E. Hughes

Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC

I just thought everyone should see this

Here's an example from Rilke (from Sonnets to Orpheus)

I do too! Especially when they are surprising questions, one that's not obvious to the content of the poem--they work as these portals into new ideas, new feeling.

Questions that remain in an effective poem add such subtle affective details to a poem's tone, have a robust syntactic architecture, and intellectual rigor. And most importantly--they still sing.
Questions can't be ramps--they must twist the reader in some new and frightening way.

If I were to do a craft talk and/ or workshop, I would spend one hour on questions: looking at the way poets successfully pose/ posit questions in a poem. So often, people leave in questions that were simply draft scaffolding.

This poem did not make it into Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water, but it was in the earliest drafts of the book. I found it incredibly hard to take this poem out of the book. Still, I love this poem and Alvin Coffey's important and particular experience of racial slavery.

Tonight! Join @toosiewatson.bsky.social to celebrate WHAT WE DO WITH GOD with special guests @ehughespoetry.bsky.social and Hanif Abdurraqib Streams live at 7:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: https://events.haymarketbooks.org/events/haymarketbooks/1870872

Tonight!

Join @toosiewatson.bsky.social to celebrate WHAT WE DO WITH GOD with special guests @ehughespoetry.bsky.social and Hanif Abdurraqib

Streams live at 7:00 pm ET

RSVP to attend: events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...

It was such a gift to be a part of Daniella's launch!!!

Haymarket Poetry Presents: Daniella Toosie-Watson on What We Do with God Join Daniella Toosie-Watson, E. Hughes, and Hanif Abdurraqib for a launch and celebration of Toosie-Watson’s debut poetry collection, What We Do With…

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Join @toosiewatson.bsky.social to celebrate WHAT WE DO WITH GOD with special guests @ehughespoetry.bsky.social and Hanif Abdurraqib.

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It was really cool to hear this conversation between Atricia Bennett and Jon Tobias! I was really honored to be put in conversation with CA Conrad.

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Over the past few days, with the release of ‘BLKNWS TERMS AND CONDITIONS‘, friends have shared that our “Black Outdoors” conversation with Fred Moten and Saidiya Hartman appears early in the film and was important to the filmmaker. ❤️💐

Patricia Smith on How a Poet Ages Nobody—and I mean NOBODY—warned me about my pubic hair. It glistened for years, springy and sprite, an Ivory Soap-scented welcome mat for lucky episodic visitors. I never gave it much thought, cert…

Patricia Smith’s The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems has won the National Book Award for Poetry! Read more here: buff.ly/HKCSQQQ

The Georgia Poetry Prize Welcomes Victoria Chang as Head Judge The University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce that Victoria Chang will serve as head judge for the 2025 Georgia Poetry Prize.

It is such a great honor to help @victoriachang.bsky.social select the winner of the 2025 Georgia Poetry Prize alongside Weijia pan and L.A. Johnson.

Send your manuscripts by November 30th!

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Happy publication birthday to my debut collection, Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water!

Yesterday, it was long listed from the 2025 Maya Angelou Book Award, alongside other brilliant poets.

Thank you to everyone who spent time reading the book. And thanks again to Haymarket for giving the book a home.

It is a great, great honor to have my first piece of scholarship published in Callaloo Journal. I join a long line of black thinkers and writers taking seriously the literary pursuits of Black and African Diasporic people.

I cant wait to celebrate Daniella Toosie-Watson's debut What We Do With God.

RSVP here: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

AOC: If anybody says “this isn’t fair, I'm gonna have to divest all my stocks if I run for congress” maybe you should stay home.

I'm off to Frankfurt, Germany, to give a talk titled "On the Exquisite Corpse: Blackness and Inexpressibility."

These days, I should either be writing a chapter, article, or poem--or editing one. I love writing, but getting this career off the ground is incredibly difficult.

Chicago and Midwest friends, I am moving back in September. Let's collaborate on some reading events!

drove from Chicago to New York today so haven’t linksposted BUT FRIDAY LINKS IS UP featuring @emmdubb16.bsky.social @ehughespoetry.bsky.social @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social @kdonhoops.com and MORE!

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Juneteenth Reminds Us That “Black Freedom” Is an Ongoing Project Juneteenth reminds us that freedom — however seemingly impossible or ineffable — is worth spending our lives pursuing.

Last year, I had the opportunity to be interviewed by philosopher Dr George Yancy about Juneteenth. In the interview, we talk about the philosophical significance of freedom in relation to the ongoing work of antiblackness.

truthout.org/articles/jun...

Congratulations to the winner and the finalists!

I am so happy my second collection Another Way to Say Dying is a finalist for the CAAPS Book Prize!

This book explores the demands of black queer love: the ways blackness renders the demand of love ineffable and the way relation is impossible under the duress of antiblackness.

VS Live! at AWP E. Hughes and Luther Hughes vs. Nostalgia VS · Episode

It was such a great honor to be in conversation with
@britrogers.bsky.social, @moonsatdusk.bsky.social, and
Luther Hughes on the Vs. Podcast live at AWP.

Check out our interview:

Free Palestine! A Reading List Publishing books on the struggle for justice in Palestine has been a central part of Haymarket’s mission since we published our first book, The Struggle for Palestine, in 2001. Here, we pres...

Free Palestine reading list

It was also surreal that “Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water” was mentioned in amazing company!

Last Saturday, I was honored to be selected as a library laureate of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. It was such an honor to be mentioned with such literary and artistic icons and to attend their Spring Awakening gala.

On Saturday, I will be leading a poetry workshop at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory on art, history, and healing.

Register here: carlos.emory.edu/calendar?tru...

Cost:
Free for Emory Students
$25 for nonmembers
$18 for members

Glad to be in conversation with Jimin Seo and Annie Wenstrup in @triquarterlymag.bsky.social

"It’s important to say that none of these meticulously crafted debuts are illegible. Each chooses their audience." - Asa Drake

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