Awkwafina Clarifies That She’s Appreciating, Not Appropriating (in Black American Sentences), Simone Person

Do NOT let anyone touch your bones if they tell you they want to make every beautiful sound. It is a TRICK. We're dripping with decadent sarcasm this week and reading Simone Person's 2023 work "Awkwafina Clarifies That She’s Appreciating, Not Appropriating (in Black American Sentences)." If you want to appreciate something, appreciate THIS (new episode of PoeTRY)!

Read the poem here.

A version of the talk by Elizabeth Bukhar that Koya mentions is available here.

Simone Person’s biography was compiled from:

• The Honeysuckle Press
• Poets.org
• The Boston Review