Poetry as Spellcasting PAC From the daguerreotypes made by

From the daguerreotypes made by Jules Lion in New Orleans in 1840 to the Instagram post of the Baltimore Uprising made by Devin Allen in 2015

the words ‘My artwork is terrible and I am a very bad person’ stand out in white hand-lettering

ultimately saving the place that had always felt most like home

it should be a chefs knife

and patterned lokta paper

Poetry as Spellcasting PAC From the daguerreotypes made byPoems, essays, and prompts to sing a new world into being Queer & BIPOC perspectives on poetry as an insurgent ritual for manifesting liberation and reclaiming power. Written for poets, spellcasters, and social justice witches, Poetry as Spellcasting reveals the ways poetry and ritual can, together, move us toward justice and transformation. It asks: If ritualized violence upholds white supremacy, what ritualized acts of liberation can be activated to