Michal ‘MJ’ Jones (he/they)
@blackqueerdo.bsky.social
poet | Glory’s Baba 👶🏽 | author: HOOD VACATIONS, @BlackLawrence '23 | SOFT ARMOR, @NomadicPressOak ‘23
| winner: Lambda Literary Award
| winner: Lambda Literary Award
life is the best. 💕
June 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
life is the best. 💕
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I made a list of every literary magazine I could find on Bluesky. Follow them and share this post. The sooner they see Bluesky as a viable platform, the sooner they leave X.
go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j
go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j
April 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I made a list of every literary magazine I could find on Bluesky. Follow them and share this post. The sooner they see Bluesky as a viable platform, the sooner they leave X.
go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j
go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j
my 7 y/o wrote me a poem a few weeks back & i am 😭😭😭
“light me a candle
a piece of tea
a crack of lightning
won’t threaten me
more melody
Baba & me
together we will ascend
together in melody…”
“light me a candle
a piece of tea
a crack of lightning
won’t threaten me
more melody
Baba & me
together we will ascend
together in melody…”
April 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
my 7 y/o wrote me a poem a few weeks back & i am 😭😭😭
“light me a candle
a piece of tea
a crack of lightning
won’t threaten me
more melody
Baba & me
together we will ascend
together in melody…”
“light me a candle
a piece of tea
a crack of lightning
won’t threaten me
more melody
Baba & me
together we will ascend
together in melody…”
who are your favorite documentary poets?
January 28, 2025 at 6:04 AM
who are your favorite documentary poets?
happy 2nd birthday to my debut book of poems 💕 ily
January 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
happy 2nd birthday to my debut book of poems 💕 ily
better life loading 💕
January 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
better life loading 💕
from endo with love
January 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
from endo with love
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Do you have some poems that could use an expert eye? Lamdba Literary Award winner @blackqueerdo.bsky.social is accepting single poems, folios, chapbooks, and full-length manuscripts. Pricing starts at $25 and scholarships are available.
blacklawrencepress.submittable.com/submit/24438...
blacklawrencepress.submittable.com/submit/24438...
January 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Do you have some poems that could use an expert eye? Lamdba Literary Award winner @blackqueerdo.bsky.social is accepting single poems, folios, chapbooks, and full-length manuscripts. Pricing starts at $25 and scholarships are available.
blacklawrencepress.submittable.com/submit/24438...
blacklawrencepress.submittable.com/submit/24438...
next 2 reads - Women of Brewster Place is one of my favorite books of all time
January 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM
next 2 reads - Women of Brewster Place is one of my favorite books of all time
i have just remembered that i need to submit poems in order to have them published
January 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
i have just remembered that i need to submit poems in order to have them published
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I’m learning that once again NYU has gone off the rails and suspended a group of students for a year for nonviolent protest on Dec 11th. We see this is as part of the same oppressive apparatus that supports genocide, suppresses resistance, and destroys institutions of critical knowledge production
January 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I’m learning that once again NYU has gone off the rails and suspended a group of students for a year for nonviolent protest on Dec 11th. We see this is as part of the same oppressive apparatus that supports genocide, suppresses resistance, and destroys institutions of critical knowledge production
poets - anyone else also a musician? 👀
January 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
poets - anyone else also a musician? 👀
newest addition
December 30, 2024 at 3:23 AM
newest addition
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Israel has burned northern Gaza’s last remaining hospital. And kicked out its patients, including neonatal and ICU patients. I picked a western news source since y’all seem more likely to believe those. I don’t know how else to get people to care.
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/h...
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/h...
Israel burns northern Gaza’s last functioning hospital; patients and staff forcibly removed
Isreali military vehicles surrounded the hospital, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, and communications had been cut off.
www.nbcnews.com
December 27, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Israel has burned northern Gaza’s last remaining hospital. And kicked out its patients, including neonatal and ICU patients. I picked a western news source since y’all seem more likely to believe those. I don’t know how else to get people to care.
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/h...
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/h...
on my way to Chicago, had to bring the amazing @taylorbyas.bsky.social with me.
December 25, 2024 at 5:36 PM
on my way to Chicago, had to bring the amazing @taylorbyas.bsky.social with me.
this year, banana pudding cookies. gotta perfect the recipe for Santa!
December 21, 2024 at 4:09 AM
this year, banana pudding cookies. gotta perfect the recipe for Santa!
from my almost-there work in progress. for Devonte “Hart” (Devonte Davis)
December 15, 2024 at 12:09 PM
from my almost-there work in progress. for Devonte “Hart” (Devonte Davis)
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This interview with Nikki Giovanni from earlier this year should be required reading. oxfordamerican.org/web-only/nik...
![I think the transgender kids are the bravest kids right now that we see; they're as brave as my generation was in breaking down segregation. They're breaking down-I don't have the word for it right now-but it's gender prejudice, and [the idea that] somebody has decided that they can tell you who you are, what your name should be, and how you should look.
And those youngsters are saying, "No, I can decide who I am, what my name should be." Everybody's mad at me like, You should be a girl because we've decided you're a girl. And they say, "Well, who the hell are you?" I can decide that I'm a boy. And if it makes me happy, what does it mean to you? And I can decide that my name is John. And if you don't like that my name is Geraldine, why can't you name yourself? And if the people who know you and love you-or have to talk to you, maybe they don't even love you but they have to talk to you -you can tell them, “This is my name, and I would like to be referred to in that way."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bb6m3nt3ohlter5c35zjlt6z/bafkreibs7rspksh3k7ekvnnmxzeenwwuvr4ab6fs4usuckmu2zpdzq3hcq@jpeg)
December 10, 2024 at 3:18 AM
This interview with Nikki Giovanni from earlier this year should be required reading. oxfordamerican.org/web-only/nik...
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i caint deal with this passing of time...
too many good folk are getting up outta here and not anuff good folk are replacing them...
no matter how nice we are, none of us are worthy.
too many good folk are getting up outta here and not anuff good folk are replacing them...
no matter how nice we are, none of us are worthy.
December 10, 2024 at 3:06 AM
i caint deal with this passing of time...
too many good folk are getting up outta here and not anuff good folk are replacing them...
no matter how nice we are, none of us are worthy.
too many good folk are getting up outta here and not anuff good folk are replacing them...
no matter how nice we are, none of us are worthy.
being an editor is one of the greatest joys of my life. got a manuscript you’re on your way to finishing? work with me. i promise you i’m the sweetest.
www.michal-jones.com/editorial-se...
www.michal-jones.com/editorial-se...
December 9, 2024 at 10:22 PM
being an editor is one of the greatest joys of my life. got a manuscript you’re on your way to finishing? work with me. i promise you i’m the sweetest.
www.michal-jones.com/editorial-se...
www.michal-jones.com/editorial-se...
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🙂↕️ absolutely
December 7, 2024 at 8:01 PM
🙂↕️ absolutely
live image of me trying not to get a cold with an elementary aged kid around
December 5, 2024 at 5:36 PM
live image of me trying not to get a cold with an elementary aged kid around
i haven’t been gay on here yet so here you go: the best wife ever in some of our favorite places ever
December 4, 2024 at 12:38 AM
i haven’t been gay on here yet so here you go: the best wife ever in some of our favorite places ever