Failed Eulogy

MaKshya Tolbert (she/they) recently found her way back to Virginia, where she chairs the Charlottesville Tree Commission, serves as guest curator for the 2024 New City Arts Fellowship season, and is an MFA candidate in creative writing at the University of Virginia. Her recent poems can be found in West Branch magazine’s fall 2023 “Slow Violence” folio and the 2023 Best of the Net Anthology, with prose and poetry forthcoming from Campfire Stories and Nightboat Books. In her free time, MaKshya is elsewhere—a place Eddie S. Glaude Jr. calls “that physical or metaphorical place that affords the space to breathe.”