01/11/2023
Today, we’re highlighting IN BETWEEN SPACES contributor Kimberly Jae! Kimberly Jae is a slam poet, author, educator disabled Aphasic named one of the top 30 slam poets in the world by PSI in 2018. She has been awarded multiple fellowships, won slam competitions in multiple countries, has published in print in the US & CA, online & video. Her full-length manuscript, Baptism, was shortlisted for the 2021 Sexton Prize. In addition to other forthcoming published work, her chapbook P***y Poems is due on Tofu Ink Arts Press in 2022.
We’re so excited to feature Kimberly’s poem, “The Beginning of a Long Poem on Why I Burned the Hospital Down” in this collection.
We’re also huge fans of “Upon Considering B**b Privilege,” published in The Ones that Got Away, from Pen 2 Paper in 2018https://www.txdisabilities.org/public/upload/files/general/2018-05_OTGA_Jackson.pdf
And Kimberly's performance in One Poem: A Protest Reading in Support of Black Lives, Poetry Coalition (starts at 7:56) https://poets.org/one-poem-protest-reading-support-black-lives
You can pick up Kimberly’s chapbook, P***y Poems, from Tofu Ink Arts Press https://www.tofuink.com/
You can catch “The Beginning of a Long Poem on Why I Burned the Hospital Down” and all of our incredible pieces in In Between Spaces today https://www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-store/in-between-spaces