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fahima ife

fahima ife creates with an ensemble of alien species and contributes to studies of (black) sound and light. She is a poet, producer, performer, mystic, essayist, and editor. She is associate professor of black studies and performance studies in the department of Creative/CRES at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Poetry

Summer 2023

alchemical sirens

By fahima ife

The Kenyon Review · Alchemical Sirens (with June Jordan, Diane di Prima, Lyn Hejinian, and the women who wore the tignon in eighteenth-century Louisiana and in the greater Caribbean before […]