"Dear Ilium," is a poem that I wrote quickly, during the apex of the large-scale Black Lives Matter protests here in the U.S. I don't remember Troy being personified in Homer's poem…but in my poem, a personified city was who I wanted to write to—for perspective, maybe, on how to make sense of the conflict. As one witness to history reaching out to another.
Chiyuma Elliott on "Dear Ilium," |
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