LaTasha N. Diggs

Dec 15, 2023 | poets.org | LaTasha N. Diggs |Marcus Wicker

Find and share the perfect poems. Lillian simply feathered her tresses. flossy highlights swirly frost w/ ceramic flat. w/ a slight toss she fixed  her radiate do towards the back of neck. profound genteel shoulders. high & mighty. distinguished shoulders that ain’t causin’ no AfterFall  her left-hand whiffs off any second guessing. Lillian has a doctorate in linguistics. says so on the opening page of her powerpoint. her audience squints. projection blurry w/ glare.

May 3, 2023 | brooklynrail.org | LaTasha N. Diggs

MAY 2023 Issue Poetry that’s what friends are forthe prettier the heftier the brickin memoriam thank them allthe brick   .   the fist   .   the fingernails   . the foot   .   thank them for this foundation   .

Feb 16, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | LaTasha N. Diggs |Monica Youn |Maggie Millner |Mahogany L. Browne

Edited by Nomi Stone and Luke Hankins. Orison, $18 trade paper (154p) ISBN 978-1-949039-39-9Ansel Elkin’s powerful poem, “Autobiography of Eve,” opens this anthology and inspires its title, championing a triumphant heroine “wearing nothing but snakeskin boots,” who proclaims, “Let it be known: I did not fall from grace. I leapt/ to freedom.” In poems that present the Fall from Eve’s point of view, disobedience is recast as rebellion or escape.

Feb 10, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | LaTasha N. Diggs

there is a dark mass following me. these legs are clumsy. they flap quickly. I want to slow them down. but my nerves. Lord, these pensive endings. the sun slumps against the merging fall on red leaves. and where the natives are unenlightened, the mass comes closer.                only white people swim in lakes nowadays                you know . . . Crystal Lake? never seen a black person jump in a lake; let alone a river till this summer.