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Derrick Austin
@paradiselaust.bsky.social
Author: THIS ELEGANCE (Spring 2026), TENDERNESS, and TROUBLE THE WATER (BOA Editions) | Wannabe Art Historian | He/Him

📍Chicago

https://linktr.ee/DerrickAustin
Gothika
The Naked Kiss
Night of the Living Dead
Enemy
November 4, 2025 at 2:52 AM
My third book, This Elegance, is out from @boa-editions.bsky.social in May 2026.

Cover design by Sandy Knight with art by Diedrick Brackens.

Available to preorder now 🙏🏿
October 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Justice for Gothika. This movie is INCREDIBLE
October 6, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Certified Copy
Close-Up
When Marnie Was There
October 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I’m included in a new anthology focused on poems of labor and work called The Book of Jobs: Poems About Work. Recently out from ONE ART, the anthology is free and available online as a PDF. My poem is a love song to Black, gay couturier Patrick Kelly.
September 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Lawrence of Arabia
L’Innocente
The Heiress
Rebecca
September 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
A Double Feature
August 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Radioactive shrimp, zombie squirrels, rabbits with tentacles growing out of their faces…just another Tuesday in America
August 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Want to finish watching The Heiress (loving it) but I’m falling asleep
August 18, 2025 at 6:50 AM
I’m assembling a team
August 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Excited to have a poem from This Elegance in the latest @voicemailpoems.bsky.social. Follow the link below to hear me read it as well as read and listen to the other fab poems in the summertime issue!
August 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Le Bonheur
Winter Light
Snow Trail
A Place in the Sun
August 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
August 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“I'm 6'5", 220, and there's two of me.”
July 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Real af
July 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
My boy being an incredible poet and a terrible dad lmao
July 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Baby that’s Post Malone
July 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
July 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
July 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Taking Myself to The Frick
July 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Will I ever find a steady paycheck? Does such a thing still exist?
July 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
All I know is my man better win that Emmy
July 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Showing up with my resume like
July 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I went to The Met early this morning so whole swaths of it were empty.
July 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Remembered Ruth Negga didn’t win the Oscar for Passing
July 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM