Certitude stowed in geodes, stowed
in embryos, stowed in a Tribute’s
uterine space. Perhaps this where
the voices of ancestors convene.
Isra Hassan is a Somali-American poet from Minneapolis, MN. Her work can be found (or is forthcoming) in Poetry Wales, Poet Lore, Logic(s) Magazine, Guernica, The Waterstone Review, Denver Quarterly and elsewhere. NAYSAYER, her debut collection, is now out. Her manuscript, OPAQUE, was a finalist for the 2023 Center for African American Poetry & Poetics Book Prize. Hassan takes the economy of truth seriously. As a lover and black nihilist, her work centers surviving during these cataclysmic times. Find her @israology on all social platforms and on her website israhassan.art