This week TMR poetry reader Ashieda McKoy is reading Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, James Baldwin Now edited by Dwight A. McBride, Unexplained Presence by Tisa Bryant, Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin, Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology edited by E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson, Closet Space by Michael P. Brown, and Sacrilegion by Lamar Wilson
Ashieda McKoy is a poetry candidate at Virginia Tech.After teaching in Texas for four years, she only drinks sweet tea with lemon and mint.