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What is Feels Like Home?

Feels like Home is a place for me to share my writings about things I love & the people and moments that have shaped me.

I’ve kept different blogs over the last 10 years and even started Car Window Poetry, a global poetry movement of people writing encouraging poems and sharing them on car windows.

In 2022, I joined my homies, the Writing Boys, in publishing essays about music, sports, books, and culture. Since then, my work has been published in Hanif Abdurraqib's music archival project 68to05 and shared by some of the most influential at their craft, including Kid Cudi, Shea Serrano, and Kiese Laymon.

The Chosen One @KiDCuDi

Beautifully written. Made me emotional 🥺 Love to u Alex brother ✌🏾💖 Perfectly at Peace by @lewisalex10 link.medium.com/0HSpeEJKupb

link.medium.comPerfectly at PeaceA Black Kid’s Ode to Kid Cudi

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I don’t know what Feels Like Home will become, but I hope whatever I write meets you where you are. That it feels like home.

Why is Feels Like Home?

Throughout my decade-plus of writing, I’ve returned to home — as a physical place, as a person, as a feeling. That we are loved and accepted as we are and can always return to this reality. And when we come home, we’re met with open arms and celebration. At home, you live with the good, the bad, and the uncomfortable. We find and hold space to move as one. Not a performance for one another, but dancing with each other. I’ve explored this familiarity through essays like this:

Not Another Math Lesson

Alex Lewis

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Mar 15

I always thought discipline was a bad thing—or at least had negative connotations. Visions of detention and getting my phone confiscated. It made me feel like I was in trouble, which is how I felt whenever Grandpa C called me to the living room for math lessons.

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For more on the story behind my newsletter name, listen to the episode below:

Jollof-Write👨🏽‍🍳

#01 - Feels Like Home - Alex Lewis

I had actually planned to host these Behind The Stack series, unpacking the inspiration behind the names of our favourite writers. I wanted it to be dished out like fast food. Quick stories under a minute or less hosted in my 1 Minute, please? Podcast channel…

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2 months ago · 16 likes · 14 comments · Tobi Odeyale and Alex Lewis

As social media platforms continue to make it harder to keep up with the people I love and the things they’re putting out in the world — and for folks to keep up with me — Feels Like Home provides a space for me to share my writings and potentially even do more with my writing, while caring for the people I love most.

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If you enjoy Feels Like Home or even if you read my writing over on my Medium blog, please subscribe! It’s the best way to support me and this newsletter, to have new posts sent directly to your inbox, and to hopefully experience something along the way that feels like home.

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I publish monthly online and print bylines for local publications, Columbus Underground & 614 Magazine, and quarterly print stories for Refined Magazine.

Also, I lead monthly Shut Up & Write events on Columbus’ South Side and help build community with BIPOC writers and creators at

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