Nadia Alexis
Nadia Alexis is a poet and photographer born to Haitian immigrants in Harlem, New York City. Her poetry appears in Mud Season Review, MQR: Mixtape, Indiana Review, the Texas Review, and others. A 2020 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest semifinalist and recipient of the 2019 honorable mention poetry prize for the Hurston/Wright College Writers Award, she has received fellowships from the Watering Hole and Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. She’s currently a creative writing PhD student at the University of Mississippi.
Reading List
Letter to My Friend Robert
This morning I wanted to write so I changed into my outside clothes unlocked the door & walked onto my block where I thought of my father whose favorite hobby is walking up & down & around the streets of Harlem against my understanding until today when I find myself seeking some kind of fire […]
Cantaloupe
I. I am ten the first time Ma let me split the skin of a cantaloupe without her. My knee still bandaged & burning from a fall I took on the playground that day. While playing tag, a classmate pushes me like she wants the ground to remember it. I don’t push back. Tell my […]
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Beyond the Watershed: Q&A with Nadia Alexis
In this Q&A, Nadia Alexis talks about her new collection of poetry and photography, Beyond the Watershed, which focuses on various experiences of a Haitian American daughter and her Haitian immigrant mother.