Bio

Award-winning poet and founder of Velvet Rasputin LLC multidisciplinary arts collective, Tanamá Kao, is an Afro-Taíno-Celt-Iberian Boricua recipient of the Queer Voices MN Mid-Career Retreat fellowship. Tanamá's writings have been published in Agates, Taste of the Witches, Queer Home of Craft, fruitslice, Mississippi Poetry Journal, Lake Country Journal, and THE LIFE MODEL. Visit https://tanamakao.com to learn more about this chaotic mischief-maker.

Damn
these
million
sweet peaches
tempting me with lies.
They're plotting to steal my lettuce.