Tommye Blount is the author of What Are We Not For, published by Bull City Press in 2016. A graduate of Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers, he has been the recipient of fellowships and scholarships from Cave Canem and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He is from Detroit, Michigan.
Poetry
Mar/Apr 2018
Not an Elegy for Erik Rhodes
You could have just as easily fit another body here inside this poem that isn't a white man—hairless and muscular— whose storyline, it seems, is always to be the cop […]
Poetry
Mar/Apr 2018
Icarus Does the Dishes
It leaves a mark when I fall on the floor of my father's kitchen. Only a few days it's been of lifting him up from one place, then putting him […]
Tommye Blount
Tommye Blount is the author of What Are We Not For, published by Bull City Press in 2016. A graduate of Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers, he has […]