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DeeSoul Carson

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DeeSoul Carson is a poet and educator from San Diego, CA. A Stanford alum, his work is featured in Muzzle Magazine, AGNI, The Offing, & elsewhere. His chapbook, Running From Streetlights (2020), is a meditation on Blackness in America during the “Summer of Racial Reckoning.” For his work, DeeSoul has received a National Endowment for the Arts and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, as well as fellowships from the NYU MFA program, the Watering Hole, and the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference.

DeeSoul’s poetry is interested in the interrogation of laughter, joy, and absurdity, particularly as it pertains to Black existence, asking what keeps Black people laughing despite their struggles, who’s laughing with them
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- pg 15, "Pokédex Entry #778: Mimikyu"

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- pg 34, "Listening to Olivia Rodrigo on a Plane to San Diego, October 2021"

I know that whenever I encounter Farah's work, I will find music. This debut delivers on that expectations tenfold, lush wit
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I know she must love the birds
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- pg 18, "Wild Birds Unlimited"

Martino's debut asks what we asks what we make of memory, even when they are not our own, even when they challenge the memories we already have.
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To be a good creator, you must be
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- p 35, "Doctor's Note"

It is easy to forget sometimes that before our mothers are our mothers, they have whole loves they lived, things they enjoyed doing without us ever being present, growing tomatoes
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If every cowboy has a sad song, I'm afraid you're mine
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- pg 42, "Vaquero"

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We know very well what I am missing. We have no
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— pg 54, "Meditation on Yellow"

A superbloom is a rare event that turns a desert to a field of vibrant wildflowers. Loss is a common event that becomes a fiel
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The night cut and you won't ever be alone —
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my friends, the only country i will/ ever pledge my allegiance to/ is your music, is under investigation/ for treason.
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No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark. You only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well.
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