San Pham, Crane Daughter 1
After living for an epoch in the tunnels holding up the United States
the headline reads, Black
women buried alive have rescued themselves.
this has been our only work, to figure out how
to breathe. the job of the reborn
godly not milking, spectres of enlightenment
holding the bowels of America in between our fingers
this is what justice looks like. what we are offering, unleavened
history and a jubilee
riot.
Joy Tabernacle-KMT is a Reverent ass miracle worker & Hoodoo Opulence. As a poet, she has received residencies and fellowships from Heinz, MacDowell, Callaloo, & VONA. They is published in many places, including Callalloo and Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color. She is the winner of the Discovery Prize from Black Poetry Review. Her work is informed by maroon futurisms, liberation, spiritual fugitivity, & very very Black space-time.