Courtney Faye Taylor

is a winner of the 92Y Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize. Her work appears in Ploughshares, Best New Poets 2020, The New Republic, Kenyon Review and elsewhere.

Nation Poetry

Ann Arbor doesn’t need streetlights Ann Arbor doesn’t need streetlights

Black ass is obvious at 2:00AM on Geddes Avenue. Should I blame N my thighs, sheering denim to skin windows? Or these cornbread- N cultivated hips Clifton passed on to me that seem…

Apr 6, 2021 / no-paywall / Courtney Faye Taylor

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