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National Poetry Month Day 22: r. erica doyle

April 22nd, 2022

Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, featuring a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.

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r. erica doyle was born in Brooklyn to Trinidadian immigrant parents. Her debut collection, proxy, won the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America and was a Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry. Her current project, A Dreadful Mortality, explores genealogy, revolution, and intergenerational healing, and excerpts have recently appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day and Letters from The Future: Black Women/Radical Writing. Her work has been published various journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry, Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Gay and Lesbian Writing, and Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam. She lives in New York City.