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Dure Ahmed
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don’t read my poems (give me a job)
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"We know the Nazis loved America..."
—Zaina Alsous

#poetry #poem #poems #booksky
February 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
well we’re back here I guess
November 15, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Please sign this letter to help make sure that writers’ conferences and retreats etc. take proper precautions for COVID, to protect yourself and allow more equity in participation
December 6, 2023 at 12:45 AM
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Hello folks! If you’re a writer who applies to, attends, or teaches at writing workshops, can you spare a minute to read, sign, and share this letter asking for better care and accessibility at the Bread Loaf Writers Conferences?

theoffingmag.com/insight/bl_a...
A Request for Accountability in Our Shared Spaces - The Offing
Insight - The Offing Magazine
theoffingmag.com
December 2, 2023 at 9:10 PM
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
October 26, 2023 at 9:48 AM
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As of two hours ago, the Death toll in Gaza is 5156 including 2009 children and 15740 injured.
October 23, 2023 at 8:53 AM
oh I was getting mad at the girls being serious about saying ‘our hormone cycles make us less suitable than men for full time employment’ but who am I - I failed my driving test today
October 7, 2023 at 12:15 AM
I failed my test. Turns out the answer is no 🌸💖
I postponed my test. So once again:
Can I learn to drive in 2 weeks stay tuned to find out if I fail my test 🌸💖
can I learn to drive in 2 weeks stay tuned to find out if I fail my test 🌸💖
October 6, 2023 at 6:30 PM
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A good way to support writers is to request their newly released books at your local library. ❤️📚
October 4, 2023 at 11:29 PM
part of me wants no one to read this essay. I’m embarrassed that my grappling with spirituality, magic, reality + my status as oppressor took me so long so tease out and is still an ongoing process.

but if it helps anyone, esp migrants like me, read here
www.fieldstudieswriting.com/fromthefield...
October 5, 2023 at 6:09 PM
I postponed my test. So once again:
Can I learn to drive in 2 weeks stay tuned to find out if I fail my test 🌸💖
can I learn to drive in 2 weeks stay tuned to find out if I fail my test 🌸💖
September 22, 2023 at 7:38 PM
I have a Best of the Net Nom 💥💥💥

I can’t believe it. I thought of the piece as my most “no one else but me could care about this” and the good people at Many Nice Donkeys did not just publish it as Flash Creative Non-Fic but also nominated it for BOTN.

Send out your weirdest work!!
September 20, 2023 at 3:17 PM
I’m so happy about Guernica Magazine winning the Whiting Award. At a time when I didn’t believe in my voice, editor Sarah Ahmad saw what I was trying to say in these flower anatomy poems. Grateful 💗
I Want, Still
Today I am empty, fasting till sundown
www.guernicamag.com
September 13, 2023 at 7:46 PM
this residency app is asking for my advocacy experience and I’m like “I cook(ed) for my poc friends (when I had poc friends living near me)”

fml
September 11, 2023 at 6:52 PM
The first time my siblings and I conspired to break generational curses was when we cooked Knorr noodles for ourselves and did NOT break the dried noodle cube in half and ate the long long luxurious noodles quietly, our eyes glinting at each other
September 9, 2023 at 5:08 AM
can I learn to drive in 2 weeks stay tuned to find out if I fail my test 🌸💖
September 6, 2023 at 9:36 PM
watch me apply to jobs on Labor Day
September 4, 2023 at 5:37 PM
enjoy Stegner this fall, fellows! I’ll keep supporting you with my app fees one ninety dollar chunk a year 🤡
September 3, 2023 at 4:11 PM
i read middlemarch when I was thirteen and that’s the only thing in my life that prepared me for bread loaf
September 3, 2023 at 4:07 AM
i woke up feeling bitchy and demonic which is a sure sign I’ve recovered from covid. rolled my eyes at at least 3 people before noon yes im so back
September 1, 2023 at 5:10 PM
nothing good can happen to me can it like I was like ok bread loaf is nice enough and then I got covid and am getting driven off the mountain today
August 25, 2023 at 11:05 AM
why are u calling your man your Ken still?! The Ken who went full Andrew Tate in the movie?!?? wake up
August 14, 2023 at 9:45 PM
zoom in on my pfp find where I live and kill me pls I can’t take my odd job + applying to other jobs hustle anymore
August 13, 2023 at 11:49 PM