CRUEL/CRUEL Style:Paperback Rapidly shifting between the Plague

Rapidly shifting between the Plague years of the late 1980s and the dawn of the Trump era

and Beth E

author of Queerly Beloved

a colorful day where she sets out to find

CRUEL/CRUEL Style:Paperback Rapidly shifting between the PlagueBy Dior J. Stephens A response to the unimaginable cruelties that became our new quotidian in 2020, that moves musically and discursively through innovative permutations of lyric form. CRUEL CRUEL is the manifestation of a Black, queer voice grappling with the intricacies of (un)belonging and identity. These poems use genres of queerness and race to reckon with the pervasive power of oppressive institutions, shaped by art and a soundtrack of Black