Isaac Pickell is a Black and Jewish poet, PhD candidate, and adjunct instructor in Detroit. A Cave Canem Fellow, he is the author of the chapbook everything saved will be last (Black Lawrence Press, 2021) and the full-length collection It’s not over once you figure it out (Black Ocean, 2023).

POETRY

Fuck my lecture on craft, your people are dying

By ISAAC PICKELL

They’re so beautiful, the metaphors.