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grilled cheese supremacy
padma lakshmi post about best american food & travel writing 2024 taliainteralia Thanks for including my essay about grilled cheese! 23h 2 likes Reply padmalakshmi o @taliainteralia I oved it so much!! 1h 1 like Reply View 2 more replies kieselaymon & I'm so so thankful
October 24, 2024 at 2:04 AM
espiers.bsky.social
Part of what irritates the fuck out of me about JD Vance’s claim to Appalachia isn’t just that part of it is artifice, it’s that people think of Appalachia as a stand in for the working class. If that’s what you want read @kieselaymon bittersoutherner.com/kiese-laymon...
Kiese Laymon: Letter from Home — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
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October 15, 2024 at 10:40 PM
lipsticklitterati.bsky.social
Sundays are for sitting in the #KindredReadingGarden listening to #KieseLaymon read to you from his first children’s book! #HTown #BlackBookSky #BookSky
April 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
tellmestuff.bsky.social
I am working on something Heavy. #stainedglasssunday #kieselaymon #wip
A red and black stained/fused glass representation of the cover of the book "Heavy" by Kiese Laymon.
March 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
lipsticklitterati.bsky.social
I kicked off #BannedBookWeek at Kindred Stories in #Houston Listening to #KieseLaymon speak with @angelaflournoy.bsky.social about her new book was everything I needed! Do yourself a favor & get a copy of #TheWilderness.
October 7, 2025 at 3:40 AM
isisnaucratis.bsky.social
💔UNIVERSITIES REMAIN WHITE SUPREMACIST SPACES
💔THEY DO NOT CARE
💔THEY *PERFORM* CARE WHEN IT SUITS THEIR BRANDING. 1/
By kieselaymon "They got that man to be dead. Over some fucking academic sentences. Hold your people. It is everything our folks told us these places are."
August 14, 2026 at 10:30 PM
lipsticklitterati.bsky.social
I love #ProseToThePeople! I especially love the essay that #KieseLaymon authored on my beloved #KindredStories
rtwilliams16.bsky.social Raymond Williams @rtwilliams16.bsky.social · Apr 9
New Nonfiction Books that come out this week!!! Which ones are you interested in? #booksky
April 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
aishalikesit.bsky.social
Day 4:
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#kieselaymon
#memoir
#howtoslowlykillyourselfandothersinamerica
Book cover: Hazy white and yellow background with handwritten styled letters of the title and author’s name going around the perimeter with black writing and occasional splotches of yellow, orange, and turquoise around the lettering.
January 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
ciw.bsky.social
Job posting - Creative Writing - Poetry - Rice U.
Posted by @kieselaymon on IG ・・・ Associate or Full Professor of Creative Writing in Poetry Rice University: School of Humanities: English Description The Department of English at Rice University seeks candidates for an associate or full professor of Creative Writing in Poetry, with a specialization in African American poetics, and secondary interests in literary translation, social justice, international literature, and / or writing deeply rooted in place. The successful candidate will be an actively publishing writer who holds an MFA or PhD in Creative Writing, with at least two books of poetry, a record of teaching excellence, and an ability to collaborate on the administration and coordination of our undergraduate Creative Writing Concentration, Creative Writing Minor, and the development and launch of an innovative, community-engaged MFA in Creative Writing.
October 19, 2024 at 3:48 AM
christinaivazes.bsky.social
@Booksky Just finished reading #HEAVY, by #KieseLaymon; a beautifully sculpted, visceral memoir. Thank you @theblcklst.bsky.social for recommendation. #memoir
Book cover with fire orange red background, thickly black vertical letters, HEAVY, thin white letters, AN AMERICAN MEMOIR, KIESE LAYMON, other smaller black type.
December 24, 2024 at 3:08 PM
lipsticklitterati.bsky.social
#BookSky take a look at this list. I really love what #KieseLaymon had to say about the new banger from @mjerkins.bsky.social. #Zeal. If you’re in Houston, grab your copy from Kindred and take part in the virtual tour stop next week!
April 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
kaybemads.bsky.social
#blackhistorymonth
#roxanegay
#kieselaymon
#booksky

Days 15 & 16.

It's Black History Month which IS American history, and should be taught to the fullest degree.

