Jessica Wickens is a poet, editor, and bookmaker. For the past fourteen years, she has generated correspondence poetics with Della Watson including co-authoring the collection Everything Reused in the Sea: The Crow & Benjamin Letters (Mission Cleaners Books). Her chapbook, Things That Trust Us was published by Beard of Bees. She is a founding editor of Monday Night Press and co-edited Monday Night literary journal for twenty years. She lives in Richmond, CA.
In the end, although I wanted you to be more like Charles Bronson or Malcolm or Luke Cage, I am very proud to have witnessed your historic presidency—the successes, and even the disappointments.