Her work appears or is forthcoming in New Ohio Review, Borderlands Texas Poetry Review, Glass, Iron Horse Literary Review, Hobart, Frontier Poetry, SWWIM, TriQuarterly, and others. She was the 1st place winner of the Poetry Super Highway Contest, and her chapbook, BLOODWARM, is forthcoming from Variant Lit in the summer of 2021. She is now a second year PhD student and Yates scholar at the University of Cincinnati, and an Assistant Features Editor for The Rumpus. Taylor Byas is a black Chicago native currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio. Split-page refreshes-a bloody hollow-refresh-take cover. Rubber bullets-the page refreshes-a woman’s forehead skin Into our inboxes and ask us to hand them the answers. Promises from white friends to “do better”-a cover. In the former a young boy looks out over a lake while in the latter a man looks into a pond. Both Counting Descent and Above Ground conclude with poems featuring water. A police car plowing into a peaceful crowd. Rumpus: I know But it’s interesting to imagine you and him going head-to-head for the book deal (Laughter). A man skinnedīy the asphalt when pulled from his car with both hands Pinging a reporter and her crew as they run for cover,Ī white woman’s reply- things are getting out of hand. Pattern of fires from a bird’s-eye view of DC. List of places to donate if I can’t put my skin A blackĪrmy tank crawling through city streets the way a hand UndercoverĬops wearing matching armbands like a gang. Lives Matter markered in thick letters below the hollow Of their lettering and paint from the bullet-Īim of Molotov cocktails in Budweiser bottles. Hand-ĭrawn threats- shoot the FUCK back. Man melts into a street curb from exhaustion, his skinīlotched with sweat and red. An offhandĬomment in the replies- are you sure that rubber bulletĬaused that type of damage?-the question hollowed The caption reads These maim, break skin,Ĭaved into a woman’s scalp, floating hands I come across pictures of two rubber bulletsĪnd rounded like a reporters’ foam-covered We sincerely thank Taylor and every Black artist who has helped make Frontier what it is today. This may be lyric essay, poetry, photography, etc. Stay safe and stay healthy and stay bold.īelow, we are publishing the new poem by Taylor Byas, for a new series called Types of Burns, for Black voices who have something to say about this moment. Frontier stands in unrelenting support of the protestors demanding change-we send you every prayer, every bit of energy we have. The Rumpus store sales accounts for over 90 of the funds we currently use to cover our basic operating costs and keep The Rumpus running without a paywall. essays will be co-curated by shereelgreer & stareenite. Today to 6/30 send us your essays that shake loose the stigma, hopelessness, & myths that surround addiction. We must all do what we can, one individual choice at a time, to dismantle white supremacy-in our selves, our relationships, our communities, and our institutions. KitchenTableLit & The Rumpus are collaborating on our VoicesOnAddiction column this fall. Types of Burns: My Twitter Feed Becomes Too Much by Taylor Byasīlack Lives Matter.
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