Poems / May 30, 2024

from “Missionary”

from “Missionary”

L. Lamar Wilson
L. Lamar Wilson

L. Lamar Wilson’s poetics appears in two collections, Sacrilegion and Prime; the stage production The Gospel Truth; and the film The Changing Same, a Rada Film Group collaboration. He teaches at Florida State University and Mississippi University for Women.

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