Ex-Spec Po Presents Scylla and Poem With Lines From Sam Sax and Lil Kim by Marina Read Weiss

Artist statement: This work leans a little further into the speculative/surreal/experimental world, in which the speaker is imagining herself as Scylla and and Sam Sax and Lil’ Kim, and inviting the reader to come, too.

Bio: Marina Read Weiss is from Massachusetts, and lives in Brooklyn. She’s a graduate of Amherst College and New York University’s Master of Fine Arts in Poetry and a doctoral student in clinical psychology at Adelphi University. Her chapbook, Misprison, was selected for the 2017 Girls Like Us Prize by Aracelis Girmay, and is forthcoming from Rabbit Catastrophe Press (Lexington, Kentucky) in 2018. The title poem, Misprison, was selected by Eileen Myles as the winner of the 2018 So to Speak Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, Relativity, was a finalist for Phantom Limb Press’s Nathan Breitling Prize and for The Atlas Review Chapbook contest in 2015.