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Today's poem is "the first kiss"
from Kissing Caskets

YesYes Books

Mahogany L. Browne is a Cave Canem, Poets House & Serenbe Focus alum. She is the author of several books including Kissing Caskets a Blue Note Edition chapbook (YesYes Books), Redbone (nominated for NAACP Outstanding Literary Works), and Dear Twitter: Love Letters Hashed Out On-line (recommended by Small Press Distribution and About.com Best Poetry Books of 2010). Browne has toured Germany, Amsterdam, England, Canada and recently Australia as 1/3 of the cultural arts exchange project Global Poetics. Her poetry has been published in literary journals Pluck, Manhattanville Review, Muzzle, Union Station Mag, Literary Bohemian, Bestiary, and The Feminist Wire. She is the author of an illustrated book Black Girl Magic (Roaring Brook Press 2018), co-editor of forthcoming anthology The Break Beat Poets: Black Girl Magic, and the Artistic Director of Urban Word NYC (as seen on HBO's Brave New Voices). She is founder of Women Writers of Color Reading Room & working with Black Lives Matter Program at Pratt Institute. Browne is also the publisher of Penmanship Books, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Friday Night Slam curator, and recent graduate from Pratt Institute MFA Writing & Activism program.

Books by Mahogany L. Browne:

Other poems on the web by Mahogany L. Browne:
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Three poems
Four poems
"Advice to Rihanna"

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