a literary journal published by the Black Earth Institute dedicated to re-forging the links between art and spirit, earth and society
on the flight from Orlando
or Memphis or St. Louis
I want to put everything I have seen
into the paperless story.
I’m sitting next to a preacher
who is praying for another country’s unborn children
as your laughter threatens to drop us.
The story goes for six weeks and in one direction.
Harrison Hamm is a poet, screenwriter, and essayist originally from rural Tennessee, now based in Los Angeles. A 2023 Filmmaker’s Workshop Fellow with New York Stage and Film, a 2022 Fellow in Diverso’s The Minority Report, and a multi-grant recipient at his alma mater Loyola Marymount University, Harrison develops creative work and scholarship with a commitment to healing and surviving on the margins. Queer, Autistic, mixed-race, devoutly irreligious and otherwise monstrous, Harrison explores themes of grief, violence, faith, and the erotic, often turning to dreamlike and macabre aesthetics to articulate what usually stays caged inside.
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