Daniel W.K. Lee (李華強)
Poet, author of ANATOMY OF WANT. Boundary pusher, Theravada ☸️, queer 🏳️🌈, Celestial 🐉. 📍NOLA⚜️. Your anti-racism needs decolonizing. 🍉
- About my favorite web series of all time… www.papermag.com/trixie-matte...
- Reposted by Daniel W.K. Lee (李華強)Updated running list of athletes who have spoken out or taken action as the Trump-Vance admin's masked DHS agents terrorize communities across the US:
- An impatient night of a poet’s life
- Excited to share this interview w/ Rodrigo Brandāo, a filmmaker, communications professional, and self-described “social justice person.” Rodrigo speaks passionately about the role artists in activism, strategies for left-leaning media, and other great topics. Listen at powerbeyondpride.com/podcast/
- Handset, letterpressed slender broadside. Poem by me! No. 5 in a series, 4.25” x 5.5”. $6, free shipping. Order at www.tiltedhouse.org/shop/slender... 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
- Chinese literary translators in Taiwan, interested in translating my poetry book? I’ll help you in anyway I can to help you find a publisher. Hit me up if you’re interested!
- I'd *really* love to read a study on publishing inequity, particularly among prestige publications. Anyone know of any?
- This coming Lunar New Year is 本命年 for us horses. Considered inauspicious, I'm now accepting gifts of jade and red underwear for good luck. I'll need 'em! 😝
- My so tired of orgs that amplify artists and writers who legitimately don’t need more limelight. Like do the work and find the creatives who could really use that uplift and shout out.
- Cold brew coffee and poetry (This time by Justin Lacour, thank you very much) is a fully nourishing meal by artsy homosexualists’ standards.
- Never was or has been about self-defense
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- Oh yes! Have a read, y’all!
- If Toph Beifong isn’t just a total snarky bad-ass in the next season of Avatar: The Last Airbender, imma be *furious.* You hear me?!
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- The just recently published 2024 LMNL Anthology includes my 2024 Patty Friedmann Writing Competition semifinalist poem “Apologies to the People of Gaza.” Please have a read at lmnlarts.com/LMNL-Anthology 🙏🏽
- Funemployment chronicle: all the prose-writing peeps I know, I am finally getting to your 📚! I have time now to read more than poetry! @annelllopez.bsky.social Your book is next! 😝🙃😉
- I'm looking for a new opportunity! The breadth of my experiences and skills can be applied to many roles. Shoot me a DM if you have or know of anything that might be up my alley! Looking for remote or New Orleans-based only. THANK YOU!
- #FIFA's fake-ass Peace Prize going to Yam Tits moves it ahead of the IOC as the most morally bankrupt and corrupt sport governing body.
- Would I have been (more?) insufferable had I not been a former fat kid? 🤔
- He's a winner, baby! wordsandmusic.org/2025-winners/
- Super excited to share our latest podcast with New Orleans-based, queer Palestinian activist, Thafer Abu Qamir! Thafer is a thoughtful, erudite speaker and @shanelukas.bsky.social and my interview with him really highlights how much of a powerhouse he is. Have a listen! youtu.be/Y6UcDTXl0b4?...
- Get into the latest Reply All episode of Power Beyond Pride where we dig in on the likes of Bari Weiss, LGBT symbols, read questions from our Box. Have a listen at PowerBeyondPride.com/podcast
- First time for everything! Thank you final judge Andy Young for selecting my poem “A Confession to Gaza on Lyrical Poetics” as the winner for the 2026 Patty Friedmann Writing Competition in poetry. Also many thanks to LMNL Arts and One Book One New Orleans for the honor! I am truly gooped & gagged!
- Chili oil made and smells amazing. My kitchen is wonderfully aromatic. Oil is missing toasted sesame seeds. Whoops!
- A NEW episode of Power Beyond Pride podcast with trans human rights activist @paulinepark.bsky.social Her sobering perspective is steeped in her experience, sharp analysis, and consistent application of her principles. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or go to powerbeyondpride.com/podcast
- JOIN ME for Rickey Laurentiis's New Orleans' book launch for her second collection of poems, the National Book Award long-listed DEATH OF THE FIRST IDEA. I'm excited to read alongside and be in conversation with her for the event. Grab a free ticket at www.eventbrite.com/e/rickey-lau...
