rachel j. atakpa
(1999 — )
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︎FITS (2023)
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2025
FORTHCOMING
2024
︎ Poetry Society of America
one poem
“Audre Lorde introduces me to political warfare”*
︎ Forest Publishing
Origin Stories: An Anthology of Beginnings
one act play
“before breaking my mother’s womb”
︎ Catalogue of Failures
Issue 4
two poems—
“bottleneck”
“development”
︎ A Nation in Exile
Heartwood Narratives
two essays, one poem
“Necropolitical compost rite”
“Agricultural Poetics II: In the Belly”
“delta”*
︎ MdW Fair
Atlas 2022, print release
one essay
“Agricultural Poetics: Practices for Transformation”
2023
︎ Lawrence Arts Center
Zinn Writing Residency
Pedagogy, installation, essay
Ephemeral Ecologies
︎ The Purposeful Mayonnaise
Vol. 2 Issue 5
two poems
“i picture picnics”*
“i burn green” *
︎ WMN Zine
Issue 5
one poem
“dyke like”
︎ The New Territory Magazine
Issue 14
one review
“Friendly Folk at the Oddball Hoedown Contra Dance”
︎ fifth wheel press
dreamland anthology
one poem
“Flexible Image Transport System”*
2022
︎ Impermanent Earth
Issue 4
one poem
“in colonized terms”*
︎ The Gravity of the Thing
Stranged Writing: A Literary Taxonomy ^
two poems
“first kiss”
“mirror” *
︎ MdW Fair
Atlas
one essay
“Agricultural Poetics: Practices for Transformation”
2021
︎ Contemporary Verse 2
Vol. 44 No. 1
two poems
“as oceans rise, so ancestors beneath”*
“seeping subsumption”
︎ Lesbians are Miracles
Issue 8
one poem—
“15 hours”*
︎ FAYD [FLORESTA]
Issue 2
one poem
“schism”*
2020
︎ Spicy Zine
Issue 2
one poem
“generation”*
︎ Snarl: A Journal of Art and Literature
Issue 1
two poems
“taking out the garbage”*
“mania”
2019
︎ Region Journal
Issue 1
one poem
“unearthing”
︎ Queer.Archive.Work
Urgency Reader, 110 copies
one poem, one journal entry
“glitch”
“a burning”
2018
︎ Women, Gender, and Families of Color
Vol. 6 No. 1
two poems
“Grieving”
“Black Girl Ghost Story no. 4”
︎ Berkely Poetry Review
Issue 48
one poem
“Black Girl Ghost Story no. 3”
︎ Asterism Literary Journal
Volume 2
three poems
“Locating”
“Mother Tongue”
“Black Girl Ghost Story no. 2”
︎ Spencer Museum of Art
Jack and Lavon Brosseau Creativity Award
two poems
“Their Eyes Were Watching”
“Psalm 73”
︎ Humanity in Action
John Lewis Fellowship
one essay
“The Trees on the Mountaintop are from Outer Space”
︎ The University of Kansas
English Accents
one interview
“Charlotte Davis and Black Women’s Self-Empowerment
Through Writing and Literature”
︎ Kiosk
Issue 58
one poem
“Black Girl Ghost Story no. 09 + Teenage Love Poem no. 3”
2017
︎ Shade Literary Arts
Spotlight Issue: Seed
one poem, author interview
“Acceptance”
“Emerging poet”
︎ Kiosk
Issue 57
two poems
“Entitlement”
“Title VII Does Not Protect, Either Way, I Still Have to Walk
Home”
︎ The University of Kansas
The London Review
one essay, one poem, two reviews
“Last Letter to the Thames”
“Not Yet Fallen”
“Wolkenbugel”
The Design Museum, “Imagine Moscow Architecture,
Revolution, Propoganda”
“Writing Invisible Strategeies”
Modern Art Oxford, “Lubaina Himid: Invisible Strategies”
2016
︎ Kiosk
Issue 55
two poems
“Bubblegum”
“Where Are You From?”
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* from FITS: a biomythography
^ Finalist for the 2022 INDIES Book of the Year Award for Anthologies