Jeni De La O

Jeni De La O is an Afro-Cuban poet and storyteller living in Detroit. Her poems have been published by Wayne State Literary Review, Columbia Journal, Glass Poetry, Sugar House Review, and others. De La O co-founded the Estuary Collective with three other Black femme poets and together they offer free programming and a safe space for emerging writers of color online. She is a poetry editor for Kissing Dynamite Poetry, has toured the country performing with the Moth Mainstage, and writes BROWN STUDY, a quarterly poetry column at The Poetry Question.

• Conversational Spanish
• Rituals for the End of the World
• Thin Air
• A Recipe for Imperial Rice
• The Weight of Lemons