jason b crawford
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he/they Dad to all Trans & Enby kids 🏳️⚧️ YEET! forthcoming from @omnidawn Fall ‘25 🇵🇸
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Friends, poets, poet friends, I have just lost a teaching gig I was dependent on for the upcoming year and need to supplement the income. If anyone needs any poems, stories, essays edited let me know 🥰
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Writing a good ending to a poem
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I am reminded opportunity should be for everyone, not just the homies. So I am sharing this open document of places to submit for book prizes, open calls for subs, and fellowships. This is editable, feel free to add to it.
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Okay so I guess I got into grad school or whatever.
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I have two new poems put in the Cincinnati Review! Here’s one
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Okay, I guess I can make my own post. I’m THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE, I am the winner of
@Omnidawn
1st/2nd book contest! Thank you
@sawakonakayasu
for selecting my book. I’m over the moon! 🥳
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Well since everything on here is going to shit, I’ve been holding on to this since April 😌
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So honestly, I wasn’t sure what I had with this poem until I posted an earlier draft and
@EduardoCCorral
liked it. Now look at it, 😌
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Y’all should listen to me… update your CV as things happen… because GUUUUUUURL
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6 years ago, I submitted a manuscript to Button thinking it was the best thing ever written and it was (RIGHTFULLY) rejected. I didn’t submit another manuscript until 2019. Now I have a chapbook out, a chapbook due this year and a full length next! KEEP WRITING!
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Don’t get me to cryin in the doctors office this morning Marie Howe!
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This is an honest ask, something I’ve wanted to do for years. Does anyone want to start an organization that focuses on its writers and their growth. Someplace that is not about gaining money but teaching writers? I am so down to brainstorm if anyone wants to hop on a call
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I’m so excited to have my first full length book to debut with
@sundresspublications
word cannot express how overwhelmed and happy I feel! I’m so excited to have my first full length book to debut with
@sundresspublications
word cannot express how overwh…
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Hello Lit Twitter, from this point on in literary spaces, I will only be going by They/Them pronouns. I will also not but responding to guy, man, bro, dude, etc.. I appreciate your understanding.
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My second poetry collection won a book prize and was a finalist for another prize. It is special to me because I gave up on the book very quickly
EVERYONE INCLUDED; Please brag to me about a thing you did in 2023 that you’re proud of?
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Normalize not having to finish the poem in a single sitting, Jason.... It's okay to come back to the work.
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Y’all! I’m funded. Thank you so much to every single person that donated or shared or reached out. Yesterday, I wasn’t sure how I would possibly make it and less than 24 hours later I can go. I am so grateful for you all and this community that continues to give to me. I love you
Today has been a whirlwind, I am very excited to be a fellow for
@LambdaLiterary
. I am short the funds a bit, if you are able to help, I would greatly appreciate you, even if that is just sharing this link. Thank you all. I love you all.
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Poets… how do you answer the question, “what kind of poetry do you write?”
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All the grad school applications results are in! Four acceptances one waitlist and one rejection. Feels good.
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I’m sorry, I’m drunk and very proud of this poem.
@poetrymagazine
. I promise to be less annoying next week.
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Hey Poetry friends, I am designing a workshop on love poems. What would you say makes a good love poem? Furthermore, what are some of your favorite love poems?
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If there is writer's retreat that you have attended that you are very grateful for could you list it below? I am creating a calendar of deadlines.
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Thank you! I’m very excited
Congratulations to Sundress author and board member, jason b. crawford, whose second collection was just accepted for publication by
@Omnidawn
!
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Okay, who am I blocking today. Listen, I stand with Palestine. And if you don’t, get lost.
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I only went a little unhinged with my book purchases this year… if you see your book say hey!
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After signing my offer letter today, I can officially say I got the full time job!
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Today has been a whirlwind, I am very excited to be a fellow for
@LambdaLiterary
. I am short the funds a bit, if you are able to help, I would greatly appreciate you, even if that is just sharing this link. Thank you all. I love you all.
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I’m on
@buttonpoetry
y’all 🥲
“I knew when the one girl said she learned to twerk from ‘Bring It On,’ it was time for me to go.”
- Jason B. Crawford
WATCH FULL POEM:
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Well it’s official, I have turned in everything for my MFA, I’m done
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As of 8:26am today, I have submitted my thesis for approval 😵💫
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How do you pay up to $1500 for a nonfiction piece and $75 for a poem. Just say you hate poetry
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can i brag on myself for a second? I WROTE THE HELL OUT THESE POEMS!!!!
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I want to teach a class on line breaks but I swear this first line... I would not have broken here and I’m STUNNED AT ITS BEAUTY... like the AUDACITY TO BREAK AT SHE AND CLEEEEEEAR IT! Also please note, Ellen Stone is a masterful poet! I love this so much 💜💙💜💙
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If you are only reading poetry books for their “clear linear story” then you are thinking about poetry from a single minded angle and therefore not able to grasp all of the concepts that may be proved in the collection
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Omg! I was waitlisted for Lambda! It was my first time applying and it feels so rewarding and validating to be on the waitlist. 😭😭😭🩵🩷🩵🩷🩵🤍
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Apparently my book is top 400 in LGBTQ poetry books and top 2000 in American 🤢 Poetry. WOW
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i have been waiting so long to post this! here it is! my cover reveal for my debut full length, “Year of the Unicorn Kidz” thank you to James M Wine for the amazing work and to
@sundresspublications
for publishing my baby. book out in march! check out
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Okay so real talk, my debit full-length comes out next year in Spring through
@SundressPub
and I would LOVE to do a reading with some of y’all in your city or via zoom (COVID pending) who would want to team up with me, this includes bookstores and magazines 🦄💜🦄💜🦄💜🦄💜🦄💜🦄
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When YT ppl read Black and Brown narrative and rate it a 1 star and state “it just wasn’t for me!” ..... THATS THE POINT KAREN!
