Blackbird Archive
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Poetry · Volume 17, Number 1

Blue

Chioma Urama

A poem traces the color blue through the speaker's Florida childhood, grandparents, and Black identity.

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Chioma Urama

Chioma Urama’s work has been published in Pleiades , New Orleans Review , Paper Darts , and is forthcoming in The Normal School . She received the 2015 Fred Shaw Fiction Prize and an honorable mention in the 2017 Lindenwood Review Lyric Essay Contest. Urama is a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship alumna and a graduate of the University of Miami MFA program, where she was a Michener Fellow.