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Khadijah Queen
@khadijahqueen.com
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Doctor of poems. In my crone era.

Writer. Professor. Traveler. Michigan-born, California-raised. But you might find me anywhere ✨ New memoir: Between the Devil & The Deep Blue Sea 💙⚓️🩵

https://www.khadijahqueen.com/

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Khadijah Queen @khadijahqueen.com · Aug 5
She’s here! Order from your favorite bookseller! Leave a review, tag me in your photos! Reserve a copy at the library! I’ve got her in the woods today and reading tonight. Raise a cup of tea (or a shot of whisky) for us 💙🩵💜

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Khadijah‘s brown hand is holding her hardcover copy of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: A Veterans memoir. There is a backdrop of a forest. On her wrist are three bracelets: two of pearl and one labradorite Turquoise, dark blue and lilac hardcover of Between the devil and the deep blue sea: A Veterans Memoir by Khadijah Queen, stood up on stone steps with greenery
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It’s been just over a year since this one was published. Looking forward to giving a talk about it at UI Chicago next month!
doc-pollard.bsky.social Derek Pollard, PhD @doc-pollard.bsky.social · Dec 13
What if emotion IS knowledge?

@khadijahqueen.com’s RADICAL POETICS makes the case that “poetry exists as a valuable tool for understanding,” not despite its emotional resonance, but precisely because of it.

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#Poetry #Books #RadicalPoetics
Front cover of the book ‘Radical Poetics’ by Khadijah Queen, published in the Poets on Poetry Series by the University of Michigan Press edited by Derek Pollard. The cover features a Black woman sitting barefoot in a dimly lit, eclectic space surrounded by books and fabric drapes. The atmosphere is reminiscent of steampunk with a Southern gothic twist. The woman is wearing a pink dress and sitting on a floral-patterned surface. The subtitle reads ‘Essays on Literature & Culture.’
February 9, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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Next week!
WRITING THE MODERN FAIRY TALE, a virtual multigenre writing workshop explores an ancient storytelling mode rich with modern possibilities. Led by Khadijah Queen (@khadijahqueen.com) on 2/11, 6:30-8 pm EST. Open to all levels. Take $10 off tickets with code NEWYEARNEWPOEMS: bit.ly/4aF7Gme
Split This Rock's red logo is at the top of a light grey box with a black border. Bold black text reads "Writing The Modern Fairy Tale. A Split This Rock Virtual Writing Workshop. Featuring Khadijah Queen." On the right, over aqua and orange shapes, there is a photo of Khadijah Queen wearing glasses, a necklace, and a black v-neck blouse. Wind blows through her silver, curly hair. Photo by Marco Giugliarelli for the Civitella Ranieri Foundation.
February 4, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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Please read this powerful essay by Xander Gershberg, who lives in Minneapolis. He is a kind, brilliant soul and, I’m privileged to say, one of my former MFA students.

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“The chorus bears all of it for us”: A Dispatch from Minneapolis - Cleveland Review of Books
Whistles and honks and encrypted messages and patrols and training and sit-ins and food drives and carpools.
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January 31, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA by @khadijahqueen.com: "yet another extension of the brilliant universe of Khadijah Queen." -- Hanif Abdurraqib. Find a signed copy at the Brew&Forge Book Fair through 12/3!

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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by Khadijah Queen — Brew & Forge
Legacy Lit/Hachette Book Group, 2025. “ Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is a large-hearted, compulsively readable memoir shot through with courage and razor-sharp intelligence. Queen’s ma...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Join Split This Rock for Writing The Modern Fairy Tale, a virtual multi-genre writing workshop exploring an ancient storytelling mode rich with modern possibilities.

Led by Khadijah Queen on 2/11/26, 6:30-8 pm EST. Open to all levels. Register: bit.ly/4aF7Gme

