Cortney Lamar Charleston is a Pushcart Prize winner and author of Telepathologies (Saturnalia, 2017) and Doppelgangbanger (Haymarket, 2021). His poems featured here will appear in It’s Important I Remember, forthcoming in 2026, courtesy of Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press.
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It’s Important I Remember That I’m Avoiding the Footage
Two poems on Tyre Nichols and the spectacle of police-sanctioned Black death.
Cortney Lamar Charleston
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