Who Is This Grief For?
By K. Iver
There are so many gods wanting my soreness. / I can bruise my forehead bowing before so many statues.
K. Iver
K. Iver is a nonbinary trans poet born in Mississippi. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Puerto del Sol, Salt Hill, The Adroit, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. They are the 2021-2022 Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellow for the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and the recipient of the 2022 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency Grant. They have a Ph.D. in Poetry from Florida State University.