Darby Price

Flyer that gives information for two events that Darby will be involved in at AWP in Baltimore this week. The first is the Black Lawrence Press offsite reading on Thursday, March 5th. It will be at Red Emma’s Free School from 8-10PM. The second event is a book signing at the Black Lawrence Press booth at the AWP Book fair. That signing will be at Booth 650 on Friday, March 6th from 1-2PM.

Flyer for Black Lawrence Press’s official offsite event. It advertises the authors involved, which includes Darby, and gives the key information: Thursday, March 5th from 8-10PM at Red Emma’s Free School, located at 3128 Greenmount Avenue in Baltimore.

Rising from the primordial muck like an early B-movie monster to say hello, if you’re going to AWP this week, I would love to see you at some point! Here are two specific places and times to find me, but I’ll be squelching around all week, so please say hello if you see me out and about! ❤️📚🦀

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Border Patrol is out in Los Angeles, sightings in Echo Park/ Silverlake and South Central.
Please stay alert, get vulnerable people inside. Record everything and be safe.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking: A Cookbook Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking: A Cookbook

Adding the book that changed how I make rice for jambalaya: Toni Tipton-Martin’s incredible, educational Jubilee:

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Our annual Black Friday Sale is here! Get up to 50% off subscriptions with free shipping at blacklawrencepress.com/sale until Black Friday (11/28). Each subscription includes 1 box per month with 2 books, a chapbook, and merch. It's perfect for book lovers or a treat for yourself. 📚 ❤️

Today!! Come enjoy the Great Indoors with me & a whole host of other amazing poets as we celebrate & support an LA literary icon 🙌

This Saturday, @bblitarts.bsky.social is hosting No Fest, a fundraiser to keep its programs going strong despite funding cuts. I’ll be there, reading a couple of poems between 2-3pm! Come out if you can—it’s a whole day of books, poetry, & performance that supports a vital literary presence in LA ✨

I’m so happy for you that you get to live this reality!

First Orange County results on Prop 50: Yes - 350,554 (57.1%) No - 253,404 (42.9%) YES on 50 doesn't need to win OC, but YES WILL WIN ORANGE COUNTY

OC has gone woke, I repeat, OC has gone woke

It’s spooky season so perhaps you’d enjoy my piece about the Rapture and organ donations 😀🫀

FREDDIE FREEMAN YOU’RE GETTING A SECOND STATUE

All you have to do is look at the first post of all of these accounts to see THEY ARE HERE TO TROLL. Don’t take the bait.

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All the Lands We Inherit Check out All the Lands We Inherit - <p><em>All the Lands We Inherit</em> is a searing, heartbreaking, and formally inventive debut memoir about family, legacy, and identity. The story centers around ...

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Love seeing our contributors IRL! @darbyprice.bsky.social read from her new collection—including [Terrible is the punishment of the Lord] from Issue 3 of In Short!—at the 804 Lit Salon in DC last weekend.

Read it here: t.co/qKZMNdJPpH

Oh yes. Picking up the landline to hear an unearthly screeching is mine

I’m so happy I got a copy! You also perfectly captured the millennial experience of getting your first (family) computer. I felt so seen.

OK but please don’t sleep on @kristinaten.bsky.social ‘s debut, Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine. I read two stories on the plane ride back to LA and had to set it down to do some absorbing. Fun, fierce, a little scary—I’m loving it!!

What an amazing space & community that @andrewbertaina.bsky.social & @ladiwoods.bsky.social have built. Thanks so much for having me, thanks to my ridiculously talented co-readers, & thanks to all who came out! ❤️

I always end up there in August somehow. Eating through Coolinary makes up for it just a little bit, but it’s awful

Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship

Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”

Rent the Runway is a good option if you know you won’t need those clothes for longer than the conference. Depends on your budget but they make it really easy to cancel or pause a membership, if you’re not sure about the one-time rentals.

Definitely trending in the right direction!

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use

At the very least, may there be some tea or chocolate or a snuggly cat in it for you 💛

Aries: The only thing holding you back from your dreams is you, and the threat of imprisonment.

Cheers to Uncle Jack! He sounds like he lived & loved well. No wonder he’s missed 💛

Darby wears black sweater and jeans and black rimmed eyeglasses. She smiles broadly and holds her hands up to frame a sign that reads, “Wanda Coleman Theater”.

Darby stands at a podium and reads from her book.

Jose Hernandez Diaz sits in a chair and reads from The Parachutist.

Amazing to read at the iconic @bblitarts.bsky.social last night! What a joy, especially listening to the work of @josehernandezdz.bsky.social. Go buy Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man & The Parachutist! And support Beyond Baroque, who makes community happen, w/ or w/o the NEA 💙📚

L.A. Bluesky, if you’re free tonight, cmon out to @bblitarts.bsky.social & help me celebrate not one but TWO new books from @josehernandezdz.bsky.social ! I’ll be reading but mostly just enjoying these brilliant writers & their words. 7pm, tickets here—

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Post: being recommended to stop using em dashes because ChatGPT uses them a lot. Image of two guys, one saying: no way. Should I change? He’s the one who sucks.

exactly

Exactly. And I don’t want to help pay for their overheating data centers either. Feels like I should be able to opt out of this!