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BOMB is honored to announce the winner of our 2022 Poetry Contest: Donte Collins! Guest judge Solmaz Sharif selected this year’s winner, who will receive a $1,000 prize and will be published in our Fall 2022 issue.

In her citation for @dontecollinsthepoet , Solmaz Sharif writes, “The poems speak for themselves, and around and aside. Funny, frank, scathing, patient, eddying, they’re liquid in their turning of phrases, of repetition.. Reading these poems by Donte Collins readies me.”

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godsopenwound:

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Donte Collins, “Five Stages of Grief” from Autopsy

heavensghost:

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from Autopsy by Donte Collins

kafk-a:

autopsy, donte collins

(via dontecollinsthepoet)

pigmenting:

you hungry & haunted boy. i know, i know. you want
so badly to feel alive. you want so badly to be born
                                                                                                      again.

Donte Collins, from “Don’t Tell Your Uber Driver You’re Going To An Orgy” in Autopsy 

lifeinpoetry:

[she] moved out
of her body     decided it
was no longer worthy

Donte Collins, from “Death Ain’t Nothing But a Song,” Autopsy

neshamama:

nina simone performs “i wish i knew how it would feel to be free” at the montreux jazz festival, 1976, switzerland

(via lawrenceagyei)