Kemi Alabi

Kemi Alabi is the author of Against Heaven, selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the 2021 Academy of American Poets First Book Award. Their poems and essays appear in The Rumpus, Guernica, Catapult, Best New Poets 2019, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2 and elsewhere. A cultural strategist with Forward Together, Kemi builds narrative power with writers and artists for social justice. They live in Chicago.

WE WOULD HEX THE PRESIDENT BUT

our bloom game too strong / altar stays red candle cinnamon-lit
sweet flicker cracking into prance

  • Kemi Alabi

Undelivered Message to the Sky: November 9, 2016

  • Kemi Alabi
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