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Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Have more than 3 published books (in any genre)? You're eligible for our Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize! Our 2027 final judge is @khadijahqueen.com! Our Sukenick Contest is now open as well, judged by Vanessa Saunders ~ learn more: fc2.org/prizes

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Everyone is sharing great Dolly performances but spare a second to watch her final public appearance--at the opening of a truck stop. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdqn...

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Dolly Parton's final public appearance at truck stop opening | 6/24/2026

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Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I've been quiet here about my continuing work for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library-Louisville, but if anybody is interested in supporting, about a month ago I agreed to do another run of the posters from last spring: www.etsy.com/listing/4528... Rest in power.

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Letterpress Show Poster - Etsy

This Letterpress Prints item by HotBrownPress has 9 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Louisville, KY. Listed on Aug 25, 2026

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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

"It may surprise you to know that libraries can be a one-stop shop for small business owners or those interested in starting one. Let’s take a look at some of the ways that libraries act as a boost for small businesses and dream-seekers like you." buff.ly/RmerHyH #Libraries #Services #Resources

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The Library is Your Startup and Small Business Supercenter

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Comic Book Couples Counseling @cbccpodcast.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

"Listen. I don't like to preach, but here's some advice. You'll meet a lot of jerks in life. If they hurt you, remember it's because they're stupid. Don't react to their cruelty. There's nothing worse than bitterness and revenge. Keep your dignity and be true to yourself." - Marjane Satrapi

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Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

One of our great annual book prizes, judged this year by @khadijahqueen.com ! Learn more: fc2.org/prizes/

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

"I can’t help how my brain wires / catastrophic knowing. What happens when alchemy fails / all the way?" A poem by @khadijahqueen.com in the Spring issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

Human disaster is contagious, so I’m left
alone, like I thought I wanted. Self-pity says
no one wants a sinking ship
of a woman, rafting on hate for how much
what she knows she keeps taking. No heartbreak
or inspiration to sell as end goal,
rarely beauty. Instead, indictment
and unrelenting grief, pain and identifying
purpose, blame and sour shame—all
wounds that won’t heal. World won’t
let the stitches set before landing
another blow—no entertaining real
solutions. Outside the self the reckoning
bulks up like a recurrent tumor. Or a monstera

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Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Our INFINITE CONSTELLATIONS Anthology coeditor @khadijahqueen.com and Vanessa Saunders, winner of our 2023 Sukenick Contest for THE FLAT WOMAN, are our judges this year! Learn More about our annual contest and prize: fc2.org/prizes/

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

This photo is of Betty Simmons, who was more than 100 yrs old when she was interviewed in 1937 in Beaumont, TX. She was married during slave times, and widowed, but was very happy that freedom came when it did because her enslavers were preparing to put her 3-yr old child to work in the fields.

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Khadijah Queen @khadijahqueen.com · 15/06/2026

Wrote most of the day today, inspired after last night at Hollywood Bowl. Chief Adjuah. Elena Pinderhughes. Kingfish. Kokoroko. Terrace Martin. R+R=NOW. Still listening 🩷💜💙

View of the Hollywood Bowl at night with R + R = NOW supergroup playing. The audience is plentiful. The arc over the stage is pink and purple. The stage lighting is blue and turquoise. There are five band members.

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Khadijah Queen @khadijahqueen.com · 15/06/2026

Lewis ascended the top step for a record 106th time, and the first time with Ferrari, in a durag. I will not be taking questions. Only delight.

Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari racing driver, with a stocking on his head and his curly hair sticking out the back

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

O’Hara gave us “pleasuances” —

NIGHT THOUGHTS IN GREENWICH VILLAGE
O my coevals! embarrassing memories! pastiches! jokes!
All your pleasaunces and the vividness of your ills are only fertilizer for the kids. Who knows what will be funny next year?
The days will not laugh at what we say is dry, but wheeling ridicule our meanings. The too young find the grave silly and every excess absurd. I, at twenty four, already find the harrowing laugh of children at my heels-directed at me! the Dada baby! How soon must we all get rid of love to save our energy, how soon our laughter becomes defensive!
O my coevals! we cannot die too soon. Art is sad and life is vapid. Can we thumb our nose at the very sea?

