Daniel W.K. Lee (李華強)
@danielwklee.bsky.social
Poet, author of ANATOMY OF WANT. Boundary pusher, Theravada ☸️, queer 🏳️🌈, Celestial 🐉. 📍NOLA⚜️. Your anti-racism needs decolonizing. 🍉
Handset, letterpressed slender broadside. Poem by me! No. 5 in a series, 4.25” x 5.5”. $6, free shipping. Order at www.tiltedhouse.org/shop/slender... 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
January 12, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Handset, letterpressed slender broadside. Poem by me! No. 5 in a series, 4.25” x 5.5”. $6, free shipping. Order at www.tiltedhouse.org/shop/slender... 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Chinese literary translators in Taiwan, interested in translating my poetry book? I’ll help you in anyway I can to help you find a publisher. Hit me up if you’re interested!
January 12, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Chinese literary translators in Taiwan, interested in translating my poetry book? I’ll help you in anyway I can to help you find a publisher. Hit me up if you’re interested!
I'd *really* love to read a study on publishing inequity, particularly among prestige publications. Anyone know of any?
January 11, 2026 at 9:46 PM
I'd *really* love to read a study on publishing inequity, particularly among prestige publications. Anyone know of any?
This coming Lunar New Year is 本命年 for us horses. Considered inauspicious, I'm now accepting gifts of jade and red underwear for good luck. I'll need 'em! 😝
December 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
This coming Lunar New Year is 本命年 for us horses. Considered inauspicious, I'm now accepting gifts of jade and red underwear for good luck. I'll need 'em! 😝
My so tired of orgs that amplify artists and writers who legitimately don’t need more limelight. Like do the work and find the creatives who could really use that uplift and shout out.
December 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
My so tired of orgs that amplify artists and writers who legitimately don’t need more limelight. Like do the work and find the creatives who could really use that uplift and shout out.
Cold brew coffee and poetry (This time by Justin Lacour, thank you very much) is a fully nourishing meal by artsy homosexualists’ standards.
December 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Cold brew coffee and poetry (This time by Justin Lacour, thank you very much) is a fully nourishing meal by artsy homosexualists’ standards.
Never was or has been about self-defense
Israel approves 19 new West Bank settlements in major annexation push https://aje.io/7xi4oe
December 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Never was or has been about self-defense
Reposted by Daniel W.K. Lee (李華強)
UN member states endorsed the ICJ’s findings and pressed Israel to meet its legal obligations as an occupying power.
UN General Assembly adopts resolution demanding Israel allow aid into Gaza
UN member states endorsed the ICJ's findings and pressed Israel to meet its legal obligations as an occupying power.
www.aljazeera.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
UN member states endorsed the ICJ’s findings and pressed Israel to meet its legal obligations as an occupying power.
Reposted by Daniel W.K. Lee (李華強)
Oh yes! Have a read, y’all!
Two poems of mine, "Yearbook, 1986" & "Somewhere in Time," here at The Crawfish. 💚
Two Poems//Jeffery Berg — THE CRAWFISH
Yearbook, 1986 It was a great year, cries the cartoon bald eagle, bouquet of balloons in its talons’ grip. “Man in Motion” boosts gray, misty mornings with brassy synths, as a man breaks free to ris...
www.the-crawfish.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Oh yes! Have a read, y’all!
If Toph Beifong isn’t just a total snarky bad-ass in the next season of Avatar: The Last Airbender, imma be *furious.* You hear me?!
December 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
If Toph Beifong isn’t just a total snarky bad-ass in the next season of Avatar: The Last Airbender, imma be *furious.* You hear me?!
Reposted by Daniel W.K. Lee (李華強)
As a winter storm batters Gaza, "people's tents are either being washed away or flooded entirely," says Moureen Kaki with the medical aid group Glia, speaking from Khan Younis. She says the current situation is "not really a ceasefire" but merely "a slower form of death."
December 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
As a winter storm batters Gaza, "people's tents are either being washed away or flooded entirely," says Moureen Kaki with the medical aid group Glia, speaking from Khan Younis. She says the current situation is "not really a ceasefire" but merely "a slower form of death."
The just recently published 2024 LMNL Anthology includes my 2024 Patty Friedmann Writing Competition semifinalist poem “Apologies to the People of Gaza.” Please have a read at lmnlarts.com/LMNL-Anthology
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December 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The just recently published 2024 LMNL Anthology includes my 2024 Patty Friedmann Writing Competition semifinalist poem “Apologies to the People of Gaza.” Please have a read at lmnlarts.com/LMNL-Anthology
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Funemployment chronicle: all the prose-writing peeps I know, I am finally getting to your 📚! I have time now to read more than poetry! @annelllopez.bsky.social Your book is next! 😝🙃😉
December 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Funemployment chronicle: all the prose-writing peeps I know, I am finally getting to your 📚! I have time now to read more than poetry! @annelllopez.bsky.social Your book is next! 😝🙃😉
I'm looking for a new opportunity! The breadth of my experiences and skills can be applied to many roles. Shoot me a DM if you have or know of anything that might be up my alley! Looking for remote or New Orleans-based only.
