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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 11/05/2026

Hellooooo, poets of the internet! Back with a conversation with Nick Martino about Nonce Forms, Possibilities of Visual Poetics, and Writing Towards Surprise His debut poetry collection, Scrap Book (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social )will be published in June of 2026. oword.deesoulpoetry.com/o-nonce

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 27/04/2026

Happy to share this conversation with @jonnyteklit.bsky.social about Joy as Poetic Practice, Poetic Influences, and How Joy Can Push Us Towards Action on my podcast, O, Word? Hope you’ll give it a listen! oword.deesoulpoetry.com/p/o-joy

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O, Joy!

A conversation with Jonny Teklit about Joy as Poetic Practice, Poetic Influences, and How Joy Can Push Us Towards Action

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 13/04/2026

I’m not cross-posting nearly as much as I should but here’s to changing that! New O, Word? Episode with Alison C Rollins out today! open.substack.com/pub/oword/p/...

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e·pon·y·mous | "Black Bell" by Alison C. Rollins

Talking with Alison C. Rollins about Black Bell, the poetics of referentiality, and performance as mode of collective meaning-making

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summer farah @summ.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

The second is with @deesoulpoetry.com about Repetition on their podcast 💜(listen wherever you get podcasts) oword.deesoulpoetry.com/p/o-repetition

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O, Repetition!

Talking with Summer Farah about Repetition, leaning into frantic energy, and the value of revisitation

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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 16/03/2026

Get to know @deesoulpoetry.com! 🌟

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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 16/03/2026

Introducing DeeSoul Carson, one of our 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows! 🎉 DeeSoul will be reading at the 2026 @omiamifestival.bsky.social on 4/10 for the cohort's inaugural reading. Learn more about DeeSoul: bit.ly/4d1hnwL

DeeSoul Carson smiling in front of green foliage. He is wearing a green shirt, gold necklace, and clear frame glasses. Text reads DeeSoul Carson 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow.

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dialogist @dialogist.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

We'll be reading with Tyger Quarterly and The Year off-set at AWP this Friday, featuring Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Emily Bark Brown, @deesoulpoetry.com, James Garwood-Cole, Emily Pittinos, and Sophia Terazawa. Hope to see you there!

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Today's Feature: "I Must Listen to the Birds" by @deesoulpoetry.com from @kenyonreview.bsky.social, Spring 2025 Read here: poems.com/poem/i-must-...

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I Must Listen to the Birds

but the state stole all my good metaphors

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 13/10/2025

First installment of e•pon•y•mous available on my Substack! Was so honored to have this convo with my good friend @taylorbyas.bsky.social , please give it a listen when you have the chance! open.substack.com/pub/deesoulp...

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Eponymous | "Resting Bitch Face" by Dr. Taylor Byas

Listen now | Talking with Dr. Byas about sophomore collections, the freedom of form, and why we love the pantoum

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 13/08/2025

Honored and humbled to have been selected as a 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow by PoFo bit.ly/3UcVLTo

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Sanna Wani @sannawani.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

PLEASE SHARE! I am raising funds for a dear friend and member of the literary as well as arts communities. $5 and $10 goes a long way! Reshares even further! We are just $800 from our goal and my hope is bluesky can take us the rest of the way. 💛💛💛 chuffed.org/project/1299...

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 18/04/2025

7 | More Salt Than Diamond by @alinemello.bsky.social “I translate the oath to Portuguese…/ she asks if it’s a prayer/ I say yes”

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 11/04/2025

6 | Birthright by @intifadabatata.bsky.social “Yacoub calls it a genetic anomaly. A miracle of God.”

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 19/03/2025

Extra super excited to finally share this! THE LAUGHING BARREL will published with @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social in April 2027 💜🥳💜🥳 you can preorder now (for 20% off) at this link: bit.ly/laughingbarrel

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Alice James Books @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Some exciting news! Alice James will publish @deesoulpoetry.com's debut poetry collection, THE LAUGHING BARREL, in April 2027. THE LAUGHING BARREL was a finalist for the 2025 Alice James Award, & we're elated that this collection and Carson have found a home with AJB 💛 Learn more at buff.ly/KX3e8oa

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 26/02/2025

4 | I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times by @taylorbyas.bsky.social “The shapeshifting, how what looks like a thug/ in darkness softens into a boy in the gold-/ glow of a bedside lamp.”

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 15/02/2025

3 | American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes “It is not enough/ to love you. It is not enough to want you destroyed.”

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 15/02/2025

3 | American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes “It is not enough/ to love you. It is not enough to want you destroyed.”

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 07/02/2025

2 | Writing Your Name on the Glass by Jim Whiteside “Will the dust praise you/ What truth of yours/ could it sing”

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 06/02/2025

1 | Refuse by @julianthepoet.bsky.social “My /body went undiagnosed my /name is something incurable”

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 06/02/2025

DeeSoul Carson | /build god, then we’ll talk (encoded in hexadecimal, but I’m being nice and including the decoded text) Published in Seventh Wave Mag

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Today’s Featured Poem: “Good Riddance” by @deesoulpoetry.com, from Issue 100 of @agnimagazine.bsky.social. Read here: poems.com/poem/good-ri...

