Sing the Body
Welcome to Sing the Body, a collection of poems praising ourselves. In early 2022, we put out a call for poems that sing the body. Throughout the month of April, we published Sing the Body poems. A select 10 were chosen for a collaboration with FIU’s Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab (WPHL) and FIU’s Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. Poems were printed on decals and will be on display at venues throughout Miami. Click here to listen to a reading and celebration of the poems.
Mary Block lives and writes in her hometown of Miami, Florida. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Mudfish, Best New Poets 2020, RHINO, Nimrod International Journal, and Sonora Review, among other publications. Her work can be found online at Rattle, SWWIM Every Day, Aquifer—The Florida Review Online, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of New York University's Creative Writing Program, a 2018 Best of the Net finalist, a 2012 finalist for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and a Pushcart Prize nominee.
Traci Brimhall is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod (Copper Canyon, 2022). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Nation, Best American Poetry, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. She lives in Manhattan, KS (the Little Apple).
Diamond Forde is the author of Mother Body, with Saturnalia Books. She is a Callalloo and Tin House Fellow whose work has appeared in Obsidian, Frontier Poetry, Ninth Letter, Massachusetts Review, and more. She currently lives in Asheville, NC with her partner and their dog.
Jennifer Greenberg is a Floridian poet living in New England, and an associate editor for the South Florida Poetry Journal. Her writing appears in several online publications and was awarded the Joe Bolton Poetry Award in 2020.
Known as an upbeat, eclectic and vibrant writer and artist, Micah Marie Johnson creates for creation sake, but has also appeared in a poetry and short story anthology titled “Journey’s End” by Two Friends Publishing. Recently Micah has completed their first children's book, "Finding The Future", which was a commissioned project to commemorate the opening of the Cybrarium Library in Homestead, Florida.
Lúcia Leão is a translator and a writer originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her poems have been published in SWWIM Every Day, South Florida Poetry Journal, Gyroscope Review, Chariton Review, Harvard Review Online, among others. Her work is included in the anthology Grabbed: Poets and Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment & Healing. Lúcia’s poems in Portuguese have been published in literary magazines in Brazil.
Mia Leonin is the author of four poetry collections: Fable of the Pack-Saddle Child (BkMk Press), Braid, Unraveling the Bed, and Chance Born (Anhinga Press), and a memoir, Havana and Other Missing Fathers (University of Arizona Press). Leonin has published poetry and creative nonfiction in New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Guernica, Indiana Review, Witness, North American Review, and others. She teaches creative writing at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.
Melissa Studdard is the author of two poetry collections, I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast and Dear Selection Committee, and the chapbook Like a Bird with a Thousand Wings. Her work has been featured by PBS, NPR, The New York Times, The Guardian, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, and has also appeared in periodicals such as POETRY, Kenyon Review, Psychology Today, New Ohio Review, Harvard Review, Missouri Review, SWWIM Every Day, and New England Review.Her Awards include The Penn ReviewPoetry Prize, the Tom Howard Prize from Winning Writers, the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and more.
Olivia Torres is a queer, ex-fundamentalist, biracial fangirl who hails from a small town in western Massachusetts where the potholes in the roads are so large they have now developed sentience. She received her Bachelor's in English from Westfield State University. Her work has appeared in journals such as the Merrimack Review, Secondchance Lit, the Dandelion Review, Horse Egg Literary, and Alyss Literary Journal. In her spare time, she enjoys deconstructing her learned internalized homophobia, being roasted by her tarot cards, avoiding vegetables, and playing eye-tag with the moon.
Yashasvi is a curator and facilitator of children's programmes in Mumbai. Her poem was recently published in Of Dry Tongues and Brave Heart, an anthology for women's poetry. She loves, reading, writing and the colour yellow.
