May 6, 2021
Every now and then an author reaches out to the
Quarterly and asks that we share their work on our website. While it’s impossible to share every author’s work, this almost always nudges me back to look at an author’s contribution again.
Last week, Kelvin Kellman reached out about his poem “Black Woman,” which prompted me to re-read it. It’s pretty great and to help the author share his work more broadly (especially as an African writer it’s just a bit trickier for him to get copies of the
Quarterly into his readers’ hands!), here is his poem. It originally appears in 87.3/4.