Siaara Freeman

2018 winter tangerine fellow

                                                                                   A contagious

rain sees me in its forecast. There I am, a legacy
of turbulence. A canon before it knows

it’s supposed to explode, a borrowed burden
in the making. The first time I hear the word bi-polar I'm anchored

to a ceremony of mirrors, too many breaking for me to know exactly how

many years of bad luck
I am.

—  from URBAN GIRL AND THE THEORY OF BLOOD

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Siaara Freeman is 27 years of dramatic entrances and exits from Cleveland Ohio, where she is the current Lake Erie Siren. She wasn't sure if she was a poet or a necromancer, but a wise man named Jacob told her she could be both one day and so she is. She's been published in Glass, Pinch, Drunk In A Midnight Choir, Texas Borderline Review, Black Napkin press and others. She has toured both nationally and internationally (including Canada, Costa Rica and Norway). A two time nominee for the pushcart prize, a finalist for the 2017 button poetry chapbook competition and apart of 2017 bettering american poetry anthology. Siaara is a four year PinkDoor Fellow and a co-coach of the 2017 BNV Detroit team. She is the founder of Wusgood.Black and a reader for Tinderbox. In her spare time she is growing her afro so tall God mistakes it for a microphone and tries to speak through her.