Rosamond S. King

Rosamond S. King is an African American, queer, female poet and the author of All the Rage (Nightboat, 2021) and Rock | Salt | Stone (Nightboat Books, 2017), winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Poetry. The recipient of awards, fellowships, and residencies from Lambda Literary, Alice Yard, and the Fulbright Program, she is an associate professor in the English department at Brooklyn College and lives in Brooklyn, New York on Canarsee and Nyack Lenape territory, near an African burial ground. Source

Do not trust the eraser

for Gabrielle Civil & Madhu H. Kaza

Do not trust the eraser. Prefer

crossed out, scribbled over monuments

to something once thought correct

. Instead: colors, transparencies

track changes, versions, iterations

. How else might you return

after discards, attempts

and mis takes, to your

original genius

Published:

2022

Length:

Shorty

Literary Movements:

Contemporary

Anthology Years:

2023

Themes:

Agency

Ars Poetica

Faith & Hope