upfromsumdirt
@upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
poet & nyeusiphile.
poetry collections: Deifying A Total Darkness; To Emit Teal; The Second Stop Is Jupiter; & The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife
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poetry collections: Deifying A Total Darkness; To Emit Teal; The Second Stop Is Jupiter; & The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife
👠👠 + 🎣👨🏿🦳 + 👰🏿♂️
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well, well, well... what have we here?
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40% OFF ALL BOOKS (hard or soft cover!) AT UPK WHEN USING FROSTY25 AT CHECKOUT?
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hey... that includes my book!!
👁👁
& GOOD UNTIL JANUARY THE WHAT?!?!? 👀👀
www.kentuckypress.com
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The cold is very harsh, and my children desperately need warm winter clothes.💔
I'm truly afraid they might get sick, and I can't bear to see any of them suffer.🥹
Please…your support can help keep them warm and safe. 🫂
I'm truly afraid they might get sick, and I can't bear to see any of them suffer.🥹
Please…your support can help keep them warm and safe. 🫂
November 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The cold is very harsh, and my children desperately need warm winter clothes.💔
I'm truly afraid they might get sick, and I can't bear to see any of them suffer.🥹
Please…your support can help keep them warm and safe. 🫂
I'm truly afraid they might get sick, and I can't bear to see any of them suffer.🥹
Please…your support can help keep them warm and safe. 🫂
my timeline got bars...
November 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
my timeline got bars...
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I can't help but think of the occupations that were exempted from the minimum wage during the New Deal because they were held largely by Black and women workers.
Everything recycles
Everything recycles
If you want to remove women from the workforce by making professions where they make up the majority of positions no longer eligible for loans.
November 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I can't help but think of the occupations that were exempted from the minimum wage during the New Deal because they were held largely by Black and women workers.
Everything recycles
Everything recycles
one of my two remaining zoom readings for the year: The Hill Writers Reading Series...
tonight, at 6, i share the zoom with Torli Bush; sign up & roll through.
www.eventbrite.com/e/hill-write...
tonight, at 6, i share the zoom with Torli Bush; sign up & roll through.
www.eventbrite.com/e/hill-write...
Hill Writers Collective Presents upfromsumdirt & Torli Bush
Eventbrite - Hill Writers: A Southern Writers' Collective presents Hill Writers Collective Presents upfromsumdirt & Torli Bush - Saturday, November 22, 2025 - Find event and ticket information.
www.eventbrite.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
one of my two remaining zoom readings for the year: The Hill Writers Reading Series...
tonight, at 6, i share the zoom with Torli Bush; sign up & roll through.
www.eventbrite.com/e/hill-write...
tonight, at 6, i share the zoom with Torli Bush; sign up & roll through.
www.eventbrite.com/e/hill-write...
lissen...
if my grandson can eat off the floor then so can i... 😑
if my grandson can eat off the floor then so can i... 😑
November 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
lissen...
if my grandson can eat off the floor then so can i... 😑
if my grandson can eat off the floor then so can i... 😑
i might try this on the stove top, but id probably have to melt the butter to add it (as well as the cayenne & salt) *after* its popped in the pot.
i love grippos' hot popcorn but can never find a bag when i want it, so ive come up with my own microwave recipe: ¼-⅓ cup white kernel corn, a tblsp of COLD butter (room-tempered will burn), several shakes cayenne, ½ tsp of salt; pop for about 3 mins; add generous amount of nutrional yeast after.
November 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
i might try this on the stove top, but id probably have to melt the butter to add it (as well as the cayenne & salt) *after* its popped in the pot.
i love grippos' hot popcorn but can never find a bag when i want it, so ive come up with my own microwave recipe: ¼-⅓ cup white kernel corn, a tblsp of COLD butter (room-tempered will burn), several shakes cayenne, ½ tsp of salt; pop for about 3 mins; add generous amount of nutrional yeast after.
