Isaac Pickell is a mixed poet and PhD student at Wayne State University in Detroit, where his work focuses on the borderlands of blackness and black literature. His chapbook everything saved will be last is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press, and recent work can be found in Black Warrior Review, Fence, Ninth Letter, and Sixth Finch. Isaac has taken a seat in all fifty states and has so much to look forward to.
name/brand on a windy day breaking those hottest Midwestern months where most everything is wishing for death or winter, a single dried petal from that little blue flower with a cute colloquial name, shrunk beyond its living … Continue reading “Four Poems”
