Bryan Byrdlong is a Black writer from Chicago, Illinois. In high school, he was part of Chicago’s Louder Than a Bomb poetry slam competition. He has poems published in the Nashville Review, Pleiades, Apogee Journal, and Adroit Journal. Most recently, he is the winner of the Boulevard 2020 Contest for Emerging Poets. He is a graduate of the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan.
July/Aug 2021
I feel most like a zombi after consuming a cocktail
After “I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against a Sharp White Background” by Morgan Parker two parts dark rum, one part OJ, a splash of grenadine, orange slice— […]
Poetry
July/Aug 2021
Morning of the Living Dead
After “Dinosaurs in the Hood” by Danez Smith, “The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning” by Claudia Rankine, and Night of the Living Dead by George Romero After […]