Shade Literary Arts
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A literary platform for queer writers of color. Submissions are open until 10/31!!
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Joined June 2016
Let’s kickoff off September with a poem by CM Burroughs! Here’s “Langston Closed His Letters to Carlo”!
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"Sincerely. Sincerely yours truly. Sincerely yours. Sincerely yours. Affectionately. Pomegranates, sequins, gold dust, and melon seed from here on unto the end."
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Closing out August with “Reading Ellison on Ellisom Avenue” by @chrysanthemvm_!
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"Our language, only explicit in books off her shelf. I carried them home. To gift me Giovanni means she had to know: I needed escape—new rooms to enter in exchange for my name on record."
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Opening August up with a new poem by Topaz Winters! Here’s “I Too Have Been the Girl.”
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"Nothing canyon in me. I keep time in subway stops, scoff at the aeons between flesh & its consequence of plastic. Everything I eat runs through me as pity."
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The Sealey Challenge starts in two days! Here are 31 poetry books by trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer writers of color you should read. #SealeyChallenge
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It's time for another year of The Sealey Challenge, a reading challenge created by Nicole Sealey in 2017. This following list offers 31 poetry books by *trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer writers to...
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And that’s a wrap on July publications. Closing it out with “The Minnie Riperton Collection” by @Dalai_Mama_!
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“When the whole world comes around to see what she’s seen all along When the universe arches its back and corrects itself When each breath is only for her to control She wins, alive again in a world...
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Opening July with “The Days On Which Trans Women (I) win” by Zuggie Tate!
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“When the whole world comes around to see what she’s seen all along When the universe arches its back and corrects itself When each breath is only for her to control She wins, alive again in a world...
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Closing out Pride Month and celebrating Juneteenth with “did you miss him?” by Justice Ameer!
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"i lie with a liar’s longing on my hips asking myself if i was too hard on a foolish boy or simply too giving in my desperate theater, i’ve always mirrored the girls on stage who command applause...
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Kicking off Pride Month with “Cupressus sempervirens” by Shelley Wong
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"It is also a tree of mourning: Apollo changed a handsome boy into a cypress after he accidentally kills his stag At dusk, the deer parade the lawn Traces of sweet perfume in late fall At the...
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Wrapping up our May publications with a new poem by @rlwheeler_! Read “Precipice.”
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" i remember my name & listen to its sound collapse in midair: spine snapped in half: small bird escaping that cavernous nothing inside me"
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Kicking off May with a new poem by Logan February! Read, “Wie groß wie klein”!
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“I needed a body to begin with a body to pull apart weep over contend With a body I would need to finally make my own”
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National Poetry Month continues with a new poem by No’u Revilla! Read “The ones you pick clean” here!
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“How do you break in to your own body? Find a mirror that hasn’t killed you. Dreams don’t come quietly. Be careful with the ones you pick clean."
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Kicking off National Poetry Month with two poems by Misha Pinnuraju!
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“I am warned against bathing in this darkness but instead I escort my past outside to witness that which purges us. I am asked to let go
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I have a new poem out today! Click on the link below to read it. & super happy it found a home with @ShadeLitArts
Closing out our March publication with “When a Fire Follows” by Saúl Hernández!
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Closing out our March publication with “When a Fire Follows” by Saúl Hernández!
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“I’ve been careful about starting fires I can’t control. I walk next to a man tonight. In his house our fingernails peel off
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We’re back with this beautiful poem, “[& what a miracle: my tiny, tiny body],” by Fatimah Asghar!
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alhamdulillah to my ragged breath how it pulls and bites the air as I waddle up the long flight of stairs to my beloveds who laugh ins
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We’re on Instagram now! Go give us a follow for all things Shade, but in visuals ❤️
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Reminder that we’re open for submissions!
Submissions are open again through 10/31! We’ll publish new works every first and third Thursday starting in March. https://t.co/Frb7wiT05Z
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In case you haven’t heard yet, @ShadeLitArts, an online platform for queer writers of color, is currently taking poetry submissions! I’d be honored to read your work ☺️
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Submissions are open and close October 31!
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