HeyJaredAntoinette Cooper Writes
Between ceremony and cacophony: Writings on decolonial self-love, ancestral wisdom, and the holy art of being too much. (Emailed weekly)
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thank you, past Antoinette (opens the original)
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Recently, I shared with someone how grateful I am to past Antoinette. She really did me a solid by taking all of those courses, trainings, certifications, tools, and more. She honored what called to her (and yes, I realize I’m speaking of myself in third person) even when she had no logical reason to enroll in yet another thing. It wasn’t ambition. It was appetite. It was as futuring as an Octavia Butler book. It was for such a moment as this, where I have not written publicly for too long.I exh
UNRULY body as altar (opens the original)
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the birdDuring the first UNRULY Body As Altar literary sound bath at the African Burial Ground in Manhattan, I shared a hymnal I rewrote to acknowledge my connection with birds.If God’s eye is onthe New York City pigeonsinging on my fire escapeat 5 o’clock in the morningafter I am releasedfrom the hospital,<span
medicines from Knoll Farm (opens the original)
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join me this month:Writing with Compost, Saturday, August 15th at 12-2pm ET. A free writing workshop at the Poets House supported by the 2026 NYSCA Individual Artist Grant. RSVP at join.antoinettecooper.com/poetshouse.UNRULY: The Body As Altar (A literary sound bath), Sunday, August 23rd at 12-2pm ET. Join me at the African Burial Ground Monument in NYC for a community offering of embodied poetry, sound bowls, and liberation. Supported by LMCC Manhattan Arts Grant. RSVP at <a hr
the hulk and the uses of anger (opens the original)
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join me next month:Writing with Compost, Saturday, August 15th at 12-2pm ET. A free writing workshop at the Poets House sponsored by 2026 NYSCA Individual Artist Grant. RSVP at join.antoinettecooper.com/poetshouse.UNRULY: The Body As Altar (A literary sound bath), Sunday, August 23rd at 12-2pm ET. Join me at the African Burial Ground Monument in
“this work is a mountain with no top” (opens the original)
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join me this month:It’s my birthday month (7.14)! I would be so honored to receive your support toward the training that makes this collective liberation work possible. Please make a tax-deductible contribution at wel.antoinettecooper.com.Reparations Café, Sunday July 19th at 12:30pm ET. This session is all about resourcing ourselves. Come hungry, leave full. Register at <sp
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