Democracy depends on the free exchange of ideas. Help sustain it with a tax-deductible donation today.
K. Avvirin Gray’s poem “Discuss.” was a semifinalist for the 2019 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry and appears in the Fall 2019 issue of Beloit Poetry Journal. Her poetry has also appeared in Women’s Studies Quarterly. She is a fifth year doctoral candidate in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, and holds a Master of Arts in American Indian Studies from UCLA. Avvirin is a native New Yorker and adoptive Los Angelena.
A political and literary forum, independent and nonprofit since 1975. Registered 501(c)(3) organization. Learn more about our mission
For National Poetry Month, sign up for our newsletter and get a digital copy of our out-of-print chapbook Poems for Political Disaster—with work by Jorie Graham, Ilya Kaminsky, Solmaz Sharif, Juan Felipe Herrera, and much more.
Newsletter subscribers get our latest essays, reading lists, and exclusive editorial content (plus 10% off our entire store).
For National Poetry Month, sign up for our newsletter and get a digital copy of our out-of-print chapbook Poems for Political Disaster.
