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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Happy December, y'all!! Gotta kick off the 🎄 season right!!! Take it away, DMX!!

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Torch Literary Arts @torchliteraryarts.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Tonight! Don't miss this reading by Tiana Clark and Donika Kelly at 7PM at Black Pearl Books! Free RSVP: secure.qgiv.com/for/torlitart/event/tianaclarkanddonikakelly/

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 05/11/2025

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a double feature reading by @melissafebos.bsky.social and @donikakelly.bsky.social!

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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

A poem I wrote some months ago showed up at my door today in the first issue of the relaunched Southerly magazine.

OMAR SAKR

Walking to day-care in the genocide
The primary selling point of a pram
Has never been articulated by an ad.
My son yells out his discoveries -
Tree, rock, motorbike, cloud, a bee!
I walk behind him unseen, grief-struck
And let the tears come without fear
That my weeping will drive him
To worry. O holy carriage, hold fast
His wonder, and my wet confession
Of this, a father's sole reprieve.

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Derrick Austin @paradiselaust.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

My third book, This Elegance, is out from @boa-editions.bsky.social in May 2026. Cover design by Sandy Knight with art by Diedrick Brackens. Available to preorder now 🙏🏿

The book cover for Derrick Austin's third book of poetry, This Elegance. A detail from a weaving by Diedrick Brackens. A kneeling silhouette poses against a yellow moon. The silhouette holds a long red candle in one hand and balances one small red candle on his head and two small candles on his other arm and one yellow candle on the heel of his foot.

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Wolf & Wyld's Queer Bookstore @wolfwyld.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

🌈📚 📖 The Natural Order of Things: Poems by Donika Kelly @donikakelly.bsky.social an extraordinary and unexpected book of finding happiness Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks #poetry

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Brad Listi @bradlisti.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Tomorrow on the show, I'll be talking w poet Donika Kelly about her new collection, THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS, an evocative cycle of poems that have much to do w happiness and love and embodiment, & what it's like to experience these sorts of things on the other side of a darkness. Stay tuned...

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KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

they just did this to millennials saying the reason we couldn't afford homes is because of coffee.

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Torch Literary Arts @torchliteraryarts.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Join us for An Evening with Tiana Clark and Donika Kelly at Black Pearl Books! Thursday, Nov. 6th 7:00 P.M. Black Pearl Books 7112 Burnet Rd, Austin, TX 78757 RSVP: secure.qgiv.com/for/torlitart/event/tianaclarkanddonikakelly/

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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 28/10/2025

#ClipOfTheDay: “I was little and lost / the season I learned to be still...” In this Charis Circle event, Donika Kelly reads poems from her new collection, The Natural Order of Things (Graywolf Press), and speaks with Jericho Brown about family, home, and her writing process. at.pw.org/KellyCharis

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Sharing for awareness: For those able and willing to help, the Embassy of Jamaica in DC is coordinating disaster relief in the U.S. They have asked folks to reach out to them at disasterresponse@jamaicaembassy.org to coordinate support. The government has info on donations supportjamaica.gov.jm

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Donika Kelly @donikakelly.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Awaiting a pre-reading burrito. See you at Skylight Books at 7!

I'm sitting in the sun, sunnies on, smugly awaiting a burrito.

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Donika Kelly @donikakelly.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

This was such a fantastic event! If you're in Boston, please check out Just Book-ish, a lovely Black queer bookstore!

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Torch Literary Arts @torchliteraryarts.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Save the Date! November 6 at 7pm Black Pearl Books Join us for a special evening at Black Pearl Books featuring Tiana Clark, author of Scortch Earth, and Donika Kelly, author of The Natural Order of Things! RSVP: secure.qgiv.com/for/torlitar...

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Donika Kelly @donikakelly.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I'll be in Dorchester, Mass this Tuesday at Just Book-ish at 6:30-8pm. RSVP at www.justbook-ish.com.

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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 16/10/2025

#ClipOfTheDay: “So much has happened / that I would never have known / I could remember.” In this Silo City Reading Series video, Donika Kelly reads her poem “Suicide Watch: Spring,” which appears in her third poetry collection, The Natural Order of Things (Graywolf Press). at.pw.org/SiloCityKelly

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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 15/10/2025

In her latest poetry collection, The Natural Order of Things, out now from @graywolfpress.bsky.social, Donika Kelly (@donikakelly.bsky.social) celebrates joy as a simple yet radical means of resisting despair. “I have a high capacity for sensitivity to the sublime.” Read more: at.pw.org/DonikaKelly

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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 15/10/2025

Announcing our Nov/Dec issue! 🎉 Inside you’ll find a profile of poet Donika Kelly, author of The Natural Order of Things; our tenth annual 5 Over 50 debut author feature; a craft essay in appreciation of the longer short story; and the case for collective resistance to AI. More: at.pw.org/NovDec2025

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

The moon drops one or two feathers into the field. The dark wheat listens. Be still. Now. James Wright

POETRY FOUNDATION
Beginning

BY JAMES WRIGHT

The moon drops one or two feathers into the
field.
The dark wheat listens.
Be still.
Now.
There they are, the moon's young, trying Their wings.
Between trees, a slender woman lifts up the lovely
shadow
Of her face, and now she steps into the air, now she
is gone
Wholly, into the air.
I stand alone by an elder tree, I do not dare breathe
Or move.
I listen.
The wheat leans back toward its own darkness, And I lean toward mine.

