INITIATION your genitals deserve something gentle. first a name that doesn't sound like a punchline. names are everything, one misstep & you're in another country. there's something new in new england: the slips in the cobblestone streets, those grooves. i love the border of things. here is where it becomes there. i'm ending. this is […]
Yena Sharma Purmasir
Yena Sharma Purmasir is a poet and essayist from New York City. She is the author of Until I Learned What It Meant (Where Are You Press, 2013), When I’m Not There (self-published, 2016), OUR SYNONYMS: An Epic (Party Trick Press, 2022), and VIRAHA (Game Over Books, 2022). As the former Queens Teen Poet Laureate (2010-2011) and a lifelong New York snob, Yena now ironically and happily lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.