The Decolonial Passage (2024)

"reflection" nominated a for Best of the Net award

Decolonial Passage published three of my poems, including “reflection,” which has now been nominated for a Best of the Net Award.

“reflection” is an ekphrastic poem after James Barnor’s Self-Portrait with a Store Assistant at the West African Drug Company, 1952

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Three poems in The Decolonial Passage

My first publications of the new year are from the Decolonial Passage. Each is an ekphrastic work, which will likely be a part of the collection I am slowly putting together. Read them here.

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  • Black Men and Women in a Tavern, is after the painting by the same name from workshop of David Teniers the Younger (1650)

  • casually and casualty share a Latin root” draws from Jackie Sibblies-Drury’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, Fairview.