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Good Riddance – Poetry Daily

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Winning Writers @winningwriters.com · 17/01/2025

"Good Riddance", a poem by @deesoulpoetry.com poems.com/poem/good-ri... via @poetrydaily.bsky.social and @agnimagazine.bsky.social

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 14/01/2025

It is also important to me to share this artist statement I submitted to the NEA, since they didn’t have a chance to add the statements to the fellows pages yet. I hope all of us are finding ways to survive our “now.” I hope what haunts us can one day humor us.

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 14/01/2025

Honored to announce I’m a 2025 NEA Fellow! Out of 2000+ applications received, I’m overwhelmingly humbled that my work would be recognized in this way. It’s important to me that I aim for clarity in my work, and I’m grateful for this support to help me keep reaching folks.

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 08/01/2025

Thank you. And if you need help with your prediction I know a guy 😉🙂‍↕️

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 07/01/2025

I got wine, boyfriend, marriage 😳

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C. Gray @cgrayofficial.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I’m so inspired by FLOW winning Best Animated Feature at the #GoldenGlobes An art house masterpiece that told a powerful story in such a creative, mesmerizing way. Every aspect was truly a delight to the senses and so thought-provoking. A beautiful win for smaller-budget storytelling!! ❤️ #filmsky

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 01/01/2025

New Year means updated reading list First 10 books of 2025! Happy New Year!

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 08/12/2024

13 | Orders of Service by @williekinard.com “A boy plucked a chirp from me like I was a grass blade./ My own name a field of chirping.”

It feels fitting to me that I finish this booke on a Sunday. Willie’s work remands me of the dexterity that is possible in language. The collection is described as a fugue & that is very evident throughout, with elements & motifs interwoven & returned to from beginning to end like
a chorus or, more aptly, a hymn. There is a musical quality that takes charge of much of willie’s work, & I think attunning yourself to the music is necessary to appreciate it.

Orders of Service by Willie Lee Kinard III

Self-Portrait as the Cricket
The way my legs sit, slightly curved around the knees, old women squint their eyes yet still ask me if I'm single,
The summer night bows to the flutter of my lashes & I know this is only about my walk.
I suppose they are for music-making, I tell them, leveraging only the floor for balance.
There is nothing to brag about, it is true:
I have drawn thunder out of a woman.
I have never broken a heart on purpose & not felt the shatter of it in my hips.
My hips often announce my presence before I do.
I have made my bed in a thicket of grass blades.
A boy plucked a chirp from me like I was a grass blade.
My own name is a field of chirping.
My own name is a church of fields.
I listen for it when I put a man on his back.
A man on his back is a call & response.
My own name is a choir of churches.
My own name is a chorus of strumming.
Some nights, the only refrain I care sung.

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 01/12/2024

Thank you for your work!! This poem really touched me

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 01/12/2024

12 | Another Last Call, edited by Kaveh Akbar and Paige Lewis “Yes, there must be. My brother/ deserves a good reason.” - @brendanconstantine.bsky.social , “A Controlled Substance”

When I hear about the person Kaveh describes his Past self to be, I can almost never believe it. What I can believe, however, is the kind of care he and Paige Put into the curation of this anthology. What this has reminded is the miracle that is language that resides in all of us whether we are at our lowest or in the sphere of someone that needs it. Grateful for the words of the poets here, & for language that reaches back for us.

Another Last Call: Poems on addiction and deliverance
Edited by Kaveh Akbar and Paige Lewis

Brendan Constantine
A Controlled Substance
My brother is late again, somehow the glass of water by his plate, the fact that we filled it without him, makes him all the later. Dad tells us to start eating, says there's nothing worse than cold fish, but suddenly no one can find a rhythm, we fumble our napkins like we've never seen them before, like it's just occurred to us we're in the wrong house, aren't even a family but four people kicked off the same bus for being vulgar. So much is worse than cold fish, I think, the flowers on the table, the bubbles in my brother's glass, the size of our knives all terrible. "There must be traffic," my mother says and I understand it as a command. Yes, there must be. My brother deserves a good reason. Not the only reason, that he is deep in his bed, as if at the ocean floor where it is still the first night on earth and whatever moves there must grow its own light.

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 30/11/2024

If you’re interested in what starter packs you (or a friend) might included in, you can type in your handle here and click on the “lists” tab! clearsky.app

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ClearSky

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 25/11/2024

Come to our side Chase, we’re waiting 🙏🏾

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Jennifer Kwon Dobbs 허수진 @jkwondobbs.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

This powerhouse poem by DeeSoul Carson will blast off your Monday (any day, really!): agnionline.bu.edu/poetry/good-...

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 25/11/2024

Had such a fun time writing this poem, hope you have a fun time reading it (or playing the game!)

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 25/11/2024

I feel you! I can see the logic in that thinking

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 24/11/2024

The way I was just saying this exact thing 😭

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 24/11/2024

I read this but to the tune of Rihanna’s “Sex with Me”

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DeeSoul 🙂‍↕️ @deesoulpoetry.com · 24/11/2024

That’s an exception, bc it’s likely the 🧠 visually-impaired ppl have adapted language comprehension to the same area as listening or even touch. Folks who don’t practice auditory processing are sacrificing something, but not the same thing. I think @moonsatdusk.bsky.social summed it up best

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