Mapping the Remarkable Literary Career of Elizabeth Alexander - Maybe we can think about bibliographies in other ways. Here's an experiment mapping the remarkable literary career of Elizabeth Alexander. Representing...

Open Link Night #409 - Hello poets! Welcome to the first OLN of the month of June. As most of our regulars know, you can … Continue reading →

Mort: the Poem - one might think an old monk would know how to die the final Irish goodbye a wake, a funeral with a nice music mix some photos... a yearbook a life book of...

Farewell to 2025 - 2025 cost us so much. I almost gave up on writing this blog post—what has become my annual check-in to keep Chicks Dig Poetry from going dormant—but then...

Dating For Dummies – How To Gain Power Over Men - Far From BasYc by G.L. Lambert "G.L. I still don't get it. You need to break down dating like I'm DUMB because I've read Solving Single [...] Thanks for...

Major Announcements About DAARAC - Hello Everyone, Over the last 12 years, our website has been a leading resource for discovering a rich history of African American film and culture through...

For Our Regular Prompts and Features, Fly Over to Poets and Storytellers United - This blog is an archive. Please browse the sidebar, if you wish to access our active Prompts and Features and the ones that have been archived. We hope to...

Lana K. W. Austin - Lana K. W. Austin’s poems, short stories, and reviews have recently been featured in *Mid-AmericanReview, Sou’wester, Columbia Journal, Zone 3, Appalachia...

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I'm At Least 85% Sure I Didn't Buy Drugs This Time: Adventures in Being A Very Square Hippie - Here's the the thing about me — I'm a bizarre mix of absolute cynical skeptic and optimistic, enthusiastic hippie. I think amber teething necklaces are la...

The Problem With A Blogging Hiatus Is Figuring Out Where To Start From - I used to get frustrated with this journey of mine. Once I learned to let go, life drew me to great things I would never have experienced otherwise. I wan...

hold me to this - becoming softer after every compromise brittled and self-destructive, we were charring into sharper malicious states of being compressing ourselves into mo...

Life happens... - My baby boy is 12... My baby girl almost 1... Life happened so i did not post anything in forever. Well Same moonlight for our Dreams is coming back. ...

THE JEM MOVIE'S SHANA AND COLORISM - from a decidedly brown-skinned black girl with a big bouncy purple fro to a beige biracial "safely black" girl with straight hair This strikes close to hom...

- Hey there, fighter it will get brighter. Take a breath, a little deeper and bring your faith a little higher. Remember, you are a leader not a follower.. ...

- Inhale the yawning frost let it gather and collect beside your sleepy heart drowsy from neglect. Rest your ghostly frame, hush her muddled drawl. You say ...

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