Difference
“I don’t believe in division; as I lay / on the sofa, my shrink says I project a / desperate need for harmony and I say / no shit, Sherlock”
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, New England Review, AGNI, TriQuarterly, ecotone and elsewhere. He serves as a poetry editor at The Rumpus.