Remica Bingham-Risher
Remica Bingham-Risher, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, is a Cave Canem Fellow and Affrilachian poet. She is the author of Conversion, What We Ask of Flesh, Starlight & Error, and Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books and Questions That Grew Me Up. Her next book, Room Swept Home, will be published by Wesleyan in February 2024. She is the Director of Quality Enhancement Plan Initiatives at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where she resides with her husband and children.
Reading List
Mary Taken to the Central Lunatic Asylum
She will jump, she says she no longer cares for the child after the fire of the mind has taken her clothes and shoes, her pious tongue, and thrown them into the street. The suffering grows in her, settles in her belly like snuff, and nothing comes as it should: not a groan or […]
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Remnica Bingham-Risher on Family, History, and Room Swept Home
Associate editor Moriah Katz and author Remica Bingham-Risher discuss family, history, and the creative process behind Risher’s most recent poetry collection, Room Swept Home. Bingham-Risher’s poem, “Mary Taken to the Central Lunatic Asylum” is featured in volume 73.1. Read it here. M: Who are you? Why do you write? R: I […]