UNTIL TODAY1 All my poetry has been di- Agnostic: a [swamp of self-Deception] best described As [beautiful and ugly], withal IHave never written the word "Dys-Phoria," have not trekked its pinkPink [wound] about this [land-Scape of myself]. My [mind], a black Gash when called "[man]." A tradition, It is: my grandmother, committedTo [suicide], took her […]
Jada Renée Allen
Jada Renée Allen is a writer, educator, and two-headed Black woman from South Side Chicago, IL. She is the recipient of fellowships, scholarships, and support from Tin House, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Community of Writers, The Frost Place, and VONA (Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation), among other organizations. Her writing either appears or is forthcoming in Academy of American Poets’ “Poem-a-Day,” Callaloo, Chicago Reader, Gulf Coast Journal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Logic(s), Virginia Quarterly Review, Wildness, and elsewhere. She is the founding executive director of The Frances Thompson Arts Foundation and she is the editor-in-chief of Bodemé. Allen lives in Phoenix, on occupied O’odham and Hohokam lands.