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upfromsumdirt
@upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
poet & nyeusiphile.

poetry collections: Deifying A Total Darkness; To Emit Teal; The Second Stop Is Jupiter; & The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife
👠👠 + 🎣👨🏿‍🦳 + 👰🏿‍♂️
from Black Stélé in the Hour of Chaos - hinting at the origins of the Virgin Madonna motif before the introduction of Jesus.
November 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
sent three.

the poem i shoulda sent from the w.i.p.:

MORE THAN MUD or ORUNMILA CREATES THE
AFRICAN AMERICAN
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
rainer maria rilke
ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO
November 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
i co-sign on this bullshit ‐ all the thumbs up on yee-haw's HOT DAMN DILLS... takes me back to the quality heat of the hot banana peppers my older sister was hoarding under her bed back in the 70s.
November 26, 2025 at 8:24 AM
A DIRT SALE.

starting December 1st, the pdf for my first collection, Deifying A Total Darkness, will be available for FREE (or, yaknow, "paywhutchalike") through gumroad.com/upfromsumdirt ... the paperback will be a slender $10.

discount will end on my birthday, January 21st, 2026.
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
ending from Caul & Response (Deifying A Total Darkness)
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
don cherry & ornette coleman
November 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
not to be outdone by UPK's 40% off sale (including my collection, The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife) WSUPress also has a 45% off sale for their titles, including my collection, The Second Stop Is Jupiter -
wsupress.wayne.edu

use discount code RHOLIDAY at checkout. 🥰
November 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Carrie Mae Weems, Portrait of Myself as an Intellectual Revolutionary, 1988 Gelatin silver print.
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
my monday mood.
November 24, 2025 at 9:33 AM
ANANSI WITH THE LAUGHING FACE
November 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
no worries, friend.

i havent abandoned my beloved hot pepper flakes in coffee, but it has been a minute...

i started off years ago with hot sauce in coffee but to get a good kick adds vinegar to the taste, so i switched to the flakes. but hot honey has also worked & im gonna try a new brand. 🤞🏿
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
my timeline got bars...
November 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
i love grippos' hot popcorn but can never find a bag when i want it, so ive come up with my own microwave recipe: ¼-⅓ cup white kernel corn, a tblsp of COLD butter (room-tempered will burn), several shakes cayenne, ½ tsp of salt; pop for about 3 mins; add generous amount of nutrional yeast after.
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Major on his process as a writer & artist from a 1997 interview in Callaloo —
November 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
November 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Parking Lots, a poem by Clarence Major, was published in Mt. Horeb, WI, in 1992, in a limited edition of 130 copies by Walter Hamady's Perishable Press. Laura Dronzek illustrated the book.
November 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
james baldwin
UNTITLED
November 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
GYPSY & Other Poems by James Baldwin
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Optica Cerebral: Poemas Dinámicos by Nahui Olin (Carmen Mondragón)
November 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
found this on tumblr & it has me flashing back to my great-grandmother's 2-story shotgun home, the memories of me sliding down the banister & spinning its loose spokes...

i just wasnt expecting to be carried back like that this morning & now im fighting feels...
November 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
November 21, 2025 at 8:46 AM
tonight at the carnegie center, one of my last in-person readings for the next few months...
open to the public.
6pm to 7pm.
November 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
challenge accepted.
November 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
L I E S !!!! — all lies!!
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM