Kamilah Aisha Moon's work has been featured in Harvard Review, jubilat, The Awl, Poem-A-Day for the Academy of American Poets, The Oxford American, and Gathering Ground. A Pushcart Prize winner and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Audre Lorde Award from the Publishing Triangle, Moon is the author of She Has a Name (Four Way Books) and holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.

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POETRY

Initiation

By KAMILAH AISHA MOON

"Your friend has entered the tribe / of those who’ve buried their mothers"