Keith S. Wilson is an Affrilachian Poet, Cave Canem fellow, and graduate of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. He has received three scholarships from Bread Loaf as well as scholarships from MacDowell, UCross, Millay Colony, and the Vermont Studio Center. Keith serves as Assistant Poetry Editor at Four Way Review and Digital Media Editor at Obsidian Journal. His work has appeared or is appearing in Poetry, Adroit Journal, Crab Orchard Review, Narrative, 32 Poems, Blueshift Journal, and Vinyl. Additionally, he won a Best of the Net Award.
Mar/Apr 2022
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we don’t care because we’re young. or if you ask me i’ll say i know the meaning of moments. or any tragedy still has road to drive on (joy is […]
Poetry
Mar/Apr 2022
trickle-down theory
there is no turning back my feet carry me across the rocks like a mistake an animal makes only once and like that i’m off. freedom is an animal […]
Proof Casts a Shadow
Proof Casts a Shadow: Afterword
Last year I was teaching at Kenyon College, and “Proof Casts a Shadow” was a dream being spun between Misha Rai, the Kenyon Review Fellow in Prose, and me. Now […]
Proof Casts a Shadow
A Pretty Rough Day
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Resistance, Change, Survival
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I’ll take it as a windfall that in this pervasive and demoralizing news cycle, I’m still able to muster disgust at the title of Thomas Chatterton Williams’s recent piece in […]