Saretta Morgan (she/her/hers)

Saretta Morgan was born in Appalachia and raised on military installations. Her work engages the ecologies and forms of intimacy that develop in the wake of United States militarization. She is author of the chapbooks "Feeling Upon Arrival" and "room for a counter interior." Her debut full-length collection, "Alt-Nature," considers sensual experiences of the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts. 

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Awards: Foundation For Contemporary Arts Grantee

Communities: Arizona Author, LGBTQ+, African American, Military Veteran

Book:

Alt-Nature

Poetry
Coffee House Press
January 2024
ISBN 9781566896979
160 pages

Alt-Nature moves in desert dreams and riverbeds, an emergent chorus feeling toward languages of connection in the American Southwest. These poems open to the desert as a practice of sensuality. Landscapes and Black queer social ecologies illuminate an anti-map of interior poetics and converging horizons. Here, geography forms the basis of feeling. Being and becoming along meridians of environmental degradation, globalized/ing militarism, and incarceration, Saretta Morgan thinks through the languages that instantiate violence alongside those which prepare the body for love. More/less