All my heroes wear bonnets
“this here a full grown fro, a theatrical thickness, this a untameable tangle / this stuff is molasses”
Imani Cezanne is a Black writer, performer and tamale connoisseur living in Oakland, CA. In March she became the 2020 Woman of the World Poetry Slam Champion and in July of the same year she was named a finalist for the 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. As a two time Pushcart Prize Nominee, Imani has work published in POETRY, Nimrod and Fugue, among others. Imani writes for Black people, Black readers and is committed to the liberation of all oppressed people.
“this here a full grown fro, a theatrical thickness, this a untameable tangle / this stuff is molasses”