Ryan Jafar Artes

Ryan Jafar Artes has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in May 2021. The social media accounts linked to from Ryan Jafar Artes are: Email. Besides social media accounts, ryanartes has populated their site with VIRTUAL: "Letters to Our Homes" (8-Week Letter Writing Workshop for Black and Brown Adoptees Only) - Please reach out to ryan.artes@gmail.com before registering to make sure this class is a good fit for you!, REGISTER: "Locating Our Ghosts : a poetry fundraiser for The Adoptee Open Mic" | Saturday, February 22, 2025 at 7pm EST/4pm PST, SPLIT THIS ROCK: The Big Reveal: Top 10 Poems of 2025! | Featuring yours truly 🤎❤️, SUBSCRIBE: Bi-Monthly By Ryan | Sign up for my twice monthly email newsletter 💌, 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.