Cover Photo: This photograph is of a tree, branching out over a lack. The background of the photograph is sunny, as if taken on a late summer's day.

Cover Photo: This photograph is of a tree, branching out over a lack. The background of the photograph is sunny, as if taken on a late summer's day.

Photograph courtesy of the author

Chelsea Williams

Dec 09, 2021

Cover Photo: A Sigh of Survival...So Far by Karin Jervert

A Sigh of Survival...So Far

Cover Photo: This photograph shows the edge of hill topped with lush trees. In front of the trees we see power lines and rough brushes and green grass.

Gabrielle Spear

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Chelsea Williams

Dec 09, 2021

This poem was written by Chelsea Williams in a 12-Month Poetry Collection Generator taught by Angel Nafis.

Poetry collection synopsis: With these poems I am trying to build a country, a country for young black girls to dream, ask questions, and find new meanings for their bodies. Even the dead are here. Our Nation Sits In the Sky is concerned with the balances grief and joy, girlhood and maturity, race and history and celebrations of Blackness and the all mighty ‘our.’ The inclusion of tenderness and lineage with one word. The collection considers grief as a constant and maybe friend.

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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Chelsea Williams

Dec 09, 2021

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Chelsea Williams

Chelsea Willams is an emerging poet, screenwriter, photographer, and filmmaker from Chicago, IL. As a multidisciplinary artist, she believes the purpose of art and storytelling is to simultaneously reflect what the world is and to create the world. Her poems have been published in issues of the winter 2018 High Shelf Press and the Anthology In Absentia: Poems for the Pandemic. Her poem “After Sam Cooke” was selected as a finalist for the 2020 Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize. Chelsea received her BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Cover Photo: Lost Among the Consonants by Adam Strong

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Lost Among the Consonants

Mar 28, 2019

Cover Photo: not in your body by Alexandros Orphanides

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not in your body

You are not located in this body

Alexandros Orphanides

Oct 15, 2019

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A brand new world

Sep 23, 2020

Cover Photo: This photograph shows a cardinal sitting on a tree branch as snow softly falls around it.

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re: somewhere between me and the other side

This poem was written by Maghan Baptiste in a 12-Month Poetry Collection Generator taught by Angel Nafis

Maghan Baptiste

Nov 04, 2021

Cover Photo: This photograph shows a selection of banchan in tupperware containers

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SELF PORTRAIT, WITH OR WITHOUT PANDEMIC

This poem was written by Jennifer Lai in a 12-Month Poetry Collection Generator taught by Angel Nafis

Nov 04, 2021

Cover Photo: This photograph shows a waitress standing waiting for an order at the kitchen, which is lit with a warm glow

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I’m First Cut Today

This poem was written by Sophie Christenberry in a 12-Month Poetry Collection Generator taught by Angel Nafis

Sophie Christenberry

Nov 04, 2021

Cover Photo: This photograph is a close-up of a spoon covered in syrup sitting on a small plate.

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continental breakfast at wilshire & hope

This poem was written by Maryam Gunja in a 12-Month Poetry Collection Generator taught by Angel Nafis.

Dec 09, 2021

Cover Photo: This is a photograph of sunflowers in a basket.

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Gising

This poem was written by Steffi Tad-y in a 12-Month Poetry Collection Generator taught by Angel Nafis.

Dec 09, 2021