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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D.
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PhD | Corporate Baddie | I DONE CLICKED MY HEELS THREE TIMES (Soft Skull ‘23, Winner of the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award, 2023 Chicago Review of Books Award, 2024 Ohio Book Award) | RESTING BITCH FACE (August 2025) | she/her

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Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. @taylorbyas.bsky.social · May 22
Resting Bitch Face comes out in just a FEW months with an August 26th release (and don't forget, it's a September pick for Roxane Gay's Audacious Book Club)! Want me to come read in your city, talk to your students, perform at your school/venue, chat about my work? Email me!!
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Please sign up to see these three amazing poets read their work with @notatawp.bsky.social: @victoriawrites.bsky.social @taylorbyas.bsky.social and @toosiewatson.bsky.social will be reading with us on Monday at 7pm.

Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/1927099559...
A NAWP Reading: Victoria Buitron, Taylor Byas & Daniella Toosie-Watson
A NAWP Reading with Victoria Buitron, Taylor Byas and Daniella Toosie Watson hosted by Jared Beloff.
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November 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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This is tomorrow night!

Register here to see @victoriawrites.bsky.social @taylorbyas.bsky.social and @toosiewatson.bsky.social

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A NAWP reading with Victoria Buitron, Taylor Byas ans Daniella Toosie Watson. Nov. 17th 7 to 8pm EST
November 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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TONIGHT!

Join us at 7pm (EST) for a reading and conversation with Taylor Byas and Rosa Sophia Godshall at The Betsy Hotel’s B Bar. This event will be live-streamed from The Betsy on SWWIM’s Instagram and Facebook pages.

@taylorbyas.bsky.social

#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #SWWIMReadingSeries
A Poetry Reading & Conversation, SWWIM, images of two women, Taylor Byas and Rosa Sophia Godshall, TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT, November 13th 7:00 PM The B Bar
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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notatawp.bsky.social
Join us next week for NAWP's incredible November reading with @victoriawrites.bsky.social, @taylorbyas.bsky.social, and
@toosiewatson.bsky.social!

Hit the RSVP link!
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Promotional graphic with author photos that says: A NAWP Reading Victoria Buitron Taylor Byas Daniella Toosie-Watson Hosted by Jared Beloff November 17, 2025 7:00pm - 8:00pm EST
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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This week's Friday Five is live!

Music from Snocaps, Claire Rousay, @chatpileband.bsky.social
+ Hayden Pedigo

Words by @taylorbyas.bsky.social and Annie Proulx

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November 7, 2025 — Aarik Danielsen
The first sign of Snocaps and a poet’s ‘Resting Bitch Face.’
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November 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Join us Thursday, November 13 at 7pm (EST) for a reading and conversation with Taylor Byas and Rosa Sophia Godshall at The Betsy Hotel’s B Bar. This event will be live-streamed from The Betsy on SWWIM’s Instagram and Facebook pages.

XO
SWWIM Team

@taylorbyas.bsky.social

#SWWIMEveryDay
Flyer saying SWWIM "A Poetry Reading & Conversation" with images of two women, Taylor Byas and Rosa Sophia Godshall, November 13 / 7:00 PM / The B Bar / Livestream on IG/FB / The Betsy Southbeach
November 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.

Now let’s get to work.

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November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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NAWP November reading has a powerhouse lineup with @victoriawrites.bsky.social, @taylorbyas.bsky.social, and @toosiewatson.bsky.social!

To join us, hit that RSVP link below.

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A NAWP Reading: Victoria Buitron, Taylor Byas & Daniella Toosie-Watson
A NAWP Reading with Victoria Buitron, Taylor Byas and Daniella Toosie Watson hosted by Jared Beloff.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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New reviews live today in SoFloPoJo's 39th issue:
@taylorbyas.bsky.social
Resting Bitch Face

@josehernandezdz.bsky.social
The Parachutist

Jameela F. Dallis's
Encounters For the Living and the Dead
@riverriverbooks.bsky.social

and

Judith H. Montgomery's
The Ferry Keeper
November 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
taylorbyas.bsky.social
Need anymore motivation?? It’s my BIRTHDAY! Come hang out with us!!!
notatawp.bsky.social NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social · 20d
HEY! NAWPsters! You! Yeah, YOU! Whatcha doing November 17th? Oh yeah, well you have NEW PLANS—you have NAWP PLANS.

Check out this lineup: @victoriawrites.bsky.social, @taylorbyas.bsky.social, and @toosiewatson.bsky.social!

