Alysia Harris, PhD
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Anduare Notalone 
Abdul Noormohamed 
Raman Bhatia 
When I get co-reported stories between free world and inside reporters, man that is my favorite kind of work.
When that work involves discussion of the centrality of religion to our everyday lives, I am beyond! Eid Mubarak, everyone.
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She says, “I have heard people say to me, Oh sister, you work with women in prison. Really, there’s Muslim women in prison!”
You can read more about this article here 👇
Also, thank you for@Poppyinthewheatt and all the Scalawag editors for editing this piece.
Retweeted by Alysia Harris, PhD I'm probing my relationship to the QA+ community as a predominately-straight person who has had several romantic, non-sexual relationships.
We called them friendships but they were more like deep partnerships with non-sexual physical intimacy.
What's the word for that?
My people, @scalawagmag is the best place to work for and we are hiring!!! scalawagmagazine.org/join-our-team/.
As @Poppyinthewheat put it, "The very best poems are incantations, ways of telling the truth, and sharing whatever gospel the moment demands."
We're serving up new Southern poems all #NationalPoetryMonth. Catch up on our mixes & RSVP for our 4/29 event 🎶scalawagmagazine.org/national-poetr…6
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Check out @elgallosalvaje’s beautifullllll curation from last week and @Poppyinthewheat’s revelatory suite from earlier this month!
POETRY IS ALIVE, GO GETCHU SOME!
Retweeted by Alysia Harris, PhD When you don't check your ex's page no more b/c you free free. 🙌🏽
thanks to @scalawagmag for giving us the space to highlight these amazing poets and to @Poppyinthewheat for bringing the poetry & playlists back! wow what an honor to bring great poets together! check out these stunning drops from @arianathepoet @cielosueloastro and @EbPoetry twitter.com/scalawagmag/st…
Retweeted by Alysia Harris, PhD Thanks for the mention @myabriabe Jazmine Sullivan’s ‘Heaux Tales’ Tour Recap – VIBE.com vibe.com/music/reviews/…
Courage humility and cheekbones. Three favorite qualities in a person.
You have to know where your power lies at the end of the day.
My personal power is in intensity, performance, joy, the color red, candor, an eternal perspective, a smile as wide as my face, and my global ability to thrive. All these, resources from the ultimate Source.
04/08/2022
On your altar I burn
my need, burn my fear on top
of your body until allwe are left
is love. The holiness you spoke of
through the 1st John and the last
who sat with me on the roof
as I learned again to ease into
ease—is this it?
#NationalPoetryMonth
Grateful to @scalawagmag & @Poppyinthewheat for giving this poem a home!
Retweeted by Alysia Harris, PhD My newest poetry project, a breakup zine called “After Poems”, arrived in the mail!
Join me this Sunday for a virtual poetry reading to celebrate the zine launch with me, Devin Samuels, @Quasarstemple, @jaykayg, @ProjectNard, and @AFalomo
Link: tinyurl.com/afterpoems
Retweeted by Alysia Harris, PhD 04/06/2022
x's and o's
exes and ohs
I dot my eyes
I cross my legs.
I ovulate. Today
I'm a whole alphabet
underwraps. I spell, I spill
the moon inside my pants. I punctuate
every season between milk and blood.
#mutterings #NationalPoetryMonth
04/05/2022
Alone always, I
cannot unclasp the necklace
of green stones. I sleep adorned,
unseen.
#mutterings #NationalPoetryMonth
Glad to be back writting small poems again. twitter.com/scalawagmag/st…
Latest poem about love, intimacy, breastfeeding, and all kinds of desire, familial and otherwise. twitter.com/scalawagmag/st…
I’m so excited to join @Poppyinthewheat and @elgallosalvaje as a national poetry month curator for @scalawagmag’s Poetry&Playlists!
Head to Scalawag’s website & check out poems from us curators, including the full video of this offering: one of my fave poems from Gumbo Ya Ya. 🥺3
Retweeted by Alysia Harris, PhD Day 1 of #NationalPoetryMonth & #NewMusicFriday? Let's gooo:
▶️ @YesAurielle's "grxl gospel i: all the women were white, all the Black folk, men & so, we were brave"
▶️ @elgallosalvaje's "12/15/2017"
▶️ @Poppyinthewheat's "In This Unfamiliar Posture"
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Retweeted by Alysia Harris, PhD A new poem out for #NationalPoetryMonth. Also, I work for the dopest media org on Mother Earth @scalawagmag. Look what they let me do! #poetryandplaylists twitter.com/scalawagmag/st…
#ATL folks, we're looking for one more Atlanta-based photographer for this project.
Is that you? Email [email protected] today to get in on this goodness. twitter.com/Poppyinthewhea…
Retweeted by Alysia Harris, PhD “Baghramian uses sculpture and abstraction to revise our relationships to the spaces and architectures we inhabit — including our bodies.”— @Poppyinthewheat for the @dallasnews
See works by 2022 #NasherPrize Laureate #NairyBaghramian on view through 5/1/22.
