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Ashia S. Ajani

Ashia S. Ajani is a sunshower, a glass bead, a carnivorous plant, an overripe nectarine. Now living in the Bay Area on unceded Huichin Ohlone land, they are the author of one collection of poetry, Heirloom (Write Bloody Publishing, 2023) and a forthcoming nonfiction book, Tending the Vines (Timber Press, 2026). Their writing is a kaleidoscope of her work as an eco-griot and abolitionist. Keep up with her at ashiaajani.com.
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    A Poetics of Water: Maya Salameh’s “Mermaid Theory”

    It is this “shock,” this consistent disintegration, and the techniques necessary to stall it, that Maya Salameh so tenderly and precisely metabolizes on the page. Water is our earliest teacher, and Salameh shapes language like it. Salameh’s lyric feels familiar:…

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