Nandi Comer has received fellowships from Virginia Center for the Arts, Cave Canem and Callaloo. Her poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in To Light a Fire: 20 Years with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project (Wayne State University Press, 2014), Detroit Anthology (Rust Belt Chic Press, 2014), in Another and Another: An Anthology From the Grind Daily Writing Series (Bull City Press, 2012), Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, Green Mountains Review, Prairie Schooner Review, Southern Indiana Review, and Sycamore Review.

POETRY

Ode to Sofia’s Mouth

By NANDI COMER

“damned teeth crooked chin / wild open jaw”