Kamilah Aisha Moon, the author of Starshine & Clay (2017), a CLMP Firecracker Award finalist featured on NPR's "All Things Considered" as a collection that captures America in poetry, and She Has a Name (2013), a finalist for both the Audre Lorde and Lambda Literary Awards, Kamilah Aisha Moon's work has been published widely, including in Best American Poetry, Harvard Review, Poem-A-Day, American Poetry Review, PBS Newshour, Buzzfeed and elsewhere. A Pushcart Prize winner and 2015 New American Poet who has received fellowships to MacDowell Colony, Vermont Studio Center and Hedgebrook, she holds an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Agnes Scott College.

Other poems by Kamilah Aisha Moon in Verse Daily:
May 4, 2014:   "Affirmative Action Babies" "Well, isn't this the world..."
January 1, 2014:   "Tired Blood" "Early stage, the old folks would have noticed..."
November 21, 2008:   "Approaching Thunder" "Let's assume about the body..."

Books by Kamilah Aisha Moon:

Other poems on the web by Kamilah Aisha Moon:
Nine poems
"Watching a Woman on the M101 Express"
Six poems
"The Color Purple Rain: An Elegy & Ode"
Four poems
"Trespass"
Four poems

Kamilah Aisha Moon's Website.

Kamilah Aisha Moon on Twitter.

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