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BOMB Magazine @bombmag.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

From BOMB’s Fall 2025 Issue, @donikakelly.bsky.social’s poems from THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS (graywolfpress.bsky.social) evoke a visceral sense of the intimate. Read an excerpt. tinyurl.com/2c8kpjew

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 07/10/2025

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading at the Iowa City Public Library with Donika Kelly!

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Torch Literary Arts @torchliteraryarts.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Congratulations to Torch Features Patricia Smith and Tiana Clark, and all of the finalists longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry! See Tiana Clark and Donika Kelly at the Torch events at the Texas Book Festival in November! Details at TorchLiteraryArts.org

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

please go look at the moon.

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Iowa City of Literature @iowacityoflit.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

We can't wait to host Donika Kelly as she launches her wonderful new collection, "The Natural Order of Things"!

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Donika Kelly @donikakelly.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Book stuff kicks off next week, with a home book launch in Iowa City as part of the @iowacityoflit.bsky.social Book Festival. Tuesday 10/7 at 7pm at the Iowa City Public Library!

Tour graphic with dates for my book tour:
10/7: Prairie Lights w ICBF
10/10: Storypub Book Store in Des Moines
1023: Brown University
10/25: Wisconsin Book Festival
10/27: Skylights Books with Jennifer Espinoza

Tour graphic continues:
10/31: Palm Springs Pride on the Page
11/8-9: Texas Book Fest
11/13: NYU
11/14: Craft Talk at NYU
11/14: Sarah Lawrence
11/15: P&T Knitwear

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

if you want to hear it with the original audio instaed of the music, I downloaded this from the EcoWatch Discovery Mauritius Instagram page directly. if you want to share it please credit them

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Donika Kelly @donikakelly.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

"What I Might Sing," a poem from my new book THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS (pub 10/7), is in the @newyorker.com. Preorder link for a signed copy book is in my pinned post. @graywolfpress.bsky.social

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“What I Might Sing”

“Last Friday, I was thinking of Whitney Houston, / and, because of you, I was thinking too of America.”

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nikki muthafunka @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

shit ain’t over til it’s over

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

today is the last day to apply to be a 2026 Periplus Fellow! application closes at 11:59pm EST

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Donika Kelly @donikakelly.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

My new poetry collection The Natural Order of Things drops October 7 and is currently 15% off at bookshop.org!

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Today’s Featured Poem: “We Came Here to Get Away from You” by @donikakelly.bsky.social from The Natural Order of Things published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/we-came...

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Downhill, a skeleton of an orca suspended: a female beached; belly full,

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

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Open Books: A Poem Emporium @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Wow! We're up to 175 participants & more than $10k in pledges/direct contributions! Let’s keep the momentum going ❤️‍🔥 You can still join the #sealeychallenge Poetry Pledge Fundraiser for Gaza, as a participant or sponsor, at any time. Details here: mailchi.mp/openpoetrybo...

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Hope Henderson @hoperhenderson.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

czeslaw milosz, written in berkeley 1971

GIFT
A day so happy.
Fog lifted early, I worked in the garden.
Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers.
There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess.
I knew no one worth my envying him.
Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot.
To think that once I was the same man did not embarrass me.
In my body I felt no pain.
When straightening up, I saw the blue sea and sails.
Berkeley, 1971

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

please vote, y'all.

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 05/06/2025

In this excerpt from Melissa Febos’s (@melissafebos.bsky.social‬) memoir “The Dry Season,” Febos explores her relationship with pleasure and convinces us of the ecstasy of abstinence. buff.ly/n43eYXt

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My First Lover Was the Bathtub Faucet - Electric Literature

An excerpt from “The Dry Season” by Melissa Febos

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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Let us be ocean and coast, a taking into and over one another: shifting sediment, a breaking down of rock: dredge and deposit. @donikakelly.bsky.social‬, "Love Poem" www.brinkerhoffpoetr...

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Donika Kelly - "Love Poem"

Let us be ocean and coast, a taking

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Give me some Pointer Sisters... #SesameStreet

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