Today's poem is "The S in "I Loves You, Porgy""
from Sons of Achilles
Nabila Lovelace
is a born and raised Queens native, as well as a first generation American. Her parents hail from Trinidad and Tobago and Nigeria. She currently resides in Tuscaloosa, AL. Her first collection, Sons of Achilles, is forthcoming from YesYes Books in 2018. Nabila is a 2016 Poetry Witch Magazine Summer Solstice Bop Contest finalist, a 2016 Vinyl 45 Chapbook Contest finalist, 2015 Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop fellow, finalist for the Emerge-Be-Surface fellowship 2014, and a winner of the 2013 Poets & Writers Amy Award. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Narrative Northeast, Washington Square Review, Day One, Winter Tangerine: Hands Up Don't Shoot, ESPN, & Vinyl. She is co-founder of The Conversation Literary Festival. Her editorial work includes screening for Callaloo Journal, assistant poetry editor at Black Warrior Review, & co-poetry editor for The Offing.
Books by Nabila Lovelace:
Other poems on the web by Nabila Lovelace:
Two poems
"Roan Beauty & Charger"
"When Your Vice Is a Man"
"For the Days that are Today"
"Cyclops Girl is a Good Host"
"Choices, A.K.A Advice to the Abusers & Poem"
Nabila Lovelace's Website.
Nabila Lovelace on Twitter.
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