Kamilah Aisha Moon Q&A on a poem she wishes she’d written
Kamilah Aisha Moon talks about two poems that she admires so much she wishes she’d written them, including “Love in the Ruins” by Jim Moore and Yusef Komunyakaa’s “Ode to a Drum.”
Kamilah Aisha Moon
Kamilah Aisha Moon Q&A on becoming interested in poetry
Kamilah Aisha Moon talks about how she first became interested in poetry and about the first poem she ever wrote.
Mercy Beach
Stony trails of jagged beauty rise like stretch marks streaking sand-hips. All the Earth has borne beguiles us & battered bodies build our acres. Babes that sleep in hewn rock cradles learn to bear the hardness coming. Tough grace forged in tender bones— may this serve & bless them well. They grow & […]
To Théma, Almost Two Years after Your Burial
I don’t know their names & they don’t know yours, though your flesh is now of their flesh as a donor. I try not to get angry at strangers pressing too close, choosing kindness just in case there’s a part of you brushing by. What have your gorgeous, castaway eyes gifted another to […]
Perfect Form
North Charleston, South Carolina, April 4, 2015 Walter Scott must have been a track athlete before serving his country, having children: his knees were high, elbows bent at 90 degrees as his arms pumped close to his sides, back straight and head up as each foot landed in front of the other, a […]
Shared Plight
Bound to whims, bred solely for circuses of desire. To hell with savannahs, towns like Rosewood. Domestics or domesticated, one name or surnamed, creatures the dominant ones can’t live without would truly flourish without such devious love, golden corrals. Harnessed. Muzzled. Stocks and bonds. Chains and whips held by hand. Ota Benga in […]
Still Life as Rocket: 42
Thanks, Yolonda This is the part where the boosters begin to fall away, & I’m moving so fast it feels like slow motion. From here I can see the blue contours of my journey against eternal midnight lit with torches held by unseen hands. I understand why many choose not to look—it really […]
Kamilah Aisha Moon
Kamilah Aisha Moon (1973-2021) was born September 5, 1973, in Nashville, Tennessee. She received a BA in English from Paine College and earned an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. She was the author of Starshine & Clay (Four Way Books, 2017), a finalist for the CLMP Firecracker Award, and She Has a Name (Four Way Books, […]