Reposted by E. HughesAutumn House Press @autumnhouse.org · 29/06/2026Poets, tomorrow is the final day to submit to the 2026 AHP Poetry Prize! 001
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 22/04/2026It’s great to be accepted to the 2026 American Studies Association Conference. Our panel “Representations of Violence: Blackness and the Precarity of Invention” features papers by Dr. Biko Caruthers, Dr. Aundrey Jones, and Dr. Samantha De Vera, moderated by Dr. Harrison Graves 000
Reposted by E. HughesArt Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Bernie Sanders: “I will be forcing a vote on legislation to block the sale of nearly half a billion dollars worth of bombs and bulldozers to the Israeli military.” Go Bernie! 11854931046
Reposted by E. HughesSenator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 13/04/2026This week, I will be forcing a vote on legislation to block the sale of nearly half a billion dollars worth of bombs and bulldozers to the Israeli military. The extremist Netanyahu government that has committed genocide in Gaza does not need more military support from American taxpayers. 315108832437
Reposted by E. HughesSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 22/01/2026I just thought everyone should see this 43252905987
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Here's an example from Rilke (from Sonnets to Orpheus) 000
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 13/01/2026If I were to do a craft talk and/ or workshop, I would spend one hour on questions: looking at the way poets successfully pose/ posit questions in a poem. So often, people leave in questions that were simply draft scaffolding. 210
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 11/12/2025This poem did not make it into Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water, but it was in the earliest drafts of the book. I found it incredibly hard to take this poem out of the book. Still, I love this poem and Alvin Coffey's important and particular experience of racial slavery. 020
Reposted by E. HughesHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 08/12/2025Tonight! Join @toosiewatson.bsky.social to celebrate WHAT WE DO WITH GOD with special guests @ehughespoetry.bsky.social and Hanif Abdurraqib Streams live at 7:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma... 0113
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 10/12/2025It was such a gift to be a part of Daniella's launch!!! 041
Reposted by E. HughesHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 08/12/2025LIVE NOW! Join @toosiewatson.bsky.social to celebrate WHAT WE DO WITH GOD with special guests @ehughespoetry.bsky.social and Hanif Abdurraqib. Stream here:youtube.comHaymarket Poetry Presents: Daniella Toosie-Watson on What We Do with GodJoin Daniella Toosie-Watson, E. Hughes, and Hanif Abdurraqib for a launch and celebration of Toosie-Watson’s debut poetry collection, What We Do With… 0123
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 03/12/2025It was really cool to hear this conversation between Atricia Bennett and Jon Tobias! I was really honored to be put in conversation with CA Conrad. poetryinternationalonline.com/the-poets-we...poetryinternationalonline.comThe Poets We Turn To - POETRY INTERNATIONALArtrice and Jon talk about the poets they regularly turn to, those whose work they can’t put down, and why. 000
Reposted by E. HughesSarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Over the past few days, with the release of ‘BLKNWS TERMS AND CONDITIONS‘, friends have shared that our “Black Outdoors” conversation with Fred Moten and Saidiya Hartman appears early in the film and was important to the filmmaker. ❤️💐 172
Reposted by E. HughesLit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Patricia Smith’s The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems has won the National Book Award for Poetry! Read more here: buff.ly/HKCSQQQlithub.comPatricia Smith on How a Poet AgesNobody—and I mean NOBODY—warned me about my pubic hair. It glistened for years, springy and sprite, an Ivory Soap-scented welcome mat for lucky episodic visitors. I never gave it much thought, cert… 17326
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 30/10/2025It is such a great honor to help @victoriachang.bsky.social select the winner of the 2025 Georgia Poetry Prize alongside Weijia pan and L.A. Johnson. Send your manuscripts by November 30th! ugapress.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/t...ugapress.wordpress.comThe Georgia Poetry Prize Welcomes Victoria Chang as Head JudgeThe University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce that Victoria Chang will serve as head judge for the 2025 Georgia Poetry Prize. 042
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Happy publication birthday to my debut collection, Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water! Yesterday, it was long listed from the 2025 Maya Angelou Book Award, alongside other brilliant poets. Thank you to everyone who spent time reading the book. And thanks again to Haymarket for giving the book a home. 000
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 24/09/2025It is a great, great honor to have my first piece of scholarship published in Callaloo Journal. I join a long line of black thinkers and writers taking seriously the literary pursuits of Black and African Diasporic people. 020
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 24/09/2025I cant wait to celebrate Daniella Toosie-Watson's debut What We Do With God. RSVP here: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma... 000
Reposted by E. HughesAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/09/2025AOC: If anybody says “this isn’t fair, I'm gonna have to divest all my stocks if I run for congress” maybe you should stay home. 520343157688
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 21/08/2025I'm off to Frankfurt, Germany, to give a talk titled "On the Exquisite Corpse: Blackness and Inexpressibility." 010
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 15/07/2025These days, I should either be writing a chapter, article, or poem--or editing one. I love writing, but getting this career off the ground is incredibly difficult. 000
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Chicago and Midwest friends, I am moving back in September. Let's collaborate on some reading events! 010
Reposted by E. Hughesthe lakeshore undead @thecorlew.bsky.social · 20/06/2025drove from Chicago to New York today so haven’t linksposted BUT FRIDAY LINKS IS UP featuring @emmdubb16.bsky.social @ehughespoetry.bsky.social @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social @kdonhoops.com and MORE! www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162657374lazyandentitled.orgFriday Links: Summer Is Here Edition – Lazy & Entitled 253