THANK YOU!
THANK YOU!
December 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I'm looking for a new opportunity! The breadth of my experiences and skills can be applied to many roles. Shoot me a DM if you have or know of anything that might be up my alley! Looking for remote or New Orleans-based only.
THANK YOU!
THANK YOU!
Would I have been (more?) insufferable had I not been a former fat kid? 🤔
November 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Would I have been (more?) insufferable had I not been a former fat kid? 🤔
November 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Super excited to share our latest podcast with New Orleans-based, queer Palestinian activist, Thafer Abu Qamir! Thafer is a thoughtful, erudite speaker and @shanelukas.bsky.social and my interview with him really highlights how much of a powerhouse he is. Have a listen! youtu.be/Y6UcDTXl0b4?...
November 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Super excited to share our latest podcast with New Orleans-based, queer Palestinian activist, Thafer Abu Qamir! Thafer is a thoughtful, erudite speaker and @shanelukas.bsky.social and my interview with him really highlights how much of a powerhouse he is. Have a listen! youtu.be/Y6UcDTXl0b4?...
Get into the latest Reply All episode of Power Beyond Pride where we dig in on the likes of Bari Weiss, LGBT symbols, read questions from our Box. Have a listen at PowerBeyondPride.com/podcast
October 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Get into the latest Reply All episode of Power Beyond Pride where we dig in on the likes of Bari Weiss, LGBT symbols, read questions from our Box. Have a listen at PowerBeyondPride.com/podcast
First time for everything! Thank you final judge Andy Young for selecting my poem “A Confession to Gaza on Lyrical Poetics” as the winner for the 2026 Patty Friedmann Writing Competition in poetry. Also many thanks to LMNL Arts and One Book One New Orleans for the honor! I am truly gooped & gagged!
October 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
First time for everything! Thank you final judge Andy Young for selecting my poem “A Confession to Gaza on Lyrical Poetics” as the winner for the 2026 Patty Friedmann Writing Competition in poetry. Also many thanks to LMNL Arts and One Book One New Orleans for the honor! I am truly gooped & gagged!
Chili oil made and smells amazing. My kitchen is wonderfully aromatic. Oil is missing toasted sesame seeds. Whoops!
October 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Chili oil made and smells amazing. My kitchen is wonderfully aromatic. Oil is missing toasted sesame seeds. Whoops!
A NEW episode of Power Beyond Pride podcast with trans human rights activist @paulinepark.bsky.social
Her sobering perspective is steeped in her experience, sharp analysis, and consistent application of her principles. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or go to powerbeyondpride.com/podcast
A NEW episode of Power Beyond Pride podcast with trans human rights activist @paulinepark.bsky.social
Her sobering perspective is steeped in her experience, sharp analysis, and consistent application of her principles. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or go to powerbeyondpride.com/podcast
October 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
A NEW episode of Power Beyond Pride podcast with trans human rights activist @paulinepark.bsky.social
Her sobering perspective is steeped in her experience, sharp analysis, and consistent application of her principles. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or go to powerbeyondpride.com/podcast
A NEW episode of Power Beyond Pride podcast with trans human rights activist @paulinepark.bsky.social
Her sobering perspective is steeped in her experience, sharp analysis, and consistent application of her principles. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or go to powerbeyondpride.com/podcast
JOIN ME for Rickey Laurentiis's New Orleans' book launch for her second collection of poems, the National Book Award long-listed DEATH OF THE FIRST IDEA.
I'm excited to read alongside and be in conversation with her for the event. Grab a free ticket at www.eventbrite.com/e/rickey-lau...
I'm excited to read alongside and be in conversation with her for the event. Grab a free ticket at www.eventbrite.com/e/rickey-lau...
Rickey Laurentiis Poetry Slam and Fireside Chat
Join us as we welcome Rickey to Baldwin & Co to discuss their new poetry book all about gender and love.
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October 6, 2025 at 12:15 AM
JOIN ME for Rickey Laurentiis's New Orleans' book launch for her second collection of poems, the National Book Award long-listed DEATH OF THE FIRST IDEA.
I'm excited to read alongside and be in conversation with her for the event. Grab a free ticket at www.eventbrite.com/e/rickey-lau...
I'm excited to read alongside and be in conversation with her for the event. Grab a free ticket at www.eventbrite.com/e/rickey-lau...
Sharing a great microgrant opportunity for QTBIPOC artists, activists, and QTBIPOC-led orgs, collaboratives, collectives, who need a little funding to get an innovative project going! Please share widely!
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September 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Sharing a great microgrant opportunity for QTBIPOC artists, activists, and QTBIPOC-led orgs, collaboratives, collectives, who need a little funding to get an innovative project going! Please share widely!
idealist.agreatidea.com
idealist.agreatidea.com