“A new name for my love: Abolition. The cessation of slow-moving bullets in the shapes of gutted Senate bills and House bills designed to save the people the US Constitution left out, on purpose.”
From the poem A New Name for My Love: A Liberated Ekphrastic for Civil Rights Corps, 2021
2021 Poet-in-Residence for Civil Rights Corps
“The Poet and Artist will produce urgent and vivid works that communicate the humanity of our clients and others like them and that sheds light on the toll that the unjust practices in the criminal system takes on the bodies and minds of the people directly impacted by it and on our communities more broadly.”
—Civil Rights Corps
Introduction of the Abolition Amendment. #EndTheException2021
Working with attorneys and investigators to produce new justice-focused poems, essays, and events.