Poet, Chamoru, he/him. Executive Director at @PoetsHouse. Cofounder @memoriousmag. Tweets with own brain. Black Lives Matter.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined August 2016
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Sometimes the very hard work you do will go unseen and unacknowledged. Do the work anyway.
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THIS MONDAY, 7PM, at the Crown Inn:
Join us in #crownheights for Poets Night at @FranklinParkBK Reading Series affiliate event Crown Inn Reading Series! Enjoy readings by @AnastaciaRenee5, Ry Cook, @_robarnold, Sophie Ewh, and @yawnlemay + 🍻specials! #Free!
724 Franklin Ave.
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November is National Adoption Awareness Month. Please join poets Sullivan Summer, Ryan Jafar Artes, @_robarnold & @mollygaudry at this centering—and celebration—of the voices of adopted people, both in-person at Brooklyn Poets and livestreamed via Zoom. buytickets.at/brooklynpoets/…
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Join us Sat, May 3 for the launch of @abipollokoff's debut collection, night myths • • before the body, at 144 Montague St! Doors at 6pm and readings at 7pm. jason b. crawford, Anastacia-Reneé, C.R. Grimmer & @_robarnold will open for Pollokoff. Tix at bit.ly/bkp-pollokoff !
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Beauty in, beauty out. What you consume becomes you.
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We believe poetry can change lives and we need poetry now more than ever. This #GivingTuesday, please make a gift to help Poets House keep poetry accessible for everyone! poetshouse.org/donate/
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We’re thrilled that @LKTuffaha, Truong Tran, and @_robarnold are the Poetry judges for the 2025 #FirecrackerAwards! Learn more and submit by November 15: clmp.org/programs-opportunit…
ALT A red graphic featuring photos of the three judges and text reading "Judging the 2025 Firecracker Award in Poetry."
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Claudia Rankine's DON'T LET ME BE LONELY: An American Lyric reissued in a new full-color edition, with new preface, out next week @GraywolfPress. I'm still feeling the immensity of this work, then and now, "in this world in this life in this place indicating the presence of."
Feeling this so much. Hugs and light to @likaluca who was doing god's work in publishing.
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We at the Review mourn the loss of Alice Munro (1931–2024). In memory of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Fiction interview from our archive.
theparisreview.org/interview…
I haven't read much Alice Munro, but what I have read is exquisite and I'll never forget how a male editor of the NYTBR once described her work as "women's fiction" in an episode of their podcast.
NOLA roll call! Come through, if you’re around.
if you're in New Orleans this weekend, I'll be a part of a panel/workshop that should especially be of interest to those writers who are writing something that lives in between fiction/CNF and poetry. with me will be Rone Shavers & @_robarnold to discuss some different approaches
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if you're in New Orleans this weekend, I'll be a part of a panel/workshop that should especially be of interest to those writers who are writing something that lives in between fiction/CNF and poetry. with me will be Rone Shavers & @_robarnold to discuss some different approaches
An essay five years and a lifetime in the making—an ode to journeys physical, celestial, and emotional—published online in @solsticelitmag just in time for tomorrow’s #EclipseSolar2024. I hope you enjoy it!
Excited for tomorrow's eclipse? Read Rob Arnold (@_robarnold)'s essay "Great American Eclipse," originally published in our print issue:
buff.ly/43LY1VD
#Eclipse #Eclipse2024
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Excited for tomorrow's eclipse? Read Rob Arnold (@_robarnold)'s essay "Great American Eclipse," originally published in our print issue:
buff.ly/43LY1VD
#Eclipse #Eclipse2024