@insteadofisaac

Chapbook: 'not belonging anywhere' (Bottlecap Press, 2022)

 Charlotte, NC
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Joined January 2022
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Now available! 📚✨ hallelujah, honey bun by Isaac Akanmu is a luminous coming-of-age chapbook woven from memory, myth, and the sweetness of everyday life. Don’t miss this unforgettable new collection. Order your copy: smallharborpublishing.com/ch…
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📣 Coming 2026 from Harbor Editions: “hallelujah, honey bun” by Isaac Akanmu! We’re thrilled to welcome this powerful new collection from the author of “not belonging anywhere.” Stay tuned for more from this brilliant voice. 🐝🍯📖 #Poetry #NewBook #2026Release #SmallPress
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Hoy en Anthropocene nueva poesía de @insteadofisaac 💋💄🍣 anthropocenepoetry.org/post/…

date night where we become vital organs by Isaac Akanmu

last night was a movie—a rom-com. we laughed as a black man drank bleach but still lived.meanwhile, i drank two cups of dairy & suffered the consequences. internal organs are funny like that. we sat...

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Today on Anthropocene new poetry by @insteadofisaac 💋💄🍣 anthropocenepoetry.org/post/…

date night where we become vital organs by Isaac Akanmu

last night was a movie—a rom-com. we laughed as a black man drank bleach but still lived.meanwhile, i drank two cups of dairy & suffered the consequences. internal organs are funny like that. we sat...

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Congratulations to our contributors @BijouTheresa @xPamelaPainterx @insteadofisaac @ThereseGCarr @amelia_loeffler @mcevoy_nuala
Chestnut Review@ChestnutReview15 Oct 2024
Big News! 💫🌰 @ChestnutReview has got a new issue out today! Autumn 2024 (Volume 6, Number 2) is out and available for free download. chestnutreview.com/cr_v6_n2/ Covert art "Roses12" by Cynthia Yatchman
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Big News! 💫🌰 @ChestnutReview has got a new issue out today! Autumn 2024 (Volume 6, Number 2) is out and available for free download. chestnutreview.com/cr_v6_n2/ Covert art "Roses12" by Cynthia Yatchman
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Do any poets have beef with me? If so, I would be open to participating in a decades-long rap battle type relationship where we, every so often, publish diss poems about each other for the love of the game.
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For this Friday, April 12, @EkstasisMag has organized an arts night @DukeU, featuring writers, visual artists & theologians as guests, incl. Stanley Hauerwas, Timothy Willard, @insteadofisaac, @curtisnewkirkjr, Grace Carol Bomer & more. eventbrite.com/e/inkwell-in-…

Inkwell in Durham

A Night of Arts & Ideas

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Shegun 🌪️🌟
@ShegunTweets12 Jan 2024
What cartoon is a 10/10 in your opinion?
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Applications for the GoodLit Poetry Fellowship 2024 will be accepted 12/1-12/15. This year-long program supports the career of an emerging poet in the Charlotte, NC area. Attend free Zoom info session 11/16 @6pm. ow.ly/pMpu50Q7972 @jayward2030 @insteadofisaac @goodyeararts
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Hey friends!☀️ It’s been a minute but we want to share what’s coming soon: - Video reading series ft. @hun_blackwell @errormessage @insteadofisaac @ShannonFrostGre @CKCpoetry - Issue 11 ft. @_uyendang @clairespoet @Deepcobra +more! - Online workshops! Y’all ready?!
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Sheesh, check out @ChisomOkafor16's poem, "synonyms for tachycardia." Amazing. "i want to look towards / the rising sun / & say into its face: / your money perish with you / for what is empathy / if not a further annihilation / of an already dead thing." thehellebore.com/chisom-okaf…
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The writing & art of @thrivingwordss, @cgomeratavarez, @chisomokafor16, @CKCpoetry, @findmycure, @hun_blackwell, Zoë Cain, Limloo DSN, Samiya Asim, & Erin Weeks is a captivating experience that dares to defy genre & form. Issue 10 is live here: thehellebore.com/bedhead/
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Much love to all of the poets, writers, & artists of Issue 10: Bedhead. What a triumph. Though mental health is often depicted as one dimensional, you redefine the narrative & capture the depths & highs of our emotions & lived experiences. Link: thehellebore.com/bedhead/
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Issue 10: Bedhead is filled with dreamlike melancholy & wonder. Explore mental health, body autonomy, addiction, & neurodiversity with words by @Tanis_MacDonald, @shannonfrostgre @HLR, @insteadofisaac, @ShikshaWrites, @The_Cline + more. Link: thehellebore.com/bedhead/
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@goodyeararts @CLTLitArts @WTRlitmag and the Charlotte Poet Laureate @jayward2030 are proud to announce that @insteadofisaac has been awarded the 2023 Charlotte GoodLit Poetry Fellowship. Congratulations, Isaac! buff.ly/3wqQ9cc #WritingCommunity #amwriting
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In case you had a doubt, You are a writer. You are an artist. You are a poet. Even when you are healing, resting, or simply existing. Your productivity & pace does not dictate your power. You have a voice. When you’re ready, we’re ready too. ✨
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@moviedream28 Nov 2022
Replying to @coffeeandpaneer @insteadofisaac @JellyfishReview
Fantastic flash fiction. It is quite remarkable.
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On #ShortStorySunday #AmReading 'starbury' by @insteadofisaac in @JellyfishReview jellyfishreview.wordpress.co…

starbury by Isaac Akanmu

starbury from pounding the rock to rock bottom. my first image of a broken man? stephon marbury spooning petroleum jelly into his sobbing mouth. no camera tricks…he really swallowed a finger&…

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