Carla Sofia Ferreira (Of Elegiac Odes, Semicolons, and Witness)

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Read: "Ode to the Empanadas on Pacific & Elm, with Apologies to William Carlos Williams" in Okay Donkey Mag

Purchase: A Geography That Does Not Hurt Us (River River Books, 2024)

Carla Sofia Ferreira (she/her) is the daughter of Portuguese immigrants and a teacher from Newark, New Jersey. Author of micro-chapbook Ironbound Fados (Ghost City Press, 2019) and debut poetry book A Geography That Does Not Hurt Us (River River Books, 2024), her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. You can find her writing in The Rumpus, Glamour, EcoTheo, underblong, Okay Donkey, december, and Washington Square Review, among others. On the internet, she’s @csferreira08 on Twitter and @csferreirawrites on Instagram. She believes in kindness, semicolons, and the permanent abolition of ICE. She has now successfully taught her cat Moonshadow how to fetch. She dislikes writing bios in the third person but is saving for her overthrow of societal norms for other causes.

Recommended Reading:

Aracelis Girmay, Kingdom Animalia

Ross Gay, Be Holding and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

Gwendolyn Brooks, "Paul Robeson"

Roberto Carlos Garcia, [Elegies]

Benjamin Garcia, Thrown in the Throat