Permanent Record: Poetics Towards the Archive ed. by Naima Yael Tokunow

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Permanent Record: Poetics Towards the Archive ed. by Naima Yael TokunowA visionary anthology that examines and reimagines the archive as a form of collective record keeping, featuring work by Douglas Kearney, Brenda Shaughnessy, Mahogany L. Browne, and many new and emerging voices. Inspired by Naima Yael Tokunows research into the Black American record (and its purposeful scarceness), Permanent Record asks, what do we gain when we engage with our flawed cultural systems of remembrance? How does questioning and creating a

Runner-Up for the 2025 Press 53 Award for Poetry

The play premiered on Broadway in February 1949

turn around

probes the malicious manifestation of colorism and misogynoir throughout American history and media

life and death

The Poetry Gods

and now sings the praises of Central American adolescents kicking soccer balls over a barbed wire fence in an internment camp founded on that same bigotry

they see themselves in lockdown celebrity photoshoots and TSA bins

In his debut full-length collection

these poems skip to the tune of a jump rope

What starts in jest and hope becomes tragic and then deeply personal

Precise and halting

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