Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Maya Williams

@emmdubb16.bsky.social

300 followers 170 following 460 posts

(Ey/They/She) // Poet & Prose Writer in Maine // Judas & Suicide // Refused a Second Date // What’s So Wrong with a Pity Party Anyway? // Feminine Morbidity https://linktr.ee/mayawilliamspoet

linktr.ee

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 5d

My fourth book baby is ready for pre-order friends! Feminine Morbidity is due in the world November 14th. Cover art for the book to be revealed as the date gets closer! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

www.theheadlightreview.com/store/p/chap...

2 4

Reposted by Maya Williams

Jesse Miller @jesse-miller.bsky.social · 4d

A nice little scene. Off scene: Bruno barking. Zoe barking. Lots of barking.

1 3

Reposted by Maya Williams

Ali Nahdee @alinahdee.bsky.social · 4d

Italian Americans for Indigenous Peoples Day

4 10 39

Reposted by Maya Williams

Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 5d

Happy #WorldMentalHealthDay 💚
Really thankful you decided to stay, my friend! You are enough ✨

bet.com/article/nx0qbf/taking-a-page-from-reading-rainbow-how-mychal-the-librarian-threets-turned-his-pain-into-purposeisekouend

Taking a Page From ‘Reading Rainbow’: How Mychal ‘The Librarian’ Threets Turned His Pain Into Purpose

Viral star Threets gets honest about his new role hosting the iconic children’s series, surviving dark days, and finding purpose in the new ‘Reading Rainbow.’

bet.com

6 100 490

Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 5d

2 4

Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 6d

All the slam heads say “baaaaah” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 shout out to sacrificial poets

ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 6d

Reposted by Maya Williams

Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 6d

Men claim women talk too much, but boy if you get that man on a panel, he will over talk every woman present in the room.

60 420 2.7K

Reposted by Maya Williams

chris-ture from the black lagoon @thecorlew.bsky.social · 7d

can’t believe there’s a @bobsykora.bsky.social and @melissaferrerand.bsky.social reading this Friday and I won’t be there

Kansas City you do not know how good you have it with poets

1 3

Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 7d

💯💯💯💯💯💯

Reposted by Maya Williams

Adrienne Novy @adriennenovy.bsky.social · 8d

My chapbook, “good luck in the real world” comes out with @buttonpoetry.bsky.social six months from today. 🩵

1 1 6

Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 8d

Invest in people who cater to thorough and intentional interfaith engagement.

Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 9d

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Reposted by Maya Williams

Natalie Solmer @nataliesolmer.bsky.social · 9d

@emmdubb16.bsky.social
Maya Williams @emmdubb16 in The Indianapolis Review Summer Issue theindianapolisreview.com/three-times-...

1 1 3

Reposted by Maya Williams

Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 11d

Reading Rainbow emphasis is encouraging kids to read. The focus is not on teaching them to read. The mission is reading should be fun!

We are all readers, worthy of literacy. LeVar Burton said “but you don’t have to take my word for it” because he wanted us to look to the books. That’s the beauty 💚

The Author Village @theauthorvillage.bsky.social · 11d

Reading Rainbow Is Back With a New Host -- @mychal3ts.bsky.social -- And The Same Mission

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/s...

‘Reading Rainbow’ Comes Back With a New Host, but the Same Mission

www.nytimes.com

37 350 1.6K

Reposted by Maya Williams

Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 11d

San Francisco this morning

dog looks at its human friend sweeping the sidewalk

little dog with big blue cone on its head

note on door reads "thank you for the time we had"

9 17 220

Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you!!!

Reposted by Maya Williams

Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 14d

There have been two hosts in the history of Reading Rainbow. The Legend of Literacy, LeVar Burton! And... me, Mychal Threets, a librarian 🥹🤯

I am a reader, a librarian because LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow made us believe and see we belong in books, we belong everywhere ✨

youtu.be/e7es7qdWVnU

Smiling Mychal with hands raised wears an outer space shirt in a library. It is a still from an episode of Reading Rainbow.

LeVar Burton smiles with hands behind his head as he lies down on a colorful pile of books. ENEMY PIE book rests on his chest.

160 1.1K 5.5K

Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 13d

It’s okay to let go of the poems that no longer serve you.

1 1 2

Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 14d

New poem! 😱

oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-maya...

Poem by Maya Williams - oddball magazine

Photography by Jennifer Matthews

oddballmagazine.com

1 3 6

Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 14d

She’s on 15 as of today. 15!

Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · Jun 17

My Grandma Reece holding her thirteenth great grandchild. 🥹

Reposted by Maya Williams

jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social · 24d

2 4 46

Reposted by Maya Williams

chris-ture from the black lagoon @thecorlew.bsky.social · 15d

update: poetry good

chris-ture from the black lagoon @thecorlew.bsky.social · 15d

gonna sneak in some poetry reading this afternoon

2 6

Reposted by Maya Williams

Ali Nahdee @alinahdee.bsky.social · 15d

I'm in amaterdam so if you don't hear from me in two weeks that's why.

6 3 32

Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you @newwordspress.bsky.social for accepting my piece! 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵

Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social · 16d

Y.M.C.A. walked so that HOT TO GO! could run. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Reposted by Maya Williams

Black Girl Nerds @blackgirlnerds.bsky.social · 17d

From his days on In Living Color to his evolution into the cantankerous Black fatherly archetype as the dad in The Carmichael Show, David Alan Grier has had a career spanning more than five decades.

6 Roles That Prove David Alan Grier Is a Comedic Genius | Black Girl Nerds

David Alan Grier is one of those comedic figures who has been in the business for a long time but doesn't get the credit he should.

blackgirlnerds.com

3 19 76