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BOMB Magazine @bombmag.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

In remembrance of the eminent sculptor and painter Melvin Edwards (1937–2026), we look back at an Oral History from 2014 which traces his career through the Los Angeles and New York City art scenes. bit.ly/4sXjUNA

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Khadijah Queen @khadijahqueen.com · 09/02/2026

It’s been just over a year since this one was published. Looking forward to giving a talk about it at UI Chicago next month!

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Split This Rock @splitthisrock.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Next week! WRITING THE MODERN FAIRY TALE, a virtual multigenre writing workshop explores an ancient storytelling mode rich with modern possibilities. Led by Khadijah Queen (@khadijahqueen.com) on 2/11, 6:30-8 pm EST. Open to all levels. Take $10 off tickets with code NEWYEARNEWPOEMS: bit.ly/4aF7Gme

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Khadijah Queen @khadijahqueen.com · 31/01/2026

Please read this powerful essay by Xander Gershberg, who lives in Minneapolis. He is a kind, brilliant soul and, I’m privileged to say, one of my former MFA students. clereviewofbooks.com/the-chorus-b...

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“The chorus bears all of it for us”: A Dispatch from Minneapolis - Cleveland Review of Books

Whistles and honks and encrypted messages and patrols and training and sit-ins and food drives and carpools.

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Lois Mei-en | all children must be freed @loekwa.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA by @khadijahqueen.com: "yet another extension of the brilliant universe of Khadijah Queen." -- Hanif Abdurraqib. Find a signed copy at the Brew&Forge Book Fair through 12/3! www.brewandforge.com/bookfair/p/b...

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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by Khadijah Queen — Brew & Forge

Legacy Lit/Hachette Book Group, 2025. “ Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is a large-hearted, compulsively readable memoir shot through with courage and razor-sharp intelligence. Queen’s ma...

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Split This Rock @splitthisrock.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Join Split This Rock for Writing The Modern Fairy Tale, a virtual multi-genre writing workshop exploring an ancient storytelling mode rich with modern possibilities. Led by Khadijah Queen on 2/11/26, 6:30-8 pm EST. Open to all levels. Register: bit.ly/4aF7Gme #Poetry @khadijahqueen.com

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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Sunday morning is a great time to read a poem you’ve never read.

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Khadijah Queen @khadijahqueen.com · 04/12/2025

I cannot believe it has been almost 10 years since The Relationship Theater company, brilliantly directed by Fiona Templeton, put on Non-Sequitur, a play that I was told could not be performed. What a whirlwind life has been since then! Sometimes looking back can make you excited to look forward.

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Split This Rock @splitthisrock.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

#GIVINGTUESDAY SPECIAL: Through 12/2 & while tickets last, donate at least $120 online & get tickets to 5 virtual poetry workshops in the new year with Hanif Abdurraqib, @rarasaur.substack.com, Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin, @khadijahqueen.com, & Jorrell Watkins! Learn more: bit.ly/4i3UBEK

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic. It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

Graphic that reads: "The average hourly wage necessary to afford a one-bedroom apartment in the United States is $28.17. The federal minimum wage is currently $7.25." -- National Low Income Housing Coalition

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Khadijah Queen @khadijahqueen.com · 24/11/2025

How do y’all be posting on here and there AND getting work done? Because I… cannot lol 🫠

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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

“I hear that song, that unending crescendo, feels like I’m the one who’s unbreakable.“ We are deeply saddened by the loss of Jubi Arriola-Headley. Our condolences to the Miami poetry community and to the many who knew and cared about him.

