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Renia White

Renia White
Renia White is a poet from the east coast. She earned her BA from Howard University and her MFA from Cornell University. She's taught writing of different forms and has received awards from the Hurston/Wright Foundation and Sonora Review and has been a finalist for the a 1/2 K Prize, Mary C. Mohr Award, the Pocataligo Prize, and other honors. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Offing, Prelude, Tahoma Literary Review, Slice, Ruminate, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City.

lump

By Renia White
Poetry•Vol. XXXII No. 1 (Spring 2019)

for Dajerria Becton & Sandra Bland & Chikesia Clemons &   in this part the girl is without head. I draw her bone-jut and sweet- an extravagant lump referencing what isn’t present.   it’s been said before that if I don’t say a thing, but imply it, you will think it.   perhaps a headless… [Read More]

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