The financial crisis is real. Poetry promoters. A request: the 1990's poetry boom boomed bcos of little perks for poets & poetry lovers called "Free before ...pm!" Can we bring some of this back please? 😶‍🌫️😏🙏🏾 #OnaVeryFixedBudget #LivePoetryStarved #MothsFlyingOutMyWallet #Poetry

🔊 MindOfficiallyBlown! Our Sun orbits at 67,000mph How much can I get done in a day? #NervousTimeGeek Read 'Orbits and Timing Your Moments', a Substack post for my RISE & RHYME https://t.co/71EU1cTxdB #RISEandRHYMEWritersStudiowithZenaEdwardsPoet #MorningCatalystWriting

Newz Flash⚡️ & Sound On🔉🙂 My brand new masterclass series. How have Black poets imagined the natural world across time? 24th May = a generative space for BIPOC creatives & nature-thinkers to write in community Please share. #EcoPoetry #BIPOC https://t.co/zP6i2aul78

Decided to share a little different than my usual poetry approach. My new Substack website for my more quirky, idiosyncratic musings. Subscribe if you enjoy what you read🙂 Sending Love out 🫶🏾to those who need it. ~Z💫✍️🏾📒⚡️💛x~ #substack

Happy to bring back for Spring/Summer 2025 the Comic Sequential Art & Poetry course Replays. Happening now! Go At Your Own Pace Cost: £12.34 -£ 33.22 More details click 👇 https://t.co/6ksPnRWWqI ~Z💫✍🏾📒~ #ComicSequentialArtandPoetry #PoetryARTStory #PoetryCommunity #Poetry

#Spring's evening floral scents in the urban environments @NaturePersists #NorcturnalFlower #NaturePersistsPoetry #Poetry #CherryPlumTrees

The future is not yet written. @Adichieparody #ChimamandaNgoziAdichi #InternationalWomensDay2025 #InternationalWomensMonth

The sight & sonic of this extract is so beautiful... 🧡 Agha Shahid Ali's #Poem is one of displacment as an Indian immigrant to the US. Thr poem is set in 1948 before he was born. The rest of the poem is a call to an ancestral cosmology in some of the most simple things #Poetry

But feel better as the connection to my long lost American Family becomes more real with a healthy creative greiving. ~ Z ~ 🌿🕊🩷💫✍️🏾

Reading  between the white spaces I see indelible Love - for his life long partner he is separated from and for his Creator; and I weep a little into my breakfast.

He ponders, craves for his freedom, surges with emotion the stilted #antebellum and conservatism of the deep American South would not have permitted an African.

I have family born in the late 1880's in #Mississipi. I am contemplate the gift of writing as this husband dictates to the mistress of his Master, a letter to be sent to his wife. Extract from New Daughters Of Africa Edited by Margaret Busby

I wasn't a nerdy little girl per se... However... This is just an extract of a poem I wanted to write exploring attitudes toward intelligence in women. 🧠💫✍️🏽💛 #InternationalWomensDay #InternationalWomensMonth #PoetryForScientists #Poetry #PoetryCommunity

I wasn't a nerdy little girl per se... However... This is just an extract of an extended piece I wanted to write exploring attitudes toward intelligence in women🧠💫✍️🏽💛 #InternationalWomensDay #InternationalWomensMonth #PoetryForScientists #Poetry #PoetryCommunity

Beautiful poem for women leading into Internatinal Women's Month #JanisseRay #InternationalWomensDay #InternationalWomensMonth #PoetryCommunity #Poetry

@KenBrookes2 @IMcMillan @R4TheVerb @ZenaEdwards Zena's allotment was real .I was there with them smiling. "Mycelia, the earth's social media" a perfect line. We do need an hour Ken, 40 mins not enough

I'm reading my poem "Tincture" today on @BBCRadio4's The Verb. Available on Oplayer also. Tune in 🌿 https://t.co/MIUIpIjwWO

Im on @BBCRadio4 in 5 minutes wih Ian Macmillian's The Verb. Tune in now☺️ https://t.co/hOqNKI5JYc

#Poetry #Books @R4TheVerb Sun 17:10 @BBCRadio4 @IMcMillan's guests are @donpatersonpoet, @ZenaEdwards, and John McAuliffe - who's celebrating Michael Longley - and we also hear a new 'eartoon' on the origin the words for numbers. https://t.co/Ow294XCf79

"2012, I found #Twine online software to create interactive stories. I created my own Interactive Story inspired by the poem I wrote in 2005 called the Resting Chair." I'd would like to share now, https://t.co/dwVCO5maxO I hope it helps🙏🏾🧡 ~Z~