Say your full name out loud like an announcer from above. If you have a long-unbuttoned shirt, peacoat, or duster that can billow behind, great. Leave sparks in your wake and in every...

Cynthia Manick is the author of No Sweet Without Brine (Amistad-HarperCollins, 2023), which received five stars from Roxane Gay, was named among the “Best Poetry of the Last Year” by...