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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.
@taylorbyas.bsky.social
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PhD | Corporate Baddie | I DONE CLICKED MY HEELS THREE TIMES (Soft Skull ‘23, Winner of the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award, 2023 Chicago Review of Books Award, 2024 Ohio Book Award) | RESTING BITCH FACE (August 2025) | she/her www.taylorbyas.com
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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. @taylorbyas.bsky.social · May 22
Resting Bitch Face comes out in just a FEW months with an August 26th release (and don't forget, it's a September pick for Roxane Gay's Audacious Book Club)! Want me to come read in your city, talk to your students, perform at your school/venue, chat about my work? Email me!!
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The Notebooks Collective @notebookscltv.bsky.social · 5d
If you miss any of our In Conversations, we have them on our YouTube channel... Most recent event with @taylorbyas.bsky.social & @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social up now!
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In Conversation: Taylor Byas and jason b. crawford
YouTube video by The Notebooks Collective
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Wild & Precious Life Series @wplseries.bsky.social · 14d
@taylorbyas.bsky.social joins the WPLS tonight (9/24). The Zoom room opens at 7:15pm (EST), and the reading starts at 7:30pm.

Order RESTING BITCH FACE from Soft Skull Press: softskull.com/books/restin....

#poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry
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Wild & Precious Life Series @wplseries.bsky.social · 15d
Tomorrow (9/24)!!

@taylorbyas.bsky.social, Ashley Jones, & @djvorreyer.bsky.social read for the WPLS.

#poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry

@sundresspub.bsky.social @hubcitypress.bsky.social
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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. @taylorbyas.bsky.social · 15d
Thank you so much for being there, Beronda!!
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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 15d
Great convo between @taylorbyas.bsky.social on her most recent poetry book "Resting Bitch Face" with @roxanegay.bsky.social for the Audacious Book Club. Great insights on demands on Black women & their bodies—erasure, politicization, expectation of performative acceptability (e.g., smiling vs RBF).
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Wild & Precious Life Series @wplseries.bsky.social · 15d
@taylorbyas.bsky.social joins the WPLS on 9/24/25. The Zoom room opens at 7:15pm (EST), and the reading starts at 7:30pm.

Order RESTING BITCH FACE from Soft Skull Press: softskull.com/books/restin....

#poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry
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BOMB Magazine @bombmag.bsky.social · 15d
Poet Rosa Castellano interviewed poet @taylorbyas.bsky.social whose second collection RESTING BITCH FACE is out now.

“I had to make myself vulnerable in a way first before asking my reader to make themselves vulnerable in a similar way.” —Taylor Byas

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BOMB Magazine | Taylor Byas by Rosa Castellano
On ekphrasis, persona, and second poetry collections.
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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. @taylorbyas.bsky.social · 16d
It’s CRAZY that I get to chat with @roxanegay.bsky.social about RESTING BITCH FACE tomorrow night!!! AHHHH!!!
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Catapult Book Group @catapultbooks.bsky.social · 16d
RESTING BITCH FACE is an Audacious Book Club pick! 📚 Join @taylorbyas.bsky.social and @roxanegay.bsky.social for a virtual conversation on September 23 at 5PM PT/8PM ET.

Register here: buff.ly/hnP05V8
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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · 23d
Check out our latest newsletter: Apostasies Is OUT! * Summer Intern Kamali Williams * Perugia Press Prize Is Open * Perugia at Brooklyn Book Fest 9/21 * Perugia Poet News! @hollicarrell.bsky.social @taylorbyas.bsky.social @joankwonglass.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social @gthomaspoet.bsky.social
APOSTASIES Release & Press * Summer Intern * Contest Open * Brooklyn Book Fest * Poet News
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A Hundred Pitchers of Honey Reading Series @hphseries.bsky.social · 24d
This Thursday! @taylorbyas.bsky.social! @nadiaalexis.bsky.social! @travisclau.bsky.social! Kimberly Ann Priest!

