August 9th, 2014
There is always going to be something outside, waiting to kill us all
The Day After The Election I Did Not Go Outside
“oh country, my new and brief country/ how I walk from you/ full & into the wreckage”
Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
is a poet, writer, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. He is a columnist at MTV News, and a Callaloo creative writing fellow. His first full-length collection of poems, The Crown Ain't Worth Much, was released by Button Poetry in July 2016.