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Derrick Austin
@paradiselaust.bsky.social
Author: THIS ELEGANCE (Spring 2026), TENDERNESS, and TROUBLE THE WATER (BOA Editions) | Wannabe Art Historian | He/Him

📍Chicago

https://linktr.ee/DerrickAustin
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My third book, This Elegance, is out from @boa-editions.bsky.social in May 2026.

Cover design by Sandy Knight with art by Diedrick Brackens.

Available to preorder now 🙏🏿
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If you haven’t preordered This Elegance from @boa-editions.bsky.social, there’s still plenty of time! You can also preorder from your favorite local bookstore or library.

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This Elegance
Interweaving the sacred and the erotic, This Elegance engages with visual arts through the concept of sacra conversazione (“sacred conversation”), a style of Renaissance painting that imagines divine ...
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January 9, 2026 at 7:15 PM
An early January poem from Tenderness, nearly a decade old
January 11, 2026 at 4:45 PM
All the Emplate lore. My traumatized king!
January 9, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Need to jump back into watching movies but I’ve been in such a doldrums since the year began
January 9, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Copies of This Elegance arrived at my apt yesterday!
January 9, 2026 at 7:13 PM
The fact that its felt like spring these past two days…in January…in Chicago…
January 9, 2026 at 6:22 PM
An exciting write-up for This Elegance!
January 6, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Heavy Summer Rain by Jane Kenyon
January 6, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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all of this
all this is both foolish and unnecessary
January 4, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Some movies I loved that I watched for the first time last year 🍿✨
January 3, 2026 at 2:00 AM
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
The Last of Sheila
Identikit
Tenet
December 31, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I have a prose poem about a Corot painting in the tenth anniversary issue of wilderness. This poem is part of a project about ekphrasis I’m beginning to work on.
December 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Purr 💅🏿
we escape, and hail Virgo, the Virgin! that’s our first love
December 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Time is running out for our special BOGO 50% off holiday sale at Boa! With the holiday rapidly approaching, purchase the perfect gift for the book lovers in your life by hopping on to our website and using the code BOGO50 at check out!🎅 📚

#booksale #holidaysale #poetrysale #fictionsale
December 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
New work by Lisa Hiton in The Swannanoa Review!

www.theswannanoareview.com/issue5/lisah...?
Lisa Hiton - You Are Not the Sheriff — The Swannanoa Review
www.theswannanoareview.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Either/Or is a new literary journal out of UW-Whitewater, and it’s inaugural issue is now published! I’m glad to have three poems, including this one, in such a beautiful issue. Keep your eyes out for this journal and consider sending some work their way!
December 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Ah yes, my favorite day in December. Time to rewatch two of my favorite movies.
December 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Ode to the Maggot by Yusef Komunyakaa
December 9, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Black Beans by Essex Hemphill
December 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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*smiles in homosexuality*
December 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Thrilled to have two poems from This Elegance in the latest issue of Cortland Review. I challenged myself to write about an animal (since I don't typically) and ended up writing about a giant phantom jellyfish 🦑
December 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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I know this feeling. I look around, confused, then realize 'Oh, sh*t - I'm happy 😊 How did *this* happen?'

Thank you Jane Kenyon and @paradiselaust.bsky.social
The Suitor by Jane Kenyon
December 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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A rich collection on god, race, sex, the south...
November 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The Suitor by Jane Kenyon
December 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM