@lsparks
Writer, poet, and creative; work appearing in TIMBER, CALYX, Allium, Split This Rock, and many others. 🏳️🌈 Work forthcoming with Pangyrus LitMag, Stain’d Arts, South Broadway Press, Querencia Press, The Pinch, & Oroboro https://www.lizasparks.com/
New story out with samfiftyfour! You can download a digital copy or order an analog version if you want something to hold in your hands ❤️ samfiftyfour.com/shop
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New spooky story up with The Morgue! 👻 Read the whole story and other ghostly offerings here: www.themorguemagazine.com/autopsy-three
Thank you so much for reading! ❤️
Congratulations! Beautiful story ❤️ I loved the conversation between the mother and daughter at the end. Very tender. A lot of complication and nuance in this story. Well done!
Thank you so much! 😊
Checkout my new piece in Black Fox Literary Magazine! ❤️ Many thanks to the editorial team 🙏🏽 You can read the whole flash fiction story here: blackfoxlitmag.com/current-issue/
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A little Halloween fun. Here’s my poem, “Ode to the Horror Film.” Stay spooky 👻
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Can anyone recommend any books, papers, articles, thought pieces, etc. on queer poetics? Thanks!
Okay…I’ve been thinking about this moment all day…because…poet…but maybe it wasn’t funny…maybe it was devastating…the way children reflect the violence they see in our culture through their play
Bet you in the future Columbia University will reclaim students it expelled, suspended, or revoked degrees from for Pro-Palestinian protests, the same way UCLA reclaimed Angela Davis after firing her…twice.
From Dorianne Laux's book, Smoke.
Published by @boa-editions.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/lauxsmoke
Incredible! Thanks again for sharing. This brought me so much joy ✨
Thank you so much for sharing this! I’m so grateful this little poem of mine is finding its way to folks ❤️
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Thank you for sharing this poem Ginger Ayla on Substack “Effing the Ineffable” ❤️
And thank you, thank you Aracelis Girmay for writing it 🥹
I cried my eyes out reading it 😭 This poem. THIS…
so hurry
to where it's soft & I will weep with you.
—Ina Cariño, from "Point to Home"
Still Here I been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has frozen me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between ‘em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin’, stop lovin’, stop livin’— But I don’t care! I’m still here! Langston Hughes
Shared by Well-Read Black Girl. Every day is Black History Month! 💪🏽❤️
Word of the month: Decolonization-the process of dismantling the legacies of colonialism and empowering indigenous communities to reclaim their culture and self-determination.
Seen in my local library! 😊 Libraries are bad ass places! Support your local library! Read banned books 🥳❤️🏳️🌈
Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.
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ICYMI — Sharpton led a buy-in to support Costco after they didn’t back down on DEI
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Thanks to Adrienne Maree Brown for posting this poem! ❤️ First time reading and found the truth of this poem brutal and transformative.
I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name My name is my own my own my own and I can’t tell you who the he’ll set things up like this but I can tell you that from now on my resistance my simple and daily and nightly self-determination may very well cost you your life
The ending lines of “Poem About My Rights” by June Jordan…
Thinking about June Jordan’s “Poem About my Rights”
