If you’re looking for resources or ideas: I’ll be spending today getting off my screens and reading Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Claudia Rankine, James Baldwin, and Paolo Freire. Reach out if you want to do this work with me.
I’m kicking off four new online classes in the weeks ahead. If you’re looking for community, new skills, and opportunities to write this summer, this may be perfect for you. Open to all levels. Visit jaydeshpande.com for more info, or sen
Big thanks to American Poetry Review for including four of my new poems! I’m honored to be in this company, and excited to share where I’ve been headed. Obsessions include: spring, rot, solipsism, ruin, childhood, holding environments, an
Summer workshops alert: @brooklynpoets classes are now open for registration. I’ll be teaching an extended 7-weeker on how we can mine inspiration from our notebooks. Link in bio to get to all the goodies.
The opportunity to learn from Eavan Boland was one of the great complex graces of my life in poetry. No one else has committed their life to this art form in the way that Eavan did, nor so energetically acknowledged the writer’s duty to respond
I have a new poem in this month’s issue of @newrepublic. Thanks to @cathyparkhong for including it! 🥝