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I just got my first acceptance of 2022 and I’m feeling so relieved honestly
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My book won a contest!!!
#twerkablemoments
My book won a contest!!!
#twerkablemoments
My book won a contest!!!
#twerkablemoments
October 30, 2020 at 01:08PM
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So next month I have some poems coming out in a dream journal of mine and they are from a project I have been working on for the past maybe 4 months. I am so excited to share this work with you all!!!
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check out my new poem in
@rhinopoetry
the winner of the Founder’s Prize selected by Niki Herd
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So the news, I’m sorry this is so late. My chapbook goodboi was nominated for an Elgin Award through
@sfpoetry
thank you
@neonhemlock
for publishing my book and
@OutWriteDC
for picking it 💜🦄
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I absolutely need to take poet off my dating apps 😪
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Lol
@whitepeoplepres
is quite upset with me because I wrote an invigorating piece for them about how creating white spaces in unnecessary in the context of america ESPECIALLY in publishing... 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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I think I just got my first acceptance In the new year!
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Surprise! I’m joining the
@PodcastMicro
team!
@jasonbcrawford
, born in Washington DC and raised in Lansing, MI, is the author of Year of the Unicorn Kidz. They have poems in or forthcoming in POETRY Magazine, Cincinnati Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, RHINO Poetry, among others.
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Police cannot be reformed. Police cannot be reformed. Police cannot be reformed. Police cannot be reformed. Police cannot be reformed. Police cannot be reformed. Police cannot be reformed. Police cannot be reformed. Police cannot be reformed. Police cannot be reformed.
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Just submitted my 5th and final grad school application... now we wait.
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well i guess we can call it OFFICIAL! Preorder link for my debut collection coming in March! Again im
@not
crying… you’re crying 🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄
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Happy pub day to my lil sister! See is the one that normally does the eyes and the book looks but I had to try in her DEBUT! Love you so much!
@TaylorByas3
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I’m never gon be not salty about that one rejection I got where they asked me to submit
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I can’t believe my book comes out a WEEK before AWP and I’ll have copies with me! AND I get to hang with
@TaylorByas3
and
@sofiafeycreates
🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄
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Addendum... I got into 2 schools!!!
Okay so I guess I got into grad school or whatever.
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I’ll say it again; when I started writing about myself, magazines started picking up my work
When I started writing for myself, publishers started picking up my books.
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@DeeLaSheeArt
Like why you ask what I want if you gon make what you want? I didn’t want vanilla. AND AND AND!! I was saying nothing, YOU asked. I answered truthfully, which is the basis of a healthy relationship. I also hate to side with m*n but he is right in this situation.
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Hey everyone, I’m taking a break. From Twitter, from writing, from everything for a minute. Please don’t text me and ask me what’s up, I really don’t feel like talking. Catch y’all later. 💜
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I am so happy to show y’all my cover for my
#debut
#chapbook
#SummertimeFine
through
@VariantLit
done by
@hoorayforjai
! It’s STUNNING!
#poetry
#amwriting
#amwritingpoems
#amwritingpoetry
#blackmagic
#barbershop
#barbecue
#goodvibes
#family
#poet
#queerpoet
#blackpoet
#CoverReveal
@jasonbcrawford
's Summertime Fine
#chapbook
#debut
brought to us by his sister
@hoorayforjai
Entering the world July 11 ✨
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If you are wondering, yes I did get into the
#Scribner300
and yes I still think publishing for poets (and all writers) should be more accessible to the “lesser known” poets
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Wild wild start to the second half of the year for me, if y’all liked what I had in POETRY, then Nore of those poems are coming out 🥰
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New poem just dropped 😌who’s into 🤽
"you
teach me of piss, tasted
of coffee and malted
beer..."
Read "Untitled 1975-86" after Alvin Baltrop by
@jasonbcrawford
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My bio has been updated, I am officially a new MFA candidate of
@thenewschool
for creative writing! Please Clap. 😌 My bio has been updated, I am officially a new MFA candidate of
@thenewschool
for creative writing! Please Clap. 😌 My bio has been upda…
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I have a crush on a writer here, that is all that is being said
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It’s amazing to be a finalist on this phenomenal list of poets!
We’re thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2021 Pink Poetry Prize. Congratulations to these 10 poets, selected from an unprecedented 700 (!) submissions.
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Anybody wanna do a reading with me where instead of reading poems we just sit and talk about our favorite foods?
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What do you mean to get grants, awards, and prizes your have to APPLY FOR THEM?
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“I don’t have much pride, I put that aside, to get back to me”
@msamberpriley
“I don’t have much pride, I put that aside, to get back to me”
@msamberpriley
“I don’t have much pride, I put that aside, to get back to me”
@msamberpriley
February 26, 2021 at…
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So I wrote a full length. Submitted it and this happened. It’s my first ever full length and my first round of submissions. Thank you
@CAAPoetics
and
@AutumnHousePrs
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I keep saying this but… what if I just got a second MFA… cuz Eduardo is BRILLIANT, I would love to learn from him
Some news:
Next fall, I’ll be teaching in the MFA program at Washington University in St. Louis.
Thank you to the WashU faculty and grad students for welcoming me. Special thanks to Carl Phillips (who is retiring) and Mary Jo Bang.
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Soooo I went form no poems coming out to four journals in a few weeks! New poem drops Friday 👀
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I guess since I’m at TSA, I can start this long post! So Seattle, let’s start there, it’s so hilly and beautiful. I often struggle with mover’s want when I visit a new city. The imagination dreaming of a life in other places. This is one of those times. I loved the city, (1/x)
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