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Adria Quiñones
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Award-winning Nuyorican kidlit writer. Published poet. Author of MI TIERRA, an early-reader-in-verse, available NOW from Reycraft!
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The opening of Hair: Unbraiding Identity! Uptown support, Uptown shine, Uptown vibes—it was everything!!!
March 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Opening Thursday 3/13 at the NOMAA Gallery in Washington Heights, “Hair: Untangling Identity.” Honored to have my poem, Raices, included. www.nomaanyc.org/nomaa-events...
March 9, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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They all sound like novel titles.
A poster of Bird plutal nouns: a brood of chickens, a colony of penguins, a doke of doves, a host of sparrows, a stand of flamingos, a brood of hens, a colony of vultures, a dopping of goosanders, a mews of hawks, a pride of ostriches, a cost of falcons, a company of parrots, a flight of birds, a murder of crows, a pride of pelicans, a colony of gulls a convocation of eagles, a flight of cormorants, a mustering of storks, a parlinent of owls
February 23, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Someone please call winter’s mother. They need to leave.
Screen capture of the weather app, showing Nee York City: 19 degrees; feels like 5 at 8 AM on Feb. 18th.
February 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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I write a lot of poetry but rarely submit—not because of rejection but because it’s REALLY hard to figure out WHERE to submit! But an exhibit in Washington Hts about hair? That’s for me!

Thank you, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance., for selecting my poem Raices!
February 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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These arrived tonight.
Mixes bouquet of flowers including pale pink rosed, some deep burgandy berries, and other flowers
February 7, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Me, lurking at the SCBWI kidlit conference in NYC today.
Adria Quinones at the Hilton : she has a lot pf gray hair, glasses and is wearing a mask. Over her left shoulder is a wood panelled wall; the conference schedule is posted on a series of tripods in front. A few women are reading and passing by.
February 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Words for today, for the coming days.
Tweet from Andew Padilla: Do not bee dismayed by the brokeness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as the day, but with intention. So go. Live intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light in you. —L. R. Knost
January 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Oh! Snow!
(Washington Heights, NYC)
January 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Day 2 was an emotionally exhausting success! 43 poems from the MG WIP transcribed. This is maybe half of what I’ve written? Might be a third. Hope I’ll know by the end of the weekend!
Two spiral-bound Muji notebooks piled on one another.
January 18, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Day 2 of my Poetry Write-/Type-athon Staycation: I’m back at the beautiful light-filled library at AMNH. Today I’m trying to work on my MG novel-in-verse, partially because I want to, partially because @armyvet5.bsky.social told me to 😂😂😂 Good friends help us keep going—thank you, Winsome!
Author Adria Quiñones wearing glasses and a mask, a wall of books behind her. She has about 6 layers on because it is REALLY COLD in NYC this January!!! Computer and two notebooks balanced on a lap in front of a large window.
January 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library. I will adjust, eventually.
Screen shot of the google summary for when you search Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
January 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Day 1 of the 5-Day Poetry Writing-Transcribing Marathon: Evening Edition

Coming to you from the former Mid-Manhattan Library!
Adria Quiñones at work at NYPL’s Stavros Niarchos branch. She’s wearing glasses, a big sweater and a mask. She has fluffy grey curls. A bookcase is visible behind her.
January 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Walked from Chambers Street past City Hall to Fulton Street this afternoon around 3 PM. Much less traffic, much less NOISE! What a win for New York City! #congesttionpricing
NYC next to City Hall Park, mid-afternoon. Taffic is light. Downtown New York. Surprisingly little traffic.
January 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Day 1 of my at-home poetry-writing retreat: I’m loving the Library at AMNH!
The entrance to the AMNH library at far left: staircase with metal grid at right AMNH library reading room: comfy chairs at front, couch seating area behind with a wall of books at back. The curve of the outside library wall, with comfy chairs looking out on Columbus Ave. Me in the library, wearing a mask, earphone, glasses and giant burnt orange sweater. Giant gray gurly hair.
January 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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I have to go to the Financial
District on Thursday afternoon I’m SO excited to check out post-congestion pricing traffic downtown!
Looks like Water Street, only without cars. Imagine downtown at 8 AM on a Sunday morning—that level of emptiness.
January 15, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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I’m working on my 2025 conference calendar! Amaya and I hope we’ll see you at TLA, ALA or NCTE!
January 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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January 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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The Quiñones-Beckwith household is now on ECT (Eastern Convenience Time - GMT+3). That means we can celebrate the New Year at 10 PM and go to bed already.
Happy New Year text looking like a neon sign: bottle Of dripping champagne popping it’s cork in the middle diagonal; fireworks starburst in upper left, 4 stars in lower right, lighting one after another.
January 1, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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I got to show my son the beautiful window display at @wordupbooks.bsky.social featuring MI TIERRA. He thought my hat looks like Amaya’s hair—and it does!
Author Adria Quiñones in front of a bookstore’s window display. She hasn overcoat, glasses and a floopy hat—and a big smile. Possibly her nose is a little red from the cold. In the window, to the left, is MI TIERRA, her early reader in verse, available at Word Up and other fine bookstores. Also Target, Amazon, etc.
December 24, 2024 at 1:20 PM
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The worst officiating in an NBA game. #sixers
December 24, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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Brrrrrrrrr
Screenshot of iPhone weather app, showing the weather in NYC: 19 degrees, mostly sunny.
December 22, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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My trip to DC by the numbers:
Days: 5
Friends: 6+2 kids
Museums:4
Poems written: 17

Thanks, DC, for the inspiration! Hope to see you again soon!
Photo of Langston Hughes by Gordon Parks. Hughes is looking straight at the camera, his hand is flat within an empty frame on the left. Card about the photo is on the right. Christmas trees (real ones!) witb white lights around the rotunda at the National Gallery of Art. Tall green marble columns on the right. The lobby if the National Museum of Building. Colums 30-40 feet high go across the center. The 1st and 2nd floors are bulit like arcades: a series of archways act as hallways in front of the exhibit rooms.
December 17, 2024 at 1:21 PM
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Writing on the early train to DC.
A shaft of sun hits a notebook with a pencil. The amtrack seat in front and the aisle is on the left.
December 12, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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How to fight unreasonable health insurance denials: a playbook. Save the pic, copy the alt text, share widely. Many thanks,
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Five tweets by Raheli: when your insurance denies, ask for the following in writing: 1) the name, board specialty, and license number of the doctor making the determination the treatment was not medically necessary; 2) copies of all materials they relied on to make their determination; 3) proof the doctor making the determination has maintained registration in your specific state and documentation of their meeting all their continuing education requirements; 4) the aggregate rate at which similar treatments are denied vs approved by the specific doctor being used for peer review. You are not entitled by law to *all* of these things in most states, but you're entitled to some of them, and you can always ask for them. This is a wildly successful tactic, because if the insurance company answers them honestly, it gives you evidence that the “doctors" making these determinations are practicing medicine out of scope, without proper licensing and qualifications, in areas they are not competent in.
December 9, 2024 at 1:08 AM