Sheila Black - Radium Dream
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Sheila Black is the author of House of Bone, Love/Iraq, Wen Kroy, winner of the Orphic Prize in Poetry, and Iron, Ardent. She is also the author of three chapbooks, most recently, All the Sleep in the World (Alabrava Press, 2021). Poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review Online, Blackbird, The Birmingham Review and The New York Times. She is a co-editor of Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability (Cinco Puntos Press, 2011), named a Notable Book for Adults for 2012 by the American Library Association. She received a 2012 Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, for which she was selected by Philip Levine. She is a co-founder of Zoeglossia, a non-profit to build community for poets with disabilities. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.
Radium Dream was published by Salmon Poetry in March 2022.
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