Destiny O. Birdsong
Destiny O. Birdsong is the author of the poetry collection, Negotiations (Tin House Books, 2020), which was longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Voelcker Award, and the triptych novel Nobody’s Magic (Grand Central, 2022), which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. She was the Hurston-Wright Foundation’s inaugural Writer-in-Residence at Rutgers University-Newark and now serves as a 2022–23 Artist-in-Residence at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Reading List
There Are No Perfect Synonyms for Brother
We have never seen each other’s blood. They found opiates in his, antibodies in mine. We break against the past in different ways. I locked myself in someone’s college and drank. I invited myself to dorm rooms. The boys came. He broke into a house to smoke. He’s looking for a cheap gun with our […]
abattoir errata
< the daughters / on sally jessy / were occupation babies / half korean / half german // nobody said rape in the ’80s // the daughters / broke through dead mothers / & were drop-dead gorgeous / lashes / heavy like palm fronds / feathered bangs / over […]