Ariana Benson // the Word Hashira ⚔️✍🏾
@arianab.bsky.social
poet, essayist, animé fan, cozy gamer, sportsball enthusiast, tree hugger, multivariate nerd 🎯
a day spent down a Wiki Rabbit Hole is a day well spent👩🏾💻
my📚: BLACK PASTORAL (UGA Press, 2023; winner, Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Prize)
a day spent down a Wiki Rabbit Hole is a day well spent👩🏾💻
my📚: BLACK PASTORAL (UGA Press, 2023; winner, Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Prize)
LOVE this cover!
April 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
LOVE this cover!
They sit up here and play “Good Tweet, Bad Tweet” like Kendall Roy, only without the sliver of self-awareness that made that character watchable
April 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
They sit up here and play “Good Tweet, Bad Tweet” like Kendall Roy, only without the sliver of self-awareness that made that character watchable
“we don’t pay her to put on no fkin fashion show, we pay her to nan!” 😭
April 7, 2025 at 12:36 AM
“we don’t pay her to put on no fkin fashion show, we pay her to nan!” 😭
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And the great irony is they all have money, and none of them know how to be happy. They haven't figured out that money has a very limited ability to bring happiness. And above a certain amount, you get diminishing returns. Our relationships with the people we love is the true recipe for happiness.
March 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
And the great irony is they all have money, and none of them know how to be happy. They haven't figured out that money has a very limited ability to bring happiness. And above a certain amount, you get diminishing returns. Our relationships with the people we love is the true recipe for happiness.
This explains it so succinctly—yes! It’s really just hateration doused in capitalist lack of imagination.
The looks nosy flight neighbors give when I say I’m a poet, and yes I actually do get paid for poems in big 2025… you can see them doing mental math tryna figure out how I bought my ticket 😂
The looks nosy flight neighbors give when I say I’m a poet, and yes I actually do get paid for poems in big 2025… you can see them doing mental math tryna figure out how I bought my ticket 😂
March 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This explains it so succinctly—yes! It’s really just hateration doused in capitalist lack of imagination.
The looks nosy flight neighbors give when I say I’m a poet, and yes I actually do get paid for poems in big 2025… you can see them doing mental math tryna figure out how I bought my ticket 😂
The looks nosy flight neighbors give when I say I’m a poet, and yes I actually do get paid for poems in big 2025… you can see them doing mental math tryna figure out how I bought my ticket 😂
I’m really starting wonder how much of the excitement I see from AI proponents at the idea that it will “take [writer’s] jobs” can be attributed to their resentment and unhappiness with their own careers?
It reads like “ha, soon you’ll have to work a job you hate, too!” …very weird.
It reads like “ha, soon you’ll have to work a job you hate, too!” …very weird.
March 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I’m really starting wonder how much of the excitement I see from AI proponents at the idea that it will “take [writer’s] jobs” can be attributed to their resentment and unhappiness with their own careers?
It reads like “ha, soon you’ll have to work a job you hate, too!” …very weird.
It reads like “ha, soon you’ll have to work a job you hate, too!” …very weird.
It’s been on my list for a while, this just reminded me to tap in
January 28, 2025 at 1:27 AM
It’s been on my list for a while, this just reminded me to tap in
Congratulations, Torrin!! Love to see you winning 💐💐
January 28, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Congratulations, Torrin!! Love to see you winning 💐💐
sharing again because it some new folks have followed—take this essay as an experimental bio/introduction of sorts ☺️😂
January 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
sharing again because it some new folks have followed—take this essay as an experimental bio/introduction of sorts ☺️😂
I can’t thank you enough, Laura, for bringing my work into this space, in this way. It’s truly a poet’s dream, to have their writing critically engaged with. You’re a rock star! ✨
January 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I can’t thank you enough, Laura, for bringing my work into this space, in this way. It’s truly a poet’s dream, to have their writing critically engaged with. You’re a rock star! ✨