Jasmine Reid

Biography

Jasmine Reid is the author of Deus Ex Nigrum (Honeysuckle, 2019). An MFA graduate of Cornell University and recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem and Poets House, her work has been published or is forthcoming in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Kenyon Review, Indiana Review, and TriQuarterly, among others. Reid is a visiting assistant professor at Pratt Institute.

Jasmine Reid by Nico Reano
Nico Reano

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POETRY / Spring 2024

Crush

By Jasmine Reid

your hand swells my neck, pretty, you say
i am, no matter how decimal-small. 
my eyelash flutters across your shoulder.
gravity. you land on my chest skin—

POETRY / Spring 2024

a bed of beauty until alive, bury me

By Jasmine Reid

say i was a careless shutting
of language an accident
sound whirling into the guttur