![]() I’m also polishing up poems in my first collection, Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night, coming out in March with Switchback Books. Right now I’m working on my second manuscript, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé. I literally dropped a mic after reading this poem once. The last two lines, of course, are straight-up lifted from Biggie, and it was really fun to repurpose that phrase for my own drop-the-mic purposes. So there’s play and interchange between the “vulnerable” feminine and the “all-mighty” masculine. In this case (and in most cases, actually) I’m exploring anxiety, femininity, desire, sex, power and discomfort, but through HOV-colored glasses. I’m really interested in channelling strong celebrity voices to write about my feelings. –Originally published in Forklift, Ohio, Winter 2013. ![]() She works as a poetry editor for Coconut Magazine and Education Director at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts ( MoCADA).ĭo not bark up that tree. A graduate of NYU’s Creative Writing MFA program and a Cave Canem fellow, Morgan lives in Brooklyn with her dog Braeburn. Recent poems are forthcoming from Tin House, jubilat and Forklift, Ohio. ![]() ![]() Morgan Parker’s first collection of poems, Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night, was selected by Eileen Myles for the 2013 Gatewood Prize and is forthcoming from Switchback Books in 2015. ![]()
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