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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

DC Pride Poems is pleased to announce our nominations for the Best of the Net awards. Congratulations to: Angelique Palmer, Amuche Nwafor, Ishanee Chanda, Charlie Davies, Audrey Cahak, and Reg Ledesma. Read the nominated poems at: www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2026

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Gratitude to the DC Pride Poets! 30 featured each July, over the 5 past years. National Pride Month may be over, but the poems live on! Check it out! www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2026

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Sunday, June 28 Washington Writers' Publishing House presents a day-long Capital Love LitFest at The Writer's Center. I will moderate the "Queer Love" panel, featuring Chris Biles, Brandon Blue, Alex Carrigan, and Jona Colson. Full schedule and to register: washingtonwriters.org/capital-love...

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Capital Love LitFest - Washington Writers' Publishing House

The Capital Love Lit Fest is the first event of Washington Writers' Publishing House's Summer of Love Tour! June 28th at The Writer's Center.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University has released a gallery of short videos by contributors to their anthology "The Nature of Our Times." See link for mine, as well as Lisa Igloria, Arthur Sze, Ching-In Chen, Jane Hirshfield & others. natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/videos/

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Posters · The Nature of Our Times

Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

"I am bargaining my soul/for the grace of crows singing/Between neon and this darkness..." Regie Cabico is the featured poet today at DC Pride Poem-a-Day! #pridepoems #dcpride #PrideMonth www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2026

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

"The new streetlights are purple/and the diamonds shine coldly..." Today's featured poet at DC Pride Poem-a-Day is Zac Jones Gomez! www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2026

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

So exciting! The new #uvapress Fall catalogue is out. My new book is ready to pre-order! The District's Departed: A Guidebook to DC Cemeteries. www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10208/

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

2 new poems in Aphrodisia: A Queer Literary & Arts Journal! aphrodisiajournal.my.canva.site/kim-roberts-...

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Sign up for a free poetry workshop, "Queer Homage," led by Marlena Chertock on Tuesday, March 24 at 6:30 at the Arts Club of Washington. Should be terrific. artsclubofwashington.org/events/detai...

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Details - DC Art Events | DC Wedding Reception Venue

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Celebrating the birthday of Langston Hughes with @regie.bsky.social and Story Tapestries!

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Monday, 9/15, 12 - 1 EST: A discussion between two poets about creative collaboration. @mgushuedc.bsky.social and @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social co-wrote the poetry collection Q&A for the End of the World (WordTech Editions). Register: www.brownbaglit.com/events

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Five of my favorite queer poets read on Sept. 9 at 6:30 pm at the Arts Club of Washington. The original reading had to be rescheduled due to (ahem) a certain military parade. AGG, Natalie E. Illum, Dwayne Lawson-Brown, Saundra Rose Maley, and Chris Nealon. Free. acw.wildapricot.org/event-6206383

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Arts Club of Washington - Pride Poetry Reading

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

A variation on the Little Free Library theme: this one's a chalk-and-eraser library. #littlefreelibrary

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Leading a pantoum workshop for the Washington Writers Publishing House Summer Salon, last night at @rhizomedc.bsky.social. Great turnout!

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

"...from here to where hills drift away/From here to where branches meet/I miss you my friend/As much as early..." from "The Towels" by @hiramlarew.bsky.social, the featured author today at DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

"I never/knew hunger/could taste/like that" from "His dick looked like an Olive Garden breadstick" by AGG, aka Adrian Gaston Garcia, the featured poet today at DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Natalie E. Illum is featured today at DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Cuffing Season": "It is not the season/for dancing. It is the season/for stretching one memory so thin/it dissolves into its opposite." #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

"I am a lobby hosting all the wishes to be..." from "Liminal" by Sandra Ovalle Gómez, the featured poet today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Nice to see! 730DC featured tonight's panel discussion at MLK Library, "Vital Signs: DC and the Poetry of AIDS."Come join us! I cohost with @regie.bsky.social, with speakers @danvera.com, @bernardwelt.bsky.social , and Christopher Prince. Free! Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/culture-se...

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Jona Colson is featured today at DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Ephemeral": "I am walking hastily to my own extinction/like the luna moth breaking open in rain--" #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Holly Mason Badra's featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Seeing": "'Koi,' in Japanese,/is homophonic for the word 'love.'" #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

"Sometimes I feel like a guest/In my own presence,/Or a shadow of who I am supposed to be." from "Nobody Knows the Will of God" by Amuche Nwafor, today's featured writer in DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Hailey Leithauser is featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Claustrophilia": "Why don't we try a new game called Fleas-/in-a-Thimble, why don't we shake up/a cocktail called a Neutron Star?" #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Vivian Ealy is featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Feminine": "...I am/lollipop lip job, born to bear,/bear it back home, all/the way down..." #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Luke Sutherland is featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day with "Against Identification": "Is it brave to desire,/to act on that desire?" #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

"...I want more but won't bite//the fingers that squeezeme/time is not blood from a turnip/so pay as you go or as you wish..." from "The Root of All" by Natasha Saje, today's feature on DC Pride Poem-a-Day. Listen to the whole poem, and others released daily! #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

"Was her likeness, mine as to smoke, water/The promise of tears that nobody hears..." from "Dear Mom" by Richard Hamilton, featured today in DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry #pridemonth www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Don't miss this one! "Vital Signs: DC and the Poetry of AIDS," Thursday, June 26 at 7pm, MLK Library, DC. Free. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/culture-se...

