KUNDIMAN 20TH ANNIVERSARY POETRY PORTFOLIO and after a brief, velvet / pause, the forest / screams back. POETRY 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. 
The B-Sides of the Golden Record, Track Seven: “Love Poem with Prosopopoeia”
“Most of the Children Who Lived in This House Are Dead. As a Child I Lived Here. Therefore I Am Dead" and Three Poems
Sumita Chakraborty
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. Beginning in Fall 2024, she joins the faculty of the University of Virginia as assistant professor of English and Creative Writing.
