![]() ![]() ![]() The Rumpus: Your poems are arteries and veins, pulsing life, and survival. I met with Ashanti Anderson over Zoom, where we spoke about Black Under and its powerful claim, which grants agency to the poet while eliciting empathy via vivid imagery, courageous word choice, and stylistic originality. It’s an exciting time to be inspired and hear my own voice taking shape and shapeshifting on the page.” It’s intended to be my next full collection of poems. For example, I am working on a project in its gestational stages, like a newborn baby who’s about to begin crawling and give her first steps. Her poems have appeared in World Literature Today, POETRY magazine, and elsewhere in print and on the web.Īnderson returned home during the pandemic and teaches at her alma mater, the Xavier University of Louisiana, a private, historically Black, Catholic school in New Orleans. “I am sort of returning to many things,” the poet told me with a playful smile. Anderson (she/her) is a Black queer disabled poet, screenwriter, and playwright. ![]() Her debut collection, Black Under, won the Spring 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition and was released from Black Lawrence Press in 2021. Ashanti Anderson is a linguistic risk-taker, inviting the reader to dive into the darkness of grief and resurface emboldened and enlightened in the joy of being Black, in the joy of being alive. ![]()
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