METTA SÁMA
Metta Sáma’s work has appeared in Drunken Boat and ProudFlesh: New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics, and Consciousness, as well as the anthology Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv (Red Hen Press, 2008). Her poetry manuscript, South of Here (published under the name Lydia Melvin), can be accessed via the New Issues Press website.
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