#Poetry @khadijahqueen.com
Split This Rock's red logo is at the top of a light grey box with a black border. Bold black text reads "Writing The Modern Fairy Tale. A Split This Rock Virtual Writing Workshop. Featuring Khadijah Queen." On the right, over aqua and orange shapes, there is a photo of Khadijah Queen wearing glasses, a necklace, and a black v-neck blouse. Wind blows through her silver, curly hair. Photo by Marco Giugliarelli for the Civitella Ranieri Foundation.
December 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Sunday morning is a great time to read a poem you’ve never read.
December 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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I cannot believe it has been almost 10 years since The Relationship Theater company, brilliantly directed by Fiona Templeton, put on Non-Sequitur, a play that I was told could not be performed. What a whirlwind life has been since then! Sometimes looking back can make you excited to look forward.
December 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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#GIVINGTUESDAY SPECIAL: Through 12/2 & while tickets last, donate at least $120 online & get tickets to 5 virtual poetry workshops in the new year with Hanif Abdurraqib, @rarasaur.substack.com, Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin, @khadijahqueen.com, & Jorrell Watkins! Learn more: bit.ly/4i3UBEK
Split This Rock’s red logo at the top with the GivingTuesday logo. Bold text below with color alternating between white for headings and purple, blue, green, yellow, and pink for body text. Text reads: “Poetry Workshop Bundle Deal: access to 5 virtual workshops with $120 online donation through GivingTuesday (12/2) while tickets last. Winter 2026 Virtual Poetry Workshop Facilitators: Jorrell Watkins, Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin, Khadijah Queen, Hanif Abdurraqib, Ra Avis. Donate Online: bit.ly/GiveSplitThisRock.”
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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New Substack 💗
Pink text: On the verge of being obscene, part 2. The text is overlaid. The photo is of a red Corvette stingray parked in front of an apartment building. Khadijah is standing next to it with a hand on the trunk in the back. She’s wearing a red flower dress and has brown skin and curly gray hair. Song (again): Little Red Corvette by Prince (extended, slowed-down live performance in L.A., 2011) Poem: “Prince Called Me Up on Stage at the Pontiac Silverdome” by me, from I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On It’s been awhile! This is a long one. A few weeks ago, I saw on The Daily Show with Ronny Chieng that the current SECDEF wrote a book called The War on Warriors. I thought about reading it so I could dismantle it, like a gun in Army boot camp, because it’s probably dangerous and made for people who lack the ability to resolve their problems without using violence.
November 30, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.

It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
Graphic that reads: "The average hourly wage necessary to afford a one-bedroom apartment in the United States is $28.17. The federal minimum wage is currently $7.25." -- National Low Income Housing Coalition
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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How do y’all be posting on here and there AND getting work done? Because I… cannot lol 🫠
November 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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“I hear that song,
that unending crescendo, feels like I’m the one who’s unbreakable.“

We are deeply saddened by the loss of Jubi Arriola-Headley.

Our condolences to the Miami poetry community and to the many who knew and cared about him.
Jubi Arriola-Headley reads "Superhero Origin Story [S. O. S.]"
It’s Easter morning, & though I hear I’m as likely to catch hell
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October 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Quote from Cher reads “if every time men had sex, they risked death, disability, interruption in their education or career, and the lifelong responsibility for another human being, they’d expect a choice in the matter.”
October 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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art and literature, theory and philosophy, history and sociology and languages are not "content" and universities do their students a disservice when we pretend they are
October 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Sometimes I say "the poem speaks for itself" and what I really mean is like one of those possessed puppets in a horror film.
October 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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“Let’s make room for many modes of survival.”

@khadijahqueen.com’s RADICAL POETICS asks: what would our literary spaces look like if we actually meant this?

Her book challenges us to expand what we consider possible – in our teaching, our writing, our communities.

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Front cover of the book ‘Radical Poetics’ by Khadijah Queen. The cover features a Black woman sitting barefoot in a dimly lit, eclectic space surrounded by books and fabric drapes. The atmosphere is reminiscent of steampunk with a Southern gothic twist. The woman is wearing a pink dress and sitting on a floral patterned surface. The subtitle reads ‘Essays on Literature & Culture.’
October 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Thrilled to have a kind of performance essay in this anthology—thank you Chloe!
October 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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You’re invited to my master class on how to finish your book, based on my 25 years of writing experience. For all of that time, I have been working and caregiving and writing at the same time. I love sharing what I’ve learned. Two scholarships are available: www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/mast...
October 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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From the archive, 1990: Svetlana Alexievich on the USSR and Afghanistan.

‘I was trying to present a history of feelings, not the history of the war itself.’

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‘I was trying to present a history of feelings, not the history of the war itself.’ Svetlana Alexievich on the USSR and Afghanistan for Granta 34.
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September 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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"Imagine thinking you can truly defeat a people so internally and generationally fortified. Never."
khadijahqueen.com Khadijah Queen @khadijahqueen.com · Sep 25
New Substack: I wrote about a surprise Corvette, a Jesmyn Ward novel, and the spirit of my dad--

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On the verge of being obscene, part 1, A Travel Report authorkqueen.substack.com A red corvette stingray with black and silver accents, parked on a tree-lined street A black man with light skin and silver hair and sunglasses, smiling, standing on one foot showing off his Jordans and his silver Porsche 911 cabriolet, in front of a California mountain and blue sky
September 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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New Substack: I wrote about a surprise Corvette, a Jesmyn Ward novel, and the spirit of my dad--

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On the verge of being obscene, part 1, A Travel Report authorkqueen.substack.com A red corvette stingray with black and silver accents, parked on a tree-lined street A black man with light skin and silver hair and sunglasses, smiling, standing on one foot showing off his Jordans and his silver Porsche 911 cabriolet, in front of a California mountain and blue sky
September 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Upcoming opportunity to work with our INFINITE CONSTELLATIONS anthology co-editor @khadijahqueen.com !

( Do you have your copy of INFINITE CONSTELLATIONS? fc2.org/anthologies/... )
September 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Autism formally recognised: 1943

Tylenol invented: 1955
September 23, 2025 at 6:50 AM