For Issue 8 Each editor was asked to pick a theme. Kamden Hilliard will be reading poetry on the theme Crash The Margins and is looking for experimental work from POC and QTPOC writers. Read on to learn more.
Kamden Hilliard, our poetry editor for issue 8, is a poet and educator. He is the author of two chapbooks: distress tolerance (Magic Helicopter Press, 2016) and perceived distance from impact (Black Lawrence Press, forthcoming). Kamden goes by Kam and is an editor at Jellyfish Magazine. He’s caught good vibes from The Ucross Foundation, The Davidson Institute, and Callaloo. Find his work in The Black Warrior Review, Redivider, Heavy Feather Review, and other sunspots. He tweeters @KamdenHilliard.
Theme: Crash the margins
Please trust me with your strange identity, your strange poem-machine-organs. I want those maybe-this-is-a-poem-idk? poems. Get weird. Get radical. Crash the margins. But, like, to be clear: I want experimental* work from POC and QTPOC writers.
*whatever that means
What have you read lately that’s excited you?:
I play this poem over and over in my head. It practically makes me dizzy.
Submit your poems to Kam here.
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