Ryan Jafar Artes

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POETRY: A Cut Flower as an Adoptee | Issue 1 (Twisted Tongue Magazine)

POETRY: How To Fall Asleep | Issue 1 (Twisted Tongue Magazine)

POETRY: Not Equal to Family (Reduced Down to Me) | The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database (Split This Rock)

PROSE: Letter Writing as a Spiritual Practice | Art Saves Lives Essay Series (Community Building Art Works)

POETRY: Creating Nostalgia for a Life I Never Lived, I Place Us Together at the End of a Sentence That Might Never Be, (Parent)Thesis | Dream, Create, Liberate: A Future Without Family Policing (upEND Movement)

POETRY: Forgetting as an Act of Remembering | Issue 9: Borders (Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature)

PROSE: I Am the Space Between That Which I Do and Do Not Know | Issue 8: Space (Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature)

POETRY: Dissolving Mothers, I Watch the Roots, Sacrifice, (A) Female Parent / (Birth) Mother / (Adoptive) Mother / ... / Mommy / Mom / Ma, The Girl Is Only Allowed to Have One Story | Not Ghosts, But Spirits II (Querencia Press)

POETRY: Not My Banner | Struggle for Liberty Anthology (Moonstone Arts Center)

POETRY: The Indian Test | Where Are You Really From? Zine (Asian American Cultural Association of Cincinnati)

POETRY: Four Times Four Times Four Times | Issue 2 - You Are Holding This: An abolitionist zine for and by adopted, fostered, and trafficked people (We Are Holding This)

POETRY: "Where Are You From?", Getting Gay, The Sock Drawer | Stoked Words Anthology (Capturing Fire Press)

[LISTEN] Ryan Jafar Artes: Afrofuturism and how to be walking poetry | When They Were Young: Amplifying Voices of Adoptees with Lanise Antoine Shelley (Episode #73)

[WATCH] Ryan Jafar Artes: Afrofuturism and how to be walking poetry | When They Were Young: Amplifying Voices of Adoptees with Lanise Antoine Shelley (Episode #73)

[LISTEN] Ryan Jafar Artes of The Adoptee Open Mic | Once Upon A Time...In Adopteeland with Jennifer Dyan Ghoston (Episode #192)

[READ] Ryan Artes on the Poetry of Identity | Shahnaz Radjy

[READ] DIY MFA! | The MFA Seminars

[WATCH] Ryan Artes with Tamia Smith | The Creatives