About Naima Yael Tokunow and Black Warrior Review

Today's poem is "Ancestry.com Doesn't Know My People"

from Black Warrior Review

Naima Yael Tokunow is an educator, writer and editor, currently living in New Mexico. Her work and life focus around exploring black femme identity, social justice and black futurity. She is the author of the chapbook, MAKEWITNESS, published in 2016 by Zoo Cake Press. She is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee & a TENT Residency Fellow. She proudly edits the Black Voice Series for Puerto del Sol and the Scarlet blog for Jaded Ibis Press. New work is published or forthcoming from Bone Bouquet, The Shade Journal, Figure 1, Bayou Magazine and elsewhere. She is blessed to be black and alive.
Other poems on the web by Naima Yael Tokunow:
"Official Form"
Two poems
"The Whole Unprecious"
Naima Yael Tokunow's Website.
Naima Yael Tokunow on Twitter.
About Black Warrior Review:

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Poetry Editor: S. Whitney Holmes

Other poems from Black Warrior Review in Verse Daily:
July 28, 2019: "Route 9" Jaimie Gusman
August 13, 2018: "as an epilogue melting in the snow bpj682ed sand" by Sade LaNay
August 8, 2018: "Oracle" by Donika Kelly
August 7, 2018: "as a wreath of wallflowers and nonconformity in the hair" by Sade LaNay
May 9, 2017: "Sanitarium Bell" by Sara Jane Stoner
February 25, 2017: "Horse Girl" by Laura Romeyn
February 24, 2017: "Souvenir" by Jane Satterfield
February 22, 2017: "Look Up" by Raymond McDaniel
June 19, 2014: "The Shape of It" by Wendy Xu
June 17, 2014: "when you land on Madison Ave." by Ben Pelhan
July 6, 2013: "Wyld" by A. Minetta Gould
January 24, 2013: "wake up your saints and settle down for the night" by Sasha Fletcher
January 23, 2013: "Malamute" by Jehanne Dubrow
January 22, 2013: "wake up your saints and settle down for the night" by Sasha Fletcher
June 13, 2012: "Novelist" by Jon Davis
June 12, 2012: "All the Sciences" by Laura Eve Engel
November 28, 2011: "[20]" by Shelly Taylor
November 22, 2011: "[7]" by Shelly Taylor
November 21, 2011: "Miner Death" by Zachary Schomburg
June 6, 2011: "On Buffers" by Elizabeth Robinson
June 5, 2011: "Light Away Now" by Matt Cozart
November 18, 2010: "Talking about Autumn Rain" by Nate Pritts
May 10, 2010: "The Black Forest" by Christopher DeWeese
December 25, 2009: "To Mindless Forces" by K.A. Hays
December 24, 2009: "Untitled" by Andrew Zawacki
April 25, 2009: "Oppenheimer Maps His Coordinates" by Cynthia Lowen
April 24, 2009: "Self-Portrait as Zipper" by Courtney Queeney
January 16, 2009: "The Platypus Speaks" by Sandra Beasley
December 28, 2007: "Saint Anthony Falls" by William Waltz
December 20, 2007: "A confluence of processes" by Bob Hicok
December 7, 2007: "Cord of Wood" by Danielle Pafunda
December 6, 2007: "Pearl" by Danielle Pafunda
December 5, 2007: "I Am Talking Dirty to You Like You are the Only One in the Room" by Danielle Pafunda
December 3, 2007: "Thanks for a Great Season, See You in the Spring" by Nancy K. Pearson
December 15, 2006: "Fisher King" by Caki Wilkinson
December 14, 2006: "Factbook" by Ian Harris
December 12, 2006: "Apples" by Meagan Evans
December 13, 2003: "After" by Donald Platt
December 3, 2003: "Pigeons in Sleet" by Lissa Warren
July 11, 2003: "Bestiary for the Breasts of a Starlet" by Melanie Dusseau

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