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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 ...more

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Praisesong for the people is a celebration of the everyday folks that keep our lives chugging along — the bus driver, the cafeteria worker, the patient teacher, each stewards of their own small miracles, all of our miracles intersecting to sustain wh ...more
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When I leave this planet I am going to leave it naked - "Common Air" Extinction Studies is a chapbook that considers how we preserve in language the wealth of life that our species has doomed to disappear. There is a gesture in the collection towards c ...more
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I want to be worthy of the terror my existence inspires. - pg 216, Chapter 20 The nice thing about fiction from poets is that it's really still poetry, just with a lot of plot to work around. The main character, Cyrus, spends the book dwelling on death ...more
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