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.
I. You remember your childhood. Your tow-headed, reddish-tinged mother, who yelled after you all day like a Paraguayan peasant chasing her donkey. And your...