Welcome back for Zoeglossia’s Poem of the Week series curated this month by Kay Ulanday Barrett.
April 12, 2021
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Sick 4 Sick
Kay Ulanday Barrett
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Sick 4 Sick
Kay Ulanday Barrett
A brown round queer with glasses holds a microphone with and performs a poem. Their hand is out to the crowd. They have short hair and wear a black blazer. Behind them on stage are Transgender and LGBTQ Pride Flag.
Kay Ulanday Barrett is a poet, performer, and cultural strategist. Barrett’s book More Than Organs received a 2021 Stonewall Book Honor Award by the American Library Association and is a 2021 Lambda Literary Finalist. They have featured at The Lincoln Center, The U.N., Symphony Space, The Poetry Project, Princeton University, NYU, The Dodge Poetry Foundation, The Hemispheric Institute, and Brooklyn Museum. They’ve received fellowship invitations from MacDowell, Lambda Literary, Drunken Boat, VONA, The Home School, and Macondo. They are a 3x Pushcart Prize nominee and 2x Best of the Net nominee. Their contributions are found in The New York Times, The Advocate, F(r)iction, Asian American Literary Review, Vogue, PBS News Hour, The Rumpus, NYLON, The Maine Review, Academy of American Poets, NYLON, WBAI Radio, NPR, and more. They have written two poetry books, When The Chant Comes (Topside Press, 2016) and More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020). They currently reside in Jersey City with their jowly dog. Visit their website at kaybarrett.net.