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Keith S. Wilson @keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social · 5d

What an honor! My book Games for Children is on the short list of the Chicago Review of Books awards! Thanks @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social !

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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · Sep 4

"I want to know what I am capable of, or what language is capable of."

Jackson Holbert's interview with @keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social on his new book “Games for Children” (@milkweededitions.bsky.social) is out now.
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"I've Always Been Very Interested in Wonder": An Interview with Keith S. Wilson About "Games for Children" - Chicago Review of Books

Our interview with Keith S. Wilson about his new collection, "Games for Children."

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Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · Feb 20

We're grateful for the Black poets whose work enriches, shapes, and challenges our poetry landscape. This week, we feature stunning poets: NIKKI WALLSCHLAEGER (@nikkimwalls.bsky.social), PATRICIA SPEARS JONES (@pksj51.bsky.social), KEITH S. WILSON (@keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social), and JUNE JORDAN.

Graphic featuring the cover of HOLD YOUR OWN by Nikki Wallschlaeger, a photo of the author, and a poetry excerpt from "Manifesto" that reads:

I’m putting this to paper before
I lose my nerve, my courage,
before this poem breaks from lies
& I have to part ways with you.

Graphic featuring the cover of THE BELOVED COMMUNITY by Patricia Spears Jones, a photo of the author, and a poetry excerpt from "Morning Glory" that reads:

blossom /
your hearty display for all to see, hold your /
vine’s haven on Macon Street. Only /
Winter, harsh winter will take your vines /
Back to the ground your wildness calmed.

Graphic featuring the cover of FIELDNOTES ON ORDINARY LOVE by Keith S. Wilson, a photo of the author, and a poetry excerpt from "God Particle" that reads:

Dust motes and a million paths of light. /
I know. / Eventually, it all comes down to an / admission. / Whatever my failings—didn’t I come to it, / eventually?

Graphic featuring the cover of DIRECTED BY DESIRE by June Jordan, a photo of the author, and a poetry excerpt from "About Long Distances on Saturday" that reads:

and the answer is
that the question is

(isn’t it)
where are you going
baby

without me?

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Steven Underwood @blaqueword.bsky.social · Jan 30

In 6 yrs we will see movies about how being ICE agents made the ICE agents so sad.

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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · Jan 29

This is a concentration camp. Don't let him or anyone call it a "migrant facility." apnews.com/live/trump-p...

Live updates: Trump wants to send immigrants who are in the US illegally to Guantanamo Bay

While signing the Laken Riley Act, President Donald Trump said he would direct the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 migrants who are living illegally in the United ...

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · Jan 29

In case it isn’t clear, this is a concentration camp. Please call your reps, tell them to demand complete stoppage of the use of Guantanamo Bay as a Trump’s concentration camp, and use that language so there’s no mistaking what we’re talking about here.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · Jan 29

BREAKING: Donald Trump says he's directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 migrants in the U.S. illegally.

Trump directing the opening of Guantanamo Bay detention center to hold migrants in US illegally

President Donald Trump says he’s directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 migrants who are living illegally in the United States.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · Jan 19

Thank goodness the TikTok ban is in effect and now no one can ever use my data for nefarious purposes.

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Keith S. Wilson @keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social · Jan 2

Rewatching interstellar and some of the dialogue in this movie is atrocious

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Keith S. Wilson @keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social · Nov 24

capitalism is a plane that only has six people on it but still won't let any of those people move to the empty seats in first class

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Keith S. Wilson @keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social · Nov 20

I am getting a lot of new follows from people recently adding bluesky. can I ask someone who followed me recently: how are you following people? Is bluesky recommending people you may know?

I added this a while ago when it felt like there was only like 3 people on here so I'm not sure lol

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · Nov 8

Folks: A number of the most committed fascist trolls are coming over here and trying to create a presence, presumably bc Xitter will quickly lose its value as everyone migrates. One way to combat them is to use @numb.comfortab.ly 's list to mass block them.

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Keith S. Wilson @keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social · Nov 17

I posted on Facebook about how something he had written was nonsense and he was friends with me at the time (from McDowell where we briefly met) and he responded to me with "does this mean we're not friends anymore?" And "I said that's up to you" and he unfriended me. Safe space indeed

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Keith S. Wilson @keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social · Dec 8

Like this isn't a criticism of anything. Just that either best game means something different than an aggregate score of other wins (and needs a different name?) or it doesn't mean anything different (and doesn't super need to exist as a distinct category)

Keith S. Wilson @keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social · Dec 8

I think if it's the case that winning in one or several categories also means it's weird you didn't win in others, maybe some of those categories don't actually need to exist

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · Dec 7

Today I learned that carbon footprints were invented by BP and pushed in a mega marketing campaign to shift the conversation from corporations to individuals and I hate everyone.

Except NPR, thanks for the reporting.

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Keith S. Wilson @keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social · Nov 5

He puts little nightcaps on each nail

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · Nov 1

[finally standing up to a bully] hey asshole...
[but remembering that first and foremost I am a poet] I will engulf you like a fog

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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · Oct 31

Parents... please check your children's candy tonight. I just went through Salomé Athena's haul and I found a copy of the Jorge Luis Borges short story collection "The Garden of Forking Paths". This metatextual exploration may be too advanced for young readers.

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Keith S. Wilson @keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social · Oct 22

I hate ice breakers but I just thought of one: name a time when you were flabbergasted

I just want to see a room full of people reckon with the word flabbergasted

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Keith S. Wilson @keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social · Oct 14

i was born in the wrong decade: i was meant to be born in the future, at about 20 years after whatever year everything stops sucking

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Keith S. Wilson @keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social · Oct 13

the world seems all the time a darker place but as they say, at the end of it is a door <3

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Keith S. Wilson @keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social · Oct 13

we didn't exactly see poetry the same way but louise said more than one thing about my work and my thoughts that mean more to me than i know how to express. and the thing about them is she never said things just to be nice: she meant them

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Keith S. Wilson @keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social · Oct 13

i got to work with Louise Glück and met with her several times about my poetry. the last time, she said: "why do you keep looking at your phone?" that's where my poems were. Louise Glück workshopped with me all those times thinking i was like texting people the whole time

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Keith S. Wilson @keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social · Oct 9

studies show there might not really be any savings from this actually:

large.stanford.edu/courses/2021....

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