- Sharing a great microgrant opportunity for QTBIPOC artists, activists, and QTBIPOC-led orgs, collaboratives, collectives, who need a little funding to get an innovative project going! Please share widely! idealist.agreatidea.com
- Were YOU referenced in my recent appearance on the @wrotepodcast.com? Now you can watch it to find out! 👀 Please share! 😋 youtu.be/w3Vib2Ue_4w?...
- Via @owenjones.bsky.social US mainstream media also needs to be put on trial for complicity.
- Western journalists have largely failed to do anything more than stenographers of the imperialist narrative. Look to the artists, the writers, and social media from those in P🍉l3stine to receive the truth. We don’t need these middle-man accomplices to tell us what we are witnessing.
- The UK needs to oust Starmer, yeeeezus.
- 🚨PODCAST ALERT🚨I had a delightful interview w/ @vancebastian.bsky.social & @bazcollins00.bsky.social from @wrotepodcast.com about my poetry book, ANATOMY OF WANT. Please have a listen! 👂🏽🎧👂🏽
- This!
- H/T @paulinepark.bsky.social for this.
- I know hypocrisy doesn’t mean much in political discourse but the stark moral bankruptcy of it all…
- I guess there isn't a new low for Ixrl when they bomb kids waiting in line for water. However, world governments' inaction keeps falling deeper into the abyss of immorality.
- Please donate to the Sameer Project's North Gaza: Food, Water & Other Distributions chuffed.org/project/help...
- This week’s episode is a “Reply All," Mattie Bynum, Kate D’Adamo, and I get into the weeds over Meta’s new “anti-woke” AI advisor, Pete Buttigieg’s mouth diarrhea on trans athletes, and we respond to listener questions! powerbeyondpride.com/power-beyond...
- My poetry book, ANATOMY OF WANT, is still *ON SALE* at my publisher’s website, perfect if you want to read it for the Sealey Challenge and to support both an independent, queer-owned press (@rebelsatori.bsky.social) and me! 🙂 Link below to purchase this book! rebelsatori.com/product/anatomy-of-want/
- What a delight to have interviewed Laura LeMoon with Mattie Bynum for this week's episode of Power Beyond Pride. Laura gets into the weeds with the movement for s**workers' rights and her own creativity. Pls have a listen wherever you hear podcasts or the link below! www.podbean.com/media/share/...
- Please donate to help the Abed family survive.
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- A thorough understanding of intersectionality demands solidarity with decolonial struggle. Make no mistake, anything short of that is complicity to imperialist white supremacy.
- If you've ordered ANATOMY OF WANT from my publisher @rebelsatori.bsky.social for yourself/for others for #thesealeychallenge THK U! I'm grateful to able to reach new audiences for my poetry! 🙏🏽 Or to just make your coffee table look spectacularly queer! 😉 On sale now! rebelsatori.com/product/anat...
- 🚨NEW EPISODE ALERT!🚨Just finished listening to this great episode of Power Beyond Pride featuring Daniel Valdez of Welcoming America & Charlotte Pride where he talks about immigration, ICE, and principled partnerships with corporations for Pride celebrations. Listen! www.podbean.com/ep/pb-nuu4a-...
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- Listen to the new episode where Kate D’Adamo and I grill @shanelukas.bsky.social and we get into queer futurity, “enclaving,” and bodily autonomy, of course! Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts!
- A list of poetry books for ya if you wanted to do a @sealeychallenge.bsky.social - New Orleans poets edition! Feel free to share! Note: This is NOT an exhaustive list. :)
- "Don't they know you're a woman?" youtu.be/Sad2snvbwtw?...
- Sick as a dog and can barely stand vertical but was determined to make these fried tofu gỏi cuốn for dinner. First time making gỏi cuốn without my mother judging me in the process. She said they look good. They okay looking but taste great! Now waiting for the antibiotics to kick in…
- 🚨NEW EPISODE ALERT🚨 Co-host Mattie Bynam and I got to have a chat with writer & activist Miguel Camnitzer about his advocacy for the un-housed & for P4l3st!ne as an antiz!0nist Jew and his writing for the latest Power Beyond Pride podcast. Please have a listen! www.podbean.com/ew/pb-aaumh-...
