To pray I find a shell, put it to my ear & open elsewhere
in sound. The feral water-body foams, lip of God.
Wet & unfurling. Praise me
anyway, He says. It is somehow louder here than if I were right in front of Him.
grace (ge) gilbert is a hybrid poet, essayist, and collage worker based in Brooklyn. they received their MFA in poetry from the University of Pittsburgh in 2022. they are the author of 3 chapbooks: the closeted diaries: essays (Porkbelly Press 2022), NOTIFICATIONS IN THE DARK (Antenna Books 2023), and today is an unholy suite (Barrelhouse 2023). they were the MCLA Under 27 Writer-in-Residence Fellow at Mass MoCA. their work can be found in 2023's Best of the Net Anthology, the Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, Passages North, the Offing, the Adroit Journal, Hayden's Ferry Review, Diode, TYPO, ANMLY, and elsewhere. they currently teach hybrid collage and poetics courses at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and they are a 2023 Visiting Teaching Artist at the Poetry Foundation. they are passionate about making the hybrid arts accessible to all. find more at gracegegilbert.com.
