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Cortney Lamar Charleston

CORTNEY LAMAR CHARLESTON is the author of Telepathologies, selected by D.A. Powell for the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. He was awarded a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation and he has also received fellowships from Cave Canem, The Conversation Literary Festival, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. His poems have appeared in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, New England Review, AGNI, Granta, and elsewhere. Winner of a Pushcart Prize, he serves as a poetry editor at The Rumpus.

It’s Important I Remember That the Enemy Is Always Within—

Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 it had never been more evident to me than that night.In the evening, I slid over to the main library to visit her while I knew she was on the clock for work study. Exams were coming up anyway, so I thought: why learna lesson alone when you can […]

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Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 it had never been more evident to me than that night.In the evening, I slid over to the main library to visit her while I knew she was on the clock for work study. Exams were coming up anyway, so I thought: why learna lesson alone when you can

Elegy for Killmonger With My Own Pain Entering Frame

“Elegy for Killmonger With My Own Pain Entering Frame,” by Cortney Lamar Charleston, appeared in the Winter 2019 Issue of MQR. Bury me in the ocean with my ancestors that jumped from the ships because they knew death was better than bondage— yeah, I heard about what you said, but nah. We both know I, the African

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“Elegy for Killmonger With My Own Pain Entering Frame,” by Cortney Lamar Charleston, appeared in the Winter 2019 Issue of MQR. Bury me in the ocean with my ancestors that jumped from the ships because they knew death was better than bondage— yeah, I heard about what you said, but nah. We both know I, the African

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