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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Rosalind Guy just recently completed her first year as a MFA candidate at the University of Memphis. She also was recently recognized with the following graduate awards at the end of the year: first place for the English Department concentration awards for a personal essay “Protecting My Black Son” and honorable mention for a short story, “Ruby”. She has had work published in African Voices magazine and Juke Joint. She also participated in the African American Read-in at the Memphis Public Library and Women in Words, one of the events that commemorated Women’s History Month at the U of M. She’s a former award-winning reporter, who worked at the Memphis Daily News for seven years. During that time, she received several University of Tennessee State Press Awards, for non-deadline and investigative writing. And she’s currently an adjunct professor at Southwest Tennessee Community College and an English Literacy Coach at Central High School.
Poets Resist
Edited by Jemshed Khan
May 14, 2019
Edited by Jemshed Khan
May 14, 2019
men are experts at hijacking women’s trauma
bodies they flew into buildings with no thought, believe us
when we tell you our bodies are fields littered with wreckage
the greatest contribution Columbus made
the discovery that you can call yourself first
if you colonize the natives into silence.
your cousin takes more baths than her mother or sister ever did
while underwater she always holds her breath, counts
the number of times her world has already ended
until at last the watery grave accepts her body
her body, an offering, even until the end.
her corpse wore an expression of peace, unnatural and forced
always forced, men walking past to view her body
whispered, She wasn’t pretty enough to rape.
men have always hijacked women’s bodies
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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All contents © the author.
