Martheaus Perkins
@martheaus
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Black Poet; Author of The Grace of Black Mothers (forthcoming 2025, @triohousepress ); Co-Founder of @BRAWL_Lit. he/him
Joined May 2024
Support @EmergeJournal and small presses and small press authors! The Big 5 are not the only ones publishing spectacular writing. ELJ works their ass off to make book dreams come to fruition, including mine next year. Order some books!
🧵A lot’s been happening behind the scenes here at ELJ. We lost our appeal with SPD for lost revenue because we claimed lost inventory (because they actually lost it) and their lawyer said that wasn’t acceptable, & we don’t have the money for a lawyer to appeal. /1
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This one will really hit you 🥹
A NEW POEM ENTERS THE ARENA I'm so happy to be a new brawler for this fab publication! You can read and listen to 'NEVER FELT SPRING' by clicking on the link in the quoted post. I've been holding onto this poem since I wrote it in college, so happy for it to find a home.
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If you’re a writer/poet who has radical leftist politics and are interested in potentially being part of an off-site reading for AWP LA, send me a message!! Nothing official *yet*, but just seeing the interest out there :) Please help me get this out to folks with some rt’s!
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"Naw, not tryna hear a passion-dappled speech backed with Blues and typewriter cardinals." Today in Americana Stories, Three Poems by @martheaus. https://t.co/pLBN4bPPhZ
#poetrycommunity #Americana
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🚨New Brawler Unlocked: Team Martheaus 🚨 Martheaus’s Texas heart swooped these two poems from Taylor’s inbox and now here they are for y’all to enjoy 💗 Tw: the first poem references the Uvalde tragedy https://t.co/6jwZvZecll
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“I have a half degree in anthropology—I know what it looks like when something is built with bones meant to chase” - @romyewing
🚨 New Brawler Unlocked: Team Taylor 🚨 Gear up for some Olympic action with a sports poem from the brilliant @romyewing (who also has an amazing chap out!) https://t.co/OeKzswgG9E
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🚨New Brawler Unlocked: Team Martheaus 🚨 Ok listen we know you hate math, we do too. But we promise you’ll like this poem. https://t.co/fp7aghRzv4
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Dolphins creep me out
🚨New Brawler Unlocked: Team Taylor🚨 In case you thought we couldn’t be fun AND classy, here’s an ekphrastic poem holla @ engaging with traditional poetic forms Today’s poem is from the talented and lovely @BethanyJarmul (go buy her books too!) https://t.co/FNxqmmh1So
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Gilmore poem 🥹
🚨New Brawler Unlocked: Team Martheaus 🚨 Did you know you needed an Ode to Lorelai and Rory Gilmore in your life? Well, you do. Welllllll worth the read here: https://t.co/iFMVKrUOxz
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🚨New Brawler Unlocked: Team Taylor🚨 You can read this amazing poem, why Taylor loved it, and an interview with the author here: (And we have audio!!!) https://t.co/wrdYohKlFN
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I'm so grateful to have 3 new collages in @BRAWL_Lit, much gratitude to @martheaus for giving them a good home. "Saint Eleanor: At The Mouth of The Great Wide Open" was made in loving memory of my late Grandmother, who well earned the nickname with her warm & all-receiving heart.
We may be poets, but we know great art when we see it. Head to https://t.co/j3iuPj2Cqe to see new collages from @diaz_james
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Every time we kiss we confirm the new world coming. --Essex Hemphill, American Wedding #Pride 🏳️🌈
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“We are simply asking you to do your job” - Sean Cho A. Check it out on
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Freeze pops, frozen pickle juice, carmel apples, a bite of the hubba bubba wheel. Childhood favs that l've returned to recently and tasted like garbage... expired nostalgia?
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