Afterword: Inheritance Author’s Bio Maurya Kerr is a bay area-based writer, educator, and artist. Maurya’s poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Blue River Review, River Heron Review, Inverted Syntax, Oyster River Pages, Chestnut Review, Mason Jar Press Journal, Harbor Review, and The Future of Black: A […]
VALLUM CHAPBOOK AWARD 2021 HONOURABLE MENTION WINNER | Maurya Kerr | TOMMY NOUN.
ORION My boy came into the room and said, Mom, you are the hound, Dad is the hunter, and I am the— but he couldn’t remember, so stood there, silent. I wanted to know, but forgot how to speak, form my lips into language, started to say dear or hart or morn—even though I knew […]