Britteney Black Rose Kapri

Britteney Black Rose Kapri is a poet, teaching artist, petty enthusiast and Slytherin from Chicago. Currently she is an alumna turned Teaching Artist Fellow at Young Chicago Authors. She is a staff member for Black Nerd Problems and Pink Door Women’s Writing Retreat. Her first chapbook titled “Winona and Winthrop” was published in June of 2014 through New School Poetics. She has also been published in the Breakbeat Poets volume One & Two, Poetry Magazine, Vinyl, Day One, Seven Scribes, The Offing, Kinfolks Quarterly and her number on many dive bar bathroom walls. She is a 2015 Rona Jaffe Writers Award Recipient. You can probably find her on twitter talking shit about all the things you love, in a classroom talking shit about your kids or at a barstool just talking shit. Source

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actually i don't understand martha, what do you mean

when you say i speak so well? oh, where did you expect

me to work mary-beth? i don't remember saying i lived on

the South Side muriel. are you telling me your hair doesn't

grow thirty inches overnight melanie? if i'm not like the

other ones, then who am i like melissa? do you follow

everyone around the store macy? when you say my

sentences connect do you mean like conjunctions molly?

well, where else could i have gotten my degree myrtle?

maggie i don't think i understand, what do you mean by

urban? are all kids inner city youth or just the Black ones

marilyn? so missy, beyonce is your spirit animal…explain.

and why wouldn't you go back after you go Black mallory?

let me clarify when you say you wish you had skin like

mine do you mean scarred or sensitive maureen? do they

not have chicken where you're from magda? mackenzie

what's your name mean…no i mean back where your

family's from? i don't think i can be racist, i have a white

friend miranda, right?

Published:

2018

Length:

Regular

Literary Movements:

Contemporary

Anthology Years:

2021

2023

Themes:

Humor & Satire