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day presents "the river flows" by Adriana M. Martinez Figueroa today! "...after the expulsion and exile/after the violence/after the flood/didn't the river run from the mountain?" #pridepoems #dcpoetry #pridemonth www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Carlota Roby is the DC Pride Poem-a-Day poet today! In "Saint-Jovite," she writes: "...Where did we expect to find death?/It was right in front of us,/raw and cruel,/a wounded beast..." #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

"These are not sheets but his event horizon..." From "Sagittarius A in the corner of my room" by Oread Frias, featured in DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Malik Thompson is the DC Pride Poem-a-Day feature today, reading his poem, "Nocturne: Roses." "A slow bend/in the supple branches,/the outspread hand I extend/to this autumn night's black teeth." #pridepoems www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

"Wind and rain have whipped/wild points into her hair/and her brown eyes, sans serif,/stare down the work ahead." from "The Levee" by K. Rose Dallimore in today's DC Pride Poem-a-Day. #pridepoems #CapitalPride #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Ishanee Chanda reads "hanahaki" in DC Pride Poem-a-Day: "i pull flower petals from my mouth/two at a time/and i stuff them into the cracks/of her bedroom as i leave..." #pridepoems www.pridepoems.com

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

"...I slip silently from the sheets,/leave the serenely snoring dog/beside my slumbering husband..." Listen to @petemontdc.com read his poem "Sweetness" for DC Pride Poem-a-Day! #pridepoems #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day features "Salt Water" by Amanda Esteves Correia: "Daughter of Iemanjá I am/Iemanjá/who crossed the Atlantic Ocean/from Africa/to Brazil..." #pridepoems #capitalpride #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

"Tu es mon héros, you text him periodically--/declaring that not only is he your hero, but also,/because of the 's,' the source of your eros--" from "En Français" by Greta Ehrig, today's poem on DC Pride Poems. #pridepoems #capitalpride #dcpoetry www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day features Jasmine Haskins, with "For You I'd Create a New Language": "The tips of my fingers a tinge/Violet, next to the violas,/And I hear violins out of tune/Violently harmonious..." #pridepoems #capitalpride www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Tribes Magazine has published a special pride issue. I am honored to be included, along with 13 other writers I greatly admire. www.tribes.org/tribes-magaz...

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Tribes Magazine Online — A Gathering of the Tribes

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

"Everyone looks at me like a lying stranger, a voyeur in the dorm's collective shower." Danielle Evennou is poet of the day with "Promulgate: Triple Haibun" for DC Pride Poem-a-Day! #pridepoems #dcpoetry #dcpride www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

"...a Democrat, a gender extremist, and a cultural Marxist/Walk into a bar..." From the featured poem of the day in DC Pride Poems, "My Struggle," by Jessica Austin. #pridepoems #dcpoetry #capitalpride www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

"...I said it plainly,/we have more emboldened haters now. We will need your reminders/of solidarity across borders, across/identities..." from Sunu Chandy's poem, "Of the 80,000 words in the English Dictionary, 80% are loanwords from other languages," in DC Pride Poem-a-Day! www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

"Things got serious. More and more/He talked about us being together/Same time next week..." From "TV and Me" by @bernardwelt.bsky.social, the featured poem today on DC Pride Poem-a-Day! #pridepoems #dcpoertry #pridemonth www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

"In the kingdom of her body are the redwoods,/thighs that rise & rise..." DC Pride Poems proudly presents Xochi Quetzali Cartland reading "Ode to the Old Growth Forest"! #dcpride #dcpoetry #pridepoems www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2025

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

"The first time/you will meet my daughter You will be wearing an/inappropriate t-shirt. the first time/I meet your mom I will be wearing my robe." DC Pride Poem-a-Day starts off with a BANG with "Time Traveling" by Angelique Palmer! #dcpride #dcpoetry #pridepoems www.pridepoems.com

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Pride Poems 2024

DC Pride Poem-a-Day celebrates queer love! We are proud to present 30 short videos, in celebration of National Pride Month.

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Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Thrilled to be part of this Queer Poetry Marathon at Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC, Saturday, May 31 from 10am to Noon. Followed by an afternoon regional small book fair and open mic. Free! Info and registration: dclibrary.libnet.info/event/13581949

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