Bhanu Kapil

Kapil lives in Colorado where she teaches writing at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, as well as Goddard College in Vermont. She has written three full-length works of poetry/prose: The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works, 2006), and hum animal [a project for future children] (Kelsey Street Press, 2009). “Wet, wet, green, green. I mix with them and prosper. A baby! Sticky then my mumma licks me clean. Best is brown next to yellow. Best is blue, then brown. Best yellow. Where will the sun go when it’s finished?, I ask my mother. Through her skin. So red she is. The sun goes into the ground.” From hum animal