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Last year, I had the opportunity to be interviewed by philosopher Dr George Yancy about Juneteenth. In the interview, we talk about the philosophical significance of freedom in relation to the ongoing work of antiblackness. truthout.org/articles/jun...truthout.orgJuneteenth Reminds Us That “Black Freedom” Is an Ongoing ProjectJuneteenth reminds us that freedom — however seemingly impossible or ineffable — is worth spending our lives pursuing. 010
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 19/06/2025I am so happy my second collection Another Way to Say Dying is a finalist for the CAAPS Book Prize! This book explores the demands of black queer love: the ways blackness renders the demand of love ineffable and the way relation is impossible under the duress of antiblackness. 120
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 28/05/2025It was such a great honor to be in conversation with @britrogers.bsky.social, @moonsatdusk.bsky.social, and Luther Hughes on the Vs. Podcast live at AWP. Check out our interview:open.spotify.comVS Live! at AWP E. Hughes and Luther Hughes vs. NostalgiaVS · Episode 000
Reposted by E. HughesHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 15/05/2025Free Palestine reading listhaymarketbooks.orgFree Palestine! A Reading ListPublishing books on the struggle for justice in Palestine has been a central part of Haymarket’s mission since we published our first book, The Struggle for Palestine, in 2001. Here, we pres... 214069
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Last Saturday, I was honored to be selected as a library laureate of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. It was such an honor to be mentioned with such literary and artistic icons and to attend their Spring Awakening gala. 100
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 22/04/2025On Saturday, I will be leading a poetry workshop at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory on art, history, and healing. Register here: carlos.emory.edu/calendar?tru... Cost: Free for Emory Students $25 for nonmembers $18 for memberscarlos.emory.eduCalendar | Emory | Michael C. Carlos Museum 000
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Glad to be in conversation with Jimin Seo and Annie Wenstrup in @triquarterlymag.bsky.social "It’s important to say that none of these meticulously crafted debuts are illegible. Each chooses their audience." - Asa Drake www.triquarterly.org/the-latest-w...triquarterly.orgIn Defense of Subjective Silences: Audience, archive and access in three debut poetry collections — TriQuarterlyAs poets, we navigate silence, but we also have the choice to proliferate some silences and not others. We may lock a door to one audience and open it for another. There are doors we, ourselves, may n... 000
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 10/04/2025DC! Lauren K. Watel, E. Ethelbert Miller, and I will be reading at East City Books! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/hybrid-eve... 010
Reposted by E. HughesHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 21/03/2025LA! Join us for an offsite poetry reading during AWP, featuring @intifadabatata.bsky.social, Franny Choi, @ehughespoetry.bsky.social, & Christopher Soto Friday, 3/28 at 7:00 pm the loft at LINT donations benefit @mecaforpeace.bsky.social RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma... 03213
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 17/03/2025AWP is about one week away. Here is where you can find me! Hope to see you at one (or more) of these events. 010
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Thanks to Hunter Buccheit for this feature! visionaryartistrymag.com/2025/02/e-hu...visionaryartistrymag.comE. Hughes: Poet Uncovers Black HistoryPoetry is about stripping language down to its barest, most concise parts to evoke emotions left untouched by other art forms. Amid political upheaval, growing inequality, and a societal identity c… 010
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 19/02/2025As much as people hate Afropessimism, it is really important to note that Hegel writes that Black Africans are in contempt of humanity. AP, if anything, is trying to deal with this particular, morbid, and pervasive idea that continually justifies diasporic Black abjection. 120
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Next week! Steffan Triplett and I will be reading together at White Whale Bookstore! If you're in Pittsburgh, come see us! 010
Reposted by E. HughesNikki Wallschlaeger @nikkimwalls.bsky.social · 11/02/2025here is a picture of Zora Neale Hurston drumming her magic ✨ 0161
Reposted by E. HughesHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 08/02/2025New poetry collections by Frank X. Walker and @ehughespoetry.bsky.social use documentary techniques to dramatize tumultuous eras in Black American history.poetryfoundation.orgBlood on the CottonPoems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine. 0283
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 06/02/2025"We can't afford individualism." --@harrisongraves.bsky.social 010
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Last night, it was a dream.✨✨ Thanks, Charis Books, for hosting us! 📸: @wjlofton1.bsky.social 082
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 05/02/2025What a compliment to be put into conversation with Frank X. Walker. Thank you to André Naffis-Sahely for this detailed engagement with Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water.poetryfoundation.orgBlood on the CottonPoems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine. 051
Reposted by E. HughesNina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Today, Trayvon Martin should be celebrating his 30th birthday. He should be surrounded by friends and family. Trayvon deserved to see 30. Happy heavenly birthday 🕊️ 171583369
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 03/02/2025We have tried for many centuries to reform the ideologies that permeate universalism. It is time now--to let it go. 000
Reposted by E. HughesPop Base @popbase.tv · 03/02/2025Doechii joins Cardi B and Lauryn Hill as the only women in #GRAMMYs history to win Best Rap Album. 3663081032
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Next Wednesday (2/5) at Charis Books, THE luminaries Aurielle Marie and Courtney Faye Taylor will join me in celebrating Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water. Register here: www.crowdcast.io/c/ankle-deepcrowdcast.ioAnkle-Deep in Pacific Water: Poems--E. Hughes in conversation with Aurielle Marie and Courtney Faye TaylorRegister now for Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water: Poems--E. Hughes in conversation with Aurielle Marie and Courtney Faye Taylor on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on February 5, 2025, 07:30 PM EST. 030
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Yesterday, I received my first acceptance for an academic publication! I am so excited to share that my article "On Black Poetry: The Corpse and the Phenomenon of Third Person Consciousness" is forthcoming in Callaloo! 040