Sumita Chakraborty is a poet and a scholar, and the author of the poetry collection Arrow (Alice James Books/Carcanet Press, 2020). She is currently working on a second poetry manuscript titled The B-Sides of the Golden Record, as well as a scholarly book that is under advance contract with the University of Minnesota Press and is titled Grave Dangers: Poetics and the Ethics of Death in the Anthropocene. She is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at North Carolina State University.

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POETRY

“Most of the Children Who Lived in This House Are Dead. As a Child I Lived Here. Therefore I Am Dead" and Three Poems

By SUMITA CHAKRABORTY

Next to the black upright piano was a window, which looked out at the blue pansies, which were also sometimes purple, or yellow, like the word contusion.

KUNDIMAN 20TH ANNIVERSARY POETRY PORTFOLIO

The B-Sides of the Golden Record, Track Seven: “Love Poem with Prosopopoeia”

By SUMITA CHAKRABORTY

and after a brief, velvet / pause, the forest / screams back.