Genesis Perez is queer Chicana poet and performer from Oxnard, California. From 2019 to 2020 they were the Youth Poet Laureate of Ventura County. They released their debut collection of poetry Flash Photography in 2021. Perez has performed at .Paak House, Medicine for Nightmares, and Da Poetry Lounge. If you visit them at the Beyond Baroque bookstore, they will make you tea.
This poem is very good. Very original, it has, for me a structure of irony; a contrast between the stillness, the stasis of dead boys and the motion of Come dance. Also, between the past (the dead) and the future (the child to be born), the present (people, places, things ) is so vivid, alive.
Genesis Perez is queer Chicana poet and performer from Oxnard, California. From 2019 to 2020 they were the Youth Poet Laureate of Ventura County. They released their debut collection of poetry Flash Photography in 2021. Perez has performed at .Paak House, Medicine for Nightmares, and Da Poetry Lounge. If you visit them at the Beyond Baroque bookstore, they will make you tea.
This poem is very good. Very original, it has, for me a structure of irony; a contrast between the stillness, the stasis of dead boys and the motion of Come dance. Also, between the past (the dead) and the future (the child to be born), the present (people, places, things ) is so vivid, alive.