Anything with Spirit

Overview

I meet isaiah a. hines at the intersection of gender, the Black body, in dialogue with the greats (Gwendolyn Brook, Ntozake Shange, Jean Toomer, Saidiya Hartman, etc.) and black queer life. And just as soon as I make it past their dedication to their brothers and acknowledgement of their grandmothers' wisdom and realness I am swept away by the first poem. They write: 'This [null] is ultimately a reference to the historic and present day indifference to anti-black violence in their United States... where Black lives have been considered less than nothing. I am so excited to dig into this collection! isaiah does some interesting things with the construction of words all while centering Black interiority." —Emely Rumble, LCSW, Psychotherapist, Bibliotherapist

Author Biography

isaiah a. hines is a poet and scholar from Burlington, Vermont. Their debut collection, null landing was chosen as winner of the Slope Editions Book Prize (2020) and a finalist for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Legacy Award in Poetry (2023). Their writing can be found in FLAT Journal (UCLA) and is forthcoming in Obsidian: Arts & Literature of the African Diaspora and Root Work Journal. They studied film and ethnic studies at Columbia University and Brooklyn College, CUNY moving to Troy, New York for a PhD in communication and rhetoric at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.