RSVP link in the post below.
Promo graphic with author photos. A NAWP Reading Victoria Buitron Taylor Byas Daniella Toosie-Watson Hosted by Jared Beloff November 17, 2025 7:00pm - 8:00pm EST
October 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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What do you need? You need to know about this amazing @notatawp.bsky.social reading with @victoriawrites.bsky.social @taylorbyas.bsky.social and @toosiewatson.bsky.social next month! Register now:

www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...
A NAWP Reading: Victoria Buitron, Taylor Byas & Daniella Toosie-Watson
A NAWP Reading with Victoria Buitron, Taylor Byas and Daniella Toosie Watson hosted by Jared Beloff.
www.eventbrite.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Very very excited for this!!!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
gendeguzman.bsky.social Genevieve DeGuzman 🐸🐤🕺🏻🪩 @gendeguzman.bsky.social · 22d
🚨 📙 My forthcoming book has a cover! I hear dynamite gets lit once you start reading. 🧨

The one-and-only @taylorbyas.bsky.social was my editor and @simonemuenchie.bsky.social brought me into the @jacklegpress.bsky.social fold. ✨

Goes boom on 3.16.2026. More info coming soon!
Cover art for Karaoke at the End of the World, a debut poetry collection by Genevieve DeGuzman, out from JackLeg Press in March 2026. Cover is an illustration of a lit stick of dynamite and rays of light emanating around it with frenetic energy. Pink and orange and beige yellow. Pre-order details coming soon.
October 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago
October 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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“There is a moment when my aloneness / is flayed down to something animal, the bullish man in my mind for years. My / body still capable of rising to a cold wind or a warm hand. I’m sorry, / where are my / manners?”

This poem “A Grammar of Loneliness” by @taylorbyas.bsky.social gets me, gutted me.
The poem “A Grammar of Loneliness” by Dr. Taylor Byas in paperback, annotated all over enthusiastically in pen. One of the annotations say “Can I just…highlight this whole poem.” Another annotation is a heart. Another is all caps “OMG BARS BARS BARS.” There are many underlined lines and brackets and notes. At the top is a heart drawing and multiple stars. (Apologies, I can’t just paste the poem’s text here in its original intended format).
October 19, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️
nocturnalxlight.bsky.social Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · Oct 19
@taylorbyas.bsky.social you have written something deep-wrenching and stunning. RESTING BITCH FACE is thematically tight, brutally honest, and intentional in its tenderness, its carving out and knowing. I keep marking it up, pen in hand, with wows & damns at powerful lines.

Favorite poems below ⬇️
The poetry collection RESTING BITCH FACE by Taylor Byas. The cover image shows two identical, mirrored profiles of a Black woman. Her skin is glowing. Her eyes are peering into the soul of the other her. One for each mirrored side, her hands are positioned tenderly and contemplatively, so softly, under her chin. Black nail polish gleans from her half-opened palms facing us. The mirror image hands overlap.
October 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Always love seeing guest's works out in the wild!! Spotted @taylorbyas.bsky.social twice while walking around Lawrence, KS.
A picture of the book "Poemhood: Out Black Revival" edited in part by Taylor Byas. The book is sitting on a toystore shelf. Picture of "Resting Bitch Face" by Taylor Byas. Held in hand at a bookstore.
October 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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First installment of e•pon•y•mous available on my Substack! Was so honored to have this convo with my good friend @taylorbyas.bsky.social , please give it a listen when you have the chance!

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Eponymous | "Resting Bitch Face" by Dr. Taylor Byas
Listen now | Talking with Dr. Byas about sophomore collections, the freedom of form, and why we love the pantoum
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October 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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daftrockwell.bsky.social
“I had worked hard for nearly two years…”

Author copies are here and I’m thrilled!! Grateful to @mickmakesmagic.bsky.social for the cover, @taylorbyas.bsky.social / @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social / Warren Longmire for blurbs, and of course Holly at @interstellarflight.bsky.social for picking it up!!
Griffin’s new chapbook, “LISTEN—“, lays on top of a collection of science fiction-related patches on a black background.
October 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Tonight, at Brooklyn Poets!!
October 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Me and RESTING BITCH FACE hit NY this weekend! I hope to see you at Books Are Magic and/or Brooklyn Poets!!
October 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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If you miss any of our In Conversations, we have them on our YouTube channel... Most recent event with @taylorbyas.bsky.social & @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social up now!
youtu.be/MYV3LJ2Vj8Q
In Conversation: Taylor Byas and jason b. crawford
YouTube video by The Notebooks Collective
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October 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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@taylorbyas.bsky.social joins the WPLS tonight (9/24). The Zoom room opens at 7:15pm (EST), and the reading starts at 7:30pm.

Order RESTING BITCH FACE from Soft Skull Press: softskull.com/books/restin....

#poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry
September 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Tomorrow (9/24)!!

@taylorbyas.bsky.social, Ashley Jones, & @djvorreyer.bsky.social read for the WPLS.

#poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry

@sundresspub.bsky.social @hubcitypress.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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berondam.bsky.social
Great convo between @taylorbyas.bsky.social on her most recent poetry book "Resting Bitch Face" with @roxanegay.bsky.social for the Audacious Book Club. Great insights on demands on Black women & their bodies—erasure, politicization, expectation of performative acceptability (e.g., smiling vs RBF).
September 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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wplseries.bsky.social
@taylorbyas.bsky.social joins the WPLS on 9/24/25. The Zoom room opens at 7:15pm (EST), and the reading starts at 7:30pm.

Order RESTING BITCH FACE from Soft Skull Press: softskull.com/books/restin....

#poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry
September 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM