b is a queer Bahamian poet, essayist, educator, and dreamer currently living on the ancestral homeland of the Lenape people. By the way of friends, collaborators, institutions, and luck, their poems and essays have been published and featured in places like the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They’re currently working on a nonfiction book, The Climate Sirens (Graywolf, 2025), about Hurricane Dorian, the effects of climate change on Small Island Developing States, and how centuries of far-flung injustices—like colonization, slavery, and numerous inequalities at local and global scales—have come to precipitate the climate crisis.
Nonfiction
Black Estrangement
The Lantern, the Lightning, the Sea, and the Raft
The relationship between pattern and the meaningful disruption of that pattern gives poetry the muscularity required to become memorable. —Carl Phillips, “Muscularity and Eros: On Syntax” All Carl Phillips poems […]
Poetry
Summer 2023
proper burial for the yellow-bellied sapsucker
For the bird, dead on the sidewalk, that i did not stop to mourn nor bury the weekend & its large wing on the horizon & me & the homies […]
Poetry
Summer 2023
juxtaposition with winter
After Player come back come back / come back my shivering fingers say as i free them from their gloves / come back i whisper to my breath as it escapes / like a ghost into […]
Poetry
Summer 2023
energy
“Dark men must learn to bow to bright” — Benito Mussolini (via “Words for Mussolini” by Gwendolyn Brooks) the dark-skinned taínos lucayans the nubians of egypt slaves in spain in […]
Poetry
Summer 2023
what to do with the hedges
it turns out all legacies are connected: Europe’s charge through the West and the charge of the phragmites alongside it; the precipitate of industrial profits trickling in threads, beads of […]