Black Madonna
Hunger is a kind of sermon; to see a lonely thing and want to make it a part of yourself.
Crystal Valentine
Crystal Valentine is a queer, Black woman from the Bronx now residing in Boston, Massachusetts. A former New York City Youth Poet Laureate and two-time winner of the College Union Poetry Slam Invitational, Crystal has been offered fellowships from Callaloo, Tin House and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic Anthology (Haymarket Books), Muzzle Magazine, TriQuarterly Magazine, Winter Tangerine, and elsewhere. She received an MFA from New York University and is the festival manager for the Massachusetts Poetry Festival.