Jasmine Reid is a trans: Atlantic poet for the people. She is the author of Interlocutor Goddess (forthcoming from Autumn House Press, 2025), winner of the 2024 CAAPP Book Prize selected by Aracelis Girmay, and Deus ex Nigrum (Honeysuckle Press, 2020). An MFA graduate of Cornell University and recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, the Jerome Foundation, and Poets House, Reid was born and raised in Baltimore and is currently based in Brooklyn. She is an assistant professor at New York University.
Nonfiction
Spring 2025
the nest of nothing
Light is history in flamesLet us forget about the light.Can anyone definethe darkness that defines the star?We need to know about the darkness wheredreams go and where we are. — June […]
Nature's Nature
Summer 2024
Orchids & Rope Play
Across time and space the languages andapparatus of the hold and its violences multiply;so, too, the languages of beholding. —Christina Sharpe, “The Hold” slick, hairy, orchideus opening we tip our […]
Nature's Nature
Summer 2024
Waterful Jasmine
bud is the skin my rougeswell of flower /fleshbusy with becoming rayedher hand on my cheekis a touch of water to leafannouncing, pulling, slowlythe sky /river of her face & meopen lips […]