For the first time this year, The White Review Poet’s Prize was open to poets based anywhere in the world. Last month we announced a shortlist of eight poets. ...
ELIAS RODRIQUES is a Jamaican writer living in Philadelphia. His work has been published in The Guardian, The Nation and Bookforum, among other venues. His first novel, All the Water I’ve Seen is Running, is published by Norton in 2021.
The apology had been the most charged and contested gesture between us, the common element in arguments whose subjects ranged from the trivial (courtesies,...