Alisa Umanskaya
Umanskaya participated in the Program for Women in Science and Engineering at Iowa State University.
Nigger
By Alisa UmanskayaI watched each poet, learned from each poet, slowly felt each poet, but became just one. I hadn’t slept so I couldn’t focus except then, when she was crying, I was crying. Raw passion was onstage, surging from the face, hers. Her body became her vessel; she smacked my brain across the face, Maya’s. Maya Williams.
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