Rising smoke. The birds retreat.
The smoke keeps rising.
a literary journal published by the Black Earth Institute dedicated to re-forging the links between art and spirit, earth and society
Miguel Martin Perez (he/they) is a queer Afro-Dominican poet from Harlem and the South Bronx. He has been supported through fellowships from Cave Canem and the Palm Beach Poetry Festival and is an alum of the Tin House Winter Workshop. His work has received the 2023 Leslie McGrath Poetry Prize and the 2021 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize. His poems appear or are forthcoming in Colorado Review, Raleigh Review, Acentos Review, and Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly among others. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California in Riverside and currently resides in West Covina, CA.
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