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It’s been a blessing to move through this world with this book I’m so proud of. The conversations had, the memories shared, the heartfelt connections made. Thank you to everyone who has and wants to read IF PIT BULLS HAD A GOD IT’D BE A PIT BULL! You can still order a copy from @theheadandthehand through the link in my bio. 🐾🐾🐾 Colleges and Universities can now reach out to my booking agents at Neon Entertainment through the link my bio as well! 🙏🏼
This summer has been blessed with shared spaces and stages with such beautiful, generous, loving, talented and community oriented poets + audiences. I’m deeply grateful for everyone’s presence and energies as we’ve crossed paths. Please share and comment a memory we’ve shared in the last year. I’ve been thinking a lot about archives recently and would love to make my socials one of the accessible ones 💐which means I want you to be part of it! More soon!
IF PIT BULLS HAD A GOD IT’D BE A PIT BULL
OUT NOW! LINK IN BIO!
In Collaboration with @scumlizard and published by @theheadandthehand
I am so excited for this chapbook to be in the world! Sending y’all so much love! Thank you for believing in me all these years! Book launch @ The Head & The Hand Bookstore on 11/8!
🐾IF PIT BULLS HAD A GOD IT’D BE A PITBULL🐾 released on 11/8/2024 with The Head & The Hand Press (@theheadandthehand ) as part of their Riverwards Chapbook Series. I had the great pleasure of collaborating with H&H (Linda, Claire, Shosh) and being paired with an incredible editor, Summer Farrah, as well as the talented and meticulous artist Scum Lizard aka Rushawn Videl-Gevonte Stanley and together we ushered into this world this collection of poems. These poems were largely written in 2017 at the Cave Canem main office workshops led by DéLana R. A. Dameron and Joel Dias-Porter. From 11/8 - 11/29, I was in 7 different cities (Philly, San Francisco, Phoenix, Chicago, Miami, Baltimore, NYC) not only touring with the chapbook but surrounding myself and building with beloved new and long-time friends. Thank you to @paintedbrideartcenter , @creativesoulhouse , and @madstreetbooks for holding space and celebration for my book release parties in Philly, New York, and Chicago! I met my mentor Juan Felipe Herrera for the first time in person and when he recognized who I was he said “Oh wow, Gabriel! You look like a King!” and never in my life have I felt more royal and worthy of the crown I was born with. Link in bio if you’d like to order a copy of the book!
Thank y’all for loving me and blessing me! My gratitude grows every day! 💐📖 🙏🏼
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“I’m always trying to be there for others that way I’m less alone in my everyday grief.
I tell them what took me a decade to understand about loss.
We often forget to mourn the person we wore before each loss.
How there’s a part of us that also dies.
How’s we forget to ceremony and wale and burry ourselves.
How America has no culture for grief.
Having to make the impossible decision between our sanity and livelihood.
I haven’t spoken to my pops ashes in Florida since the year he promised to call back.”
“On Grief” by Gabriel Ramirez
The Sanctuary - Season 1: Episode 4
📍: @legacyclubbleeker
🎥: @nicos.creative
🏠: New York City
📺: Whole performance in full episode on YouTube @thesanctuarypoetry
The full episode is out now! The link is in my bio
#NewYorkCityPoetry
#TheSanctuaryPoetry
#SpokenWord
#DefPoetryJam
#Poetry
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Show me who you are.
Show me your flaws.
Show show me what makes you happy.
Show me who you would die for,
what you got at stake.
Stop preaching to choirs that stay off key.
Stop snapping and clapping to tasteless lines just ‘cause they rhyme.
If you only an activist on this stage,
in front of those cameras,
your who revolution performative.
I don’t care about your followers.
How many can you say know you?
How many can they say actually support you?.”
“What You ‘Bout” by Gabriel Ramirez
The Sanctuary - Season 1: Episode 4
📍: @legacyclubbleeker
🎥: @nicos.creative
🏠: New York City
📺: Whole performance in full episode on YouTube @thesanctuarypoetry
The full episode is out now! The link is in my bio
#NewYorkCityPoetry
#TheSanctuaryPoetry
#SpokenWord
#DefPoetryJam
#Poetry
JON IS HOME! Thank you to everyone for your support! It’s been a difficult 5 months, to say the least, but after talking with Rodrigo, the eldest of us, Jon agreed to come home. This is a delicate situation, and we’re doing our best to navigate it together as a family. We’re taking it one step at a time, planning for the future, and surrounding Jon with all our love and support. If you have his phone number, leave a voicemail of love and affirmations. If you don’t have his number, leave a comment here, and I’ll make sure he sees it. Thank you for all your prayers, intentions, and for sharing the poster.
