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Dare Williams
@dare-williams.bsky.social
queer | poz | poet | jazz head |
associate poetry editor @thehooliganmag
MFA @WarrenWilsonMFA

writings/workings at
DareWilliams.com
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I guess I should begin by saying I recently graduated from the MFA program @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social something I told myself I could never do and I shared a little about that and maybe it will help you too.
Hinge showing me the profile of a friend of mine who I know is very not alive and saying we are most compatible is exactly how my dating life is going 🙃
October 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

-Assata Shakur
September 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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📣 NEW RELEASE ALERT! 📣 Boa Editions is thrilled to announce that Aracelis Girmay's new collection of poetry GREEN OF ALL HEADS is out now! We have signed paperbacks and hardcovers for sale on our store in limited supply! Purchase yourself a copy today at boaeditions.org. Spread the word🍃
September 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
September 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Thank you Wolf and all @redhotorg.bsky.social. TRANSA is such a beautiful project and great to celebrate last night at The Getty.
September 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Some evenings you come home and you just need to hear Nina Simone. That voice, that ache.
July 30, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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September 30!
June 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Sending a transmission from downtown Los Angeles— it’s very intense here and swelling. We are in the thick of it fighting back.
June 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
oh well
May 21, 2025 at 5:40 AM
If you keep a journal, the time passing will always make a shape

-Alice Notley
May 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I am qualified for giving you pain by telling the truth

-Alice Notley
May 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Being made to be a sniper by the American government is a very public thing

- Alice Notley
May 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Too much has happened to me

-Alice Notley
May 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
🖤 ALICE 🖤
May 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Erasure poems using a copy of Polysecure
April 29, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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April 22nd is Earth Day. Get a copy of the new IOE anthology, Ecobloomspaces. Great work by poets such as @jjrancourt.bsky.social @dare-williams.bsky.social @kelliagodon.bsky.social and many more.

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#writingcommunity
April 23, 2025 at 5:43 AM
If you’re all edges, are you edgy?
April 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open there no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.

- Czesław Miłosz
April 12, 2025 at 4:06 AM
This anthology from @ironoakeditions.bsky.social dropped at AWP - thank you for giving this poem a home and glad to share pages with many talents.
March 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The ides of March… if only
March 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I have 2 new poems in @birdcoatquarterly.bsky.social thank you for giving them a home. A poem made at @vermontstudioctr.bsky.social after a cruisey encounter and another about HIV in the body,
art making and historical disconnection. www.birdcoatquarterly.com/post/dare-wi...
March 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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On March 19, hear former #ExpoReview Poetry Editor @cdeskilson.bsky.social read from their debut poetry collection SCREAM / QUEEN at Skylight Books, with a double #ExpoContributor bonus of Edwin Bodney & @dare-williams.bsky.social & Sarah Ellen Fowler: www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylig...!
www.skylightbooks.com
March 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM