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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've shared this with no less than ten people offline today.

Three have responded with "I love you."

Seems like a pretty good ratio.
happy #smallpoemsunday from William Bronk
December 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I've shared this with no less than ten people offline today.

Three have responded with "I love you."

Seems like a pretty good ratio.
happy #smallpoemsunday from William Bronk
December 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
A yarn, a texture I needed today.
December 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This sentence has been caught in my teeth for days, chewy and true and hard to live up to—

We're given so many chances to sell out [everything]. Good to remember it's not an imperative.
December 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
December 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
We aren't dinosaurs.
December 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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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
October 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
September 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM