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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's #DVpit month! #DVpit is a bluesky pitch event for unagented creators from marginalized communities to pitch their projects to literary agents and editors! And we've prepared a month of pre-events to help you prepare for the main event on Sept 30, 2026! Go to dvpit.carrd.co for more info!

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Nadia Alexis @nadiaalexis.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

So, Bluesky is blocked in Mississippi….so the only way I can get on is if I’m in another state. Like I am now. 😭

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A Hundred Pitchers of Honey Reading Series @hphseries.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

We're back from our summer hiatus! Register for the Zoom link to join us on September 18 for @taylorbyas.bsky.social, @nadiaalexis.bsky.social, @travisclau.bsky.social, Allison Blevins, & Kimberly Ann Priest. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Lesley Wheeler @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Such a powerful collection that it’s hard to believe it’s a debut. Congratulations @nadiaalexis.bsky.social —and I’m so glad to be doing a virtual reading with you this Thursday 7/17! Register here: www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/phosphoresce...

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A Hundred Pitchers of Honey Reading Series @hphseries.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

We're still on hiatus for the rest of the summer as our host does some traveling and family things. Mark your calendars for our return on September 18 with FIVE amazing guests: @taylorbyas.bsky.social @nadiaalexis.bsky.social Allison Blevins Travis Chi Wing Lau Kimberly Ann Priest

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Nadia Alexis @nadiaalexis.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

“Prayer is no single action nor single dream but a space that holds them all, a space whose contours transform with our own histories, actions, and reactions. Just like with water, Alexis uses our preconceived notion of prayer to highlight its flexibility…” www.muzzlemagazine.com/beyond-the-w...

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Beyond The Watershed by Nadia Alexis Reviewed by Noel Quiñones

Prayer like Water, Water like Prayer: A Review of Nadia Alexis’ Beyond the Watershed by Noel Quiñones Across Nadia Alexis’ debut poetry collection Beyond the Watershed (CavanKerry,...

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Judith Lam Tang @judithlamtang.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

My fellow sister scribe, Shannon Luders-Manuel, from the Reed, Write and Create Sanctuary published her memoir, The One Who Loves You. It is heartbreaking, enlightening, and hopeful. My full thoughts on Substack: juicygreenmom.substack.com/p/new-book-a... #RWCSecondWave #TheOneWhoLovesYou

quote from Shannon Luders-Manuel's book, The One Who Loves You, stating "I smiled, feeling at once both highly conspicuous and completely invisible."

cover of The One Who Loves You with arrows pointing to book features: mixed-race identity, memoir, father-daughter relationship, existing as 'other'

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Nadia Alexis @nadiaalexis.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Come get your book signed today at AWP! 🌻 I’ll be signing copies of Beyond the Watershed at the CavanKerry Press table (T300) from 12-1PM. Come by and say hi. Save this post and tell a friend! It’s been so wonderful connecting with new readers. & hugging friends from diff points of my journey

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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 26/03/2025

"This is a book of resistance..." Leslie-Ann Murray interviews @nadiaalexis.bsky.social about Beyond the Watershed (CavanKerry Press). ➡️ buff.ly/Ogs4KZ2

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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Check out Perugia Press's latest newsletter: The results of the 2025 Perugia Press Prize contest, Nadia Alexis in the March BIWOC Poet Spotlight & where Perugia poets & community will be celebrating poetry in Los Angeles for AWP. ymlp.com/z1dk26 @hollicarrell.bsky.social @nadiaalexis.bsky.social

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2025 Perugia Press Prize Results * Winner: Holli Carrell! * BIWOC Poet Spotlight * AWP 2025

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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This month we're celebrating the work of Nadia Alexis in our "Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight." Check it out to read one of her poems and learn more about this poet: perugiapress.org/2025/03/emer... @cavankerrypress.bsky.social @nadiaalexis.bsky.social

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Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight: Nadia Alexis - Perugia Press

This monthly series features poems by women of color in the early stages of their publishing careers. It is our […]

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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This month we’re celebrating the work of Nadia Alexis in our “Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight.” Here’s a piece from her book Beyond the Watershed (CavanKerry Press, 2025), and you can learn more about this poet on our website (linktree in bio).🌟 @nadiaalexis.bsky.social @cavankerrypress.bsky.social

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Hiba Tahir @hhtahir.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This took FOREVER to make, and I felt so bad asking this question all season. But everyone delivered! So grateful to live and write in a world where these poets and their words exist. youtu.be/6i6Vp6_TS1Y

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What can art & writing offer us in 2025? Five poets weigh in!

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Nadia Alexis @nadiaalexis.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I should delete my twitter account since I’m barely there. But I’ve had it for so long and I first joined it when it was actually a wholesome place to be. 😭

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Nadia Alexis @nadiaalexis.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Hey y’all, my virtual book launch for Beyond the Watershed is next Tuesday, March 18th at 7pm eastern but required RSVPs close in a few days. Join Aimee and me for poetry, conversation, good energy, and a Q&A. Spots are filling up. Will you be joining us? RSVP today: t.co/aBoim3jhWi

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Nadia Alexis @nadiaalexis.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Grateful to have kicked off my book tour at Square Books! Grateful to Oxford for showing up so warmly. To my amazing conversation partner Melissa Ginsburg. To my community. To the students who read my work. Here’s to BEYOND THE WATERSHED being taught in more classrooms & to a most amazing tour!

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Nadia Alexis @nadiaalexis.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

BEYOND THE WATERSHED is out today & already going into a SECOND PRINTING!! 😭✨ Folks showed out. ♥️ Books have been making their way to readers, bookstores, libraries & classrooms. If you haven’t gotten your copy yet, get it from @cavankerrypress.bsky.social www.cavankerrypress.org/product/beyo...

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Nadia Alexis @nadiaalexis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

My book is out tomorrow & I’m so grateful for these poets for their words about BEYOND THE WATERSHED. Get your copy from @cavankerrypress.bsky.social www.cavankerrypress.org/product/beyo... Mahogany L. Browne 🤍

If you are looking for a love story where the daughter learns through her mother’s survival all the ways to eat a mango, cook a meal, bury desire, marry for thunder, or love with noise—these poems are blueprints for discovery, an assignment in living unabashedly, lyrics for the moved spirit. Nadia Alexis prepares a place at humanity’s table for her countrymen with kind hands. A quilt of Haitian language, Kreyol kinship, visual art, and hope, Beyond the Watershed invites every reader to bathe in the brilliance of Black women’s burgeoning; Alexis writes us whole within these poetic prayers.

—Mahogany L. Browne, author of Chrome Valley

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Hiba Tahir @hhtahir.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

This week on Tightwires: Haitian poet & photographer @nadiaalexis.bsky.social talks about Mississippi, poetry, and photography ahead of the release of her debut (hybrid!) collection BEYOND THE WATERSHED-- out next month from @cavankerrypress.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid...

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Poet & photographer Nadia Alexis talks about home, heritage, & healing through water!

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Brooklyn Poets @brooklynpoets.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Don't miss your last chance to save! Use code EARLYBIRD at checkout by 11:59pm ET this Sunday, February 9th to save $15 on any of our upcoming workshops. Act fast as some workshops have already sold out! View all workshops at brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

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Nadia Alexis @nadiaalexis.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Kicking off the Beyond the Watershed book tour in Mississippi in conversation w/ one of my fave poetry profs! Grateful to celebrate this book in the town where I made it, where I created the photos, & at the indie bookstore where I worked for 2.5 yrs. Come through ♥️ squarebooks.com/event/2025-0...

Oxford, Mississippi Book Launch for Beyond the Watershed | Wed March 5, 6pm Off Square Books | Nadia Alexis in conversation with Melissa Ginsburg

Pre-order signed copies from Square Books. Personalization available.

Shipping and in-store pickup available.

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David Woo @davidwoo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Congratulations to the poetry finalists: Oliver Baez Bendorf, Anne Carson, Jennifer Chang, Dawn Lundy Martin, & Carl Phillips; & our poetry nominee for the Leonard first book award, Cindy Juyoung Ok. I'm honored to emcee the finalists reading March 19; our ceremony is 3/20. @bookcritics.bsky.social

Covers of the nominated books: An Authentic Life; Consider the Rooster; Scattered Snows, to the North; Instructions for the Lovers; and Wrong Norma.

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Debra Powell-Wright @sowingandsewing.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

“Hagar Rakestraw from Tennille, Georgia” will be in the book. #rwcpromochallenge

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Nadia Alexis @nadiaalexis.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

✨”I 💜 your collection. It’s so sharp and haunting!” ✨”I just had the pleasure of reading a proof of your new book — many congratulations on this splendid work.” ✨ “I’m halfway through your book and loving it!” Book reviewers are loving Beyond the Watershed!

Readers are loving Beyond the Watershed
“Sharp and haunting!”
“Splendid.”

A hybrid collection of poetry and photography, Beyond the Watershed explores the experiences of a Haitian American daughter and her Haitian immigrant mother. Alexis crafts a moving portrayal of generational trauma, domestic violence, survival, and reclamation, using stunning imagery drawing from the body, spirit, nature, and cityscapes.

Scan here to pre-order your copy today.
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David Woo @davidwoo.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I can't wait to tell you what we on the NBCC poetry committee decided for our top five and as our poetry nominee for the Leonard award for best debut. An extraordinary shortlist from an already amazing longlist. Look for our announcement on Thursday!

Reminder about the finalist announcement on January 23 for the National Book Critics Circle,

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Nadia Alexis @nadiaalexis.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

A book reviewer sent me this note about my forthcoming poetry book and it made my day 🥰: I 💜 your collection. It’s so sharp and haunting!