Register now to hear stunning new work from these four poets.
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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. @taylorbyas.bsky.social · Sep 8
😭😭😭😭
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Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social · Sep 6
I just started reading this collection by @taylorbyas.bsky.social today and it's stunning! Order one today if you haven't already.
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Sep 2
Oh, we're so grateful for new books 💕 Contributor @taylorbyas.bsky.social’s poetry collection RESTING BITCH FACE was published Aug 26th from Soft Skull Press! Get your copy here: buff.ly/Ym7Ew6W
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Sep 7
We're finishing ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with a double accomplishment 🎉 Contributors @taylorbyas.bsky.social and @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social will be discussing friendship and poetry with @notebookscltv.bsky.social Sept. 16th! 🙌 Get your free tickets to this virtual event here: buff.ly/tAs68NP
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Poets & Writers @pw.org · Sep 3
“For every book that I read, I collect words for a word bank, take notes on meaningful quotes, and write down any ideas that come to me,” writes @taylorbyas.bsky.social, author of Resting Bitch Face (Soft Skull Press @catapultbooks.bsky.social). Read on: at.pw.org/WRByas
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Betsy Aoki (she/her) @betsyaoki.bsky.social · Sep 3
New poem “ Dreamscape with the Devil” by @taylorbyas.bsky.social at www.uncannymagazine.com/article/drea...
Dreamscape with the Devil - Uncanny Magazine
A street from childhood empties like a cigar cut incorrectly. All of the curtains in the windows, still, preflinched for the hands that will throw them aside in morning light. I slink down into the dr...
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chris-ture from the black lagoon @thecorlew.bsky.social · Sep 3
wrote a list of Chicago books you should read, including @tvayyyy.bsky.social @eveewing.bsky.social @joseolivarez.bsky.social @taylorbyas.bsky.social and MORE

www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162657540
9 Chicago Books You Should Read – Lazy & Entitled
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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. @taylorbyas.bsky.social · Sep 3
❤️❤️❤️❤️ thank you for including me!!
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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. @taylorbyas.bsky.social · Sep 2
🥹🥹🥹❤️❤️❤️ thank you guys!!!!
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Sep 2
Oh, we're so grateful for new books 💕 Contributor @taylorbyas.bsky.social’s poetry collection RESTING BITCH FACE was published Aug 26th from Soft Skull Press! Get your copy here: buff.ly/Ym7Ew6W
Two black women mirror each other on a green background with white font.
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The Notebooks Collective @notebookscltv.bsky.social · Aug 20
Do you have your copy of @taylorbyas.bsky.social's newest collection, Resting Bitch Face, yet? You still have time before our September In Conversation!
Find registration info here: thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-con...
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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · Aug 21
Excited to moderate this discussion of form as aspect of manuscript construction at AWP with @rebeccalehmann.bsky.social @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @taylorbyas.bsky.social and Chris Santiago!
How Form Informs the Form: Received & Original Forms in Manuscript Organization Experimental and traditional forms shape individual poems, but they can also provide key organizing principles in manuscripts. In this panel, writers will discuss how form (sonnet, underpoem, villanelle, contrapuntal, erasure, and more) played a major role in the creation and organization of recent collections. They will also present ways of generating structural elements that can make a book stand out in a crowded field. After moderated conversation, there will be time for audience questions. Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion
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A Hundred Pitchers of Honey Reading Series @hphseries.bsky.social · Aug 13
We're back from our summer hiatus! Register for the Zoom link to join us on September 18 for @taylorbyas.bsky.social, @nadiaalexis.bsky.social, @travisclau.bsky.social, Allison Blevins, & Kimberly Ann Priest.

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. @taylorbyas.bsky.social · Aug 3
What places do you guys pitch for poetry interviews?
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Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social · Aug 1
"But sometimes,
the day heckles, with its high-
bitch sun and melting snow."

Start August off right with a beautiful poem by @taylorbyas.bsky.social

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I begin the day thinking
the day could do without / me. The ice outside glitters around
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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. @taylorbyas.bsky.social · Aug 2
I’m so glad it found you when you needed it 💙
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