Come Celebrate With Me

The Unfinished House
Notes on overwhelm, repair, and finding a place to begin
Jul 12 • Nyshell Watson
What Happens When the Poems Don’t Come
Notes on grief, language, and release
Jul 1 • Nyshell Watson

June 2026

Thirteen.
Notes on a Different Kind of Celebration
Jun 29 • Nyshell Watson
What Lucille Clifton Taught Me About Celebration
Notes on survival, witness, and the words that named this work
Jun 28 • Nyshell Watson
The Table Is a Way of Knowing
Notes on stories, responsibility, and who gets to sit close
Jun 21 • Nyshell Watson
I Made a Zine
Notes on experimentation, perfectionism, and finally making the thing.
Jun 18 • Nyshell Watson
I’m Learning to Study My Own Life
Notes on testimony, archives, and the holy work of paying attention
Jun 14 • Nyshell Watson
Black Women Belong in Museums
Notes on preservation, memory, and being seen fully
Jun 9 • Nyshell Watson
You People
Notes on Black folks minding their business
Jun 8 • Nyshell Watson
Come Celebrate With Me
A good place to start
Jun 4 • Nyshell Watson

May 2026

I Thought I Was Building a Bookstore
Notes on Socialight Society, starting over, and the story that became bigger than shelves
May 31 • Nyshell Watson
Black Dolls & Bookshelves
Notes on the girls we once were
May 26 • Nyshell Watson
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