Poetry. African American Studies. "CONDUIT, Khadijah Queen's debut collection, is itself a current that runs through a historical and mythical past, continuing through our troubled present. These stunning meditations seem to be engendered by a 'bruising in the earth.' The poems in these sequences are called up out of the soil and already belong to us before we come to them..."—Claudia Rankine.
Khadijah Queen is the author of BLACK PECULIAR (Noemi Press, 2011) and CONDUIT (Black Goat/Akashic Books, 2008). Individual poems,three times nominated for the Pushcart Prize, appear in jubilat, ELEVEN ELEVEN, Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing (University of Arizona Press, 2009), Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks from Vietnam to Iraq (Kore Press, 2008) and Best American Nonrequired Reading (Houghton Mifflin, 2010) among many other journals and anthologies.
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