Roxane Gay & Kiese Laymon
February 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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kieselaymon
Kiese Laymon
Did these fuckers simply not watch Sesame Street?
April 30, 2026 at 8:23 PM
mobrowne.bsky.social
Reading @KieseLaymon during jury duty selection. #balance
November 21, 2024 at 7:43 PM
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Kiese Laymon on Instagram
3,875 likes, 58 comments - kieselaymon on January 20, 2026
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January 21, 2026 at 7:11 PM
mobrowne.bsky.social
"White American cowardice created black intergenerational poverty." -- @KieseLaymon
November 21, 2024 at 4:42 PM
paulmguest.bsky.social
kieselaymon Yall might need to chill with this, "Wait until Trump supporters feel the brutality of his reign personally." Homie, he helped kill their grandparents, killed their friends with incompetence and lies, never once showed remorse and then told them to drink bleach. And they voted for him. As long as he's encouraging the suffering of black, brown, femme, trans and other structurally vulnerable folks, he could slowly rip their skin off these white workers children and they'd still applaud. Clarity can be the bedrock of revolt and resistance, along with radical kindness and courage, which is why the most abusive parts of us - and the evil that is the Trumps - hate all that good shit so much.
February 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
upmississippi.bsky.social
📚 NOW AVAILABLE

CONVERSATIONS WITH KIESE LAYMON—interviews revealing the HEAVY author’s life as writer, activist, & Mississippian.

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October 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
berondam.bsky.social
Just what I needed on this day full of twists & turns, disappointment & delights...I'm here and ALL in for this conversation with THE #Alice Walker and @KieseLaymon
African American man Kiese Laymon (upper) in conversation with African American woman Alice Walker (lower)
December 6, 2023 at 2:29 AM
tellmestuff.bsky.social
Finally completed my piece titled "Heavy" stained glass book for the Unbound exhibit at Artistree in #pomfretVT This tribute to Kiese Laymon's book will be presented during #Bookstock.

#heavy #kieselaymon #stainedglass #fusedglass #glassart #stainedglass #vermont
The cover and spine of my stained glass piece called "Heavy". The cover is red stained glass with black fire polished stained glass letters, the author's name and parenthetical title painted on clear glass pieces on either side of the title. The book title and author are painted on the spine. The covers and spine of my stained glass piece called "Heavy". The cover is red stained glass with black fire polished stained glass letters, the author's name and parenthetical title painted on clear glass pieces on either side of the title. The book title and author are painted on the spine. The piece is mounted on a circular black wood stand. The view of the inner black pages of my stained glass piece called "Heavy". The covers are red stained glass. The piece is mounted on a circular black wood stand.
April 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
tellmestuff.bsky.social
There's one week left to view the #unbound exhibition at Artistree gallery in #pomfretVT! You won't want to miss it! #kieselaymon
A stained glass version of Kiese Laymon's book "Heavy" created by me, on a display pedestal at Artistree gallery in front of 3 windows. A close up of my stained glass version of Kiese Laymon's book "Heavy". A work of art created using a book standing on end that is displayed at the Unbound Exhibition at Artistree gallery. A sort of pinwheel-shaped art work on paper with bird, sun and other designs painted on it with the words "I wonder where dem birdies is."
May 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
santiagokique.bsky.social
trying to amplify Black voices rn. One of many compiled resource docs in my bio. Some books by Black authors that have been influential to me: “From BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation” by @KeeangaYamahtta , “The Souls of Black Folk” by W.E.B Dubois, “Heavy” by @KieseLaymon
December 25, 2024 at 1:28 AM
amysullivan.bsky.social
I found memoirs the easiest to follow & most enjoyable at first:
• Heavy by @KieseLaymon
• Born a Crime by @Trevornoah
• Walking with Ghosts by Gabriel Byrne
• Wow, No Thank You by Sam Irby, who is a superb writer but/and you really must *hear* her read her work
November 22, 2024 at 5:23 PM
annietan.com
Thank you for reminding us @sandylocks absurdity & horror are our new reality, @viet_t_nguyen we can be normalized to everything, so we need to rewrite this narrative, and shift the norm, and @KieseLaymon to relentlessly tell our stories over and over again! #UnderTheBlacklight
November 18, 2024 at 10:36 PM