Kameryn Alexa Carter is a Black poet and the founding co-editor of Emergent Literary, an online journal for the work of black and brown artists. Her work has appeared in Bennington Review, Phoebe Journal, Torch Literary Arts, The Best American Poetry, Portable Gray, and elsewhere. She was a 2024 Pushcart Prize winner and is a poetry student in the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. She is the author of New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh. Her debut poetry collection, Antediluvian, which was born in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, explores what it means to go within, literally and figuratively.
In a virtual chat, I talked to Carter about how this collection came to be, discerning between the author and the speaker of the work, and what writing life looks like.
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