Poet

The Work

C’s current body of work is informed by spirit, ancestry, and time. My craft is an emerging form, blending hybrid poetry, lyric, creative nonfiction, Afrofuturism, and spiritual memoir. It makes associative leaps that aim to offer the experience of the collective and oral tradition. My vision for the work is to be a bridge, tunnel, and spaceship through the waters of Queer Black diasporic history. Queering, by nature, is hybridity – it is an unapologetic embracing of what is versus what fits in a frame, opening to more embodied and thought provoking ways of being. In lands where gender expansive people are not freely accepted, this work brings light to the passed over, the circumambulated, and the mundane in a concise space, yet, traveling the expanse of time and with overlapping voices to illustrate the ways lineage speaks through us.