Angelique Zobitz
Angelique Zobitz(she/her/hers) is the author of the chapbooks “Burn Down Your House” from Milk & Cake Press and “Love Letters to The Revolution” from American Poetry Journal. Her first book, “Seraphim,” is forthcoming from CavanKerry Press in April 2024. She is a 2022-2023 Jake Adam York Prize and Philip Levine Prize finalist, multi-nominated for the Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and the Pushcart Prize. Her work appears in The Journal, Sugar House Review, Yemasse, Obsidian: Literature & Arts of the African Diaspora, The Adirondack Review, ANMLY and many others.
CPC Readings
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Blue Hour Reading Series
Haymarket House
Watch the reading:
Poetry by Angelique Zobitz
“Must have me confused
with someone else.
I see the resemblance.
But I’m not the one—
won’t be
compelled to cradle
every word on my tongue
behind the caging of my
teeth only birthing”
“every tree is potential kindling is potential fire is potentially a lodgepole pine seed sealed tight
with resin and can only be opened after calefaction has broken it apart. We can’t go into the
woods and come out the other side untouched by brambles or brush fire, are not a dandelion seed outfitted with parachute free to float and grow where we land. We are Black Women, therefore
we are often tough seed or tree or strange fruit or kindling. Adaptation drives us to serotiny, dormant, awaiting release, blossoming and dying from heat.”