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Malia Maxwell

Malia Maxwell (Kanaka Maoli) is a writer from Seattle, Washington. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Black Warrior Review, Poetry Northwest, Third Coast, No Tokens, Frozen Sea, and elsewhere. Her writing has been supported by scholarships and fellowships from Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference and the Vermont Studio Center. She is an MFA candidate in poetry at the Helen Zell Writers’ Program. Visit her at maliamaxwell.com.

Poetry

Winter 2025

Rabbit Holes

By Malia Maxwell

November 2023we fly through Jell-O: says: the woman next to me:a pilot: the Internet: I numb: each thought: before:it crashes: the plane: behave: behave: behave: I trust:the algorithm: to envelop […]