Valencia Robin is a poet and visual artist. Her first collection of poems, Ridiculous Light (Persea, 2019), won Persea Books’s Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize, was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and was named one of Library Journal’s Best Poetry Books of 2019. A codirector of the UVA Young Writers Workshop, she holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Virginia and an MFA in art & design from the University of Michigan.
There’s a brother who sits over on North University.
Looks like James Baldwin in a do-rag. Sings.
Is he homeless? People give him money
like a game show or some other excuse
for selling toothpaste. Wish I could remember who said that,
why she had six children,
your mother’s mother
who liked math and science,
Little wiener dog doing his best show horse,
jumping one, two, three stumps in a row;
his boy is too busy scrolling to notice, but I smile
all the way up the hill. Bitter cold
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