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
i love grippos' hot popcorn but can never find a bag when i want it, so ive come up with my own microwave recipe: ¼-⅓ cup white kernel corn, a tblsp of COLD butter (room-tempered will burn), several shakes cayenne, ½ tsp of salt; pop for about 3 mins; add generous amount of nutrional yeast after.
Parking Lots, a poem by Clarence Major, was published in Mt. Horeb, WI, in 1992, in a limited edition of 130 copies by Walter Hamady's Perishable Press. Laura Dronzek illustrated the book.
November 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Parking Lots, a poem by Clarence Major, was published in Mt. Horeb, WI, in 1992, in a limited edition of 130 copies by Walter Hamady's Perishable Press. Laura Dronzek illustrated the book.
GYPSY & Other Poems by James Baldwin
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
GYPSY & Other Poems by James Baldwin
Optica Cerebral: Poemas Dinámicos by Nahui Olin (Carmen Mondragón)
November 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Optica Cerebral: Poemas Dinámicos by Nahui Olin (Carmen Mondragón)
this is why Deifying A Total Darkness is my favorite collection, even tho it might not be my best writing (still has some of my fave poems,tho): my publisher allowed me to design & layout every detail of that book & having its cover letterpress was a true delight.
a neighbor once inherited letterpress equipment from his retiring boss and i have never been more jealous of anyone in my entire life.
November 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM
this is why Deifying A Total Darkness is my favorite collection, even tho it might not be my best writing (still has some of my fave poems,tho): my publisher allowed me to design & layout every detail of that book & having its cover letterpress was a true delight.
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this issue of my beloved @thefunambulist.bsky.social is dear to my heart & utterly, vitally necessary. you can order on the website if you want!
Ohan Breiding and Dean Spade explore various forms of trans embodiment, community care, and resistance in the face of political, ecological, and emotional collapse. Interweaving personal memories, reflections on community, grief and global crises, their letters affirm the urgent need for solidarity,
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
this issue of my beloved @thefunambulist.bsky.social is dear to my heart & utterly, vitally necessary. you can order on the website if you want!
shout out to poet-hosts Jay McCoy & Kevin Nance for today's interview on MediaLex's Kentucky Writers Roundtable... it's always an honor & pleasure to chop it up with folks who appreciate the work.
soundcloud link coming soon.
soundcloud link coming soon.
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
shout out to poet-hosts Jay McCoy & Kevin Nance for today's interview on MediaLex's Kentucky Writers Roundtable... it's always an honor & pleasure to chop it up with folks who appreciate the work.
soundcloud link coming soon.
soundcloud link coming soon.
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Stands in front of the church with the deacon wave:
Is there another? Won’t you leave? Won’t you leave? No one knows the day nor the hour but we do know that time is short. I feel in my spirit there are at least three or four more who know their time is running out!
Is there another? Won’t you leave? Won’t you leave? No one knows the day nor the hour but we do know that time is short. I feel in my spirit there are at least three or four more who know their time is running out!
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's resigning from Congress — effective January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Stands in front of the church with the deacon wave:
Is there another? Won’t you leave? Won’t you leave? No one knows the day nor the hour but we do know that time is short. I feel in my spirit there are at least three or four more who know their time is running out!
Is there another? Won’t you leave? Won’t you leave? No one knows the day nor the hour but we do know that time is short. I feel in my spirit there are at least three or four more who know their time is running out!
"If you stick a knife in my back nine inches & pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. The progress is healing the wound that's below // They won't even admit the knife is there."
Malcolm X
Malcolm X
“"He’s going to use the power of what he has created to bring these prices down”
Mugger kneeling on nations neck contemplates shifting girth slightly to open the national windpipe a fraction, waits for applause
Mugger kneeling on nations neck contemplates shifting girth slightly to open the national windpipe a fraction, waits for applause
Trump about to 'wipe the slate clean' on tariffs as he suffers 'disastrous' month: report
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Donald Trump he needs to "wipe the slate clean" with his tariffs as the cost-of-living crisis worsens. Lutnick, who has been in the role since February this year...
www.rawstory.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:17 AM
"If you stick a knife in my back nine inches & pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. The progress is healing the wound that's below // They won't even admit the knife is there."
