SWWIM sustains and celebrates women poets by connecting creatives across generations and by curating a living archive of contemporary poetry, while solidifying Miami as a nexus for the literary arts.

Immaterial Witness (Eastern Region, Biafra, January 1, 1970)

only the morning women

& their blue-clean teeth remain

women stone-lit & moonshined

women erased from their belly laughs

pushing dead flowers

these unfashionable cotton spaces

we rest our tears upon

their white-green foundation / they

twice exiled dark-boned domestics

with a look in the eye & a war-cry

despite several home-goings

we debate rations

sullied hands pushing late evenings

& middays back

beneath the earth to wait.


.chisaraokwu. (she/her) is an Igbo-American artist & healthcare futurist. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Glass, Obsidian, Tinderbox Poetry, Midnight & Indigo, and others. In 2020, she was awarded a Cave Canem Fellowship in poetry.

Very Good Child

Ocean of Heaven