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.
imagine a room of rich brown wood scrolled f-holes for windows conducting light and sound walls like hourglass hips curved maple ribcage polished to a high gloss an interior world of planking shattered and reshaped by skillful hands a body restored to wholeness dedicated to one art a series of exquisite notes those perfect throaty fifths the breathless glissandi a box of quivering music singing your life so beautifully that you can’t even tell where it once hurt
Nylah Lyman’s first collection of poetry, Frail Union, was published by Encircle Publications in 2021. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her poems have appeared in the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Hunger Mountain, the minnesota review, and other journals. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program.