Wow! 32! I’m shook and will be shook every year! Before my set at @cantokojo I wrote something to thank everyone there and ended it with “To everyone who read, everyone here, and everyone here in spirit beyond the limits of realms. I am so grateful you are here. I will never doubt whether I am loved ever again!” I didn’t think I could have a good birthday with everything I’ve been carrying, and I’m blessed enough to have the best birthday of my life. I am so grateful to my dear ones, my loved ones, my homies, friends, and family. Life has been really scary, and I’ve been doing everything I can to stay regulated and nourished.
Thank you! @yazudpoems + @isjonespoetry for holding me in your hearts and for hosting my Birthday Showcase with so much kin and warmth and love and protection. Love y’all!
Thank you, Saskia! My heart, my angel, my partner in this life! Thank you for everything you did and do to make my birthday and every day of my life special.
Also, I had a great AWP and wish I had taken more selfies!
Grateful for all the love and support through these times. My hope has returned. My heart is beaming!
🔹One Catches Light Festival🔸
In partnership with ArtsHub, One Catches Light is back this Spring!
The One Catches Light Festival celebrates the new work of extraordinary artists. In this festival, three unique artists are in residency, developing their work for a staged reading.
The artists:
Gabriel Ramirez @ramirezpoet
Paola Alexandra Soto (aka Pie) @dominicanpie
TomokoH DeblinGer @tomdeblin
Throughout the residency, we offer them:
🔹Financial support
🔸Rehearsal space for the writing/development of one work
🔹Administrative and production support
🔸A monthly meeting with the ¡Oye! Group’s Artistic Director to provide guidance, advice, or any other support the artist feels necessary.
Stay tuned for more information on each artist and their work!
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#artistdevelopment #OneCatchesLight #NYCartists #worldtheaterday #happyworldtheaterday
🥁…and now for our special March event. we’re extremely honored to present our featured reader: Gabriel Ramirez ✨ Chosen family of both curators, Gabe is someone in community who reminds us why it’s so important to celebrate our loved ones while we have them.
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Gabriel Ramirez, author of IF PIT BULLS HAD A GOD, IT’D BE A PIT BULL is a Queer Afro-Caribbean writer and educator. A 2023 Gregory Djanikian Scholar in Poetry at Adroit Journal and a 2024-2025 CantoMundo Poetry Coalition Fellow. Gabriel has received support from The Conversation Literary Arts Festival, Miami Book Fair, The Watering Hole, and Callaloo. You can find their work in publications like Muzzle Magazine, Split This Rock’s The Quarry, Poetry Magazine, BOMB, Acentos Review and others as well as Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology (Library of America 2024). Learn more at @ramirezpoet and RamirezPoet.com
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❤️🔥When: Sunday, March 29th
❤️🔥Where: PACH (Pilsen Arts & Community House)
❤️🔥Time: 7PM CT
❤️🔥 You?: Sitting in the front row
Hybrid | Saturday | Feb 28 | 2-5pm EST
To mark the exhibition’s closing, we’re hosting an extended Community reading of works from the Showcase, an exhibition and reading series dedicated to the art and joy of published poetry. Dozens of poets represented in the exhibition will read a short poem or two across the afternoon, followed by a reception and refreshments. Celebrate the poets of 2024 and 2025! RSVP at the link in our bio!
This is everything I have left for 2025 with two newer poems at the end. I pray you find what you need for yourself to sustain and grow and flourish. All of you. I have no enemies, not even myself. Not anymore. I’m learning and growing and changing and living and loving and fighting so hard for all that I believe in and need this time to myself to get to the next level in my life. I will see y’all in Chicago around my Birthday March 31st. Reach out over phone or email. Love y’all! Peace!
Also, I have the best girlfriend in the world and we really in love in love and I’m gonna continue to grow with her frfr. That’s my teammate, my baby, my boo, my errrthang! Just had to make it clear that I am deeply loved and as Joel told me, I am rich in community and resources. I will get through this and bring those I love with me everywhere ascend!
