Shaina Phenix

Shaina Phenix is a queer, Black femme poet, other-art-maker, educator from Harlem, NY. She holds an MFA in poetry from Virginia Tech and is the 2021-2022 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work appears or is forthcoming in West Branch, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Foglifter, Salt Hill, The Pinch, Puerto del Sol, Frontier Poetry, The Offing, and CRAFT.

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Shaina Phenix  | 
Issue 71.2 Spring 2022

after / for Billie Holiday If I shake a body down off a death-swole bough wet with a residuum of lung-wind & song one of us still gon live & breathe anyway, hallelujah. If I untie the bulge & twist of once- grin & thick brow, I’ll whisk the black limbs in a silk […]