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""In this processual, becoming shimmer of a text, Jasmine Reid writes a shapeful, theoretical work involved in the rigorous attending to emergent selves and the languages made in calling them into being. Her gorgeous grammars--at once demanding and disarming--are the result of a language-making in the process of exceeding itself: 'where blooms the common factor of [her] breaths.'"" --aracelis girmay, author of the black maria ""Self-expression ought to be auto-apocalyptic but people tend to hold back, as if they think they're standing still or can afford to. Elsewhere, as mediate bloom, having acquired enough 'wonderment & soft armament' to give way more of them away, Jasmine Reid asks, who do you think you're talking to? You can't ask until you've had to answer--'because i am (i am, i am).' Because it bears divine imperative, Interlocutor Goddess is a beautifully open chance."" --Fred Moten, author of All That Beauty ""Interlocutor Goddess is a restless sensuality with that tongue in your mouth. Jasmine Reid coaxes every line to work, to wend, and sometimes to wound in her kaleidoscopic debut. Here collides the chain gang's 'Hah!' with a 'sticky & pretty' hyme. That there's a scant handful of spreads before a poem where her 'pore mouths murmur memories.' And that's two sections from a lyric essay rattling with specters. And after that? she writes, 'my head a black planet.' Indeed, y'all. Reading Reid is to ready yourself for staying dazzled and addled stanza after stanza then coming to find out you weren't ready. It's ok: Interlocutor Goddess came to talk (and take) you through it. I'll see you 'cross the other side."" --Douglas Kearney, author of Sho

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Jasmine Reid is the author ofInterlocutor Goddess (Autumn House Press, forthcoming), winner of the 2024 CAAPP Book Prize, and the chapbook,Deus Ex Nigrum (Honeysuckle Press, 2020). An MFA graduate of Cornell University and a 2025-2028 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow recipient, she also received fellowships from Cave Canem and Poets House, and her work has been published or is forthcoming in the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Triquarterly, among others. Reid was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York, where she is an assistant professor at NYU.

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