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Jubi Arriola-Headley reads "Superhero Origin Story [S. O. S.]"

It’s Easter morning, & though I hear I’m as likely to catch hell

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

art and literature, theory and philosophy, history and sociology and languages are not "content" and universities do their students a disservice when we pretend they are

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Sometimes I say "the poem speaks for itself" and what I really mean is like one of those possessed puppets in a horror film.

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Derek Pollard, PhD @doc-pollard.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

“Let’s make room for many modes of survival.” @khadijahqueen.com’s RADICAL POETICS asks: what would our literary spaces look like if we actually meant this? Her book challenges us to expand what we consider possible – in our teaching, our writing, our communities. press.umich.edu/Books/R/Radi...

Front cover of the book ‘Radical Poetics’ by Khadijah Queen. The cover features a Black woman sitting barefoot in a dimly lit, eclectic space surrounded by books and fabric drapes. The atmosphere is reminiscent of steampunk with a Southern gothic twist. The woman is wearing a pink dress and sitting on a floral patterned surface. The subtitle reads ‘Essays on Literature & Culture.’

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Khadijah Queen @khadijahqueen.com · 11/10/2025

🎉🎉🎉🎉 Thrilled to have a kind of performance essay in this anthology—thank you Chloe!

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Khadijah Queen @khadijahqueen.com · 03/10/2025

You’re invited to my master class on how to finish your book, based on my 25 years of writing experience. For all of that time, I have been working and caregiving and writing at the same time. I love sharing what I’ve learned. Two scholarships are available: www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/mast...

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Granta @grantamag.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

From the archive, 1990: Svetlana Alexievich on the USSR and Afghanistan. ‘I was trying to present a history of feelings, not the history of the war itself.’ granta.com/boys-in-zinc/

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Boys in Zinc

‘I was trying to present a history of feelings, not the history of the war itself.’ Svetlana Alexievich on the USSR and Afghanistan for Granta 34.

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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

"Imagine thinking you can truly defeat a people so internally and generationally fortified. Never."

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Khadijah Queen @khadijahqueen.com · 25/09/2025

New Substack: I wrote about a surprise Corvette, a Jesmyn Ward novel, and the spirit of my dad-- authorkqueen.substack.com/p/on-the-ver...

On the verge of being obscene, part 1, A Travel Report
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A red corvette stingray with black and silver accents, parked on a tree-lined street

A black man with light skin and silver hair and sunglasses, smiling, standing on one foot showing off his Jordans and his silver Porsche 911 cabriolet, in front of a California mountain and blue sky

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Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Upcoming opportunity to work with our INFINITE CONSTELLATIONS anthology co-editor @khadijahqueen.com ! ( Do you have your copy of INFINITE CONSTELLATIONS? fc2.org/anthologies/... )

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Infinite Constellations | FC2

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David @dxmthemachine.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Autism formally recognised: 1943 Tylenol invented: 1955

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 17/09/2025

We are horrified and saddened by the death of our colleague Hussein Alnajjar who died yesterday in #Gaza. His death was due to shrapnel injuries caused by an Israeli airstrike near his tent five days earlier.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Overall, this rapid media consolidation during this political and economic moment scares me easily as much as the administrations political theater other the military.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

He must be fired or impeached. Plain and simple.

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Ann VOTE EARLY Gelder ❌👑 @anngelder.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Let’s buy some books!

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 17/09/2025

Ngl, it's a bit disconcerting going about one's day when sitting legislators are calling for your entire community to be incarcerated and forcibly destroyed www.erininthemorning.com/p/two-republ...

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Two Republican Congresspeople Call For Institutionalization Of Transgender People

Representatives Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson both called for the institutionalization of transgender people On Tuesday.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/09/2025

Imagine in 2025, after all the times Black women warned literally everyone about everything that’s happening right now, announcing that Black women commentators are just very paranoid When we have been right???????? This whole time????? About pretty much everything????????????!

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