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E. Hughes

@ehughespoetry.bsky.social
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Philosopher // Poet ••• PhD Candidate, Philosophy, Emory University | Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water, Haymarket Books | MFA+MA, the Litowitz Creative Writing Program, Northwestern University

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Autumn House Press @autumnhouse.org · 29/06/2026
Poets, tomorrow is the final day to submit to the 2026 AHP Poetry Prize!
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
It’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
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Bernie 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!
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 13/04/2026
This 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.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 22/01/2026
I just thought everyone should see this
Dr Kareem Carr
man: i wish to publish
@kareem_carr
Jan 21
reviewer 2: your paper is no good
man: i'll do anything to improve
reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini
man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini
Andre Pagliarini
@apagliar
Jan 21
a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini
Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Here's an example from Rilke (from Sonnets to Orpheus)
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
If 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.
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
This 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.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 08/12/2025
Tonight! 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...
Tonight! 

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: https://events.haymarketbooks.org/events/haymarketbooks/1870872
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
It was such a gift to be a part of Daniella's launch!!!
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 08/12/2025
LIVE NOW! Join @toosiewatson.bsky.social to celebrate WHAT WE DO WITH GOD with special guests @ehughespoetry.bsky.social and Hanif Abdurraqib. Stream here:
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Haymarket Poetry Presents: Daniella Toosie-Watson on What We Do with God
Join Daniella Toosie-Watson, E. Hughes, and Hanif Abdurraqib for a launch and celebration of Toosie-Watson’s debut poetry collection, What We Do With…
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
It 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...
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The Poets We Turn To - POETRY INTERNATIONAL
Artrice and Jon talk about the poets they regularly turn to, those whose work they can’t put down, and why.
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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Over 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. ❤️💐
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Patricia Smith’s The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems has won the National Book Award for Poetry! Read more here: buff.ly/HKCSQQQ
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Patricia Smith on How a Poet Ages
Nobody—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…
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
It 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...
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The Georgia Poetry Prize Welcomes Victoria Chang as Head Judge
The University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce that Victoria Chang will serve as head judge for the 2025 Georgia Poetry Prize.
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Happy 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.
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
It 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.
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I cant wait to celebrate Daniella Toosie-Watson's debut What We Do With God. RSVP here: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
AOC: 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.
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I'm off to Frankfurt, Germany, to give a talk titled "On the Exquisite Corpse: Blackness and Inexpressibility."
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
These 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.
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Chicago and Midwest friends, I am moving back in September. Let's collaborate on some reading events!
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the lakeshore undead @thecorlew.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
drove 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=162657374
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Friday Links: Summer Is Here Edition – Lazy & Entitled
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Last 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...
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Juneteenth Reminds Us That “Black Freedom” Is an Ongoing Project
Juneteenth reminds us that freedom — however seemingly impossible or ineffable — is worth spending our lives pursuing.
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I 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.
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
It 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:
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VS Live! at AWP E. Hughes and Luther Hughes vs. Nostalgia
VS · Episode
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 15/05/2025
Free Palestine reading list
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Free Palestine! A Reading List
Publishing 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...
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Last 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.
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
On 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 members
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Calendar | Emory | Michael C. Carlos Museum
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Glad 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...
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In Defense of Subjective Silences: Audience, archive and access in three debut poetry collections — TriQuarterly
As 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...
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
DC! Lauren K. Watel, E. Ethelbert Miller, and I will be reading at East City Books! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/hybrid-eve...
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I am ABD!!
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
See yall there. #AWP25
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 21/03/2025
LA! 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...
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offsite poetry reading
at awp 2025
featuring
george abraham, franny choi, e. hughes, christopher soto
friday march 28th
7pm - 9pm
the loft at lint
1611 s. hope st.
los angeles ca
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
AWP is about one week away. Here is where you can find me! Hope to see you at one (or more) of these events.
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Thanks to Hunter Buccheit for this feature! visionaryartistrymag.com/2025/02/e-hu...
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E. Hughes: Poet Uncovers Black History
Poetry 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…
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
As 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.
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Next week! Steffan Triplett and I will be reading together at White Whale Bookstore! If you're in Pittsburgh, come see us!
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Nikki Wallschlaeger @nikkimwalls.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
here is a picture of Zora Neale Hurston drumming her magic ✨
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
AWP booked!
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
MUSTARRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDD
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 08/02/2025
New poetry collections by Frank X. Walker and @ehughespoetry.bsky.social use documentary techniques to dramatize tumultuous eras in Black American history.
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Blood on the Cotton
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
"We can't afford individualism." --@harrisongraves.bsky.social
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Last night, it was a dream.✨✨ Thanks, Charis Books, for hosting us! 📸: @wjlofton1.bsky.social
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
What 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.
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Blood on the Cotton
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Today, Trayvon Martin should be celebrating his 30th birthday. He should be surrounded by friends and family. Trayvon deserved to see 30. Happy heavenly birthday 🕊️
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
We have tried for many centuries to reform the ideologies that permeate universalism. It is time now--to let it go.
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 03/02/2025
Doechii joins Cardi B and Lauryn Hill as the only women in #GRAMMYs  history to win Best Rap Album.
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Next 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-deep
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Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water: Poems--E. Hughes in conversation with Aurielle Marie and Courtney Faye Taylor
Register 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.
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E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Yesterday, 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!
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