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they/them | author of #HTIYWAW (@PressGaia '22), Freedom House (@deepvellum '23), and Pretty: A Memoir (@aaknopf ‘24)

Mar 20, 2023, 20 tweets

Freedom House #WritingPrompts (a thread🧵)

Thrilled to share #free writing prompts based on my forthcoming poetry collection! As the release date gets closer, I'll add prompts to this thread :)

Pre-order: tinyurl.com/KBFreedomHouse

Based on the poem "& Somehow men are nicer to me now", published by @AmPoetryReview. Read it online here: aprweb.org/poems/somehow-…

one of my hs english teachers is using this for her class !!! yay !!!

Based on “Black life circa 2029”. Text & audio published with @CincinnReview; video published with @ourspoeticashow .

Based on "Black Hair" published with @femmeanddandy, republished with @POETSorg

Based on "I Admit It" published with @poetrynw. Read it online: poetrynw.org/kbi-admit-it/

Based on “Curriculum Vitae” (published with @ProlitMag). Read it online: prolitmag.com/issue-seven/br…

Based on “KB’s origin story”, published with @ElectricLit. Read it online: electricliterature.com/two-poems-by-k…

Based on "Every Building in East Austin is a Ghost" published with QT Voices. Read it online: sites.utexas.edu/queerandtransv…

Based on “T shot #5: ode to my sharps container” published with @poetrymagazine

Based on “Dinner with John Cena on the Moon” published with @wildnessjournal. Read it online: readwildness.com/26/kb-moon

Based on “Bare Minimum, or To-do list for White America”, originally published with @DrunkMonkeysWeb ; republished with @POETSorg

Based on "She Walked So I Could Skip & Jump", published with @RiverStyxMag
#PrideMonth #Pride #PoetryTwitter

Based on “a list of things I want before this life lets me go”, published with @AfWriterMag

Based on “failed duplex”, published with @interstellarlit: interstellarlit.com/issue-03/shot-…

Based on “Self-portrait as a hackberry tree”, published with @proteanmag: proteanmag.com/2022/03/15/sel…

Based on “what’s on your mind, KB?”, published by @rejectionlit: rejection-letters.com/2021/11/02/wha…

Based on “what still lives”, published with @trampset: trampset.org/what-still-liv…

Based on “finally, a slow weekend”, published with @perhappened: perhappened.com/slowweekendkb.…

Based on “Freedom House Manifesto”, published with @AmPoetryReview.

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