Retweeted by Alysia Harris, PhD Here's a stack of over a hundred new inquiries from incarcerated people seeking pen-pals! We have an URGENT need of volunteers to write people in jail, prison, & immigration detention. If you'd like to connect with folks inside, please DM us! And PLEASE like & share this post!
Retweeted by Alysia Harris, PhD I’d love to be able to situate the modern fight for Abolition within a Christ-oriented framework. I’d love to be in discussion with folks around this.
So grateful to be a part of this conversation with @Poppyinthewheat and @wearepushblack on why police reforms have always and will always fail, and why #AbolitionNow is the only way to protect Black lives.
Check it out! #DefundPolice #AbolishPolice youtube.com/watch?v=OcJpiE…
Retweeted by Alysia Harris, PhD Writing about @nashersculpture prize laureate Nairy Baghramian. My latest for @dallasnews.
@MarianGoodman
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"The subtlety achieved through techniques of abstraction is masterful, seeming as effortless as a dancer in motion. Yet, Baghramian never fails to remind us that beneath the skin, there's a body at work, a leg threatening to quiver, a sculpture teetering off balance."
Online book launch w/ @PENamerica @caits_meissner @EduardoCCorral @EmilyYoon @mobrowne @Poppyinthewheat @Nic_Sealey Alejo Rodriguez, Louise Waakaa’igan
Retweeted by Alysia Harris, PhD Hey Southern photographers and photo-journalists. I'm commissioning work for a @scalawagmag photo-essay on the beautifully decorated community fridges located across our region. If interested please DM or email [email protected]
I just cannot abide all these new houses without window trim. All these windows look naked af.
.@Poppyinthewheat performs 'Death Poem'.
Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=w2T9-J…
Don't forget to check out The 519 Black Collective's entire playlist of resources and inspiration.
#BlackLivesMatter #BlackFuturesMatter #BlackHistoryMonth
Retweeted by Alysia Harris, PhD So everyone can have boundaries except God?
Retweeted by Alysia Harris, PhD “Everything changes. I’m captivated. I’ll never be the same. With just one look.” - Maverick City
My testimony and my end.
When it comes to mental health, our generation has become well-versed in stating our boundaries and diligent in requiring others to respect those boundaries if they want continued relationship with us.
The Magical Act of a Desperate Person lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/…
Come listen in to @scalawagmag first Interludes as I talk with Southern poets about their books, their literary loves, and their process! First on deck @IChristian3030, author of "The Gleaming of The Blade." twitter.com/BullCityPress/…
#ComingUp
🎙2/8@IChristian30300 reading hosted by@Poppyinthewheatt via@scalawagmagg | 5pm EST Instagram LIVE |instagram.com/scalawagmagazi…N#TheGleamingOfTheBladee#EditorsSelectionnt
Retweeted by Alysia Harris, PhD Who's ready for some new Southern poetry?
Join us live on Instagram Feb. 8 at 5 p.m. EST to hear @IChristian3030 read from "The Gleaming of the Blade," an upcoming @BullCityPress chapbook.
Hosted by THEE @Poppyinthewheat, it's sure to be a good time:
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Retweeted by Alysia Harris, PhD The night is your cottage industry now,
the day is your brisk emporium.
The world is full of paper.
Write to me.
--Agha Shahid Ali
Retweeted by Alysia Harris, PhD Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
Retweeted by Alysia Harris, PhD bell hooks was a scholar but her first love was poetry. i miss her. twitter.com/scalawagmag/st…
Looking for a hip-hop head and arts writer in Texas interested in reviewing for @scalawagmag Contemporary Arts Museum Houston's exhibition "Dirty South" please email me at [email protected] Include links to any past writing.
20. Don't get lost in the infinite.
You've planned, talked and dreamed about what you want to do. Good.
But now you must take the leap. There is no limit to the things you won't know.
The best time to act was yesterday. The next best time is now.
Retweeted by Alysia Harris, PhD 11. You're going to hurt people that you care about.
A few of them won't forgive you and you will lose them.
You will be an ass, selfish, petty, narcissistic, and short-sighted. Sometimes you will realize this. More likely others will.
Those that call you out;Keep them around.
Retweeted by Alysia Harris, PhD 4. You cannot have it all.
The tragedy of life is that we want multiple things but often they run counter to each other.
The choices you have to make will demand sacrifices - career takes time away from family, great art comes at the cost of security.
Our options aren't free.
Retweeted by Alysia Harris, PhD 3. You will pay a hefty price for not living life as society demands
But remember that society and community are not the same. Society is a large, transactional force ; community is association.
You can withstand societal pressure by building and nurturing a community.
Retweeted by Alysia Harris, PhD "How can I give back what was never mine,
how can I say 'I' and separate myself from what animates me,
a self I claimed because I was wind wilt, ...
I was made to be consumed,
my highest use
is to lose myself in the appetite of God"
- @Poppyinthewheat
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