In 2021, I was featured as a poet in Mad in America’s first-ever poetry slam, which took place virtually. It was an honor to perform during the poetry slam, and I really enjoyed sharing poems from The Good Truth.
Watch the entire poetry slam below!
R.B. Simon (she/her) is a queer, black, fat, disabled poet and Managing Editor at Harbor Editions. R.B.’s work has found homes in pacificREVIEW, The Coop, Strange Horizons, Literary Mama, CALYX, Obsidian, Emerge Literary Journal, and West Trestle Review. Her work has been a finalist for numerous prizes (Julia Darling Memorial Prize, Crosswinds Poetry Prize, Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize, and Unleash Book Award to name a few) and was the winner of the 2023 Zoyer Zyndel Poetry Prize. Her full-length collection, Not Just the Fire, was released March 2023 from Cornerstone Press. Her next collection, Bird Bone Blood is forthcoming in early 2025 (Milk & Cake Press). She is currently living in Madison, WI with her spouse and young daughter.
