imposter, but i believe in my shit!

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 4h

Oooooh happy pub day! Can’t wait till this book is mine.

graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 5h

happy day of official recognition, little guy...

THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN'S WIFE • poems • upfromsumdirt

available from @kentuckypress.bsky.social - or (hopefully) everywhere books are sold.

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Tonya R. Moore @tonyarmoore.com · 5h

oooh! Congrats on the new release!

graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 5h

happy day of official recognition, little guy...

THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN'S WIFE • poems • upfromsumdirt

available from @kentuckypress.bsky.social - or (hopefully) everywhere books are sold.

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 4h

thank you!

graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 4h

❤️❤️❤️

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 4h

Please add THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN’S WIFE by @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social out today to your collection. You won’t regret it, I highly recommend it!

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 4h

"little guy" - when this is my longest collection at 141 pages - some of thats due to its size being less than 6x9, but still. and now i want the next one to be 8x11!

graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 4h

*fat man curtsies*

thank you! ❤️

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 4h

thank you 😌

despite the cover, it isnt as speculative as the previous collection but i love where it goes...

graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 5h

this isnt the poem i set out to write, but itll do...

billie holiday
UNTIL THE REAL THING COMES ALONG

youtu.be/_sdAIy7kk3I?...

Until the Real Thing Comes Along (Take 1)

YouTube video by Billie Holiday - Topic

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 5h

i got out of bed to write down the frameworks of a poem rattling in my head, but got distracted by older material in the orange journal featured in the photo. & tho i still wanna write something, the urgency for that particular poem has abated somewhat. plus, is my arm breaking out in a rash?!? wtf!

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 5h

happy day of official recognition, little guy...

THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN'S WIFE • poems • upfromsumdirt

available from @kentuckypress.bsky.social - or (hopefully) everywhere books are sold.

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 5h

*there's not enough Akira in poetry*

graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 6h

and now i haffa go see Cats or whatever this is...

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(also, im joking; i KNOW who these characters are and what this play is; dont "@ me bro" because i will actually block everyone who tries 'splaining me!)

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 11h

The crossover I needed 😭

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 6h

it was like drinking fresh cut grass... they had reverted back to roasting very green (the roaster really loved the taste).

i was so disappointed.

wasnt until a few years later, visiting portland oregon, that i had another really great tasting coffee.

graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 6h

when the store changed hands, the new owners went with their own choice of roasters & that was the last time i had a really good cup of coffee in kentucky. months later, a new coffeeshop opened in our neighborhood using our old roasters, so i was very excited & ordered a pour over... but...

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 6h

but none of our suppliers ever named those products after our store (because they were some suckers!) when they added those items to their retail inventory, despite the fact they would not have existed without us.

and was very popular for them.

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 6h

we had a similar route with our coffee supplier, who used to own his own coffeeshop before going into roasting. but all of his beans, light or dark, were all too grassy in taste. took us weeks to get what we thought was perfect.

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 6h

we had the spiciest chai in the state of kentucky, special ordered from our supplier. she'd bring us her idea of "spicy" & we'd send her back to the lab. after about 3 weeks going back & forth, she called herself being a smartass & was "gonna show them" (intending to be too spicy) but it was perfect

graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 6h

wish i had taken more photos of our ever-changing menu board... the "goodnight menu" was one of the 1st... and "chai'challa" was classic (i wish more folks had tried it)

photo of hectic-looking chalkboard featuring menu items at a cafe. the center artwork of it riffs off the "goodnight moon" book and has a cow leaping over the word chai with "goodnight menu" written above. other highlighta include smoothies honoring kentucky writers: "the wendell berry" (obviously), the tropical smoothie, "tropigayl" named for gayl jones, and the green smoothie, "the divine right's sip" named for gurney norman and his book, the divine right's trip.

photo of chalk menu board featuring the head of the comicbook hero, the black panther (prince t'challa) with "chai'challa" written above in promotion of our chai latte.

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