Asiya Wadud is the author of Crosslight for Youngbird (Nightboat Books, 2018), pulls down the sky…a filament in gold leaf, written collaboratively with Okwui Okpokwasili (Belladonna, 2019), and Syncope (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019). Her collection No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body is forthcoming from Nightboat Books. Her recent work appears in BOMB Magazine, Best American Experimental Writing, Washington Square Review, and Makhzin, among others. Asiya teaches poetry to children at Saint Ann’s School.
every year my body fails me like some ship at half mast I am not exceptional every body does this circling what’s null then some Narrows passing through the little Places slipping everything aside my body is worse off than … Continue reading “house series 5. “