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Debra Powell-Wright @sowingandsewing.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

My upcoming self-published hybrid memoir, “In The Land of Sowing and Sewing” is a visual archive of creative legacy about me and my sisters remembering our mother, her mother, and hers—Corrine, Rena Mae, Hagar—born in Tennille, Georgia. #rwcpromochallenge #sowingandsewing #remember #joyharjo

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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 06/01/2025

Good morning and happy (or whatever) first day back at work for a bunch of you! 2025 Lammys submissions are now open and considering LGBTQ+ books and plays published in 2024! View our submission guidelines to learn more: lambdaliterary.org/awards/lammy...

2025 Lammy Awards: Submissions Now Open Jan 6 - Mar 21
Accepting outstanding LGBTQ+ books and plays from 2024 in 26 categories. More info at lambdaliterary.org.

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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

We're excited to announce the longlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Poetry! Congratulations to all of the nominees. www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/18/2...

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David Woo @davidwoo.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Delighted that People magazine wrote about our poetry longlist. The poets deserve the attention. Period. people.com/national-boo...

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David Woo @davidwoo.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I've never been as immersed in contemporary poetry as I have this year as the NBCC poetry chair and a reviewer for @literaryhub.bsky.social. Such a pleasure and an honor.

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Charlie Vázquez @charlievazquez.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

You’re invited to welcome the return of the light with us on Winter Solstice (12/21). Open your Third Eye and the rest will follow. 🕉️

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Khadijah Queen @khadijahqueen.com · 11/12/2024

I have a book of essays coming out next month. A blend: literary spice, critical explorations, the what-ifs of theory, the intricacies of culture and history. A kind of nerdarium, if you will. 🤓 Right now you can preorder for 50% off: press.umich.edu/Books/R/Radi...

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Radical Poetics

Literature has the power to help build a shelter in language for a way of being that holds integrity and love as its root. In the tradition of Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, and many other Black writers a...

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Nikki Giovanni died peacefully at 81 with her partner Virginia Fowler by her side, having written her last book, titled The Last Book, forthcoming in autumn 2025—beloved, iconic, incredible, an example to us all.

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Alexis Pauline Gumbs @alexispauline.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Audre Lorde got something’ to say!

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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 08/12/2024

🚨ONE. MORE. DAY.🚨 You've got one more day to apply to the virtual Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices! bit.ly/LLwr25

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Khadijah Queen @khadijahqueen.com · 04/12/2024

Complete with teaching guide, this anthology explores human relationships, space, time, futures, and nature through speculative writing in all genres. On sale right now for half off✨✨

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Kelli Russell Agodon @kelliagodon.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

My unpopular opinion-- If you do not have time to write poems, you may be accidentally giving your time to things you don't need to do--Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram, Twitter (NO!)... Remember--this is all volunteer time. No one asked us to be here and it may not benefit us...

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dreamhampton @dreamhampton.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Tis the season to remind people they haven't known you for 20 years, they knew you 20 years ago

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Kelli Russell Agodon @kelliagodon.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

The quickest way to unhappiness is to compare your writing/poetic journey and "success" with others. (Also, "success" in quotes because what exactly does that mean--it's so subjective.)

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Wild & Precious Life Series @wplseries.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Join us on 12/4 to hear @benkline.bsky.social, Dorsía Smith Silva, & Susan Tekulve.

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

After calling them out as content scrapers I have been blocked by @nasauniverse.bsky.social @nasahubblenews.bsky.social and @marscuriosity.bsky.social All three blocked me in the span of two minutes, confirming they are scrapers and probably run by the same person.

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Nadia Alexis @nadiaalexis.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

20% off pre-orders of Beyond the Watershed until Dec. 1st with code BLOOMING. A poetry & photography collection tracing trauma, healing, spirit, & reclamation through experiences of a Haitian American daughter & her immigrant mother. Order here: www.cavankerrypress.org/product/beyo... #survivors

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Beyond the Watershed, by Nadia Alexis

Nadia Alexis blends poetry and photography to explore trauma, survival, and nature's duality in Black immigrant mothers and American-born daughters’ lives.

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Pinned resources post! 📌 📝 20 successful queries. 📚 6 nonfiction proposals. 🦸🏽‍♀️ A guide to writing IP! 🔎 A guide to finding agents. All free. Though coffee is welcome! www.ericsmithrocks.com/perfect-pitch And a starter pack for finding literary agents who are here on BlueSky. go.bsky.app/EFopcRo

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Perfect Pitch — ERIC SMITH

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Zora Neale Hurtin’ 📚🔮✨ @alexaesperanzaa.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hey y’all! Here’s a big mega list of 160+ Black Owned Bookstores all over the U.S. + a few other countries as well! U can filter it by state. I posted about this on the clock app today, but figured I’d share here too! aalbc.com/bookstores/l... Happy Reading! 📚💙 #Booksky #BlackBookSky #BlackSky

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165 Black-Owned Bookstores in the US | Find Independent Bookstores Near You

Explore 165 Black-owned independent bookstores across the U.S. Find your nearest store and support local businesses today!

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