Malcolm X
Malcolm X
to this day, the best thing ive ever come up with...
my children's program idea is 10 years old this year... if only I'd've engaged in crowdfunding back then... 😔
November 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
to this day, the best thing ive ever come up with...
it's petty, but (points to self) ive noticed how target hasnt featured a dark-skinned black person in their tv ads since they walked back diversity... and this is why their shareholders wont have nice things from me.
November 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
it's petty, but (points to self) ive noticed how target hasnt featured a dark-skinned black person in their tv ads since they walked back diversity... and this is why their shareholders wont have nice things from me.
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"This is a strong, insightful, and self-assured collection. Not a jump scare in sight"
- upfromsumdirt, author of Deifying a Total Darkness + The Second Stop is Jupiter
@popelizbet.bsky.social
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- upfromsumdirt, author of Deifying a Total Darkness + The Second Stop is Jupiter
@popelizbet.bsky.social
kithbooks.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
"This is a strong, insightful, and self-assured collection. Not a jump scare in sight"
- upfromsumdirt, author of Deifying a Total Darkness + The Second Stop is Jupiter
@popelizbet.bsky.social
kithbooks.com
- upfromsumdirt, author of Deifying a Total Darkness + The Second Stop is Jupiter
@popelizbet.bsky.social
kithbooks.com
found this on tumblr & it has me flashing back to my great-grandmother's 2-story shotgun home, the memories of me sliding down the banister & spinning its loose spokes...
i just wasnt expecting to be carried back like that this morning & now im fighting feels...
i just wasnt expecting to be carried back like that this morning & now im fighting feels...
November 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
found this on tumblr & it has me flashing back to my great-grandmother's 2-story shotgun home, the memories of me sliding down the banister & spinning its loose spokes...
i just wasnt expecting to be carried back like that this morning & now im fighting feels...
i just wasnt expecting to be carried back like that this morning & now im fighting feels...
the best thing about writing the poetry i do: having readers talk about how they enjoy the wordplay & have to look up definitions to see wtf im actually saying! ☺️
November 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
the best thing about writing the poetry i do: having readers talk about how they enjoy the wordplay & have to look up definitions to see wtf im actually saying! ☺️
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Well, it's finally happened. @underapurplesky.bsky.social and I talk about being "blessed." We look at a sermon that @b3nediction.bsky.social delivered in 2017 in relation to the present events in Charlotte and elsewhere.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
Are We Really Blessed? The Beatitudes, Charlotte, and the Church We've Become
Podcast Episode · This Ain't It · 11/21/2025 · 48m
podcasts.apple.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Well, it's finally happened. @underapurplesky.bsky.social and I talk about being "blessed." We look at a sermon that @b3nediction.bsky.social delivered in 2017 in relation to the present events in Charlotte and elsewhere.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
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If any poetry can break llms, upfromsumdirt's is the stuff to go with.
1. do you give books for holidays? thrn consider this modern classic, 40% OFF until the new year.
2. also: i hear certain poetry can jailbreak llms - so professors should assign this to their students, subversively attacking the techbros when students feed this into their slop machines.
win/win 😊.
2. also: i hear certain poetry can jailbreak llms - so professors should assign this to their students, subversively attacking the techbros when students feed this into their slop machines.
win/win 😊.
well, well, well... what have we here?
40% OFF ALL BOOKS (hard or soft cover!) AT UPK WHEN USING FROSTY25 AT CHECKOUT?
👁👁
hey... that includes my book!!
👁👁
& GOOD UNTIL JANUARY THE WHAT?!?!? 👀👀
www.kentuckypress.com
40% OFF ALL BOOKS (hard or soft cover!) AT UPK WHEN USING FROSTY25 AT CHECKOUT?
👁👁
hey... that includes my book!!
👁👁
& GOOD UNTIL JANUARY THE WHAT?!?!? 👀👀
www.kentuckypress.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
If any poetry can break llms, upfromsumdirt's is the stuff to go with.
